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However, doctors and policy experts say increasing collaboration is the best way to ensure public health for the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harm reduction and treatment are like part and parcel of each other,” Dr. Ayesha Appa, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, said during a town hall on Thursday hosted by the Treatment on Demand Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that for one of her patients, “having relationships with people who are offering safer-use supplies allowed him to feel valued and then think, ‘I’m worth something. I can do this,’” and get on methadone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s election results, though, show a city growing more concerned with getting drugs and drug users off the streets and out of public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> campaigned on public safety, saying the city needed to crack down on open-air drug markets. He and other candidates running against incumbent London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">criticized\u003c/a> some of her efforts focused on harm reduction, including the shuttered Tenderloin Center, which was the city’s first publicly run overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s latter years as mayor, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">moved away\u003c/a> from a harm-reduction approach to the drug crisis, which progressive politicians had embraced. And in District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013950/dean-preston-concedes-sf-district-5-race-to-bilal-mahmood-blasts-right-wing-pressure-groups\">ousted their progressive supervisor\u003c/a> in favor of a more moderate leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a city that moved in a pragmatic direction – a lot of people are clearly unhappy with a number of things in the city, but a big part of what they’re unhappy about is drugs, homelessness, disorder, crime,” said Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and nonprofits who have advocated for harsher crackdowns on public drug use — and criticized the city for making it too “easy” for people to use drugs — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">joined Lurie\u003c/a> during his first month in office to introduce his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people suffering in the name of compassion and body autonomy, and it has to end,” said Gina McDonald, the co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths, who hosted the rally. “We believe that this fentanyl state of emergency ordinance is a state of emergency. It’s a five-alarm fire that needs to be mitigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032239 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-OverdoseResponse-42-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gained wide approval from the Board of Supervisors, with only a single vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Lurie released more details on how he plans to use his expanded powers under the ordinance, which includes increasing treatment availability, clearing open-air drug markets and “reassess[ing] policies for distribution of fentanyl smoking supplies” — a service \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997957/heres-why-some-san-francisco-nonprofits-give-foil-and-pipes-to-drug-users\">provided by some city-funded nonprofits\u003c/a> that had drawn controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also worked with law enforcement to set up a mobile police command unit at the 16th Street BART station in the Mission, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight police raids\u003c/a> at prominent drug markets have increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced the “Recovery First Ordinance” at the end of February, which would make entirely stopping illicit drug use and attaining long-term treatment “the primary objective of the city’s drug policy.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mattdorsey/status/1905468937963536639\">post on the social media platform X\u003c/a> on Friday criticizing the UCSF doctors, Dorsey wrote that abstinence-only approaches to ending drug use include medication-assisted treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push toward recovery-focused drug policy has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">unpopular with harm reduction advocates\u003c/a>, who say reducing efforts to give out safer smoking supplies like foil and pipes is “misguided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from independent scientific research organization RTI International found that increased drug seizures by law enforcement also increased opioid overdose mortality. 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While atmospheric rivers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026874/bay-area-heavy-rain-flooding-landslides-thousands-without-power\">inundated the region in recent history\u003c/a>, the effects aren’t unilateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it’s too early to tell where the storm will make landfall. There is a chance for “the perfect conditions for very significant rainfall” in the Bay Area, but the heaviest rain could also veer more to the north or south, Hoang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NS1_9754-1920x1164.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Department of Water Resources staff members conduct the first media snow survey of the 2025 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado County, Jan. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Nick Shockey/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also the potential for minor urban flooding. With all scenarios still on the table, Hoang said people living in low-lying areas should prepare for the worst if the storm comes in on the stronger side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect steady light rain on Sunday, totalling about a tenth of an inch. As much as a foot of snow could fall across the height of the Sierra — a promising sign for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029075/california-snowpack-rebounds-amid-a-wobbly-winter-with-more-storms-on-the-way\">the state’s snowpack\u003c/a>, which sits at \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action\">90% of normal\u003c/a> for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s monthly snowpack survey took place Friday, four days earlier than normal, because of the potential atmospheric river next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033338 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1243270396-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Reising, manager of snow surveys and water supply forecasting for the state Department of Water Resources, said this is the third year in a row that snowpack conditions at the start of April are near or above average for this time of year. Farmers and cities across the state rely on this frozen reservoir for water supplies as the snowpack melts in spring and summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we’ll get a little bit more before this season ends,” Reising said. “While it’s positive news today, we know that our luck could run out, and we could fall into a drought anytime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With little to no break in rain, forecasters said Monday’s cold front is expected to bring heavier rainfall over a shorter period, according to the Bay Area office’s \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD\">daily forecast discussion\u003c/a>. Across the Sierra Nevada, there’s a “40 to 70% chance of at least seeing a foot of snow or more above 4,500 feet,” said Idamis Del Valle-Shoemaker, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Sacramento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Young, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Reno office, suggests winter sports enthusiasts head up the mountain on Saturday before the trio of storms begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sunday should be fine in the morning hours, at least in terms of travel if you’re coming off the mountain trying to get back down to your residence,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two storms could drop as much as 16 inches of snow. Young said it’s too early to forecast potential snow accumulation for the third storm starting Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One model suggests the system is trending a little bit colder with a lot more snow potential,” Young said. “There’s really a lot of uncertainty with the system coming up midweek. 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"content": "\u003cp>A California bill aimed at preventing more stonecutters from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969381/california-regulators-to-vote-on-emergency-rules-for-stonecutters-safety\">contracting a deadly lung disease\u003c/a> on the job cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law, SB 20, seeks to expand regulations to protect workers from inhaling toxic silica particles while power-cutting and polishing slabs of artificial stone for kitchen and bathroom countertops and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone countertops have exploded in popularity because they are cheaper and easier to clean than natural stone. However, cutting the factory-made slabs without proper protective equipment is linked to a more aggressive form of silicosis, a disease historically associated with miners and stonecutters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone is now the top countertop material in the U.S., with a market size of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/OSHSB/documents/Respirable-Crystalline-Silica-Emergency-FOE.pdf\">$17.7 billion\u003c/a>, according to a report by state workplace safety regulators. Critics argue that SB 20 won’t be enough to stem a growing public health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, health authorities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/Pages/essdashboard.aspx\">tracked\u003c/a> about 260 silicosis cases among mostly Latino countertop fabrication workers since 2019, with Los Angeles County’s San Fernando Valley as the epicenter of the outbreak. At least 15 people have died. Dozens underwent lung transplants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley) introduced SB 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabricator places his hand on a table that he cut at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to do better to protect these individuals,” Menjivar told the Senate’s Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee at Wednesday’s hearing. “I’ve met someone who was in his early 30s who had a double lung transplant. This is no inexpensive disease. This is life threatening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial stone, also known as quartz or engineered stone, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956246/california-fast-tracks-rules-to-protect-stonecutters-from-horrible-deaths\">uniquely hazardous to stonecutters\u003c/a> because it can contain up to 93% silica — significantly more than natural alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969846/california-regulators-approve-emergency-rules-to-protect-stonecutters-from-deadly-disease\">approved emergency rules\u003c/a> in December 2023 banning the dry cutting of engineered stone. Fabrication shops must use wet-cutting saws and other tools that submerge slabs under water to suppress dust. Those Cal/OSHA rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2024/2024-111.html#:~:text=Sacramento%E2%80%94The%20Occupational%20Safety%20and%20Health%20Standards%20Board,stone%20containing%20more%20than%2010%%20crystalline%20silica.\">became permanent\u003c/a> a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 20 would go further by establishing certification and training requirements for fabrication shops to operate safely while also prohibiting the supply of artificial stone to unlicensed businesses or people after January 2027. The bill, which the labor committee advanced with a unanimous vote, would also require the state to create a public online database that tracks enforcement actions against fabrication businesses. SB 20 heads next to a hearing at the Senate Health Committee.[aside postID=news_11969381 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-016-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Judy Yee, a legislative advocate with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, said many fabrication shops in Los Angeles County are unregulated, often operating out of garages or the backs of trailers. The businesses employ mostly non-unionized undocumented immigrants, who may fear speaking up about unsafe workplace practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without proper training, tracking and prevention efforts, the state will continue to see a rise in silicosis cases and deaths, according to Yee and other supporters of Menjivar’s bill at the hearing. Representatives for industry groups and Cosentino, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of engineered stone, also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe SB 20 represents a critical step toward complementing California’s recently adopted silica regulations with a well-structured certification program for artificial stone fabricators,” Eric Rose, a spokesperson with the Stone Coalition, which represents manufacturers, distributors and fabricators, said in a statement. “A certification framework — paired with robust oversight and enforcement — will help ensure that all fabricators, particularly bad actors, are held to consistent health and safety standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of silicosis patients in California are suing the largest engineered stone manufacturers — Cosentino, Caesarstone and Cambria — arguing that the companies failed to adequately label and warn of the hazards of their products, according to James Nevin, one of the attorneys representing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holds a phone showing the photo of a stone fireplace.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-StonecutterSilicosis-003-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone fabrication worker shares a photo on his phone of stonecutting work from his job at his home in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevin and other critics of SB 20 doubt a licensing process will protect most stonecutters. According to Nevin, many fabrication shops will continue operating without certification because they can’t afford the expensive equipment needed to comply with Cal/OSHA rules to handle the material safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Jorge Estrella Moreno, one of the workers suing the manufacturers, was diagnosed with silicosis about two years ago. His symptoms — feeling like he can’t get enough air when talking or walking uphill — have worsened, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-time stonecutter, who prides himself in having raised three kids in the U.S. with the job, continues to work at a fabrication shop that cuts artificial stone slabs dry, exposing him and others to dust clouds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have another option. I have to pay bills and rent, and if I don’t work, I don’t have enough to eat,” Estrella Moreno, 49, told KQED in Spanish.[aside postID=news_12022784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00163-1020x680.jpg']Maegan Ortiz, who directs a labor center that educates countertop fabrication workers in the San Fernando Valley on work hazards, worried that SB 20 would further drive small fabrication shops underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way to deal with the silicosis crisis is to actually stop the usage of this artificial stone with the high silica content,” said Ortiz, executive director at Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California. “Basically, all that this bill does is ensure that big companies and big shops have the above-ground market of artificial stone … As far as we are concerned, SB 20 is a gift to the industry and not a gift to workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Australia became the first country to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dewr.gov.au/engineeredstone\">ban the use\u003c/a>, supply and manufacture of engineered stone last year due to a rising silicosis epidemic. Top engineered stone manufacturers hope to avoid that fate in California, where Cal/OSHA officials have suggested a ban may be needed if widespread noncompliance with safety rules continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers maintain that the material is used safely to produce countertops when appropriate measures are followed and that a ban would unnecessarily decimate jobs. Representatives for Cosentino, a company based in Spain, and the Israel-based Caesarstone, told Cal/OSHA in 2023 that they would support creating a licensing program to sell artificial stone only to fabrication shops equipped to handle it safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 20 is nearly identical to a bill Menjivar co-authored last year. That bill’s main author, former Assemblymember Luz Rivas, who was elected to Congress in November, pulled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3043\">AB 3043\u003c/a>, arguing that state regulators were “not receptive to creating a tracking system to identify licensed fabrication shops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrella Moreno said he would prefer to use safer stone alternatives at work and believes the most effective way to protect workers like himself would be for state regulators to prohibit the use and sale of artificial stone altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A ban would be the best thing for everyone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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His reappointment caused public outcry, which included some of the women who had accused Ortiz of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure to respond to allegations made against Ortiz and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996787/reckoning-on-sexual-assault-roils-sf-democrats-as-mayoral-endorsement-looms\">others in the San Francisco political scene\u003c/a>, the city’s Democratic Party voted to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016733/sf-democrats-adopt-new-sexual-assault-reporting-policies\">new guidelines\u003c/a> for reporting and monitoring sexual misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in May, an ombudsperson will investigate reports of sexual violence, and an adjudication panel will be put in place to decide potential remedies and consequences. While the new policy allows victims to bring allegations to their local Democratic chapters, those who feel uncomfortable doing so can now choose to go through the official Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of local chapters will have to complete sexual harassment training and incorporate the policies into their chapters’ bylaws if they wish to remain chartered.[aside postID=news_12032892 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I have not received any type of communication from the Latinx club or its leadership, and so I can’t say for sure what their motivations are aside from what they’ve written on paper,” said Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party. “But I will say that it’s a bit strange to me that people who have been long-term Democrats would not seek to try to mediate differences with the party before unilaterally and without warning deciding to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ortiz, the club fully adopted the party’s new code of conduct policies and have also restructured their own internal processes when it comes to addressing sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latinx Democratic Club is not the first this year to cut ties. Leadership with the Rose Pak Democratic Club, which changed its name to the Rose Pak Asian American Club, announced that they would not be rechartering with San Francisco’s Democratic Party in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter addressed to Tung, the club’s leadership said that monolingual seniors expressed distrust when interacting with the party and alleged that the Democratic Party failed to address the immediate concerns of Asian American and immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party signed a resolution in February condemning the Trump administration’s actions and reaffirming the city’s status as a sanctuary for immigrants and other marginalized communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Silicon Valley billionaires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017551/is-san-francisco-a-bellwether-for-cryptocurrency-influence-on-local-elections\">poured millions of dollars\u003c/a> into San Francisco elections in November to increase policing, consolidate mayoral power and shift the city to the center politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bets paid off — for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, cryptocurrency CEO Chris Larsen and other business leaders to help lure major companies and their employees back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move is a boon for private sector leaders, who now have a direct line to City Hall, and comes as San Francisco’s economy struggles to rebound from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']Altman, who contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">a key advisor\u003c/a> on Lurie’s City Hall transition team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats really need to point to how this money is already influencing the policies of the Trump administration, and also just how big money continues to influence our political system here in California and in San Francisco,” Gallotta, one of the remaining progressives on the DCCC after moderates took over the majority in 2024, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta’s resolution passed, but several members pushed back against language that called out leaders in tech, one of the city’s biggest industries for tax revenue. Nancy Tung, chair of the DCCC, voted against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it was an indictment on the amount of money that gets spent in our political elections in San Francisco, then it was really one-sided,” Tung told KQED, pointing to money spent by organized labor on local races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s spending power often outweighs that of organized labor, said Jane Kim, a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Billionaire wealth will vastly outpower labor’s ability to give,” she said. “What we see is an unfortunate imbalance of who gets influence in government today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. Kim is a member of the DCCC and director of the California Working Families Party. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others wanted to dilute Galotta’s resolution to rebuke Trump rather than his donors who are influencing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to perpetuate is a united voice opposing Donald Trump, not having the same old tired fights,” DCCC member Trevor Chandler said during January’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DCCC later voted to create a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuX1yWyVLI10gegryZPmnNZ_kzd6DN13/view\">separate resolution\u003c/a> based on Chandler’s proposal to denounce Trump’s agenda targeting the city’s sanctuary status, transgender rights and other issues. It passed in February after additional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resistance against Trump this time around is really going to be in the courts again,” Tung said. “I understand that people are very frustrated, and they want to be demonstrating in the streets, but it’s exhausting to do that.”[aside postID=news_12017551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-2162428471-1020x680.jpg']Democrats in Washington are struggling to find a strategy for countering Trump. Their disagreements came to a head this month when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was one of 10 Democrats to vote for a Republican spending bill aimed at delaying a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a dig at Schumer after the bill passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As representatives in Washington splinter over government funding, San Francisco faces its own nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. Accompanied by a live pianist, Lurie recently promised tech workers at the new Mission Bay headquarters of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company and maker of ChatGPT, that San Francisco’s reputation as the tech capital of the world would soon rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OpenAI is leading our city’s latest tech resurgence,” he said. “My administration will ensure that our city is a place where companies can succeed and a place where your employees are proud to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">remained quiet on Trump\u003c/a> and his relationship with Altman, Elon Musk, David Sachs and other Silicon Valley billionaires. Instead, City Attorney David Chiu and city supervisors have led resistance to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants and public funding as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-democrats-constituents-resistance-20207038.php\">Bay Area residents\u003c/a> increasingly demand Democratic representatives in Washington press harder against executive orders from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie is the poster child of our politics becoming an oligarchy. But he didn’t pass Citizens United — he exploited it. And we need to give him a chance,” said political consultant Eric Jaye, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u003c/em>, which allowed wealthy people and corporations to spend unlimited money on elections. “This country has been sliding away from a vigorous democracy. You can buy elections now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without campaign finance reform, private interests will continue to wield and consolidate power locally and nationally, Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The richest people in the world want to control the San Francisco government, and they are spending virtually unlimited amounts of money in an attempt to do so,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several billionaires shaping San Francisco are also working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>. The money flowing into local politics has deepened fractures among San Francisco Democratic leaders, mirroring the national Democratic Party’s struggle to unite behind a single strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco should be leading the resistance and opposition to Donald Trump, but we’re seeing how big money in San Francisco has kind of neutered the city. It has neutralized us on issues,” said Peter Gallotta, a member of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. “We’re struggling now with an identity crisis of ‘who are we?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at the opening of the new OpenAI headquarters in Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The identity crisis was palpable shortly after Trump’s inauguration when Gallotta proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/143yCoEPWOXYbmCVtUrH7K2GSLncG_ebm/view\">resolution condemning tech titans\u003c/a> who supported Democrats in San Francisco while cozying up to Republicans in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallotta, a DCCC member since 2017, sought to spotlight figures like Larsen, who contributed more than $1 million to moderate Democratic candidates in San Francisco’s November election, campaign finance records show. Ripple, the cryptocurrency company Larsen co-founded and chairs, donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum donated $250,000 to a PAC supporting Lurie for mayor and $5.1 million to Trump’s campaign. Venture capitalist William Oberndorf, co-founder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a moderate organizing group, spent over $1 million on San Francisco elections in 2024, primarily backing mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. Oberndorf also contributed $100,000 to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democrats in Washington are struggling to find a strategy for countering Trump. Their disagreements came to a head this month when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was one of 10 Democrats to vote for a Republican spending bill aimed at delaying a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I myself don’t give away anything for nothing,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a dig at Schumer after the bill passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As representatives in Washington splinter over government funding, San Francisco faces its own nearly $1 billion budget deficit. Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, compared agitation among San Francisco Democrats to intraparty fights at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see a lot of the same advisors and donors for both Lurie’s administration and the Trump administration, and the fact that he hasn’t spoken for that is disappointing,” Kim said. “Clearly, they’re very different in terms of the goals that they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they have a similar approach to government — that you don’t need any government experience in order to lead and that hiring the wealthiest people with private sector experience is going to fix the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who had no prior elected experience before becoming mayor, broke the city’s record for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">most expensive mayoral campaign in history\u003c/a>, the majority coming from his own wealth as an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members attend Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s inauguration ceremony at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015128/sfs-next-mayor-wants-city-lean-into-ai-stay-out-regulating\">boosted the city as an artificial intelligence hub\u003c/a>. Accompanied by a live pianist, Lurie recently promised tech workers at the new Mission Bay headquarters of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company and maker of ChatGPT, that San Francisco’s reputation as the tech capital of the world would soon rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OpenAI is leading our city’s latest tech resurgence,” he said. “My administration will ensure that our city is a place where companies can succeed and a place where your employees are proud to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">remained quiet on Trump\u003c/a> and his relationship with Altman, Elon Musk, David Sachs and other Silicon Valley billionaires. Instead, City Attorney David Chiu and city supervisors have led resistance to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants and public funding as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-democrats-constituents-resistance-20207038.php\">Bay Area residents\u003c/a> increasingly demand Democratic representatives in Washington press harder against executive orders from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Lurie is the poster child of our politics becoming an oligarchy. But he didn’t pass Citizens United — he exploited it. And we need to give him a chance,” said political consultant Eric Jaye, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u003c/em>, which allowed wealthy people and corporations to spend unlimited money on elections. “This country has been sliding away from a vigorous democracy. You can buy elections now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without campaign finance reform, private interests will continue to wield and consolidate power locally and nationally, Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The richest people in the world want to control the San Francisco government, and they are spending virtually unlimited amounts of money in an attempt to do so,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Your bringing trouble,” and “bad idea,” loopily spray-painted in blue, were among the ominous messages that greeted walkers, bikers and surfers flocking to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/great-highway\">Upper Great Highway\u003c/a> on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, the roadway-turned-park was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031698/volunteers-restore-vandalized-mural-as-oceanfront-park-project-moves-forward\">vandalized for the second time\u003c/a> since it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031300/this-stretch-san-franciscos-great-highway-now-permanently-closed-cars\">closed to cars\u003c/a> on March 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the highway, which has been a thoroughfare between Lake Merced and the Outer Richmond for decades, is controversial — as the tag “gentriffy,” misspelled on the pavement on Sunday morning, might suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Proposition K, which closed the 2-mile span to cars permanently, in November. The race divided the city, with most westside residents voting to keep the road open, while neighborhoods farther out opted for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Sunday evening, volunteers from Friends of Ocean Beach Park, which supported the proposition, and Recreation and Parks department painters had removed all traces of the vandalism, but anger and opposition over the park are only increasing as its official opening draws closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 volunteers gathered at Ocean Beach to help restore Emily Fromm’s vibrant 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was defaced with graffiti. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emily Fromm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the election, a group of westside residents launched a recall campaign against their supervisor, Joel Engardio, who represents the Sunset and broke with his neighborhood to support the proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030751/days-before-san-franciscos-great-highway-closure-opponents-aim-block-it\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city earlier this month, arguing that the measure was unlawful and asking for the city to halt the closure. The night that the road was officially shut off to cars, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973169/temporary-public-art-great-highway-ocean-beach-plans\">first of 16 temporary artworks\u003c/a> being installed in preparation for the park’s April 12 grand opening was defaced with graffiti.[aside postID=news_12031698 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241030-PropK-27-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“JOEL LIE$ #RECALL” — a reference to Engardio — was scrawled in what appeared to be the same paint on the highway surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Fromm, the artist behind the 60-foot mural that was vandalized, said that she and another artist working at the site were verbally harassed by people opposed to the closure. Her work, “A History of Play,” was restored by volunteers, who Fromm said have stepped up to keep artists company and ward off negative comments from passersby as they work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resorting to vandalism is both counterproductive & frankly, ridiculous,” said Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park department in a statement on Sunday, after the second incident. “There are countless constructive ways to engage in conversations about our city’s future, but spray-painting public spaces isn’t one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Recreation and Park department said that it would be stepping up official park ranger patrols in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032903 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers work to restore Emily Fromm’s 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was defaced with graffiti. The effort comes as San Francisco Recreation and Park moves forward with plans to transform the space, including selecting a name for the new park and preparing for its opening next month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emily Fromm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucas Lux, who leads Friends of Ocean Beach Park, said that thousands of people were visiting the oceanfront weekly and that support remains strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Destructive behavior by a few won’t get in the way of our work to make the coast enjoyable and accessible by all,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the backlash, Rec and Park is making progress on the transformation of the space, including selecting a name for the park. A spokesperson said the department received more than 4,000 entries and is preparing for a community event on the official opening day next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The reason: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909303/canadians-to-trump-we-are-not-having-it\">economic and political hostility toward our northern neighbor\u003c/a> emanating from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF touted the hiring of Dr. Marc Ruel late last year, saying he would be relocating from Canada to serve as the chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel is one of the world’s most highly regarded cardiac surgeons, and his leadership will undoubtedly elevate our division to new heights across all our missions,” Dr. Julie Ann Sosa, chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, wrote in its December newsletter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruel, too, had notified colleagues in Canada that he was leaving his post at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ottawaheart.ca/profile/ruel-marc\">University of Ottawa Heart Institute\u003c/a> (UOHI) to head up the division at UCSF, a position he accepted last fall. But a message from Sosa and another UCSF physician sent on March 4 to colleagues notified staff that Ruel had decided not to move to California, apparently influenced by President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025404/canada-tariffs-paused-california-wineries-fear-trade-dispute-would-be-crushing\">threats of tariffs\u003c/a> and talk of annexing Canada as the 51st state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message, signed by Sosa and Dr. Joshua Adler, acknowledged that much preparation had been made for Ruel’s arrival, adding that he “made the personal decision not to move forward with his relocation, given the evolving political climate and his commitment to serving his current institution in Ottawa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024922 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Anna Monkeymaker/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message also noted the “tremendous effort” UCSF teams put into preparing for Ruel’s arrival, “laying the groundwork for his transition … and extending a warm welcome to him and his family.” Despite that lost effort, the physicians said the medical center “respects his decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of Ruel’s decision is being felt by patients in the Bay Area, including Jennifer Friedman of Berkeley. She has a hereditary condition leading to a partially blocked artery to her heart — a condition she was told could, at some point, require invasive open-heart surgery and a very long recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was excited to learn from UCSF that Ruel could treat her using a far less invasive procedure. The two connected by text, email and phone to get her on his schedule at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel was the hero surgeon that was coming to teach everybody at UCSF how to do the magical procedure,” Friedman told KQED. “And I was so excited that he was coming.”[aside postID=news_12032263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Friedman said it was her understanding that in preparation for Ruel’s arrival, UCSF was going to “send a team of people from UCSF to Canada to see what his whole operating room situation looked like so they could basically recreate it here in San Francisco. And I don’t know if that happened or not, but then Trump was elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal UCSF letter to staff was careful not to weigh in on the U.S. political situation — not surprising given the enormous amount of federal dollars UCSF receives — but said, “We respect his need to adapt to changing circumstances — just as we do every day to advance our mission and provide world-class care to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, UCSF received $789 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the Trump administration is trying to slash. In February, the University of California announced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-supports-legal-action-against-misguided-plan-cut-vital-nih-research-funds\">support for a lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 other states seeking to block the action. Earlier this month, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">efforts to cut NIH medical and scientific research grants\u003c/a> to universities and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF did not publicly announce the loss of Ruel and declined KQED’s repeated requests for comment while referring us to the doctor. A spokesperson for the University of Ottawa confirmed that Ruel changed his mind over political considerations and will likely stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to UOHI’s website, Ruel, who was trained at Harvard, led its Division of Cardiac Surgery for 11 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Jimenez said a stalker came to her house and knocked on her door years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was] kind of scary,” she recalled. “After that incident, I thought about scenarios of what could have happened and whether or not I’m prepared to defend myself in those situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez, who had taken a few years of taekwondo, wanted to gain new skills, so she registered for free self-defense training offered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">the Transgender District\u003c/a>, a nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood founded by and for trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Osoria, program associate with the Transgender District, helped launch the inaugural training with support from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--office-transgender-initiatives\">Office of Transgender Initiatives and\u003c/a> the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">LYRIC SF. \u003c/a>She said the goal of the class is to empower trans people during the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans people are really resilient,” she said. “I hope that’s a facet we’re able to feed into because there’s a lot that’s trying to diminish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Osoria, program associate at The Transgender District, poses for a portrait at the office in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting the gender-expansive community, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital\">defunding gender-affirming medical care\u003c/a> for transgender youth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">banning trans, intersex, and nonbinary people from using the X gender marker on their passports\u003c/a>. There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.[aside postID=news_12029428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Osoria, program associate with the Transgender District, helped launch the inaugural training with support from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--office-transgender-initiatives\">Office of Transgender Initiatives and\u003c/a> the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">LYRIC SF. \u003c/a>She said the goal of the class is to empower trans people during the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans people are really resilient,” she said. “I hope that’s a facet we’re able to feed into because there’s a lot that’s trying to diminish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Osoria, program associate at The Transgender District, poses for a portrait at the office in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting the gender-expansive community, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital\">defunding gender-affirming medical care\u003c/a> for transgender youth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">banning trans, intersex, and nonbinary people from using the X gender marker on their passports\u003c/a>. There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Such groups that provide reproductive health care have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/recent-cases-violence-against-reproductive-health-care-providers\">targets\u003c/a> of political attacks in recent years. Crimes against LGBTQ people also surged in 2024, and advocates have raised alarms over hundreds of laws rolling back transgender rights in cities and states across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a coat hold a microphone outside around people.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks to a crowd at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro on Nov. 27, 2022, to honor victims of the Q club shooting. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman’s proposed amendment comes after supervisors amended the city administrative code in 2023 to increase transparency in nonprofits’ expense reporting. Organizations that receive more than $100,000 a year from the city for public use were required to post their annual statement on websites and report back to the city starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new amendment would remove five of these statements’ requirements, including listing the names of the agencies’ chief executive officer, other officers or directors and a disclosure of any other boards of directors that they sit on. It also cuts the requirement for a program-by-program description of all funding expended or budgeted, a letter from the Internal Revenue Service confirming the organization’s status as a nonprofit and a public copy of its most recent tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that the city will still require this information from organizations in “various forms,” but it will be less publicly available to people with questionable intentions.[aside postID=news_12031588 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-1020x680.jpg']The amendment also increases the minimum dollar amount that requires a statement from $100,000 to $1 million a year, in line with the federal standard, and widens the scope of when required information can be redacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current language says that any of the information can be redacted to ensure that privacy-related laws aren’t violated. The amendment would add a second cause for removing information — allowing organizations to redact information that puts employees at risk if they have “received threats of violence” within the last year. It would allow the same protection to nonprofits that have similar duties to other agencies that have been the target of these threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous version of Mandelman’s amendments only included the expansion of when information could be redacted. He said that he worked on the larger package of amendments with local nonprofits after they expressed that the policy still made them more vulnerable to harassment and violence than they were prior to the original 2023 reporting legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still requiring some additional information that was not required before 2023 to be submitted, but we’re not going to make it quite so easy for the potential harassers and ill-wishers to do harm to organizations serving vulnerable communities,” Mandelman said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beverly Upton, the executive director of San Francisco’s Domestic Violence Consortium, said that the amendment also provides much-needed security for victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking, and so many other areas and issues receive help in San Francisco and want to give back,” she said, thanking Mandelman and the city attorney’s office for “helping us to shape something that gives survivors and so many other people in other marginalized communities an opportunity to give back without fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upton said that as national attention toward San Francisco has intensified, people working within marginalized communities can feel less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is being watched very closely,” she told the committee. “We just want to make sure that we keep people as safe as possible, and this will help us do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Mandelman both voted to approve the amendments to the legislation, but because it includes substantive changes, the ordinance will come back before the committee in April before being forwarded to the whole board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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