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"content": "\u003cp>A tense week of protests and confrontations between police and anti-ICE demonstrators in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043515/more-protests-held-across-southern-california-as-trump-administration-orders-more-national-guard-to-la\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043445/a-moment-people-have-been-waiting-for-ice-arrests-fuel-sf-protests\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043653/hundreds-rally-in-oakland-to-protest-ice-raids-support-immigrant-communities\">Oakland\u003c/a> underscores the importance of a decision facing Mayor Daniel Lurie: Who will lead the San Francisco Police Department now that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039092/san-franciscos-police-chief-stepping-down\">Chief Bill Scott has departed\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department is currently under interim leadership, with former SFPD commander Paul Yep serving as acting police chief while the search for a permanent replacement is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and local law enforcement agencies have the nation’s attention after President Donald Trump activated the California National Guard and mobilized more than 700 U.S. Marines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> and Bass. The city remains on edge after increased enforcement actions by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moment reminds many of 1992, when the National Guard was sent in at the request of then-Gov. Pete Wilson to quell civil unrest following the acquittal of police officers who beat motorist Rodney King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, recent protests \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043544/dozens-more-arrested-in-calmer-night-of-san-francisco-ice-protests\">resulted in around 250 arrests\u003c/a>, mostly for violence or destroying property. The demonstrations over immigration raids highlight the challenge facing any new police chief in a city with a long history of progressive activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers face off with protesters during an anti-ICE protest on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lurie condemned the attacks, saying in a statement that “violence directed at law enforcement or public servants is never acceptable.”[aside postID=news_12044426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-11-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">attracted large crowds throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a>, stressing law enforcement resources. It all costs money at a time San Francisco is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is in this moment of political peril that Lurie must select a new police chief. Even under the best of circumstances, selecting a police chief can be a fraught decision for mayors, who have to balance competing demands of several constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1988, newly elected Mayor Art Agnos — who \u003cem>this \u003c/em>reporter was working for at the time — faced a similar challenge. That September, United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta — a friend and political ally of Agnos — was attending a protest outside the St. Francis Hotel, where Vice President George H. W. Bush was giving a speech. Bush was also the Republican nominee for president at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a scuffle with SFPD, the 58-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/dolores-huerta-hurt-at-protest-sept-16-1988-4809592.php\">Huerta was hit by a police officer’s baton\u003c/a>, rupturing her spleen and fracturing two ribs. It brought the department’s crowd control tactics into sharp focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads ‘Viva La Causa,’ circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate anything that is not part of authorized crowd control tactics,” Agnos said after reviewing videotapes of the event. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">He ordered police chief Frank Jordan to investigate\u003c/a> the incident and recommend changes to crowd control policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan, distancing himself from the mayor ever so slightly, contended that the 85 or so officers dressed in riot gear acted within department policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, in a historic twist reverberating today, Agnos signed San Francisco’s Sanctuary City policy, placing sharp limits on local law enforcement agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Agnos’ first decisions after getting elected was keeping Jordan as police chief — a holdover from his predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, despite Agnos’ frosty relationship with her. It was a fateful decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan was an amiable, non-threatening sort of chief, but he was never “Agnos’ guy.” When Agnos’ main opponent promised to fire Jordan if elected, Agnos said he would keep him, a political calculation to gain support in more conservative westside neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan later resigned and ran for mayor, defeating Agnos in 1991 in a campaign dominated by concerns over homelessness, crime and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Insider vs. outsider?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Max Carter-Oberstone is a progressive attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">recently ousted from the Police Commission by Lurie\u003c/a>. The mayor didn’t give a reason, but Carter-Oberstone had publicly clashed with former Mayor London Breed — something most mayors don’t appreciate in their appointees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says whoever is chief in San Francisco must deal with several politically engaged constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got the mayor, you’ve got the police commission, you have the police officers union, the rank-and-file, the command staff, and then of course various constituencies among the residents of the city who each have their own views,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former SFPD police chief George Gascón, who was appointed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom after leading the department in Mesa, Arizona, said understanding local politics is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot be a chief of police if you don’t understand local politics,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that rank-and-file cops are often wary of someone from outside the department becoming chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to find people wanting an outsider when there’s a perception that the internal structure is not addressing the needs of the organization and the people it serves,” Gascón said. “Generally, outside chiefs don’t last long\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who came to San Francisco from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017, broke that mold.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg']“I credit his ability to navigate a very complex political environment,” Gascón noted. “He’s a political survivor and that’s good for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says that being an outsider has its pros and cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easier in the sense that I didn’t owe anybody anything,” Gascón said. “I had no allegiances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disadvantage to being an outsider, Gascón said, is that he often didn’t know where the internal alliances were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with Scott gone, Lurie must weigh what kind of leader the department, and his administration, need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every mayor wants to have who they want as the police chief. They just can’t hire them themselves. There’s a process to it,” said Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the city charter, the San Francisco Police Commission forwards three candidates to the mayor. He can accept one, or request a new search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCray, who was recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/acting-police-chief-paul-yep-picks-command-staff-20376502.php\">promoted\u003c/a> from lieutenant to commander, worked under 11 different police chiefs during her 31 years on the force and notes that being chief “is unlike any other type of police job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be a little bit of a chameleon,” she said, referring to keeping multiple factions and interest groups happy in a city where politics is a blood sport. “You have to be able to kind of move and groove as things are thrown at you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More protests could test next chief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, facing a severe shortage of officers and a wave of retirements, the SFPD is at a critical juncture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Glaser, who studies policing trends and best practices at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, said the next chief should be someone who can remain calm under pressure and conflict, as recent protests suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the city would be wise to think about somebody who’s going to be able to weather future storms, and I do think that we’re going to see a ramping up of protests in the months and years to come, partly related to the political environment and partly related to the situation in the Middle East,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042524\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie walks with Captain Liza Johansen, from the Mission Police Station, and Santiago Lerma, with the Department of Emergency Management, during a public safety walk in San Francisco’s Mission District on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that research shows that managing protests effectively requires a “lighter touch” and good communication with protest organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need a lot of restraint on the part of the chief and the ability of the chief to convey restraint to his rank and file,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lurie announced Scott’s departure, he called him a friend, adding, \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I cannot thank you enough for what you’ve given to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036408/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-touts-progress-crime-homelessness-first-100-days\">Crime rates in the city remain historically low\u003c/a>, including a significant drop in property crimes compared to 2023, when Lurie made public safety a centerpiece of his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee will consider nominating one of seven candidates to fill a vacancy on the Police Commission, the body that will ultimately help choose Scott’s successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s record is a tough act to follow. And if the new chief fails to live up to expectations, it’s Lurie who will take the political hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">attracted large crowds throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a>, stressing law enforcement resources. It all costs money at a time San Francisco is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is in this moment of political peril that Lurie must select a new police chief. Even under the best of circumstances, selecting a police chief can be a fraught decision for mayors, who have to balance competing demands of several constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1988, newly elected Mayor Art Agnos — who \u003cem>this \u003c/em>reporter was working for at the time — faced a similar challenge. That September, United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta — a friend and political ally of Agnos — was attending a protest outside the St. Francis Hotel, where Vice President George H. W. Bush was giving a speech. Bush was also the Republican nominee for president at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a scuffle with SFPD, the 58-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/dolores-huerta-hurt-at-protest-sept-16-1988-4809592.php\">Huerta was hit by a police officer’s baton\u003c/a>, rupturing her spleen and fracturing two ribs. It brought the department’s crowd control tactics into sharp focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads ‘Viva La Causa,’ circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate anything that is not part of authorized crowd control tactics,” Agnos said after reviewing videotapes of the event. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">He ordered police chief Frank Jordan to investigate\u003c/a> the incident and recommend changes to crowd control policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan, distancing himself from the mayor ever so slightly, contended that the 85 or so officers dressed in riot gear acted within department policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, in a historic twist reverberating today, Agnos signed San Francisco’s Sanctuary City policy, placing sharp limits on local law enforcement agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Agnos’ first decisions after getting elected was keeping Jordan as police chief — a holdover from his predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, despite Agnos’ frosty relationship with her. It was a fateful decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan was an amiable, non-threatening sort of chief, but he was never “Agnos’ guy.” When Agnos’ main opponent promised to fire Jordan if elected, Agnos said he would keep him, a political calculation to gain support in more conservative westside neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan later resigned and ran for mayor, defeating Agnos in 1991 in a campaign dominated by concerns over homelessness, crime and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Insider vs. outsider?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Max Carter-Oberstone is a progressive attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">recently ousted from the Police Commission by Lurie\u003c/a>. The mayor didn’t give a reason, but Carter-Oberstone had publicly clashed with former Mayor London Breed — something most mayors don’t appreciate in their appointees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says whoever is chief in San Francisco must deal with several politically engaged constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got the mayor, you’ve got the police commission, you have the police officers union, the rank-and-file, the command staff, and then of course various constituencies among the residents of the city who each have their own views,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former SFPD police chief George Gascón, who was appointed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom after leading the department in Mesa, Arizona, said understanding local politics is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot be a chief of police if you don’t understand local politics,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that rank-and-file cops are often wary of someone from outside the department becoming chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to find people wanting an outsider when there’s a perception that the internal structure is not addressing the needs of the organization and the people it serves,” Gascón said. “Generally, outside chiefs don’t last long\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who came to San Francisco from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017, broke that mold.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I credit his ability to navigate a very complex political environment,” Gascón noted. “He’s a political survivor and that’s good for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says that being an outsider has its pros and cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easier in the sense that I didn’t owe anybody anything,” Gascón said. “I had no allegiances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disadvantage to being an outsider, Gascón said, is that he often didn’t know where the internal alliances were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with Scott gone, Lurie must weigh what kind of leader the department, and his administration, need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every mayor wants to have who they want as the police chief. They just can’t hire them themselves. There’s a process to it,” said Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the city charter, the San Francisco Police Commission forwards three candidates to the mayor. He can accept one, or request a new search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCray, who was recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/acting-police-chief-paul-yep-picks-command-staff-20376502.php\">promoted\u003c/a> from lieutenant to commander, worked under 11 different police chiefs during her 31 years on the force and notes that being chief “is unlike any other type of police job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be a little bit of a chameleon,” she said, referring to keeping multiple factions and interest groups happy in a city where politics is a blood sport. “You have to be able to kind of move and groove as things are thrown at you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More protests could test next chief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, facing a severe shortage of officers and a wave of retirements, the SFPD is at a critical juncture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Glaser, who studies policing trends and best practices at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, said the next chief should be someone who can remain calm under pressure and conflict, as recent protests suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the city would be wise to think about somebody who’s going to be able to weather future storms, and I do think that we’re going to see a ramping up of protests in the months and years to come, partly related to the political environment and partly related to the situation in the Middle East,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042524\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie walks with Captain Liza Johansen, from the Mission Police Station, and Santiago Lerma, with the Department of Emergency Management, during a public safety walk in San Francisco’s Mission District on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that research shows that managing protests effectively requires a “lighter touch” and good communication with protest organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need a lot of restraint on the part of the chief and the ability of the chief to convey restraint to his rank and file,” Glaser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lurie announced Scott’s departure, he called him a friend, adding, \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I cannot thank you enough for what you’ve given to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036408/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-touts-progress-crime-homelessness-first-100-days\">Crime rates in the city remain historically low\u003c/a>, including a significant drop in property crimes compared to 2023, when Lurie made public safety a centerpiece of his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee will consider nominating one of seven candidates to fill a vacancy on the Police Commission, the body that will ultimately help choose Scott’s successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s record is a tough act to follow. And if the new chief fails to live up to expectations, it’s Lurie who will take the political hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. 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But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Within a month of starting her new job as the programs director at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Parks Alliance in 2017, Amanda Montez began noticing major financial red flags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez quickly discovered the organization had been making off-the-books microloans “with poor accounting and no proper reconciliation” to the dozens of community partners it fiscally sponsored. And while cleaning out the desk of a former staff member, she found over $400,000 worth of receipts from a city grant program that had never been submitted for reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city owed the San Francisco Parks Alliance hundreds of thousands of dollars, and no one was managing that or tracking that,” Montez, who left the organization in 2019, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most alarmingly, she found evidence suggesting that funds raised by community partners and reserved explicitly for their use were being “inappropriately mixed” with the organization’s general funds and used as collateral for loans, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez raised her concerns with then-CEO Drew Becher and other organization leaders, but said they “weren’t taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she learned last week that the prominent nonprofit had officially folded after admitting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">misspending millions of dollars\u003c/a> of restricted funds to cover its operating costs — including funds raised by its many community partners — Montez said she was “utterly heartbroken,” but hardly surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who was working there in senior management would have seen it coming,” she said. “The financial practices I warned about have now led to exactly the kind of crisis that has harmed dozens of community organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden downfall of the Parks Alliance, which has played a critical role in supporting an array of open-space projects throughout San Francisco for more than 50 years, prompted the city to recently launch civil and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/da-launches-criminal-probe-nonprofit-misspending-20335694.php\">criminal investigations\u003c/a>. And last week, the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit & Oversight Committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042870/sf-supervisors-order-subpoenas-for-fraught-former-parks-nonprofit\">subpoenaed three of the group’s former leaders\u003c/a>, including Becher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the CEO and Board of Directors were fully aware of these financial management problems that are now part of the criminal investigation,” Montez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Becher nor Robert Ogilvie, the organization’s most recent CEO, responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101910208 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/06/GettyImages-1408767603-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly three years Montez worked for the Parks Alliance, she and a small team of mostly fledgling staff members tried to create a new system to more accurately track the organization’s expenses and manage its partner accounts — even as her bosses and the board increasingly prioritized big-donor projects with lots of “glitz and glam” over serving “the underlying needs of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Board members were more interested in galas and ribbon cuttings than the mission-driven work that the park partners were deeply engaged in,” she said. “Because it’s a lot more exciting to have a fancy gala than it is to tile over a walkway. But the walkway is what matters. And that’s what they seem to have missed out on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Parks Alliance employee who worked closely with Montez corroborated her account of financial mismanagement. The former employee, who asked to remain anonymous due to pending investigations, told KQED there had been signs of trouble for at least a decade, despite repeated efforts by staff to refocus the organization on its original mission of supporting neighborhood parks and other public-space projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Montez’s departure, the Park Alliance’s total assets nosedived from nearly $30 million in 2019 to just over $8 million in 2023, even though its expenses that year were nearly twice that amount, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237131784\">most recent available tax filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last month, the organization had about $4.6 million in outstanding obligations and just $1.6 million in remaining assets, according to an email from former Board Chair Louise Mozingo to a donor. In the email \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Mozingo admitted to misspending restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the missing funds, the Parks Alliance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-nonprofit-scandal-20350233.php\">owes more than a million dollars\u003c/a> to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, which it partnered closely with to raise private money for projects, including the development of \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/projects/crane-cove-park/\">Crane Cove Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/projects/india-basin-waterfront-park/\">India Basin Waterfront Park\u003c/a>, both on the city’s eastern shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicola Miner, a local philanthropist who serves on the board of the Baker Street Foundation, donated about $3 million to the Parks Alliance to help pay for new playgrounds and a dog run at Crane Cove Park. Two weeks ago, the foundation received a letter from the organization saying it “misappropriated funds and spent it on general operating expenses,” Miner told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910208/sf-parks-alliance-collapse-leaves-residents-and-community-groups-scrambling-for-answers-and-money\">KQED’s Forum this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actively tried to raise money from us for general operating expenses, not telling us they’d already misappropriated our funds,” she said, noting that her foundation agreed to the funding in 2020 and then allocated it incrementally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of trust involved when you donate to an organization, that they’re going to do what they say they’re going to do,” Miner said. “I don’t know what happened over the past five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the Parks Alliance has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million\u003c/a> in donations from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years\u003c/a> in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a suit and baseball cap speaks at a lectern in an indoor space.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru, shown speaking before a tour of the Transbay Terminal on Jan. 22, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The collapse of the Parks Alliance is perhaps most devastating for the more than 80 mostly volunteer-run community groups that relied on the organization to hold and distribute funds for open-space beautification projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups say the organization collectively misappropriated more than $1.7 million that it had raised, mostly through individual donations. Dozens of group representatives lined up to speak at last week’s oversight committee hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put our money that we raised under very difficult circumstances, with trust into San Francisco Parks Alliance. And we’re wondering where that trust has gone and what can be done about it,” said Devi Joseph, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-Cabrillo-Playground-renovation-groundbreaking-3622774.php\">who founded Friends of Cabrillo Playground\u003c/a> in 2007 to fix up the long-neglected park in the Outer Richmond District that she had played in as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole neighborhood worked on the project,” she told the committee. “It brought us all together as friends. 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The former employee, who asked to remain anonymous due to pending investigations, told KQED there had been signs of trouble for at least a decade, despite repeated efforts by staff to refocus the organization on its original mission of supporting neighborhood parks and other public-space projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Montez’s departure, the Park Alliance’s total assets nosedived from nearly $30 million in 2019 to just over $8 million in 2023, even though its expenses that year were nearly twice that amount, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237131784\">most recent available tax filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last month, the organization had about $4.6 million in outstanding obligations and just $1.6 million in remaining assets, according to an email from former Board Chair Louise Mozingo to a donor. In the email \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Mozingo admitted to misspending restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the missing funds, the Parks Alliance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-nonprofit-scandal-20350233.php\">owes more than a million dollars\u003c/a> to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, which it partnered closely with to raise private money for projects, including the development of \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/projects/crane-cove-park/\">Crane Cove Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/projects/india-basin-waterfront-park/\">India Basin Waterfront Park\u003c/a>, both on the city’s eastern shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicola Miner, a local philanthropist who serves on the board of the Baker Street Foundation, donated about $3 million to the Parks Alliance to help pay for new playgrounds and a dog run at Crane Cove Park. Two weeks ago, the foundation received a letter from the organization saying it “misappropriated funds and spent it on general operating expenses,” Miner told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910208/sf-parks-alliance-collapse-leaves-residents-and-community-groups-scrambling-for-answers-and-money\">KQED’s Forum this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actively tried to raise money from us for general operating expenses, not telling us they’d already misappropriated our funds,” she said, noting that her foundation agreed to the funding in 2020 and then allocated it incrementally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of trust involved when you donate to an organization, that they’re going to do what they say they’re going to do,” Miner said. “I don’t know what happened over the past five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the Parks Alliance has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million\u003c/a> in donations from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years\u003c/a> in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a suit and baseball cap speaks at a lectern in an indoor space.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS40845_005_KQED_GavinNewsom_01222020_6597-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru, shown speaking before a tour of the Transbay Terminal on Jan. 22, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The collapse of the Parks Alliance is perhaps most devastating for the more than 80 mostly volunteer-run community groups that relied on the organization to hold and distribute funds for open-space beautification projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups say the organization collectively misappropriated more than $1.7 million that it had raised, mostly through individual donations. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people flooded streets across the Bay Area Saturday as part of a national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of No Kings protests took place around the region in multiple cities including Oakland, San José, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, Alameda, Fremont and Vallejo. They coincided with a military parade in Washington D.C. and Trump’s 79th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a protest to reject authoritarian rule and the idea that any one person including President Trump is above the people,” said Liliana Soroceanu an organizer with Indivisible San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands marched from Dolores Park to Civic Center in San Francisco, with protesters densely spanning the entire 1.5-mile path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044521 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco for the ‘No Kings’ protest that coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people demonstrate as part of the during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Espinoza, a San Francisco resident, is a daughter of immigrants from Mexico. She said she was at the protests to show her support for her friends and family and those who were not able to join out of fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me feel better to see that there’s all of these people who are coming to support, not just the Latino community but all people affected by this administration,” Espinoza said. “It brings a kind of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Dolores Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Alvarez, who protested in San José, said she feels outraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president needs to get put in check,” said Alvarez, the daughter of an immigrant. “All kinds of people are getting oppressed and it’s not acceptable at all. I’m just here out of rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Guerrero and her daughter Karina Soto, both of whom are educators, said they were at the protest in San José to support democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what this country can be, the promise of this country,” said Soto. “We have to fight for it, because I had no idea how quickly it could be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella coats herself in a Mexican flag to protest the Trump administration during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors dressed as battered and imprisoned versions of Lady Liberty (left) and Mo Little Dove (right) join other protestors in a demonstration outside of the Old County Courthouse in San Jose during a No Kings Day protest on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers from the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Department on duty at the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Moiseff, who’s transgender, also took part in the demonstrations in San José, taking aim at the federal government’s immigration enforcement via deportations .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are one of the most highly ostracized and persecuted minorities in this country, and they continue to receive only more pushback, more hatred, more discrimination,” Moiseff said. “I want to be a part of the fight against oppressive forces in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044452\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather in St. James Park during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José . \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Komar holds up a homemade sign in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a rally in Oakland, which organizers say drew an estimated 10,000 demonstrators, Denise Martin emphasized immigration rights and gay rights as key motivators for coming out to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people and we want to be heard,” Martin said. “Our freedom is important to all of us, and the Constitution. … Nobody’s above the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving a speech at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife said she hadn’t seen such a big crowd in 30 years. She told the crowd that the police chief warned her and other elected officials about coming out today in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota where a Democratic state legislator and her husband were killed and another was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because elected officials are being targeted, because the way that our undocumented citizens are being targeted, makes me want to stand even taller and stronger,” said Fife. “Undocumented immigrants bring trillions of dollars that they will not see a benefit from, and they still work hard for our country. That is the most patriotic thing they could do. We are patriots and we are not ceding ground to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon praised what she called “the most diverse congressional district in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We smell the stench of fascism,” said Simon. “Let me say this to the president of the United States: you don’t get to storm the Capitol, lie to our people, defund the future, and then return four years later, demanding a crown. We say: Hell no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konani Chinn, 20, described the crowd of thousands gathered in Oakland as “super powerful” and praised everyone who came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of effort for everyone to come out here, especially like I mean this protest is mostly older white people who are privileged. … Protests that I’ve been to personally in the past few years have been a lot of young people, more like marginalized people who are actively being affected. I think it’s really amazing that all these people are coming out regardless of their connection to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable Trump chicken is displayed at Frank H. Ogawa plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044522\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (right) addresses hundreds of protesters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters Mary Richardson, Joann George and Carol McCullough all came to the Oakland protest and expressed disgust and shame with their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that we had fought for is being taken away from us,” said McCullough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really need to pay attention,” George added. “when their Medicaid stops and their Social Security gets affected, they will know what this man is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Kettelle, who just turned 66, said at the rally in Oakland, “Enough is enough. I want to show the world that there is another set of beliefs that’s going on in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planning for the national day of action began weeks ago to protest Trump’s military parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soroceanu said Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines in Los Angeles added to the sense of urgency among organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration raids in L.A. this month sparked large-scale protests throughout the region. Trump federalized the National Guard on June 7, deploying 2,000 Guard troops, and later 700 Marines, to respond to the protests. Gov. Gavin Newsom has challenged the move in court, arguing the administration violated the law by not coordinating the deployment with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044464 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This militarization of law enforcement, which is both illegal and inappropriate, has escalated events in L.A. Yesterday, they assaulted a U.S. senator. So this is all behavior of a fascist regime,” Soroceanu said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043957/california-sen-alex-padilla-forced-to-ground-handcuffed-by-agents-at-dhs-briefing\">an incident Thursday\u003c/a> when California Sen. Alex Padilla was removed from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and forced to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police arrested more than 200 people in the hours following demonstrations on June 8 and 9, accusing some of vandalizing businesses or throwing objects at police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soroceanu and other organizers urged attendees to remain peaceful and nonviolent at Saturday’s protests, but local and state officials said they prepared for massive turnout and the possibility of clashes between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044463 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake Housman, 9, chants alongside other rally-goers in the No Kings protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier Saturday, dozens of demonstrators and immigration lawyers gathered on Tehama Street in San Francisco, after they said immigrants received text messages from Immigration and Customs Enforcement telling them to “check-in” there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect they were planning detentions at check-ins,” said Sanika Mahajan, director of Community Engagement and Organizing at Mission Action, an immigrant advocacy group in San Francisco’s Mission District. “[ICE] have had to change tactics because of the people that have been showing up in large numbers to try to stop detentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Taiara, a volunteer with the National Lawyers Guild, said the doors to the offices were closed and that people who had shown up for the check-in didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doddie the dog sports a taco costume during a ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The people who are reporting here all have immigration cases with the court, so they’re trying to do the right thing,” said Taiara. “They say these people are criminals … but there’s no due process and it’s been shown that the vast majority of people they are grabbing and detaining and sending God-knows-where have no criminal records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s state terror,” Taiara added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young dancers perform outside of the Old County Courthouse in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom announced Friday that the California Highway Patrol and the state’s Office of Emergency Services would pre-deploy personnel to cities across the state ahead of the No Kings protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has zero tolerance for those who plan to take advantage of peaceful demonstrations with violence,” Newsom said. “We’re pre-deploying resources to maintain safety — and we will prosecute those who break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom added that all eight of CHP’s Special Response Teams, consisting of 700 officers, were staged throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie also announced Friday that he was activating the emergency operations center, where several city agencies, including law enforcement and emergency services, would be coordinating the city’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters cheer from their car as protesters march down Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie was flanked by the police chief, the sheriff, the district attorney and the head of the department of emergency management, many of whom stressed that law enforcement will arrest anybody who breaks the law.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Attila Pelit, Sara Hossaini, Vanessa Rancaño and Brian Krans contributed to this story, which will be updated throughout the day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a protest to reject authoritarian rule and the idea that any one person including President Trump is above the people,” said Liliana Soroceanu an organizer with Indivisible San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands marched from Dolores Park to Civic Center in San Francisco, with protesters densely spanning the entire 1.5-mile path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044521 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco for the ‘No Kings’ protest that coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people demonstrate as part of the during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Espinoza, a San Francisco resident, is a daughter of immigrants from Mexico. She said she was at the protests to show her support for her friends and family and those who were not able to join out of fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me feel better to see that there’s all of these people who are coming to support, not just the Latino community but all people affected by this administration,” Espinoza said. “It brings a kind of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Dolores Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Alvarez, who protested in San José, said she feels outraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president needs to get put in check,” said Alvarez, the daughter of an immigrant. “All kinds of people are getting oppressed and it’s not acceptable at all. I’m just here out of rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Guerrero and her daughter Karina Soto, both of whom are educators, said they were at the protest in San José to support democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what this country can be, the promise of this country,” said Soto. “We have to fight for it, because I had no idea how quickly it could be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella coats herself in a Mexican flag to protest the Trump administration during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors dressed as battered and imprisoned versions of Lady Liberty (left) and Mo Little Dove (right) join other protestors in a demonstration outside of the Old County Courthouse in San Jose during a No Kings Day protest on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers from the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Department on duty at the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Moiseff, who’s transgender, also took part in the demonstrations in San José, taking aim at the federal government’s immigration enforcement via deportations .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are one of the most highly ostracized and persecuted minorities in this country, and they continue to receive only more pushback, more hatred, more discrimination,” Moiseff said. “I want to be a part of the fight against oppressive forces in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044452\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather in St. James Park during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José . \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Komar holds up a homemade sign in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a rally in Oakland, which organizers say drew an estimated 10,000 demonstrators, Denise Martin emphasized immigration rights and gay rights as key motivators for coming out to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people and we want to be heard,” Martin said. “Our freedom is important to all of us, and the Constitution. … Nobody’s above the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving a speech at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife said she hadn’t seen such a big crowd in 30 years. She told the crowd that the police chief warned her and other elected officials about coming out today in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota where a Democratic state legislator and her husband were killed and another was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because elected officials are being targeted, because the way that our undocumented citizens are being targeted, makes me want to stand even taller and stronger,” said Fife. “Undocumented immigrants bring trillions of dollars that they will not see a benefit from, and they still work hard for our country. That is the most patriotic thing they could do. We are patriots and we are not ceding ground to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon praised what she called “the most diverse congressional district in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We smell the stench of fascism,” said Simon. “Let me say this to the president of the United States: you don’t get to storm the Capitol, lie to our people, defund the future, and then return four years later, demanding a crown. We say: Hell no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konani Chinn, 20, described the crowd of thousands gathered in Oakland as “super powerful” and praised everyone who came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of effort for everyone to come out here, especially like I mean this protest is mostly older white people who are privileged. … Protests that I’ve been to personally in the past few years have been a lot of young people, more like marginalized people who are actively being affected. I think it’s really amazing that all these people are coming out regardless of their connection to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable Trump chicken is displayed at Frank H. Ogawa plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044522\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (right) addresses hundreds of protesters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters Mary Richardson, Joann George and Carol McCullough all came to the Oakland protest and expressed disgust and shame with their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that we had fought for is being taken away from us,” said McCullough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really need to pay attention,” George added. “when their Medicaid stops and their Social Security gets affected, they will know what this man is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Kettelle, who just turned 66, said at the rally in Oakland, “Enough is enough. I want to show the world that there is another set of beliefs that’s going on in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planning for the national day of action began weeks ago to protest Trump’s military parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soroceanu said Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines in Los Angeles added to the sense of urgency among organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration raids in L.A. this month sparked large-scale protests throughout the region. Trump federalized the National Guard on June 7, deploying 2,000 Guard troops, and later 700 Marines, to respond to the protests. Gov. Gavin Newsom has challenged the move in court, arguing the administration violated the law by not coordinating the deployment with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044464 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This militarization of law enforcement, which is both illegal and inappropriate, has escalated events in L.A. Yesterday, they assaulted a U.S. senator. So this is all behavior of a fascist regime,” Soroceanu said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043957/california-sen-alex-padilla-forced-to-ground-handcuffed-by-agents-at-dhs-briefing\">an incident Thursday\u003c/a> when California Sen. Alex Padilla was removed from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and forced to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police arrested more than 200 people in the hours following demonstrations on June 8 and 9, accusing some of vandalizing businesses or throwing objects at police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soroceanu and other organizers urged attendees to remain peaceful and nonviolent at Saturday’s protests, but local and state officials said they prepared for massive turnout and the possibility of clashes between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044463 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake Housman, 9, chants alongside other rally-goers in the No Kings protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier Saturday, dozens of demonstrators and immigration lawyers gathered on Tehama Street in San Francisco, after they said immigrants received text messages from Immigration and Customs Enforcement telling them to “check-in” there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect they were planning detentions at check-ins,” said Sanika Mahajan, director of Community Engagement and Organizing at Mission Action, an immigrant advocacy group in San Francisco’s Mission District. “[ICE] have had to change tactics because of the people that have been showing up in large numbers to try to stop detentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Taiara, a volunteer with the National Lawyers Guild, said the doors to the offices were closed and that people who had shown up for the check-in didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doddie the dog sports a taco costume during a ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The people who are reporting here all have immigration cases with the court, so they’re trying to do the right thing,” said Taiara. “They say these people are criminals … but there’s no due process and it’s been shown that the vast majority of people they are grabbing and detaining and sending God-knows-where have no criminal records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s state terror,” Taiara added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young dancers perform outside of the Old County Courthouse in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom announced Friday that the California Highway Patrol and the state’s Office of Emergency Services would pre-deploy personnel to cities across the state ahead of the No Kings protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has zero tolerance for those who plan to take advantage of peaceful demonstrations with violence,” Newsom said. “We’re pre-deploying resources to maintain safety — and we will prosecute those who break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom added that all eight of CHP’s Special Response Teams, consisting of 700 officers, were staged throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie also announced Friday that he was activating the emergency operations center, where several city agencies, including law enforcement and emergency services, would be coordinating the city’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters cheer from their car as protesters march down Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie was flanked by the police chief, the sheriff, the district attorney and the head of the department of emergency management, many of whom stressed that law enforcement will arrest anybody who breaks the law.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Attila Pelit, Sara Hossaini, Vanessa Rancaño and Brian Krans contributed to this story, which will be updated throughout the day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“We’re student journalists. We’re press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the second night in a row, as part of their coverage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043653/hundreds-rally-in-oakland-to-protest-ice-raids-support-immigrant-communities\">immigration protests\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco, UC Berkeley students Aarya Mukherjee and Sam Grotenstein found themselves detained by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFPD has kennelled us,” Mukherjee, a journalist for the university’s \u003cem>Daily Californian\u003c/em> student newspaper, posted on the social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Aarya_Muk/status/1932306723785842718\">X\u003c/a> on June 9. “We have announced that we are press and they are not letting us leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their experience was not unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press freedom groups are raising alarms about police interference with journalists’ First Amendment rights ahead of Saturday’s planned mass protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last week, the San Francisco Police Department detained “numerous journalists” covering protests, “halting their ability to report the news,” according to a letter sent Wednesday to interim Police Chief Paul Yep by the Society of Professional Journalists and the First Amendment Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some were kettled into barricaded areas, like Mukherjee and Grotenstein, despite displaying their badges and identifying themselves as press. Others were restricted from crossing police lines, obstructing their view of newsworthy events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044364 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/FirstAmendment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/FirstAmendment.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/FirstAmendment-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/FirstAmendment-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Press badges and homemade helmets identifying UC Berkeley student journalists detained by the San Francisco Police Department, on June 13, 2025, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aarya Mukherjee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aldo Toledo, a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reporter, was reportedly “shoved” to the ground, his phone knocked out of his hand as he tried to record police, the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press freedom advocates condemned these actions by law enforcement, which they said trampled on journalists’ rights under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The press should not be singled out by officers to be kept away from a protest or a scene,” said Chessie Thacher, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “That’s actually unlawful in California, and it is questionable under the First Amendment in California’s free speech rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, California significantly expanded legal protections for the press, spurred by numerous injuries to journalists and arrests during coverage of the protests following the murder of George Floyd.[aside postID=news_12043596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg']The new law explicitly allows journalists access behind police lines during an emergency and prohibits police from interfering with newsgathering or citing journalists for failing to disperse. The law also gives journalists the right to challenge any detention with a supervisor on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as tensions have escalated between the Trump administration and California, journalists have increasingly found themselves caught in the crossfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, several journalists covering the protests against ramped-up immigration enforcement have been injured, including an Australian TV broadcaster who police shot with a less-lethal projectile while she was live on air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not immediately clear what led to the incidents involving journalists in San Francisco, and the SFPD did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy McCray, head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, said it can be difficult in a tense environment to identify who is a journalist and who is a protester “with a phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The press has a right to do their job and report on this. 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A safety advisory published by \u003ca href=\"https://bridgingdivides.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf6646/files/documents/BDI_Advisory_No%20Kings%20Protests%20June%202025.pdf\">Princeton University’s\u003c/a> Bridging Divides Initiative reported that the recent developments in Los Angeles may contribute to increased “contention” on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indivisible SF’s Liliana Soroceanu, an organizer of the upcoming protest, said she expects that the escalation in L.A. would bring more than the 4,000 currently registered attendees out into the streets “to express their dissatisfaction with what’s going on in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of her organization have been in touch with SFPD and the mayor’s office to come up with a safety plan for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that this will be a joyful, peaceful event, and the police will basically keep us safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The sweet sound of the crack of a wooden bat once again filled the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday night as Major League Cricket \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12032881/oakland-coliseum-host-major-league-cricket-could-2028-la-olympics-be-next\">made its debut\u003c/a> at the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,000 fans came to cheer and wave orange flags as the San Francisco Unicorns took on the Washington Freedom in the 2025 MLC season opener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unicorns fans celebrate a 6 during the San Francisco Unicorns opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Major League Cricket is only in its third season in the United States, where the second-most-watched sport in the world is hoping to establish a foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket is a religion in India,” said Shripad Gokhale, who traveled with his wife, son and daughter from Arizona to attend the match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the game, fans dressed in Banana costumes (just for fun) set up their own friendly cricket match in the Coliseum parking lot. Amid the crack of beer cans and music, people took turns bowling cricket balls and batting in front of a plastic wicket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans, dressed as bananas, play a game of cricket in the parking lot at the Oakland Coliseum, ahead of the inaugural Major League Cricket game between the San Francisco Unicorns and Washington Freedom, on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket’s part of our bloodline in Australia, it’s pretty huge. So it’s pretty exciting to see cricket here in the states,” said Bobby Bent, who drove up from Fresno to catch the first match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cricket has a reputation for matches that can last up to five days — sometimes without a clear winner — MLC plays a faster-paced version, called T20, in which games last around three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns play Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s matchup was a rematch of last year’s MLC finals, which saw the Freedom walk away with the trophy over the Unicorns. But this time the Unicorns prevailed, besting the Freedom by 123 runs, in a final score of 269–146.[aside postID=news_12039317 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-1020x765.jpg']The game was a slugfest, with the Unicorns breaking multiple MLC records. Unicorns opener Finn Allen hit a league record 19 sixes (that’s the cricket equivalent of a home run), in a game that saw the Unicorns also break the league record for the widest margin of victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other major league sports in the U.S., MLC does not have a home-and-away stadium format. Instead, the six teams in the league play tournament-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum is set to host nine matches over the next week before the tournament moves to Texas and Florida for the remainder of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of cricket at the Coliseum, the MLC hopes to tap into dedicated fans in the Bay Area as it seeks to grow the sport’s reach in the United States. The sport is particularly popular among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935325/cricket-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-sports-goes-to-bat-in-the-tri-valley\">Bay Area’s South Asian communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave San Francisco Unicorns flags during the Unicorns’ opening game of Major League Cricket, against the Washington Freedom, at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ You can walk through any park in the city of Fremont on a weekend, and you’ll see that the fields are packed,” Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said during a news conference on Wednesday at the Coliseum. “ This is more than just a game. It’s a celebration of our diversity, and a dream come true for so many local fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave flags as the San Francisco Unicorns play the Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subbu Kuchibhotla, who plays in a weekend league in Fremont, said he’s seen cricket grow exponentially in the South Bay in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about six or seven leagues across San Ramon, Fremont, Sunnyvale, you name it. It’s pretty competitive,” Kuchibhotla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum games mark a bittersweet moment for the city of Oakland, which has seen the departure of the Warriors, the Raiders and most recently the A’s. The stadium has had a second life, hosting other local professional sports teams, such as the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mikey Seraydarian of Oakland said he’s recently gotten into cricket and is just excited to see a sports team call the Coliseum home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll take any chance to be in the Coliseum again. Even just like walking over the BART bridge, I got chills,” Seraydarian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Unicorns player practices bowling ahead of their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Wednesday news conference, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee thanked MLC for investing $3 million into improvements to the Coliseum to help make it ready for cricket. These efforts included trucking in a pitch — the hard grassy surface similar to an infield in baseball — from the East Coast and bringing in cricket groundskeeping experts from Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We are deeply grateful. That’s jobs. That’s economic activity. That’s energy and momentum for this part of town, and that’s what our residents need the most,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns celebrate during their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to city officials, the MLC games at the Coliseum are an opportunity to showcase the venue as a probable host for cricket matches in the 2028 Olympics. The sport is set to return to the Summer Games for only the second time in Olympic history, after a 128-year hiatus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six teams in the MLC have an obligation to build a home stadium in the coming years. Whether MLC will return to the Coliseum next season is still up in the air, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">is the future ownership of the Coliseum itself.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unicorns said in a statement to KQED: “As we look to the future, we’re actively exploring all options for a permanent home for Bay Area cricket fans to enjoy for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket is a religion in India,” said Shripad Gokhale, who traveled with his wife, son and daughter from Arizona to attend the match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the game, fans dressed in Banana costumes (just for fun) set up their own friendly cricket match in the Coliseum parking lot. Amid the crack of beer cans and music, people took turns bowling cricket balls and batting in front of a plastic wicket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans, dressed as bananas, play a game of cricket in the parking lot at the Oakland Coliseum, ahead of the inaugural Major League Cricket game between the San Francisco Unicorns and Washington Freedom, on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket’s part of our bloodline in Australia, it’s pretty huge. So it’s pretty exciting to see cricket here in the states,” said Bobby Bent, who drove up from Fresno to catch the first match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cricket has a reputation for matches that can last up to five days — sometimes without a clear winner — MLC plays a faster-paced version, called T20, in which games last around three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns play Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s matchup was a rematch of last year’s MLC finals, which saw the Freedom walk away with the trophy over the Unicorns. But this time the Unicorns prevailed, besting the Freedom by 123 runs, in a final score of 269–146.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The game was a slugfest, with the Unicorns breaking multiple MLC records. Unicorns opener Finn Allen hit a league record 19 sixes (that’s the cricket equivalent of a home run), in a game that saw the Unicorns also break the league record for the widest margin of victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other major league sports in the U.S., MLC does not have a home-and-away stadium format. Instead, the six teams in the league play tournament-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum is set to host nine matches over the next week before the tournament moves to Texas and Florida for the remainder of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of cricket at the Coliseum, the MLC hopes to tap into dedicated fans in the Bay Area as it seeks to grow the sport’s reach in the United States. The sport is particularly popular among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935325/cricket-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-sports-goes-to-bat-in-the-tri-valley\">Bay Area’s South Asian communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave San Francisco Unicorns flags during the Unicorns’ opening game of Major League Cricket, against the Washington Freedom, at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ You can walk through any park in the city of Fremont on a weekend, and you’ll see that the fields are packed,” Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said during a news conference on Wednesday at the Coliseum. “ This is more than just a game. It’s a celebration of our diversity, and a dream come true for so many local fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave flags as the San Francisco Unicorns play the Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subbu Kuchibhotla, who plays in a weekend league in Fremont, said he’s seen cricket grow exponentially in the South Bay in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about six or seven leagues across San Ramon, Fremont, Sunnyvale, you name it. It’s pretty competitive,” Kuchibhotla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum games mark a bittersweet moment for the city of Oakland, which has seen the departure of the Warriors, the Raiders and most recently the A’s. The stadium has had a second life, hosting other local professional sports teams, such as the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mikey Seraydarian of Oakland said he’s recently gotten into cricket and is just excited to see a sports team call the Coliseum home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll take any chance to be in the Coliseum again. Even just like walking over the BART bridge, I got chills,” Seraydarian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Unicorns player practices bowling ahead of their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Wednesday news conference, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee thanked MLC for investing $3 million into improvements to the Coliseum to help make it ready for cricket. These efforts included trucking in a pitch — the hard grassy surface similar to an infield in baseball — from the East Coast and bringing in cricket groundskeeping experts from Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We are deeply grateful. That’s jobs. That’s economic activity. That’s energy and momentum for this part of town, and that’s what our residents need the most,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns celebrate during their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to city officials, the MLC games at the Coliseum are an opportunity to showcase the venue as a probable host for cricket matches in the 2028 Olympics. The sport is set to return to the Summer Games for only the second time in Olympic history, after a 128-year hiatus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six teams in the MLC have an obligation to build a home stadium in the coming years. Whether MLC will return to the Coliseum next season is still up in the air, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">is the future ownership of the Coliseum itself.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unicorns said in a statement to KQED: “As we look to the future, we’re actively exploring all options for a permanent home for Bay Area cricket fans to enjoy for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. Tim Ramirez, who manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s\u003c/a> Division of Natural Resources, said the temple is a reminder of the vision and foresight of those who first imagined Hetch Hetchy and its role in the success of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SEASACHI-SWITCH-QUEERSURF-JUNE-7-2025-_23-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emeryville Shellmound Memorial, Emeryville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a massive archaeological site, the Emeryville Shellmound Memorial pays a small tribute to the history of the Ohlone people, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">shellmounds — used as burial or ceremonial sites — used to dot the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a shopping mall, the former shellmound was excavated to make way for the mall. This spot is often used as a gathering place for protests on Black Friday that call attention to the site’s destruction and the mishandling of Indigenous remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1910 and 1940, around 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.aiisf.org/history\">Angel Island,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821133/the-little-known-history-of-japanese-internment-on-angel-island\">many of whom were detained or interrogated\u003c/a> as their status was processed.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a state park and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1582/index.htm\">National Historic Landmark\u003c/a>, the island houses a history museum and a monument to the Chinese immigrants who were detained on the island. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034009/angel-island-exhibit-aims-shine-light-border-surveillance-american-exclusion\">A new exhibit opened this spring\u003c/a> focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border amid President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration crackdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanforan Memorial, San Bruno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 2022, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tanforanmemorial.org/\">Tanforan Memorial\u003c/a> commemorates the 8,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned there in 1942 while more permanent internment camps were under construction, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">the United States invoked the Alien Enemies Act\u003c/a> to detain people of Japanese descent living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/planning/art-program/exhibit\">San Bruno BART\u003c/a> station, the memorial was designed to replicate a horse stall, like the ones detainees were forced to occupy at the former racetrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denied entry, detained overnight and eventually sent back home: Two Palestinians from the West Bank, planning to attend a series of speaking events with Jewish synagogues and other places of worship in the Bay Area, as part of an interfaith humanitarian mission, instead found themselves tangled in an immigration system being sharply restricted by President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visitors’ sponsor, Philip Weintraub, of East Bay’s Kehilla Community Synagogue, confirmed to KQED that the two men were sent back home Thursday from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">San Francisco International Airport. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am beyond heartbroken for my friends, our friends, who were trying to come here just for a humanitarian purpose — to thank us, to connect with us,” Weintraub said, standing in SFO’s international arrivals hall. “They were treated so cruelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who rushed to the airport on Wednesday and remained there overnight, the two men were invited to the U.S. by multiple faith organizations that have provided aid in their village, Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men, who are cousins, have been coordinating relief efforts for their 200-person village and documenting the effects of decades-long Israeli occupation, according to Ben Linder, a member of the executive committee of J Street Silicon Valley, an organization that says it is pro-Israel and “working for Israeli-Palestinian peace,” and was set to host an event they planned to attend in the South Bay Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044081 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person holds a sign that reads “SF Welcomes Palestinian Speakers” at San Francisco International Airport on June 12, 2025, to protest Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of two Palestinian visitors, who had visas to the U.S. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After an interview by CBP, the individuals failed to establish they were admissible to the U.S.,” a CBP spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “As such, they withdrew their applications for admission and departed the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Bay Area chapter, said the incident raised in her mind the specter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032046/as-anxiety-mounts-possible-new-trump-travel-ban-community-leaders-speak-out\">the new travel ban\u003c/a>, which bars foreign nationals from more than a dozen countries from entering the U.S., based on their national origin — as well as recent escalations in immigration enforcement taking place across the state and country.[aside postID=news_12043582 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg']“At a time when the administration has shown a complete disregard for the rule of law as well as any decision-making by our courts, we need to be prepared that this will happen more frequently,” Billoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood called the detention “an escalating indication of the constitutional crisis that we are facing in our country right now,” speaking outside the airport Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where even people on valid tourist visas, people who are here on interfaith missions and humanitarian causes, can be denied entry and [have] their voice be silenced,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 36 protesters gathered at the airport Thursday, ringing bells and chanting, “Let them go — no deportation.” Some wore keffiyehs, a traditional Middle Eastern scarf that has become symbolic of Palestinians, and held signs like, “SF Welcomes Palestinian Speakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said that he and Weintraub, who leads the Jewish-Palestinian Reparations Alliance at Kehilla, first learned that the men had been detained from the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, after not hearing from them several hours after their flight from Doha, Qatar, was expected to land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044080 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Weintraub speaks out at San Francisco International Airport on June 12, 2025, to protest Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of two Palestinian visitors, who had visas to the U.S. \u003ccite>(Katie 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These are folks trying to share their village’s story and to thank us for supporting them and showing solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men are Palestinian passport holders, reported the San Francisco Chronicle, which have long been recognized as travel documents by U.S. officials, though not as proof of citizenship. The U.S. does not recognize the Palestinian Authority, a governing body in the part of the Palestinian territories where the men are from, as a government, nor the territories as a state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masafer Yatta, the village where the men are from, was recently depicted in “No Other Land,” the Best Documentary Oscar winner in 2025, which captured clashes between residents and Israeli settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linder said the men were told they would be deported back to the West Bank, likely through Jordan, on Thursday. They were not given a reason for their revoked visas, he said, which sets a “terrible precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People with valid tourist visas to the United States that can be arbitrarily denied entry because of their skin color, because of their last name … their Palestinian peoplehood, that is a huge precedent that may be very dangerous for anyone that doesn’t look like the current [Make America Great Again] regime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem> Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 13: A previous version of this story named the two Palestinian men who were sent back home. Their names were removed after concerns were raised for their safety.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denied entry, detained overnight and eventually sent back home: Two Palestinians from the West Bank, planning to attend a series of speaking events with Jewish synagogues and other places of worship in the Bay Area, as part of an interfaith humanitarian mission, instead found themselves tangled in an immigration system being sharply restricted by President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visitors’ sponsor, Philip Weintraub, of East Bay’s Kehilla Community Synagogue, confirmed to KQED that the two men were sent back home Thursday from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">San Francisco International Airport. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am beyond heartbroken for my friends, our friends, who were trying to come here just for a humanitarian purpose — to thank us, to connect with us,” Weintraub said, standing in SFO’s international arrivals hall. “They were treated so cruelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who rushed to the airport on Wednesday and remained there overnight, the two men were invited to the U.S. by multiple faith organizations that have provided aid in their village, Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men, who are cousins, have been coordinating relief efforts for their 200-person village and documenting the effects of decades-long Israeli occupation, according to Ben Linder, a member of the executive committee of J Street Silicon Valley, an organization that says it is pro-Israel and “working for Israeli-Palestinian peace,” and was set to host an event they planned to attend in the South Bay Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044081 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person holds a sign that reads “SF Welcomes Palestinian Speakers” at San Francisco International Airport on June 12, 2025, to protest Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of two Palestinian visitors, who had visas to the U.S. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After an interview by CBP, the individuals failed to establish they were admissible to the U.S.,” a CBP spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “As such, they withdrew their applications for admission and departed the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Bay Area chapter, said the incident raised in her mind the specter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032046/as-anxiety-mounts-possible-new-trump-travel-ban-community-leaders-speak-out\">the new travel ban\u003c/a>, which bars foreign nationals from more than a dozen countries from entering the U.S., based on their national origin — as well as recent escalations in immigration enforcement taking place across the state and country.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“At a time when the administration has shown a complete disregard for the rule of law as well as any decision-making by our courts, we need to be prepared that this will happen more frequently,” Billoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood called the detention “an escalating indication of the constitutional crisis that we are facing in our country right now,” speaking outside the airport Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where even people on valid tourist visas, people who are here on interfaith missions and humanitarian causes, can be denied entry and [have] their voice be silenced,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 36 protesters gathered at the airport Thursday, ringing bells and chanting, “Let them go — no deportation.” Some wore keffiyehs, a traditional Middle Eastern scarf that has become symbolic of Palestinians, and held signs like, “SF Welcomes Palestinian Speakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said that he and Weintraub, who leads the Jewish-Palestinian Reparations Alliance at Kehilla, first learned that the men had been detained from the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, after not hearing from them several hours after their flight from Doha, Qatar, was expected to land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044080 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Weintraub speaks out at San Francisco International Airport on June 12, 2025, to protest Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of two Palestinian visitors, who had visas to the U.S. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reaction is [that] they’re deeply disappointed and outraged,” said Weintraub, who had been at the airport since Wednesday afternoon and was able to speak with the men once that evening. “That’s such a ridiculous decision, having no basis in reality. These are folks trying to share their village’s story and to thank us for supporting them and showing solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men are Palestinian passport holders, reported the San Francisco Chronicle, which have long been recognized as travel documents by U.S. officials, though not as proof of citizenship. The U.S. does not recognize the Palestinian Authority, a governing body in the part of the Palestinian territories where the men are from, as a government, nor the territories as a state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masafer Yatta, the village where the men are from, was recently depicted in “No Other Land,” the Best Documentary Oscar winner in 2025, which captured clashes between residents and Israeli settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linder said the men were told they would be deported back to the West Bank, likely through Jordan, on Thursday. They were not given a reason for their revoked visas, he said, which sets a “terrible precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People with valid tourist visas to the United States that can be arbitrarily denied entry because of their skin color, because of their last name … their Palestinian peoplehood, that is a huge precedent that may be very dangerous for anyone that doesn’t look like the current [Make America Great Again] regime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem> Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 13: A previous version of this story named the two Palestinian men who were sent back home. Their names were removed after concerns were raised for their safety.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In January, three generations of the Hall family were living in a pair of RVs, tucked into an industrial corner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>. Fannie Hall shared her blue and white 29-footer with her adult daughter and granddaughter, plus a pack of yapping Chihuahuas — Hall’s beloved Tutti, her daughter’s Blu, and nine puppies. Across the street, Hall’s son lived in a second camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m letting him stay in the cottage — I call it the cottage,” Hall, 64, said with a laugh, motioning toward a red and white RV she likened to a vacation home. “We all got homeless about the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was roughly six years ago, after the house they rented in San Pablo was red-tagged for code violations. They were forced to move out with a week’s notice, Hall said, and eventually all ended up on Berkeley’s Second Street — a stretch of wrecked asphalt at the city’s western edge lined with barbed wire-ringed recycling and construction businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, another family shared their own set of RVs. Patrick, 58, and his wife had moved into the area around the same time as the Halls, after Patrick’s wife had a heart attack, lost her job as an administrative assistant and the couple got evicted from their San Pablo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to afford anywhere around here,” said Patrick, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he doesn’t want his employers to know his living situation. “So this is kind of where we just landed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, is home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both families were working — Hall as a home health aide three days a week and Patrick as a security guard — and they tried to keep their areas tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time Elvia Guzman, 42, and her husband moved there in 2024, the area had become a well-established encampment with dozens of people living in motorhomes, broken down buses, cars and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there,” she said, explaining authorities had broken up a similar site where the couple was living in Richmond. “They weren’t really bothering us over here, so it felt more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the area grew increasingly chaotic. Hall watched in frustration as garbage piles swelled to mini mountains and fires broke out. The mess eventually became her problem, attracting pests — “I’ve had my camper chewed on and killed multiple rats up in my camper,” she said — and the authorities.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg'] While California has put \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">$1 billion toward the grants\u003c/a> since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">there’s little quality research on what works\u003c/a> when it comes to successfully closing encampments. Radu and Kushel want to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we are leaning into this crisis with both a sense of urgency and also a sense of moving beyond rhetoric to actually explore what does work, what doesn’t work and to try to get as many win-wins as we possibly can,” Kushel said. “The story is just beginning, but I think we’ve already learned a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the research, Kushel will be looking closely at the holdouts, like Hall and her family, to understand why they refused to accept the city’s offer. The answer might influence how they design future programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls left Second Street in late April with help from the city of Berkeley to get their RVs running. Rats had gnawed through some wiring, Hall said, and the motorhomes needed new batteries, which the city sprang for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now adjusting to life behind a Target on the Oakland-Emeryville border. “We’re all kind of watching out for each other like we did over on Second Street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall is applying for housing and still works three days a week as a home health aide, she said. “I’m just trying to keep the faith and then hopefully something gives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman holds a cat pillow in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Guzman sat inside the Capri Motel, a two-story terracotta-roofed building on a busy street in Berkeley. It was a weekday in May, and a group of formerly homeless residents were playing cornhole in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said she’s working with program staff to replace her ID, birth certificate and other documents that were stolen when she lived in the RV so she can apply for apartments. Like most of the residents there, it’ll take her several months, even a year or more, to get into a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping to end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable,” she said. “I just want a boring, normal, regular life, that’s all. I’ll be happy with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Second Street, there’s little trace of the encampment she and the Halls left behind. The heaps of garbage and barking dogs are gone. Dozens of new street signs line the road, threatening would-be lodgers with arrest. There’s not an RV in sight, just crumbling pavement, weeds and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, another family shared their own set of RVs. Patrick, 58, and his wife had moved into the area around the same time as the Halls, after Patrick’s wife had a heart attack, lost her job as an administrative assistant and the couple got evicted from their San Pablo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to afford anywhere around here,” said Patrick, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he doesn’t want his employers to know his living situation. “So this is kind of where we just landed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, is home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both families were working — Hall as a home health aide three days a week and Patrick as a security guard — and they tried to keep their areas tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time Elvia Guzman, 42, and her husband moved there in 2024, the area had become a well-established encampment with dozens of people living in motorhomes, broken down buses, cars and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there,” she said, explaining authorities had broken up a similar site where the couple was living in Richmond. “They weren’t really bothering us over here, so it felt more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the area grew increasingly chaotic. Hall watched in frustration as garbage piles swelled to mini mountains and fires broke out. The mess eventually became her problem, attracting pests — “I’ve had my camper chewed on and killed multiple rats up in my camper,” she said — and the authorities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> While California has put \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">$1 billion toward the grants\u003c/a> since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">there’s little quality research on what works\u003c/a> when it comes to successfully closing encampments. Radu and Kushel want to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we are leaning into this crisis with both a sense of urgency and also a sense of moving beyond rhetoric to actually explore what does work, what doesn’t work and to try to get as many win-wins as we possibly can,” Kushel said. “The story is just beginning, but I think we’ve already learned a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the research, Kushel will be looking closely at the holdouts, like Hall and her family, to understand why they refused to accept the city’s offer. The answer might influence how they design future programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls left Second Street in late April with help from the city of Berkeley to get their RVs running. Rats had gnawed through some wiring, Hall said, and the motorhomes needed new batteries, which the city sprang for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now adjusting to life behind a Target on the Oakland-Emeryville border. “We’re all kind of watching out for each other like we did over on Second Street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall is applying for housing and still works three days a week as a home health aide, she said. “I’m just trying to keep the faith and then hopefully something gives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman holds a cat pillow in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Guzman sat inside the Capri Motel, a two-story terracotta-roofed building on a busy street in Berkeley. It was a weekday in May, and a group of formerly homeless residents were playing cornhole in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said she’s working with program staff to replace her ID, birth certificate and other documents that were stolen when she lived in the RV so she can apply for apartments. Like most of the residents there, it’ll take her several months, even a year or more, to get into a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping to end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable,” she said. “I just want a boring, normal, regular life, that’s all. I’ll be happy with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Second Street, there’s little trace of the encampment she and the Halls left behind. The heaps of garbage and barking dogs are gone. Dozens of new street signs line the road, threatening would-be lodgers with arrest. There’s not an RV in sight, just crumbling pavement, weeds and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally published December 8, 2022. It has been updated to reflect recent changes to the building.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge. The Bay Bridge. Sutro Tower. Coit Tower. Perhaps even (whisper it) the Salesforce Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to instantly recognizable structures, San Francisco suffers no shortage. But if asked to pick their favorite, many people might go for a classic: the Transamerica Pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid — officially known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center — first opened back in 1972, making it more than 50 years old. At over 850 feet high, back then it was the tallest building San Francisco had ever seen. It has over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Pier 7 in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid is no longer the tallest building in San Francisco; that honor now goes to the Salesforce Tower, at 1,070 feet. But the story of how it came to be might surprise you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because what is now an architectural icon was once quite controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco before the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District converge. And historically speaking, the Pyramid is built on hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of the 19th century, this area of San Francisco wasn’t several blocks away from the bay, like it is now. It was the Barbary Coast, right on the water. A whaling ship called the Niantic even ran aground here in 1849 after the crew jumped ship to make their fortunes in the gold fields. Like many ships around this time, instead of being removed or torn down, the Niantic was instead absorbed into the fabric of the city: It was retrofitted into a hotel and ultimately became part of the landfill as the city expanded into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco looking toward the bay, by Frank Marryat, ca. 1850. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back during the Gold Rush, Montgomery Street was at the center of city life. In 1853, workers constructed a massive building — appropriately known as the Montgomery Block — on the exact spot where the Transamerica Pyramid would later be built. “At the time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi at a towering four stories,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, who is currently writing a book about the history of the building. “[It was] built, famously, on a foundation made up of redwood logs interlaced that were floated across the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans, Swanhuyser says, even called the Montgomery Block “a floating fortress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many spaces through San Francisco’s history, the Block — and the people inside it — lived many lives. Originally, the space was built to be law offices and a hangout spot for San Francisco’s high society. But when the city’s business folk started to migrate south to Market Street, artists moved in. The Montgomery Block entered its creative era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Montgomery Block in 1856, by photographer G. R. Fardon (1807–1886) \u003ccite>(Google Art Project/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They were writers and sculptors,” said Swanhuyser, “people who were inventing journalism in the mid-1860s. People like Ambrose Bierce, who, according to some, was America’s first newspaper columnist, and Mark Twain and Bret Harte. And Ina Coolbrith, who was California’s first poet laureate.”[aside postID=news_12045917 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK6-KQED.jpg']This area of Montgomery Street was known for its bohemian ways, a scene that attracted freethinkers from near and far. Just a block to the north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848986/inside-frida-kahlo-and-diego-riveras-life-in-san-francisco\">now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s\u003c/a>. But the Montgomery Block’s influence was also ideological, says Swanhuyser, a “hotbed of painters and political people”: \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2019-1/2019/5/23/the-history-of-the-1934-general-strike\">The massive General Strike of 1934, which shut the city down for four days\u003c/a> and brought class struggles to a head, was organized, in part, right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights went out on the Montgomery Block’s creative chapter in 1959. That year, explained Swanhuyser, “a man named S.E. Onorato bought it and tore it down, claiming he was going to make a parking structure.” But Onorato never got to build his parking garage, and the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Transamerica Corporation — and the Pyramid — came into the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Path to the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transamerica is now a financial services company, concerned with insurance and investments. Its story starts back in 1904 with the founding of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco — the brainchild of San José’s A.P. Giannini. That bank would become the Bank of America in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transamerica began as the holding company for Giannini’s various financial ventures, which had by then become legion. The original “Transamerica Building” is actually still standing — it’s \u003ca href=\"http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/pix/7871784_ficuEsfM_7kskU64jWPZTlip36tZCTyeSNJ1tkepH4A.jpg\">that flatiron-looking building\u003c/a> that forms a junction between Montgomery Street and Columbus Avenue, just across the street from where the Pyramid now stretches into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the San Francisco headquarters of the Church of Scientology, but in 1969, it was home to the corporation that wanted a new headquarters. And it turned out Transamerica wanted to build … a pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation had brought in a Los Angeles architect named \u003ca href=\"https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/william-pereira\">William Pereira\u003c/a> who had worked as an art director in Hollywood. His brief was, apparently, to create something that allowed sunlight to filter down to ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises near the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pereira envisioned a pyramid more than 850 feet tall, with two wing-like columns running up either side to allow for an elevator shaft on one side and a stairwell on the other. Even with its pyramid structure, it would have a capacity of 763,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Transamerica Corporation shared the design with the public, the critics hated it. The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it “authentic architectural butchery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said the Pyramid proposal was “a second-class World’s Fair Space Needle.” Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier called the design “antisocial architecture at its worst,” capturing a broader unease at how Transamerica was trying to smear its corporate vision on San Francisco’s skyline. “Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica,” wrote Pastier, “which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, San Franciscans protested against the Pyramid plans in the street, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” Some protesters even donned pyramid-shaped dunce hats. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Transamerica-Pyramid-sf-17154748.php\">see more photos from the protests in the San Francisco Chronicle’s archives\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1536x1231.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors at the old Transamerica Building march against the new Transamerica Pyramid, announced in 1969 and built in 1972, on July 23, 1969. \u003ccite>(Stan Creighton/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those protesters included Hiya Swanhuyser’s mother. “She was a community-minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper,” Swanhuyser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was even a lawsuit filed by nearby residents. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The curse of this country is the worship of material things,” the residents’ attorney told City Hall. “We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air — and we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto made his support for the Pyramid — and its design — clear. Alioto urged those assembled to acknowledge the subjectivity of taste, proclaiming that the real issue was whether the Pyramid “is so bad that all reasonable men must agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The design, Alioto said, wasn’t that bad. On the contrary, it would “add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Planning Commission ultimately signed off. The Pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid seen from Montgomery Street in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Darkness and light in a most strange year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969. And this was no ordinary year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer\">The Zodiac Killer\u003c/a> murdered three of his four confirmed victims in 1969, in Vallejo, at Lake Berryessa and, finally, in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. That same year, Bay Area residents would open their morning papers to see strange symbols — ciphers that someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer sent to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the summer that \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-cult-kills-five-people\">Charles Manson’s so-called “family” murdered five people in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, co-opting the visual language of the occult in their heinous acts. Then, the very same month construction on the Pyramid began, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-altamont-festival-brings-the-1960s-to-a-violent-end\">Altamont Speedway Free Festival\u003c/a> outside Livermore turned from a celebration of the counterculture into violence, mayhem and murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8Jrp_L7jM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the backdrop against which San Franciscans were now watching a gigantic, mysterious pyramid start to stretch into the sky: the same ancient symbol that’s loomed large in the worlds of magic, alchemy and superstition for millennia — appearing, that year of all years, between North Beach and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may have found it creepy. But Larry Yee, who grew up nearby, remembers it as exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is now president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (also known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Six_Companies\">Chinese Six Companies\u003c/a>), and serves on the San Francisco Police Commission. But back in 1969, growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://landezine-award.com/everyone-deserves-a-garden-ping-yuen-public-housing-rehabilitation/\">Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development\u003c/a>, Yee was a basketball-obsessed teen running around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We challenged ourselves to go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed,” Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1656px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1656\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg 1656w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1536x934.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1656px) 100vw, 1656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction progresses at the Transamerica Pyramid Building, on June 3, 1971. \u003ccite>(Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yee recalls how different San Francisco looked before the Pyramid. “Yeah, it was flat!” he said, adding that it was rare to see “buildings like this, that pop up through the skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his friends were getting a front-row seat to the construction of San Francisco’s most talked-about landmark, and one of his most enduring memories is of the constant construction noise. Far louder than the rattle of the California Street cable car that ran nearby, Yee said, was workers “pounding down on the pillars: ‘bom, bom, bom, bom.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid being built down the street. They just saw a building being built up, and up … and then up even further, getting narrower. He laughs recalling how he and his friends worried the strange new building “could tip over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has still kept his enthusiasm for the Transamerica Pyramid, decades after he watched it being built. He likes what it represents, and its place in the visual fabric of the city — and the neighborhood — he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, he says, still “magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid can be seen reflected in the front window of a 1 California Muni bus in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The more things change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a place of relentless change, and the Pyramid’s reputation is no exception. For a building that’s literally built on the site where creative genius flourished — a structure whose design was so fiercely contentious — the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it,” architect Henrik Bull told The San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary. Once a loud opponent of the plan, he’d changed his mind. “It’s a wonderful building,” he said. “And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid, a 48-story skyscraper in San Francisco’s Financial District, on Nov. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid is no longer the headquarters of its namesake — the corporation moved to Maryland — but its offices are still leased to financial services companies. Among insurance, wealth management and private equity, a 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s another thing: For the most public, visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is also not very public. First-time tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the Pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building in New York City, or Seattle’s Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center beyond the lobby, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin (from left), state Sen. Scott Wiener, Deutsche Finance America partner Jason Lucas, SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo, Mayor London Breed and former Mayor Willie Brown break ground at the Transamerica Pyramid during a 50th-anniversary celebration of the building and a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million redevelopment of the site in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The building recently underwent a $400 million-dollar renovation by Norman Foster’s architectural firm. The Pyramid’s owner, Michael Shvo, says he’s in talks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/A-members-only-luxury-club-with-fees-up-to-16799906.php\">bring three restaurants to the building\u003c/a>, which apparently will be open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among other interior changes, the renovation will also see a\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/01/25/just-what-downtown-sf-needs-a-new-private-club-for-the-ultra-rich/\"> high-end club moving into the Pyramid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be private, for members only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Present meets past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all this site’s corporate credentials, the ghosts of the original Montgomery Block and this area’s Barbary Coast roots still linger here — if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grove of redwood trees grows at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Architect Pereira’s design includes a small park at the east side of the Pyramid’s base: the Transamerica Redwood Park, which was planted with 80 redwood trees shipped north from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Next to those redwoods you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named for one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When excavation began in the late ’70s for the plaza complex adjacent to the park, construction workers found none other than the remains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\">the Niantic, that whaling ship that docked in 1849\u003c/a>. The vessel hadn’t been lost to time after all. Instead, it was pushed down over the decades by a city that has been compulsively remaking itself in all directions since European colonizers arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in the ship’s hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man stops to look at the view of the Transamerica Pyramid at dusk in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated Pyramid. It may still be a symbol of the city’s money and power. But it’s an icon that’s finally found acceptance here — even affection — nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The Transamerica Pyramid is one of the most recognizable parts of the San Francisco skyline, and was groundbreaking in many ways when it opened in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you know all of the building’s windows rotate nearly 360 degrees? CBS demonstrated in this news clip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CBS newsclip: \u003c/b>Because of the building’s unique shape, architects designed windows that could be cleaned from the inside. “Yeah but you missed a spot” spritz spritz 3,676 to go…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The pointed peak of the building is a 212 foot spire, reinforced by aluminum grating. KRON4 climbed to the top to check it out in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KRON4 newsclip: \u003c/b>This is the spire … oh my god…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The now famous building just got a $400 million dollar makeover and in the process builders uncovered something surprising\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>But deep within its steel bones there, construction crews discovered a time capsule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>There was always this tradition of putting time capsules in buildings under construction. I’m John Krizek and I was the public relations manager of Transamerica Corporation from 1968 to 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> John and his friend Bill Bronson, who was the editor of the California Historical Society, planted the capsule back when the Transamerica Pyramid was being built in the early 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>I think it was our intent at the time that this was going to be locked up and not looked at for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> They put in cassette tapes, photos, maps, recipes, and newspaper articles that would show whoever found the capsule how the spot where the building stands has played an important role in San Francisco history since the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>We needed to save that history. And on top of that, on this sacred site, we come along with this shocking plan for this unusual building, which went through an enormous amount of controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> Today on Bay Curious, we’re digging into the history of the Transamerica Pyramid. It’s one of the most iconic San Francisco buildings and yet there’s a lot I didn’t know about it. We first aired this episode in December of 2022 in honor of the pyramid’s 50th birthday. I’m Katrina Schwartz, filling in for Olivia Allen-Price. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The Transamerica Pyramid is iconic now, but you will not be surprised to learn when it was new, people \u003ci>hated\u003c/i> it. KQED reporter Carly Severn takes us back in time to the birth of a legendary landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District all converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of the city’s history, the site that the Pyramid is built on is hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1849, the year the Gold Rush began, this part of San Francisco was right on the water. So close, that a whaling ship called the Niantic was deliberately run aground right here after the crew abandoned ship to seek their fortunes in this wild, wily town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coast didn’t stay “the coast” for long. Landfill was used to rapidly swell the San Francisco streets further out into the Bay – swallowing that shipwreck with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back when this part of Montgomery Street still bordered the bay — in 1853 — it was a good place to construct a huge building, one that spanned the entire block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called it the Montgomery Block. And the history of this building has long fascinated San Francisco writer Hiya Swanhuyser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi. At a towering four stories, it was famously built on a foundation of a so-called raft of redwood logs that had been floated across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Like so many places in San Francisco, the Montgomery Block, and the people inside it, lived many lives. This space was originally built to be law offices, with a hangout spot for high society, but when the city’s business folk started to migrate to Market Street, the creatives moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>They were writers and sculptors, people who were inventing journalism in the mid 1860s. People like Ambrose Bierce, who according to some, was America’s first newspaper columnist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Amrose Bierce writing: \u003c/b>Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>And Mark Twain and Bret Harte.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Bret Harte writing: \u003c/b>The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>And Ina Coolbrith, who was California’s first poet laureate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Ina Coolbrith writing: \u003c/b>Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Just a block to the north, now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s. It was \u003ci>a scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>It sort of stayed a scene for most of its life, which ended in 1959 when someone bought it and tore it down to make a parking structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>But the garage never materialized. And so the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Transamerica Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This business actually started in San Francisco back in 1904 as the Bank of Italy, courtesy of a local man called A.P. Giannini. Later, in the thirties, it would become known as Bank of America. Ever heard of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giannini had a lot of financial schemes and he soon needed more than a bank to contain them. That’s when the Transamerica Corporation was born. By 1969 the Corporation was ready to make its mark on San Francisco with a new headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brought in a Los Angeles architect named William Pereira to design it. He was told to create something that would still allow light to filter down to street level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the design for the 763 thousand square foot pyramid dropped, the critics hated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic reading of Allan Temko: \u003c/b>Authentic architectural butchery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said Pereira’s Pyramid proposal was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Washington Post voice over: \u003c/b>A second-class world’s fair space needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pastier voice over: \u003c/b>Antisocial architecture at its worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Said Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier. He captured a broader unease about Transamerica trying to smear its corporate vision on the San Francisco skyline:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pastier voice over: \u003c/b>Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica, which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> People protested against Pereira’s pyramid design, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” They even wore pyramid-shaped dunce hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These protesters actually included Hiya Swanhuyser’s own mother:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>She was a community minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlyn Severn:\u003c/b> Neighborhood residents even filed a lawsuit. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the sixties:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>THDA Attorney: \u003c/b>The curse of this country is the worship of material things. We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air. And we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlyn Severn: \u003c/b>But at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto quoted the classics in support of the pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joseph Alioto: \u003c/b>We have to recognize that the Latinists used to say ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’ – that there simply is no disputing tastes, and the only question is whether it is \u003ci>so \u003c/i>bad that all reasonable men must agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> And this pyramid, Alioto said, wasn’t \u003ci>that \u003c/i>bad. On the contrary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joseph Alioto: \u003c/b>It will add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>The city’s Planning Commission signed off on the project and the pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969, a dark year in many ways. This was the year in which three of the four confirmed murders by the Zodiac killer took place – the last one in San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>School children are nice targets, I shall wipe out a school bus one more and then pick off the kiddies as they come bounding out. That was the threat of the zodiac killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>The year that you could open the Chronicle and read the Zodiac’s cryptic letters full of codes and symbols right there at your breakfast table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>They are weighing advice from astrologers on the theory that the killer who calls himself the Zodiac may be planning his next victim based on astrological signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>‘69 was also the year of the gruesome Manson Family murders in LA, with all their Satanic imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>One officer summed up the murders when he said, “in all my years, I have never seen anything like this before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sneak up Rolling Stones set at Altamont Festival\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Of the disastrous Altamont Festival outside Livermore\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rolling Stones: \u003c/b>Hey People!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Crowd noise\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>A celebration of counterculture that devolved into violence, mayhem and murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rolling Stones: Why Are we fighting? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>So I can’t help thinking how it would have felt to be living in San Francisco at the start of the 70s, bombarded with so much occult-inflected darkness in your morning paper – and seeing one of the most ancient and mysterious symbols, a pyramid, being summoned in your backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many, watching a skyscraper go up was also exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>My name is Larry Yee, born and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Now, Larry is the president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, also known as the Chinese Six Companies. He also serves on the San Francisco Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 1969, growing up in Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development, Larry was a basketball-obsessed teen, running – or often skating – around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>Play hide and seek — you know, we challenge ourselves and go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Walking around the base of the Pyramid over 50 years later, with the sound of traffic and tourists echoing off the street corners, Larry says the San Francisco he remembers from childhood, pre-pyramid, looked quite different:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>Yeah. It was flat! You know, there weren’t many buildings like this that pop up through the skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>This part of town was hopping, and full of the kinds of characters that had frequented the Montgomery Block years back. It was home to famous nightclubs like the Hungry I and the Purple Onion comedy cellar, where folks like Lenny Bruce were playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lenny Bruce: \u003c/b>Where I’m goin’ kill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>But when the Pyramid was being built, all Larry and his friends could get was a sneak peek through the holes in the plywood fencing that hid the rapidly-rising behemoth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he still remembers the sheer, constant construction noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>You come home from school and you know they’re pounding down on the pillars. Bam, bam, bam, bam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid. They just saw a building being built up, and up, and then up even further, getting narrower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>We had concerns too, how far it’s going to go, whether it could tip over and then once they finished we said “Ah, this is a pyramid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>When it was finished, Pereira’s pyramid had over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subtle, the pyramid is not. But decades on, Larry’s still a fan of this building. He says for him, it represents progress — the meeting of the old and the new. And he’s fond of its place in the visual fabric of the city, and the neighborhood, he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>I don’t know. It’s magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>And it’s funny. For a building that’s literally built on the site of the Montgomery Block, where creative genius flourished; a building whose design was so fiercely contentious, the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its silhouette on our skyline has become symbolic of San Francisco. Even several of those early critics changed their minds. Henrik Bull, an architect who originally opposed the pyramid — publicly, and loudly -– told the San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary that like many others, he’d switched course in the intervening decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Henrik Bull voice over: \u003c/b>What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it. It’s a wonderful building. And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>What started out as a corporate symbol has stayed, well, corporate. In a Financial District full of office buildings, the pyramid is in many ways just another one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid isn’t even the Transamerica headquarters any more — those officially moved to Maryland. These offices are primarily leased by financial services companies dealing in wealth management and private equity. There’s even a high-end members club moving in soon. A 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is \u003ci>not\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s another thing: For the most visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is not very public. Tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building or the Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the nineties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the ghosts of this site’s previous inhabitants linger here, if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you go to the Pyramid today, and walk into the small park at its base, you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named after one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember that old ship that ran aground here in the Gold Rush, back when all this was bayside? The Niantic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t lost to time after all. Later in the ‘70s, way after the pyramid was built, a construction team working in the park discovered what was left of that ship, right here. Pushed down over the decades by a city that has been remaking itself since Europeans arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in its hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated pyramid. A symbol of the city’s money and power, but an accepted icon nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> That was KQED’s Carly Severn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can go see the items preserved in the time capsule in the lobby of the renovated building. And checkout the redwood park while you’re there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan and everyone at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking next week off for Juneteenth, but we’ll be back with a brand new episode on June 26th!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening! Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally published December 8, 2022. It has been updated to reflect recent changes to the building.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge. The Bay Bridge. Sutro Tower. Coit Tower. Perhaps even (whisper it) the Salesforce Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to instantly recognizable structures, San Francisco suffers no shortage. But if asked to pick their favorite, many people might go for a classic: the Transamerica Pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid — officially known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center — first opened back in 1972, making it more than 50 years old. At over 850 feet high, back then it was the tallest building San Francisco had ever seen. It has over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61504_001_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Pier 7 in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Pyramid is no longer the tallest building in San Francisco; that honor now goes to the Salesforce Tower, at 1,070 feet. But the story of how it came to be might surprise you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because what is now an architectural icon was once quite controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61484_016_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco before the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District converge. And historically speaking, the Pyramid is built on hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first half of the 19th century, this area of San Francisco wasn’t several blocks away from the bay, like it is now. It was the Barbary Coast, right on the water. A whaling ship called the Niantic even ran aground here in 1849 after the crew jumped ship to make their fortunes in the gold fields. Like many ships around this time, instead of being removed or torn down, the Niantic was instead absorbed into the fabric of the city: It was retrofitted into a hotel and ultimately became part of the landfill as the city expanded into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1-10-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of San Francisco looking toward the bay, by Frank Marryat, ca. 1850. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back during the Gold Rush, Montgomery Street was at the center of city life. In 1853, workers constructed a massive building — appropriately known as the Montgomery Block — on the exact spot where the Transamerica Pyramid would later be built. “At the time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi at a towering four stories,” said author \u003ca href=\"https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>, who is currently writing a book about the history of the building. “[It was] built, famously, on a foundation made up of redwood logs interlaced that were floated across the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans, Swanhuyser says, even called the Montgomery Block “a floating fortress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many spaces through San Francisco’s history, the Block — and the people inside it — lived many lives. Originally, the space was built to be law offices and a hangout spot for San Francisco’s high society. But when the city’s business folk started to migrate south to Market Street, artists moved in. The Montgomery Block entered its creative era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Montgomery-Block-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Montgomery Block in 1856, by photographer G. R. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This area of Montgomery Street was known for its bohemian ways, a scene that attracted freethinkers from near and far. Just a block to the north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848986/inside-frida-kahlo-and-diego-riveras-life-in-san-francisco\">now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s\u003c/a>. But the Montgomery Block’s influence was also ideological, says Swanhuyser, a “hotbed of painters and political people”: \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenderloinmuseum.org/public-programs-2019-1/2019/5/23/the-history-of-the-1934-general-strike\">The massive General Strike of 1934, which shut the city down for four days\u003c/a> and brought class struggles to a head, was organized, in part, right here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights went out on the Montgomery Block’s creative chapter in 1959. That year, explained Swanhuyser, “a man named S.E. Onorato bought it and tore it down, claiming he was going to make a parking structure.” But Onorato never got to build his parking garage, and the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Transamerica Corporation — and the Pyramid — came into the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61480_011_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the bottom of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Path to the Pyramid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Transamerica is now a financial services company, concerned with insurance and investments. Its story starts back in 1904 with the founding of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco — the brainchild of San José’s A.P. Giannini. That bank would become the Bank of America in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transamerica began as the holding company for Giannini’s various financial ventures, which had by then become legion. The original “Transamerica Building” is actually still standing — it’s \u003ca href=\"http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/pix/7871784_ficuEsfM_7kskU64jWPZTlip36tZCTyeSNJ1tkepH4A.jpg\">that flatiron-looking building\u003c/a> that forms a junction between Montgomery Street and Columbus Avenue, just across the street from where the Pyramid now stretches into the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the San Francisco headquarters of the Church of Scientology, but in 1969, it was home to the corporation that wanted a new headquarters. And it turned out Transamerica wanted to build … a pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation had brought in a Los Angeles architect named \u003ca href=\"https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/william-pereira\">William Pereira\u003c/a> who had worked as an art director in Hollywood. His brief was, apparently, to create something that allowed sunlight to filter down to ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61483_017_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises near the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pereira envisioned a pyramid more than 850 feet tall, with two wing-like columns running up either side to allow for an elevator shaft on one side and a stairwell on the other. Even with its pyramid structure, it would have a capacity of 763,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Transamerica Corporation shared the design with the public, the critics hated it. The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it “authentic architectural butchery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said the Pyramid proposal was “a second-class World’s Fair Space Needle.” Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier called the design “antisocial architecture at its worst,” capturing a broader unease at how Transamerica was trying to smear its corporate vision on San Francisco’s skyline. “Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica,” wrote Pastier, “which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, San Franciscans protested against the Pyramid plans in the street, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” Some protesters even donned pyramid-shaped dunce hats. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Transamerica-Pyramid-sf-17154748.php\">see more photos from the protests in the San Francisco Chronicle’s archives\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Chron-image-1536x1231.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors at the old Transamerica Building march against the new Transamerica Pyramid, announced in 1969 and built in 1972, on July 23, 1969. \u003ccite>(Stan Creighton/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those protesters included Hiya Swanhuyser’s mother. “She was a community-minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper,” Swanhuyser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was even a lawsuit filed by nearby residents. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The curse of this country is the worship of material things,” the residents’ attorney told City Hall. “We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air — and we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto made his support for the Pyramid — and its design — clear. Alioto urged those assembled to acknowledge the subjectivity of taste, proclaiming that the real issue was whether the Pyramid “is so bad that all reasonable men must agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The design, Alioto said, wasn’t that bad. On the contrary, it would “add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Planning Commission ultimately signed off. The Pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61493_023_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid seen from Montgomery Street in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Darkness and light in a most strange year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969. And this was no ordinary year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/zodiac-killer\">The Zodiac Killer\u003c/a> murdered three of his four confirmed victims in 1969, in Vallejo, at Lake Berryessa and, finally, in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. That same year, Bay Area residents would open their morning papers to see strange symbols — ciphers that someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer sent to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also the summer that \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-cult-kills-five-people\">Charles Manson’s so-called “family” murdered five people in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, co-opting the visual language of the occult in their heinous acts. Then, the very same month construction on the Pyramid began, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-altamont-festival-brings-the-1960s-to-a-violent-end\">Altamont Speedway Free Festival\u003c/a> outside Livermore turned from a celebration of the counterculture into violence, mayhem and murder.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xY8Jrp_L7jM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xY8Jrp_L7jM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This was the backdrop against which San Franciscans were now watching a gigantic, mysterious pyramid start to stretch into the sky: the same ancient symbol that’s loomed large in the worlds of magic, alchemy and superstition for millennia — appearing, that year of all years, between North Beach and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may have found it creepy. But Larry Yee, who grew up nearby, remembers it as exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is now president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (also known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Six_Companies\">Chinese Six Companies\u003c/a>), and serves on the San Francisco Police Commission. But back in 1969, growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://landezine-award.com/everyone-deserves-a-garden-ping-yuen-public-housing-rehabilitation/\">Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development\u003c/a>, Yee was a basketball-obsessed teen running around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We challenged ourselves to go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed,” Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1656px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1656\" height=\"1007\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut.jpg 1656w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61501_GettyImages-1206186630-qut-1536x934.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1656px) 100vw, 1656px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction progresses at the Transamerica Pyramid Building, on June 3, 1971. \u003ccite>(Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yee recalls how different San Francisco looked before the Pyramid. “Yeah, it was flat!” he said, adding that it was rare to see “buildings like this, that pop up through the skyline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his friends were getting a front-row seat to the construction of San Francisco’s most talked-about landmark, and one of his most enduring memories is of the constant construction noise. Far louder than the rattle of the California Street cable car that ran nearby, Yee said, was workers “pounding down on the pillars: ‘bom, bom, bom, bom.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid being built down the street. They just saw a building being built up, and up … and then up even further, getting narrower. He laughs recalling how he and his friends worried the strange new building “could tip over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has still kept his enthusiasm for the Transamerica Pyramid, decades after he watched it being built. He likes what it represents, and its place in the visual fabric of the city — and the neighborhood — he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, he says, still “magical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61473_003_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid can be seen reflected in the front window of a 1 California Muni bus in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The more things change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is a place of relentless change, and the Pyramid’s reputation is no exception. For a building that’s literally built on the site where creative genius flourished — a structure whose design was so fiercely contentious — the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it,” architect Henrik Bull told The San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary. Once a loud opponent of the plan, he’d changed his mind. “It’s a wonderful building,” he said. “And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS60290_010_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11182022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transamerica Pyramid, a 48-story skyscraper in San Francisco’s Financial District, on Nov. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid is no longer the headquarters of its namesake — the corporation moved to Maryland — but its offices are still leased to financial services companies. Among insurance, wealth management and private equity, a 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s another thing: For the most public, visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is also not very public. First-time tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the Pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building in New York City, or Seattle’s Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center beyond the lobby, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the ’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61516_015_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin (from left), state Sen. Scott Wiener, Deutsche Finance America partner Jason Lucas, SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo, Mayor London Breed and former Mayor Willie Brown break ground at the Transamerica Pyramid during a 50th-anniversary celebration of the building and a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million redevelopment of the site in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The building recently underwent a $400 million-dollar renovation by Norman Foster’s architectural firm. The Pyramid’s owner, Michael Shvo, says he’s in talks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/A-members-only-luxury-club-with-fees-up-to-16799906.php\">bring three restaurants to the building\u003c/a>, which apparently will be open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among other interior changes, the renovation will also see a\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/01/25/just-what-downtown-sf-needs-a-new-private-club-for-the-ultra-rich/\"> high-end club moving into the Pyramid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be private, for members only.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Present meets past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all this site’s corporate credentials, the ghosts of the original Montgomery Block and this area’s Barbary Coast roots still linger here — if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61509_008_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_12062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grove of redwood trees grows at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Architect Pereira’s design includes a small park at the east side of the Pyramid’s base: the Transamerica Redwood Park, which was planted with 80 redwood trees shipped north from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Next to those redwoods you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named for one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When excavation began in the late ’70s for the plaza complex adjacent to the park, construction workers found none other than the remains of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm\">the Niantic, that whaling ship that docked in 1849\u003c/a>. The vessel hadn’t been lost to time after all. Instead, it was pushed down over the decades by a city that has been compulsively remaking itself in all directions since European colonizers arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in the ship’s hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11934151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61498_030_KQED_TransamericaPyramid_11302022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man stops to look at the view of the Transamerica Pyramid at dusk in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated Pyramid. It may still be a symbol of the city’s money and power. But it’s an icon that’s finally found acceptance here — even affection — nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The Transamerica Pyramid is one of the most recognizable parts of the San Francisco skyline, and was groundbreaking in many ways when it opened in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you know all of the building’s windows rotate nearly 360 degrees? CBS demonstrated in this news clip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CBS newsclip: \u003c/b>Because of the building’s unique shape, architects designed windows that could be cleaned from the inside. “Yeah but you missed a spot” spritz spritz 3,676 to go…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The pointed peak of the building is a 212 foot spire, reinforced by aluminum grating. KRON4 climbed to the top to check it out in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KRON4 newsclip: \u003c/b>This is the spire … oh my god…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The now famous building just got a $400 million dollar makeover and in the process builders uncovered something surprising\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>But deep within its steel bones there, construction crews discovered a time capsule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>There was always this tradition of putting time capsules in buildings under construction. I’m John Krizek and I was the public relations manager of Transamerica Corporation from 1968 to 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> John and his friend Bill Bronson, who was the editor of the California Historical Society, planted the capsule back when the Transamerica Pyramid was being built in the early 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>I think it was our intent at the time that this was going to be locked up and not looked at for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> They put in cassette tapes, photos, maps, recipes, and newspaper articles that would show whoever found the capsule how the spot where the building stands has played an important role in San Francisco history since the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>John Krizek: \u003c/b>We needed to save that history. And on top of that, on this sacred site, we come along with this shocking plan for this unusual building, which went through an enormous amount of controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> Today on Bay Curious, we’re digging into the history of the Transamerica Pyramid. It’s one of the most iconic San Francisco buildings and yet there’s a lot I didn’t know about it. We first aired this episode in December of 2022 in honor of the pyramid’s 50th birthday. I’m Katrina Schwartz, filling in for Olivia Allen-Price. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> The Transamerica Pyramid is iconic now, but you will not be surprised to learn when it was new, people \u003ci>hated\u003c/i> it. KQED reporter Carly Severn takes us back in time to the birth of a legendary landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Like a pin in a map, the Transamerica Pyramid marks the spot where the communities of Chinatown, North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Financial District all converge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of the city’s history, the site that the Pyramid is built on is hallowed ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1849, the year the Gold Rush began, this part of San Francisco was right on the water. So close, that a whaling ship called the Niantic was deliberately run aground right here after the crew abandoned ship to seek their fortunes in this wild, wily town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coast didn’t stay “the coast” for long. Landfill was used to rapidly swell the San Francisco streets further out into the Bay – swallowing that shipwreck with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back when this part of Montgomery Street still bordered the bay — in 1853 — it was a good place to construct a huge building, one that spanned the entire block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called it the Montgomery Block. And the history of this building has long fascinated San Francisco writer Hiya Swanhuyser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi. At a towering four stories, it was famously built on a foundation of a so-called raft of redwood logs that had been floated across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Like so many places in San Francisco, the Montgomery Block, and the people inside it, lived many lives. This space was originally built to be law offices, with a hangout spot for high society, but when the city’s business folk started to migrate to Market Street, the creatives moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>They were writers and sculptors, people who were inventing journalism in the mid 1860s. People like Ambrose Bierce, who according to some, was America’s first newspaper columnist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Amrose Bierce writing: \u003c/b>Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>And Mark Twain and Bret Harte.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Bret Harte writing: \u003c/b>The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>And Ina Coolbrith, who was California’s first poet laureate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic read of Ina Coolbrith writing: \u003c/b>Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Just a block to the north, now-iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and worked here in the 1930s. It was \u003ci>a scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>It sort of stayed a scene for most of its life, which ended in 1959 when someone bought it and tore it down to make a parking structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>But the garage never materialized. And so the space remained a single parking lot for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Transamerica Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This business actually started in San Francisco back in 1904 as the Bank of Italy, courtesy of a local man called A.P. Giannini. Later, in the thirties, it would become known as Bank of America. Ever heard of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giannini had a lot of financial schemes and he soon needed more than a bank to contain them. That’s when the Transamerica Corporation was born. By 1969 the Corporation was ready to make its mark on San Francisco with a new headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brought in a Los Angeles architect named William Pereira to design it. He was told to create something that would still allow light to filter down to street level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the design for the 763 thousand square foot pyramid dropped, the critics hated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture writer Allan Temko called it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dramatic reading of Allan Temko: \u003c/b>Authentic architectural butchery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> And it wasn’t just local critics. The Washington Post said Pereira’s Pyramid proposal was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Washington Post voice over: \u003c/b>A second-class world’s fair space needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pastier voice over: \u003c/b>Antisocial architecture at its worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> Said Los Angeles Times critic John Pastier. He captured a broader unease about Transamerica trying to smear its corporate vision on the San Francisco skyline:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pastier voice over: \u003c/b>Corporations that are far more important to the city have exercised considerably more restraint in their architecture than Transamerica, which is blatantly attempting to put its ‘brand’ on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> People protested against Pereira’s pyramid design, carrying signs that bore slogans like “Corporate Egotism” and “Stop the Shaft.” They even wore pyramid-shaped dunce hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These protesters actually included Hiya Swanhuyser’s own mother:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hiya Swanhuyser: \u003c/b>She was a community minded hippie and she didn’t think that a neighborhood was the right place for a skyscraper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlyn Severn:\u003c/b> Neighborhood residents even filed a lawsuit. At a City Hall hearing about the proposal, an attorney for the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association spoke for those residents, in language that echoed the burgeoning environmentalism of the sixties:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>THDA Attorney: \u003c/b>The curse of this country is the worship of material things. We’ve polluted our rivers, our harbors, and our lakes, and our air. And we’re now about to pollute the skyline of San Francisco, one of its greatest treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carlyn Severn: \u003c/b>But at that same hearing, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto quoted the classics in support of the pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joseph Alioto: \u003c/b>We have to recognize that the Latinists used to say ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’ – that there simply is no disputing tastes, and the only question is whether it is \u003ci>so \u003c/i>bad that all reasonable men must agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn:\u003c/b> And this pyramid, Alioto said, wasn’t \u003ci>that \u003c/i>bad. On the contrary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joseph Alioto: \u003c/b>It will add considerable interest and beauty to the San Francisco skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>The city’s Planning Commission signed off on the project and the pyramid was officially coming to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction on the Transamerica Pyramid started in 1969, a dark year in many ways. This was the year in which three of the four confirmed murders by the Zodiac killer took place – the last one in San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>School children are nice targets, I shall wipe out a school bus one more and then pick off the kiddies as they come bounding out. That was the threat of the zodiac killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>The year that you could open the Chronicle and read the Zodiac’s cryptic letters full of codes and symbols right there at your breakfast table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>They are weighing advice from astrologers on the theory that the killer who calls himself the Zodiac may be planning his next victim based on astrological signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>‘69 was also the year of the gruesome Manson Family murders in LA, with all their Satanic imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>One officer summed up the murders when he said, “in all my years, I have never seen anything like this before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sneak up Rolling Stones set at Altamont Festival\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Of the disastrous Altamont Festival outside Livermore\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rolling Stones: \u003c/b>Hey People!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Crowd noise\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>A celebration of counterculture that devolved into violence, mayhem and murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rolling Stones: Why Are we fighting? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>So I can’t help thinking how it would have felt to be living in San Francisco at the start of the 70s, bombarded with so much occult-inflected darkness in your morning paper – and seeing one of the most ancient and mysterious symbols, a pyramid, being summoned in your backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many, watching a skyscraper go up was also exciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>My name is Larry Yee, born and raised in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Now, Larry is the president of the historic Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, also known as the Chinese Six Companies. He also serves on the San Francisco Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 1969, growing up in Chinatown’s Ping Yuen housing development, Larry was a basketball-obsessed teen, running – or often skating – around this part of the city with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>Play hide and seek — you know, we challenge ourselves and go into some of these vacant buildings that they developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Walking around the base of the Pyramid over 50 years later, with the sound of traffic and tourists echoing off the street corners, Larry says the San Francisco he remembers from childhood, pre-pyramid, looked quite different:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>Yeah. It was flat! You know, there weren’t many buildings like this that pop up through the skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>This part of town was hopping, and full of the kinds of characters that had frequented the Montgomery Block years back. It was home to famous nightclubs like the Hungry I and the Purple Onion comedy cellar, where folks like Lenny Bruce were playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lenny Bruce: \u003c/b>Where I’m goin’ kill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>But when the Pyramid was being built, all Larry and his friends could get was a sneak peek through the holes in the plywood fencing that hid the rapidly-rising behemoth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he still remembers the sheer, constant construction noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>You come home from school and you know they’re pounding down on the pillars. Bam, bam, bam, bam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>Initially, he and his friends didn’t even know it was a pyramid. They just saw a building being built up, and up, and then up even further, getting narrower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>We had concerns too, how far it’s going to go, whether it could tip over and then once they finished we said “Ah, this is a pyramid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>When it was finished, Pereira’s pyramid had over 3,000 windows, an exterior of white quartz, and an illuminated spire at its very top, like the star on top of a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subtle, the pyramid is not. But decades on, Larry’s still a fan of this building. He says for him, it represents progress — the meeting of the old and the new. And he’s fond of its place in the visual fabric of the city, and the neighborhood, he’s always called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Larry Yee: \u003c/b>I don’t know. It’s magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>And it’s funny. For a building that’s literally built on the site of the Montgomery Block, where creative genius flourished; a building whose design was so fiercely contentious, the Transamerica Pyramid Center is now thoroughly uncontroversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its silhouette on our skyline has become symbolic of San Francisco. Even several of those early critics changed their minds. Henrik Bull, an architect who originally opposed the pyramid — publicly, and loudly -– told the San Francisco Chronicle on the building’s 40th anniversary that like many others, he’d switched course in the intervening decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Henrik Bull voice over: \u003c/b>What’s good about the Pyramid overwhelms what’s bad about it. It’s a wonderful building. And what makes it wonderful is everything that we were objecting to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Carly Severn: \u003c/b>What started out as a corporate symbol has stayed, well, corporate. In a Financial District full of office buildings, the pyramid is in many ways just another one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Transamerica Pyramid isn’t even the Transamerica headquarters any more — those officially moved to Maryland. These offices are primarily leased by financial services companies dealing in wealth management and private equity. There’s even a high-end members club moving in soon. A 21st-century Montgomery Block artist’s haven this is \u003ci>not\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s another thing: For the most visible local icon you could imagine, the Transamerica Pyramid is not very public. Tourists might naturally assume that a trip up the pyramid is one of the City’s must-see attractions — like climbing the Empire State Building or the Space Needle. But you can’t go inside the Pyramid Center, let alone climb to the top to see the view, unless you’re visiting one of the offices inside. There used to be an observation deck up there, but it closed in the nineties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the ghosts of this site’s previous inhabitants linger here, if you know where to look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you go to the Pyramid today, and walk into the small park at its base, you’ll find Mark Twain Place, named after one of the Montgomery Block’s most iconic inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember that old ship that ran aground here in the Gold Rush, back when all this was bayside? The Niantic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t lost to time after all. Later in the ‘70s, way after the pyramid was built, a construction team working in the park discovered what was left of that ship, right here. Pushed down over the decades by a city that has been remaking itself since Europeans arrived, buried deep underground. It’s said that champagne bottles were even found resting in its hull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just steps away from these markers of our past is the once-hated pyramid. A symbol of the city’s money and power, but an accepted icon nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b> That was KQED’s Carly Severn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can go see the items preserved in the time capsule in the lobby of the renovated building. And checkout the redwood park while you’re there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan and everyone at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking next week off for Juneteenth, but we’ll be back with a brand new episode on June 26th!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening! Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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