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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And it is time for our monthly news roundup, where I sit down with the rest of the Bay team and talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following in the month of February. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca. What’s up Maria?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. 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And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. 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Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. How are we feeling at this point of the year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I feel like February is usually the doldrums. Certainly it’s been a cloudy and rainy few weeks. I think we’re just trying to get through the rainy weather while also gearing up for the primary on March 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and honestly, I don’t know. I’m ready for spring. I did step outside my door the other day and it like, smells like spring. But I think we have some more rain coming this week. But I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine lately. 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I think in Democratic politics there’s very much a kind of wait your turn kind of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But the main two Democrats that our colleague Guy Mercer said he wanted to focus on is Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Koo, who is challenging the incumbent Assembly member, Mark Berman. And actually, guy’s story starts with this town hall meeting in Palo Alto at a community center. And there’s a big sign there that’s called Town Hall to save our neighborhoods. And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. You know, when when asked about whether 23rd district can put off building new housing because of the number of jobs that have come to the region, she said, well, why do all those jobs need to be here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Diversify. Make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters, other places versus just all gathered here. 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He even says to that. It’s not just that the state should create more incentives for more housing development. The state needs to also be tough on cities that are pushing back. We want to provide them as many carrots as possible, but for decades there has been no stick. I think it will be a test to see how strong this anti development coalition in Palo Alto has gotten. And if there’s a real backlash to this sort of, you know, yimby pro housing turn that the state has been taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sweet will we’ll be watching that race in March. Thanks so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll discuss my story and Maria’s…Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the base news roundup for the month of February. 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And what was told to her was that the phones were mixed in with other evidence around the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>And so they didn’t know which phones. Was head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And Reverend Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother, talked about this at a press conference with the current Alameda County District attorney, Pamela Price:, who returned the phones to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>There was no challenge finding the phones. We know which phones they that actually belong to Oscar Grant, which phones were cataloged appropriately. It was apparently an act of will not to return the phone after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And based off the reporting of Oscar Palma, who reported on this for KQED, he did reach out to former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who said no one ever asked her about the phones and that members of her team never brought this issue up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, can you maybe help give us a sense of why this is such a big deal for Wanda Johnson? How does she talk about why this moment 15 years later, is so important to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>She really talked about how these cell phones almost seem like an extension of Oscar Grant, and I think she really talked about wanting to have these cell phones because of the pictures in them, because there was pictures of Oscar Grant. It was clear from listening to her at the press conference, so she was elated that she was very happy. She talked about how these phones represent another piece of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>That is being fulfilled, that I have me having my son’s property, and that’s all families want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, we’ll talk about my story, which is about how fast food chains are entering the business of local politics in San Jose. The San Jose Spotlight has been reporting on some pretty interesting examples of fast food companies doing all kinds of things. Politics in San Jose. From meeting with City Council members to donating to a bunch of political campaigns and PACs, and even hiring lobbyists to campaign against certain policies in the city, all, of course, in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So corporations spending money on politics, not really a new thing. But what do fast food companies want to accomplish in San Jose? Specifically, what are they pushing for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, San Jose is one of two cities in California right now that is looking into a potential policy to essentially give more worker benefits to fast food workers. And in particular, it would allow fast food workers to accrue paid time off. These workers are really pushing, have been pushing in the last couple of years in California for more rights. 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But the union believes that Cohen has sort of switched up his position, because of this tight reelection race that he’s in against Assembly member Kansen Chu. And actually, the strong economy Silicon Valley PAC, which is funded by a bunch of fast food corporations, has spent $18,000 on ads against Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Why do you think this story is happening in San Jose, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, that’s a great question because there has been a pretty unprecedented labor organizing among fast food workers all around California. But the California Fast Food Workers Union, which again, just finally formed this month, has said that San Jose has one of the largest populations of fast food workers in California. And that is part of the reason why San Jose is one of only two cities in the state that are considering this policy that would increase benefits for fast food workers. 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Today, KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman tells us about a growing right to repair movement and takes us inside one fix it clinic in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So I went to a fix it clinic at the Redwood City Library…Walking in there? I mean, it’s this really kind of fun environment. It’s a little bit chaotic, but it’s very high energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s about a dozen and a half tables there, and they’ve got all sorts of appliances, electronics. Vacuums, fans, air purifiers, and they’re sort of splayed open. And there’s a fix it coach, which is essentially a volunteer alongside people who have brought these items in. And they’re got their sleeves rolled up and they’re digging in and they’re trying to diagnose and fix whatever’s wrong with the thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it. Clinics are sort of these pop up events. They’re facilitated by volunteers. And these volunteers are basically handy people who are down to spend a Saturday morning helping people fix their things. And the kind of people that are coming in are just everyday people. And they have something, an appliance, an electronic that they really like, but it’s broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it coaches are basically standing over your shoulder and telling you what to do, and then the person who brings in the item is performing the repair mostly themselves. So it’s really much more of an educational opportunity than just sort of a repair service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And you mentioned this is primarily run by volunteers. Who exactly is running these clinics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So Peter Mui started, Fix It clinic back in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service in place as long as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Since then, it’s grown immensely. And now this year, Fix It clinic has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring a fix it clinic to a different San Mateo County library every month this year. And so, is this your job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>No. This is this is a passion. Now, fix a clinic is a hobby of mine that’s gotten way out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you talked with some folks there who were there to get their stuff fixed. 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And so it was always on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the all of the gunk, all of the smoothie and coffee and all the things that Nancy Harris has blended over the past few years has sort of seeped down into this switch that activates the motor. So it was actually diagnosed really quickly and simply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>And that would do it for you. But the big thing is cleaning, and I’m guessing we have some Q-tips and some alcohol that we can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. Did she get it fixed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it took her and Alex Schmitt about an hour to fix the blender, and it did end up getting fixed. Basically, it just needed to be cleaned. They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. 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Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. 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And they have something, an appliance, an electronic that they really like, but it’s broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it coaches are basically standing over your shoulder and telling you what to do, and then the person who brings in the item is performing the repair mostly themselves. So it’s really much more of an educational opportunity than just sort of a repair service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And you mentioned this is primarily run by volunteers. Who exactly is running these clinics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So Peter Mui started, Fix It clinic back in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service in place as long as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Since then, it’s grown immensely. And now this year, Fix It clinic has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring a fix it clinic to a different San Mateo County library every month this year. And so, is this your job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>No. This is this is a passion. Now, fix a clinic is a hobby of mine that’s gotten way out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you talked with some folks there who were there to get their stuff fixed. Can you tell me about Nancy Harris?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So, Nancy Harris lives in Moss Beach, which is about 25 miles away. It’s on the coast. And she brought in this magic bullet blender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>And I’m so tired of buying a new one. I would love to fix this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>All right, let’s see. I’ve worked on one of the bigger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This was actually the fourth magic bullet blender that she’s owned. As she walked in, she was matched with this volunteer named Alex Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And Alex Schmitt lives in the county. Works in software. Says he likes to tinker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>There is one of these that the tabs may have broken off. And it looks like there may be jams. Oh. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, Nancy basically described the problem. When she plugs it in, the motor of the blender just starts whirring immediately, and she can’t get it to turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>When you’ve got it plugged in, it’s supposed to not immediately start, but start when you put the top on and screw it and you’re ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Alex says, okay, well, let’s let’s take a look. And within a few minutes, really, he diagnoses the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>So now the question is, will it spin the way that you’re having the issue with. Yeah it will. Okay. You mentioned it leaks. Yes. So whatever whatever leaked in there has sort of gummed up these plastic elements that depress the switch on the bottom to the point that they got stuck on the lower end. And so it was always on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the all of the gunk, all of the smoothie and coffee and all the things that Nancy Harris has blended over the past few years has sort of seeped down into this switch that activates the motor. So it was actually diagnosed really quickly and simply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>And that would do it for you. But the big thing is cleaning, and I’m guessing we have some Q-tips and some alcohol that we can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. Did she get it fixed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it took her and Alex Schmitt about an hour to fix the blender, and it did end up getting fixed. Basically, it just needed to be cleaned. They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. It just saved me a lot of time and energy, and I learned how to fix it myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You know, you could really see this, like, sort of contagious look of excitement and happiness. And that’s kind of shared by the whole room when you know something gets fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>It’s not saves you, what, 100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again, I’m really, really, really happy about it. And I feel very empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how exactly have manufacturers made it harder for us to fix our own stuff? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It does for some reason, also feel like a thing of the past. Like this idea that we as consumers can fix things ourselves. Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. They can charge whatever they want, they can take as long as they want, or they can tell you it’s not able to be repaired, even if maybe it is, and force you to buy a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how then is all have people actually tried to combat this disposable culture, this culture of buying new? On a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Over the past decade, really? And earlier than that as well, we’ve started to see this rise of what’s called the right to repair movement. And basically, in a nutshell, right to repair says if you bought an item, you have the right to repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And tell me what that has looked like in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So we’re seeing a lot of people interested at the community level in repairing their own things, but it’s actually translated into a movement in state governments to put this kind of legislation on the books. So here in California last year, there was a law passed, and it’s basically a right to repair law goes into effect July 1st this year. And so it changed how manufacturers have to make repair accessible basically to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Right now, consumers in California are protected by this thing called the song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. And basically that says that if a manufacturer makes an implied or expressed warranty on a product, then they need to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to repair that item available for a certain amount of years after the last model is produced, depending on how much that item costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This new California law is really moving that forward. So this California law applies to appliances and electronics, and it basically says that if an item cost between $50 and 9999, then the manufacturer has to make the parts, tools and information necessary to repair that item available for three years after the last production date of the model. If that item is more than 9999, then the manufacturer needs to make the parts, tools, and information available for seven years after the last production date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of hope in the right to repair movement that with a state like California passing a right to repair law, that it’s really going to build momentum in the in the nationwide right to repair movement. And we’re starting to see that this year. So far, 24 states are considering right to repair legislation. And that’s just at the last count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So it sounds like this law is really about giving people the tools to fix things themselves. Was there any pushback on this law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, writer repair gets a lot of pushback, and it’s mostly from, you know, big electronics companies like Apple. And then you have ag equipment companies like John Deere have historically pushed back against right to repair legislation. Apple lobbied heavily against this law and then came on in support of it at the last second, when they saw that it had basically, a guaranteed chance of passing or that it was going to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to the Fixit clinic that you went to in Redwood City. I imagine we’re going to see more of these kinds of clinics. In other cities, it seems like there’s already a lot of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s definitely possible. The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability is partnering with the library system there to bring a different fix it clinic every month to different libraries in the county. Fix it clinic also has a presence on on the social platform discord. Have hundreds of members on that platform. And the founder of Fix It clinic, Peter Mui:, actually told me that they have people in Africa or Europe and spread out all throughout the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>So we basically, during the pandemic, launched a Global Fixers server on discord that allowed us to extend repair to anybody on the planet who has an internet connection and can get on discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I spoke with a representative from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, and she said that basically their demand is far exceeding capacity. There’s a ton of interest in these kinds of events throughout San Mateo County. And as we’re seeing sort of throughout the nation in the world at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why do you think that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think as humans, really, we have this natural inclination to want to fix things. Peter Mui: would say that we are repairers at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Because when that thing starts working again and they are the ones who fixed it, you know, it’s like Easter, you know, it’s really it’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of. You want to empower these people to be able to repair stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I mean, personally, you know, I, I used to have an old pickup truck, and I actually replaced the clutch on my pickup truck one time, and I went to my mechanic friend and told him about the experience. And he said, you know, that’s a feeling you can’t buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You’re very welcome. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Azul was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Come Music and Blue Sessions. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening, peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A year ago this Tuesday, a gunman entered two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay and killed 7 farmworkers — all of them Chinese and Latino immigrants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shooting brought attention to the living and working conditions of farmworkers in Half Moon Bay and across the state. State and local officials promised to do something about it. So, what’s changed?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7993594061&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Good morning everyone. I just wanted to, take a moment to also honor the victims and the surviving families of the hacking Bay shooting, and I just wanted to take a couple moments to, say their names, and I’m going to do the best I can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This week, Half Moon Bay commemorated one year since a gunman killed seven farm workers, all of them Chinese and Latino immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>So their names are getting Zi Chung Chen, Zetian, Leia, zinc, Shu, lo I Ching, Jose Romero Perez, Marciano Martinez Jiminez, and Pedro Ramiro Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The shooting took place at two farms in the small coastal town. Concord Farms and California Terror Garden, and it laid bare the poor living and working conditions of farm workers in Half Moon Bay at the time. State and local officials vowed to do something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>Some of you should see where these folks are living. The conditions they’re. Living in. Shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So today, we take you back to Half Moon Bay. One year after the shooting, to see how the community has been changed by the tragedy and what’s been done to improve the lives of farm workers. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Everyone. My name is Ting Lu, and I’m honored to be here today on behalf of the white House. I work in the white House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I went to, this sort of gathering by state and federal and local officials with community members, farm workers and people directly affected by the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida Jhabvala Romero is a labor correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Former presidential candidate Julian Castro and the former, you know, US housing secretary. Was there representatives from the governor’s office? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, whose district includes Half Moon Bay. So this was one of, you know, several events to commemorate the first anniversary of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>He was like a second dad to me. I of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>These are folks who have gone through so much in the last year. One of them was Marisela Martinez, whose uncle Marciano was killed at the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>Took my seat. It’s like watching English. I just called him my Tio Martian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She, you know, just stood up and took the mic and spoke about about her uncle and that they had talked often, that Marciano had been sending money to, his relatives there to build a house like so many, you know, immigrants in the US. Do, you know, to support their families back in their home countries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>My uncle would always tell me that, like, if I ever went to Mexico that I could in his house, and that hopefully one day he was going to be able to go with me and show me the home in which my dad and him and all of his family grew up and.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And how she had to travel there for the first time to bury Marciano instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>As my uncles were carrying my uncle’s casket. That’s when it all hit me. I was walking, and then I just had the sudden realization that this was not okay. This should not have happened. This is not the way that my uncle and I were supposed to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Another farm worker who was there is Pedro Romero, who survived the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He was injured. Survived. His brother Jose did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He told everyone gathered there, all the local and federal officials that, you know, he’s still really sad that he thinks so much about this tragedy and that his brother is no longer there with him. And he said, Jose left three kids who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When the shooting happened, there was this huge focus on how what had happened had really revealed these working conditions, these housing conditions of farmworkers, not just in Half Moon Bay, but in California more broadly. But can you remind us how people responded at the time, especially public officials in the immediate aftermath of the shooting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>You know, I remember all the TV cameras flooding down and other journalists as well, you know, and also elected officials, the highest people in office in the state, like Governor Gavin Newsom. And I remember the governor on live TV speaking about how some of these workers had been making $9 an hour, which is way below minimum wage in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>And by the way, some of you should see where these folks are. Living conditions. They’re. Living in shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>You just talked about some of these really substandard, living and working conditions for people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>No health care, no support, no services, but taking care of our health, providing a service to each and every one of us every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And so after that, you know, there was a lot of attention on those issues. People really promised to, to create change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, you mentioned two really big issues here that were highlighted by the shooting housing, but also workplace conditions for these farmworkers. So since the shooting, I know that state and local regulators have been investigating the working conditions on some of these farms in Half Moon Bay. What’s happened since then? What is the status of those investigations now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So there are a number of investigations by the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office by state agencies at the two farms, Concord Farms and then California Terra Garden. Carlo Shire cited Concord Farms for $51,000 for workplace safety violations. Of course, Carlos is the agency that regulates worker safety. And then they also cited California Terror Garden for about $114,000, for a total of dozens of violations that inspectors found at these two farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>But those cases are still open, and the farms haven’t paid the amount of the citations yet. Then there’s the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates labor law violations, you know, potential wage theft. And so that agency cited California Terror Garden as well for violations related to paid sick laws. And that business settled for about $150,000. We should also note that successor business at that same site where California Terror Garden was, which is now called Lee and Sun Mushroom Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>That business was also cited, including for minimum wage violations under San Mateo minimum wage laws, which are actually higher than for the state. So that’s sort of where those investigations are at. But it sounds like there may be more citations and charges, sort of proposed penalties coming both from the state and the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, that’s sort of the accountability part of this Farida. But what about support for the farm workers since the shooting? Who’s been taking the lead on that in Half Moon Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s a couple of nonprofit organizations that have been really visible through this whole ordeal for people in Half Moon Bay. One is at usando, at Latinos lasagna. It’s known as Alice. They’ve really been a connector with the farm working community. And then we see a lot of movement at the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>The county and the community. City, a Half Moon Bay, really rallied together, in the days and months following the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ray Mueller told me that right after the shooting, he committed to try to do whatever he could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>To go to the site to see how those families were living. Really? When I saw it. I wanted to make sure that no one could look away from it. And since that time, the county really has worked very hard, to address those issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>They recently approved the purchase of a 50 acre plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>But we also have other sites. We’re building 46 units of farmworker housing, on 18 of which are being set aside for victims of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He also pushed and, you know, got approved and new Office of Labor Standards Enforcement in San Mateo County that will start helping all workers be able to file claims with the state labor Commissioner’s office and also really take on education for employers about their obligations under under the laws, but also for workers about their rights. Those are important things, you know, that are ongoing as well, that they’re taking off in the county. And that really came out as a result of this, of this shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how advocates and farmworkers in Half Moon Bay are feeling about what’s been done so far. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I am, I have to say, surprised a little bit, Frida, by how much it seems like it is happening in San Mateo County as a result of this shooting. But I do wonder how people are feeling. I mean, especially the farmworkers directly affected by this shooting. Do they feel like they’re getting the help that they need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, like we mentioned, Pedro Romero, for example. I mean, he said he was grateful for housing assistance, but, you know, that funding is set to run out soon. And, they’re wondering what they’re going to do. There’s a lot of hope, you know, for all of these projects and things that are happening, but they’re going to take a long time to really create the change that everybody can see and that they could actually use, you know, by moving into one of these housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So it’s unclear what’s going to happen in the meantime. I will say that one point of positiveness in this whole thing is that, I mean, the community says that they’re committed to continuing helping them. So hopefully we’ll see some other ways that they find to do that. But at this point it’s uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And and I guess how can you move on when there are these investigations still ongoing and and still open? And I know you spoke with someone from United Farm Workers about this. Can you tell me about Antonio and how he feels about how these investigations are still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So Antonio De Loera directs communications for the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antonio De Loera: \u003c/strong>And what’s been so dispiriting, perhaps, on this first anniversary is how quickly it feels like we went back to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>With even such a high profile case. You see some of the issues that bogged down investigations into wage theft or workplace safety issues and other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antonio De Loera: \u003c/strong>I think if the anniversary of Half Moon Bay is about anything, it’s about, we need to notice farmworkers all the time, not just when something horrible is in the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And, you know, mind you. Many agricultural workers don’t want to come forward and talk about some of the problems at their worksite because they’re afraid of losing their their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antonio De Loera: \u003c/strong>You multiply that across the whole state, where if we can’t get accountability for a case that was this public that had this much attention from the highest elected officials in the state of California, what does that say about what’s happening in the rest of California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And then there’s the housing element of this, right? Frida, which, as we all know, takes forever to build in California. 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It’s going to take how many years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She told me a little bit about her situation, and she said she’s sharing an apartment with her brothers and their families and her family. And so her husband, her and her three kids sleep in one room with her oldest girl, sleeping on a mattress on the floor, and then everyone else sharing a queen size bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>For her. Like many other people in the community, this this shooting sort of steeled their resolve to make sure that these changes happen. And so Rocio Avila has taken it upon herself to be in attendance at every supervisor meeting. And she’s also part of vigils, regular vigils and marches for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I think it’s also a realization on her part that what she said is that her voice matters and she wants to, you know, help other people in the community to also speak up about what they’re seeing in terms of housing. You know, when people get evicted, the problems that they’re facing, so that elected representatives take note and can do something about it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, it’s it seems like based on your conversations with people in Half Moon Bay a year later, it seems like folks are still very much reeling from this shooting, but also are feeling very fired up and much more active politically in the community. Is is that fair to say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think that’s fair to say for definitely, you know, many agricultural workers and other people who weren’t feeling as united and motivated to be part of these conversations and, and make sure that these promises of more affordable housing, better conditions at work, that they really become a reality. And I think, you know, there’s a lot of hope in the community as well, because people are finding that at least in their personal lives, they’re taking steps. So that’s that’s definitely a feeling you get from visiting Half Moon Bay these days that, that, that there’s a lot of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Thank you. Ericka. So nice to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Farida Jhabvala Romero, a labor correspondent for KQED, on Thursday afternoon, Farida learned that the city and county are working to find more funding to keep survivors and their families housed. Leaders with allies say they’re confident that housing assistance will continue until new housing is built. This 35 minute conversation with Farida was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Monteceillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. 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I just wanted to, take a moment to also honor the victims and the surviving families of the hacking Bay shooting, and I just wanted to take a couple moments to, say their names, and I’m going to do the best I can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This week, Half Moon Bay commemorated one year since a gunman killed seven farm workers, all of them Chinese and Latino immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>So their names are getting Zi Chung Chen, Zetian, Leia, zinc, Shu, lo I Ching, Jose Romero Perez, Marciano Martinez Jiminez, and Pedro Ramiro Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The shooting took place at two farms in the small coastal town. Concord Farms and California Terror Garden, and it laid bare the poor living and working conditions of farm workers in Half Moon Bay at the time. State and local officials vowed to do something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>Some of you should see where these folks are living. The conditions they’re. Living in. Shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So today, we take you back to Half Moon Bay. One year after the shooting, to see how the community has been changed by the tragedy and what’s been done to improve the lives of farm workers. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Everyone. My name is Ting Lu, and I’m honored to be here today on behalf of the white House. I work in the white House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I went to, this sort of gathering by state and federal and local officials with community members, farm workers and people directly affected by the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida Jhabvala Romero is a labor correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Former presidential candidate Julian Castro and the former, you know, US housing secretary. Was there representatives from the governor’s office? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, whose district includes Half Moon Bay. So this was one of, you know, several events to commemorate the first anniversary of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>He was like a second dad to me. I of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>These are folks who have gone through so much in the last year. One of them was Marisela Martinez, whose uncle Marciano was killed at the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>Took my seat. It’s like watching English. I just called him my Tio Martian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She, you know, just stood up and took the mic and spoke about about her uncle and that they had talked often, that Marciano had been sending money to, his relatives there to build a house like so many, you know, immigrants in the US. Do, you know, to support their families back in their home countries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>My uncle would always tell me that, like, if I ever went to Mexico that I could in his house, and that hopefully one day he was going to be able to go with me and show me the home in which my dad and him and all of his family grew up and.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And how she had to travel there for the first time to bury Marciano instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisela Martinez: \u003c/strong>As my uncles were carrying my uncle’s casket. That’s when it all hit me. I was walking, and then I just had the sudden realization that this was not okay. This should not have happened. This is not the way that my uncle and I were supposed to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Another farm worker who was there is Pedro Romero, who survived the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He was injured. Survived. His brother Jose did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He told everyone gathered there, all the local and federal officials that, you know, he’s still really sad that he thinks so much about this tragedy and that his brother is no longer there with him. And he said, Jose left three kids who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pedro Romero: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When the shooting happened, there was this huge focus on how what had happened had really revealed these working conditions, these housing conditions of farmworkers, not just in Half Moon Bay, but in California more broadly. But can you remind us how people responded at the time, especially public officials in the immediate aftermath of the shooting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>You know, I remember all the TV cameras flooding down and other journalists as well, you know, and also elected officials, the highest people in office in the state, like Governor Gavin Newsom. And I remember the governor on live TV speaking about how some of these workers had been making $9 an hour, which is way below minimum wage in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>And by the way, some of you should see where these folks are. Living conditions. They’re. Living in shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>You just talked about some of these really substandard, living and working conditions for people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>No health care, no support, no services, but taking care of our health, providing a service to each and every one of us every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And so after that, you know, there was a lot of attention on those issues. People really promised to, to create change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, you mentioned two really big issues here that were highlighted by the shooting housing, but also workplace conditions for these farmworkers. So since the shooting, I know that state and local regulators have been investigating the working conditions on some of these farms in Half Moon Bay. What’s happened since then? What is the status of those investigations now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So there are a number of investigations by the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office by state agencies at the two farms, Concord Farms and then California Terra Garden. Carlo Shire cited Concord Farms for $51,000 for workplace safety violations. Of course, Carlos is the agency that regulates worker safety. And then they also cited California Terror Garden for about $114,000, for a total of dozens of violations that inspectors found at these two farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>But those cases are still open, and the farms haven’t paid the amount of the citations yet. Then there’s the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates labor law violations, you know, potential wage theft. And so that agency cited California Terror Garden as well for violations related to paid sick laws. And that business settled for about $150,000. We should also note that successor business at that same site where California Terror Garden was, which is now called Lee and Sun Mushroom Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>That business was also cited, including for minimum wage violations under San Mateo minimum wage laws, which are actually higher than for the state. So that’s sort of where those investigations are at. But it sounds like there may be more citations and charges, sort of proposed penalties coming both from the state and the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, that’s sort of the accountability part of this Farida. But what about support for the farm workers since the shooting? Who’s been taking the lead on that in Half Moon Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s a couple of nonprofit organizations that have been really visible through this whole ordeal for people in Half Moon Bay. One is at usando, at Latinos lasagna. It’s known as Alice. They’ve really been a connector with the farm working community. And then we see a lot of movement at the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>The county and the community. City, a Half Moon Bay, really rallied together, in the days and months following the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ray Mueller told me that right after the shooting, he committed to try to do whatever he could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>To go to the site to see how those families were living. Really? When I saw it. I wanted to make sure that no one could look away from it. And since that time, the county really has worked very hard, to address those issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>They recently approved the purchase of a 50 acre plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ray Mueller: \u003c/strong>But we also have other sites. We’re building 46 units of farmworker housing, on 18 of which are being set aside for victims of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>He also pushed and, you know, got approved and new Office of Labor Standards Enforcement in San Mateo County that will start helping all workers be able to file claims with the state labor Commissioner’s office and also really take on education for employers about their obligations under under the laws, but also for workers about their rights. Those are important things, you know, that are ongoing as well, that they’re taking off in the county. And that really came out as a result of this, of this shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how advocates and farmworkers in Half Moon Bay are feeling about what’s been done so far. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I am, I have to say, surprised a little bit, Frida, by how much it seems like it is happening in San Mateo County as a result of this shooting. But I do wonder how people are feeling. I mean, especially the farmworkers directly affected by this shooting. Do they feel like they’re getting the help that they need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, like we mentioned, Pedro Romero, for example. I mean, he said he was grateful for housing assistance, but, you know, that funding is set to run out soon. And, they’re wondering what they’re going to do. There’s a lot of hope, you know, for all of these projects and things that are happening, but they’re going to take a long time to really create the change that everybody can see and that they could actually use, you know, by moving into one of these housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So it’s unclear what’s going to happen in the meantime. I will say that one point of positiveness in this whole thing is that, I mean, the community says that they’re committed to continuing helping them. So hopefully we’ll see some other ways that they find to do that. But at this point it’s uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And and I guess how can you move on when there are these investigations still ongoing and and still open? And I know you spoke with someone from United Farm Workers about this. Can you tell me about Antonio and how he feels about how these investigations are still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So Antonio De Loera directs communications for the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antonio De Loera: \u003c/strong>And what’s been so dispiriting, perhaps, on this first anniversary is how quickly it feels like we went back to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>With even such a high profile case. You see some of the issues that bogged down investigations into wage theft or workplace safety issues and other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antonio De Loera: \u003c/strong>I think if the anniversary of Half Moon Bay is about anything, it’s about, we need to notice farmworkers all the time, not just when something horrible is in the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>And, you know, mind you. 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It’s going to take how many years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She told me a little bit about her situation, and she said she’s sharing an apartment with her brothers and their families and her family. And so her husband, her and her three kids sleep in one room with her oldest girl, sleeping on a mattress on the floor, and then everyone else sharing a queen size bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>For her. Like many other people in the community, this this shooting sort of steeled their resolve to make sure that these changes happen. And so Rocio Avila has taken it upon herself to be in attendance at every supervisor meeting. And she’s also part of vigils, regular vigils and marches for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I think it’s also a realization on her part that what she said is that her voice matters and she wants to, you know, help other people in the community to also speak up about what they’re seeing in terms of housing. You know, when people get evicted, the problems that they’re facing, so that elected representatives take note and can do something about it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rocio Avila: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, it’s it seems like based on your conversations with people in Half Moon Bay a year later, it seems like folks are still very much reeling from this shooting, but also are feeling very fired up and much more active politically in the community. Is is that fair to say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think that’s fair to say for definitely, you know, many agricultural workers and other people who weren’t feeling as united and motivated to be part of these conversations and, and make sure that these promises of more affordable housing, better conditions at work, that they really become a reality. And I think, you know, there’s a lot of hope in the community as well, because people are finding that at least in their personal lives, they’re taking steps. So that’s that’s definitely a feeling you get from visiting Half Moon Bay these days that, that, that there’s a lot of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Thank you. Ericka. So nice to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Farida Jhabvala Romero, a labor correspondent for KQED, on Thursday afternoon, Farida learned that the city and county are working to find more funding to keep survivors and their families housed. Leaders with allies say they’re confident that housing assistance will continue until new housing is built. This 35 minute conversation with Farida was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Monteceillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Additional production support from me. Music courtesy of Audio Network. First cut music and Audio Socket. The rest of our podcast team at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, podcast Engagement Intern. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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If we’re trying to find solutions to the problem and to help people, this is the wrong approach.’[/pullquote]Board of Supervisors President Warren Slocum introduced the proposal with Supervisor Dave Pine, citing public health and safety hazards in camps and impacts on surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a positive way to encourage homeless residents to get the mental health and drug counseling that they need,” he said. “Plus, get a roof over their heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, advocates warn the approach is cruel, ineffective and costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an example of the failed punitive strategy that cities and counties have attempted to implement in response to the growing homelessness crisis across the country,” said Tristia Bauman, directing attorney of housing for the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing about the proposal makes it more likely to find success in reducing homelessness, said Bauman, whose previous job as an attorney with the National Homelessness Law Center \u003ca href=\"https://homelesslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HOUSING-NOT-HANDCUFFS-2019-FINAL.pdf\">involved tracking\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://homelesslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Housing-Not-Handcuffs.pdf\">effects of camping bans\u003c/a> around the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These policies don’t address the underlying causes of homelessness. They punish people for displaying the symptoms of homelessness,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal specifies that encampments can’t be cleared unless the county has shelter available for all residents. Once a camp is slated to be dismantled, officials say the county holds shelter beds for 72 hours for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11972519,news_11972474,news_11961820\" label=\"Related Stories\"]As the county pursues its goal of ensuring that interim or permanent housing is available to every person experiencing homelessness, the ordinance takes aim at recalcitrant encampments made up of “a segment of the homeless population that just are treatment resistant and don’t want to be in shelters,” according to Slocum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates warn that’s a faulty premise and argue that simply providing enough beds to house camp residents fails to address the many reasons people experiencing homelessness might reject an offer of emergency shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some shun congregate shelters because of past trauma. Some find them unmanageable because of intellectual or physical disabilities or mental health issues, and others have pets or belongings they don’t want to leave behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, crucially, shelter beds are often temporary offerings. Shelters frequently require residents to leave for hours a day and have rules that some unhoused people feel restrict their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So a person would essentially be put in the position of moving from a location where they can stably be 24 hours a day, despite its rudimentary nature, to a shelter where the setting is very temporary,” Bauman said. “Once that time comes to an end, what is that person’s alternative?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless they have an offer of permanent housing, it’s likely the street — only without many of their belongings or the community they’d established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that that type of approach is destabilizing,” Bauman said. “It perpetuates homelessness, makes it harder to escape, and it’s expensive to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With limited shelter space available, she also said the proposed ordinance could end up forcing people who’ve determined shelters don’t work for them into beds that could otherwise be available to those who want to access them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disappointing because I think San Mateo is doing a lot of things right,” said William Freeman, senior counsel at the ACLU of Northern California. “It’s inhumane to criminalize homelessness, and it increases trauma. If we’re trying to find solutions to the problem and to help people, this is the wrong approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman, who lives in San Mateo County, said the ACLU raised concerns with county officials about a draft of the ordinance last summer, but the current proposal reflects few meaningful changes. He worries about how the ordinance would be used in practice if it’s approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a lot of vague terminology, and it opens up a lot of opportunities for abuse,” he said. “When you give law enforcement a tool, you open up the possibility of abuse if you don’t have really strong protections in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a federal magistrate granted\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960279/where-things-stand-in-san-franciscos-legal-battle-over-street-encampments#:~:text=When%20the%20Coalition%20on%20Homelessness,violation%20of%20its%20own%20policies.\"> a preliminary injunction\u003c/a> limiting encampment sweeps, in part because of evidence that the city wasn’t following its own policies in clearing camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/hsa/2022-one-day-homeless-count\">At last count\u003c/a>, there were 1,808 people experiencing homelessness in the county, nearly a third of those on the streets or in tents. Slocum estimates the ordinance would impact about 44 people in eight encampments in the county’s unincorporated regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as cities around California are grappling with rising homelessness and widespread encampments and struggling to clean up their streets and move people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2022 court decision bars local governments from punishing unhoused people who sleep in public when no shelter is available. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972519/supreme-court-to-decide-if-local-laws-preventing-people-from-sleeping-on-streets-are-cruel-and-unusual\">the Supreme Court agreed to review that ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San Mateo’s proposal, anyone charged with a misdemeanor violation under the ordinance would qualify for diversion programs offered by the San Mateo County Superior Court, which could help them avoid jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The County has worked hard to implement the goal of functional zero homelessness, whereby individuals experiencing homelessness have access to appropriate shelter opportunities,” Pine, who introduced the proposal alongside Slocum, said in a statement. “This proposal helps incentivize individuals to take advantage of these opportunities in a compassionate way while also regulating critical operational details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx\">meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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If we’re trying to find solutions to the problem and to help people, this is the wrong approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman, who lives in San Mateo County, said the ACLU raised concerns with county officials about a draft of the ordinance last summer, but the current proposal reflects few meaningful changes. He worries about how the ordinance would be used in practice if it’s approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a lot of vague terminology, and it opens up a lot of opportunities for abuse,” he said. “When you give law enforcement a tool, you open up the possibility of abuse if you don’t have really strong protections in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a federal magistrate granted\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960279/where-things-stand-in-san-franciscos-legal-battle-over-street-encampments#:~:text=When%20the%20Coalition%20on%20Homelessness,violation%20of%20its%20own%20policies.\"> a preliminary injunction\u003c/a> limiting encampment sweeps, in part because of evidence that the city wasn’t following its own policies in clearing camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/hsa/2022-one-day-homeless-count\">At last count\u003c/a>, there were 1,808 people experiencing homelessness in the county, nearly a third of those on the streets or in tents. Slocum estimates the ordinance would impact about 44 people in eight encampments in the county’s unincorporated regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as cities around California are grappling with rising homelessness and widespread encampments and struggling to clean up their streets and move people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2022 court decision bars local governments from punishing unhoused people who sleep in public when no shelter is available. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972519/supreme-court-to-decide-if-local-laws-preventing-people-from-sleeping-on-streets-are-cruel-and-unusual\">the Supreme Court agreed to review that ruling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under San Mateo’s proposal, anyone charged with a misdemeanor violation under the ordinance would qualify for diversion programs offered by the San Mateo County Superior Court, which could help them avoid jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The County has worked hard to implement the goal of functional zero homelessness, whereby individuals experiencing homelessness have access to appropriate shelter opportunities,” Pine, who introduced the proposal alongside Slocum, said in a statement. “This proposal helps incentivize individuals to take advantage of these opportunities in a compassionate way while also regulating critical operational details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors will \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx\">meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The five Chinese farmworkers sitting together in Half Moon Bay Library on a foggy afternoon last month were there to receive information about their permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been almost a year since they were displaced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">mass shooting at two produce farms\u003c/a> in the small city on California’s coast. They lost more than their homes. They also lost their sense of community and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadliest shooting recorded in San Mateo County was the third in a week of gun violence that rocked California in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 16, six people, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">teenage mother and her infant son\u003c/a>, were massacred in a house in Goshen, an unincorporated community in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 21, a gunman opened fire in a Monterey Park dance studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">killing 11 people\u003c/a> celebrating the Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Jan. 23, seven people were killed across two mushroom farms about three miles apart in Half Moon Bay. Five of the victims were Chinese, and two were Latino. Almost 30 people who lived on the farms in sheds, shipping containers and converted trailers were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A candlelit vigil for the victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay says, ‘We Stand With You’ after a vigil in their honor at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mass shooting brought renewed attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">living and working conditions of California’s farmworkers\u003c/a>. Farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants and fear deportation, are less likely to report safety violations and wage theft. In the state where the national movement to organize farmworkers began more than five decades ago, agricultural laborers still face employer retaliation for unionizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who toil in fields for long hours and low wages struggle to afford housing and find themselves sleeping in unsafe structures on farms. But experts, community advocates and survivors interviewed by KQED for this story said the gun violence in Half Moon Bay exposed the emergent vulnerability of Chinese farmworkers, who are almost invisible because they represent a sliver of migrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yvonne Lee, a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission, said AAPI farmworkers are vulnerable because of isolation. The closest Chinatown to Half Moon Bay is in San Francisco, about an hour’s drive.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.’[/pullquote]“If you are in a farming industry — No. 1, it’s more fragmented — and farming, you tend to be in a rural area outside of the traditional Asian enclaves that you would find support,” Lee said. “Yes, Half Moon Bay is not that far, but if you’re talking about an immigrant who doesn’t own a car — even if they own a car, they have limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said very few Americans know of the legacy of AAPI farmworkers in the agricultural industry. In the 1850s, Chinese workers began migrating to America to work in California’s gold mines. Chinese immigrants were also instrumental in building the transcontinental railroad from 1863–69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese migrants also took agricultural jobs and introduced new farming techniques, including shifting California’s agricultural business from grain to vegetables and fruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concord Farms can be seen in the distance in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-Chinese racism festered among white laborers, particularly among unemployed European immigrants who refused to work in fields. The resentment culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the xenophobic 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. The law was repealed in 1943.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output.’[/pullquote]The agricultural jobs vacated by the Chinese were filled by Japanese workers until the incarceration of people of Japanese descent, many of whom were American citizens, disrupted California’s vegetable industry. Japanese farmers grew most of the state’s peppers, celery, tomatoes and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, about 96% of farmworkers in California identify as Hispanic, with \u003ca href=\"https://farmworkerfamily.org/information\">75% undocumented\u003c/a>, according to the Center for Farmworker Families. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Asian_Producers.pdf\">census (PDF)\u003c/a>, which is conducted every five years, found that Asian producers accounted for 0.7% of the country’s 3.4 million producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At roughly 7,000, California had the highest number of Asian farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a forever memory’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chunli Zhao opened fire at California Terra Garden, where he lived and worked as a forklift driver, killing four people and wounding Pedro Romero Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao then drove to Concord Farms, a farm he was reportedly fired from in 2015, and fatally shot three people. Zhao, 67, was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/half-moon-bay-shooting-suspect-interview/3140537/\">interview\u003c/a> three days after the shooting, Zhao told NBC Bay Area that he had endured years of bullying and long hours working at the two farms. According to Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, Zhao told investigators that he was angry at the time of the shootings because California Terra Garden demanded $100 to repair a damaged forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven victims were Jose Romero Pérez, 38; Zhishen Liu, 73; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50; Aixiang Zhang, 74; Qizhong Cheng, 66; Jingzhi Lu, 64; and Yetao Bing, 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large vigil with many bouquets of flowers, candles and handwritten signs in memory of those who were victims of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner lights a candle after a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting earlier in the week, which left 7 dead and 1 wounded, on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedro Romero Pérez, the younger brother of José Romero Pérez, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">learning to play accordion in a music therapy class\u003c/a> at another farm in Half Moon Bay, KQED reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were forced to move off the farms as the police and FBI conducted investigations. They’ve moved between hotels and short-term rentals. The rent will be paid by San Mateo County through March or April, according to a Half Moon Bay city official. The city will need to raise money for temporary housing, officials told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a December afternoon the week before Christmas, KQED interviewed a middle-aged Chinese couple through an interpreter at the Half Moon Bay Library. Before the mass shooting, they lived in a shed on Concord Farms without a kitchen or bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the library’s community room, an elderly Chinese couple never left each other’s side. The man walked with a hunch, and his wife clutched the handle of her cane with one hand and rested the other on his walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man joined the couple. In bits of English and Cantonese, he talked with a KQED reporter whose mother immigrated from China about how both of their families have roots in Guangdong, a coastal province in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speak with KQED, the younger of the two couples requested anonymity to maintain their privacy while discussing the massacre and their housing situation. Their case manager, Sao Leng U, translated from Mandarin to English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman made intense eye contact with Leng U during the interview. Her husband, a truck driver who was on his daily route when his coworkers and friends were fatally shot, kept his eyes glued to a handout printed in Mandarin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Half Moon Bay farmworker\"]‘We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?”[/pullquote]“I was at the farm, but the farm is quite loud and noisy,” the woman told KQED. “I didn’t know anything had happened until we went outside and saw [the farmworkers who had been shot] and called the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, they’ve been burdened with lingering trauma, the fear of losing pay, and the uncertainty of where they’ll live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the shooting happened, we are kind of moving from place to place, and we’re feeling insecure,” the woman said. “We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about returning to work a week after the shooting, the man looked up and spoke for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we might have a little bit of PTSD,” he said through the interpreter. “It’s not like a sickness or something, but every time we go back, we’re thinking of the incident. It’s no longer like before. Because before, even though we were working really hard, we were happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they are unsure if they will ever truly move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a forever memory,” the woman said. “Especially now, we’re still working at the farm. Because all the farmworkers are living together, we have different sheds, but we have lots of memories. Especially because I am a witness, it’s really difficult to move on, and it’s not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A community overlooked\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just a turn off Highway 92 is Spanish Town Shops, where a metal T. rex sculpture, intricate water fountains and handcrafted pottery greet visitors. Nestled between the shops is a narrow, rutted road and a creek bridge that leads to California Terra Garden, formerly known as Mountain Mushroom Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a greenhouse to the right, and on a recent visit, there were about a dozen cars in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple signs tell lurkers to “Keep Out” and to not take photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concord Farms is down Highway 1, a 10-minute drive with ocean views. After a stretch of unpaved road, the farm appears with tractors on one side and rolling hills in the distance. Trucks drive in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half Moon Bay’s reputation as a picturesque oceanside getaway known for its quaint pumpkin festival and big wave surfing was jolted by the shooting. A year ago, the farmworker community was overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/halfmoonbaycitycalifornia\">2023 U.S. Census data\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay, with a population of roughly 11,000, is 65.8% white, 24.5% Hispanic or Latino and 5.1% Asian. The median household income is $149,000, and only 6.8% live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The farms are] driven by frequently. Lots of people drive on Highway 92,” said Karen Decker, Half Moon Bay’s economic and city vitality manager. “You pass these landmarks, but just past those recognizable landmarks, there are really insular communities, and you have isolation within isolation.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Karen Decker, economic and city vitality manager, Half Moon Bay\"]‘Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew.’[/pullquote]Decker was at the community center that was converted to a reunification site on Jan. 23, 2023. She recalled a large crowd of Spanish-speaking farmworkers on one side and, on another, a group of six to eight Chinese farmworkers huddled together, speaking Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled asking one Chinese woman about her biggest need, expecting to hear water or food. Instead, Decker said the woman conveyed a “great anxiety about missing work” the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so frantic that they’re going to lose their housing if they can’t work,” Decker said. “They’re terrified about missing, like, an hour of wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Decker and other volunteers went to pick up the farmworkers from their hotels on Jan. 24, 2023, no one was eating the continental breakfast. They didn’t know it was included, Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became clear to us that the people we work with who were displaced hadn’t stayed in a hotel before,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leng U, the director of social services at Self-Help for the Elderly, a San Francisco Chinatown nonprofit that provides case management to Chinese farmworkers, said many Chinese immigrants rely on family to house them after arriving in the U.S. That’s not the case for the Half Moon Bay farmworkers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to California Terra Garden farm in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said most of the affected Chinese farmworkers did not have family support. Advertisements for farms in publications like Sing Tao, a Bay Area Chinese newspaper, offer on-site housing. That’s what drew the workers to Half Moon Bay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, they are stationed at the farm. They live at the farm. They eat at the farm,” Leng U added. “They get along with each other like family because most of them have very limited social interaction with the people outside. There is no agency that specifically works with the Chinese population. They don’t have any community connection.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in. Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.’[/pullquote]Leng U visited both farms after the shooting. The sheds used as homes had plastic sheets for insulation and just enough room for a mattress and personal belongings. There were makeshift outdoor kitchens. During the winter months, cold temperatures caused the farmworkers to lose sleep, according to Leng U.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Jan. 24, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fD7JYgh1wI'\">press conference\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay. “Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a Jan. 28, 2023, story in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farms-were-not-17747665.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, San Mateo County officials did not find records of housing permits or inspection records for either farm. In June 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">Cal/OSHA cited both farms\u003c/a> for failure to secure labor camp permits for onsite worker housing, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/01/governor-newsom-announces-16-million-to-support-farmworker-homeownership/\">$16 million\u003c/a> to increase homeownership for California farmworkers, $5 million of which would be allocated to Half Moon Bay to purchase 28 housing units, in June 2023. The city has set aside $1 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/881/880-Stone-Pine---Frequently-Asked-Questi\">to plan a development\u003c/a> slated to be completed in 2025.[aside postID=news_11941716 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2540-1-1020x765.jpeg']Wei-ting Chen, the executive director of community engagement at the Stanford School of Medicine, volunteered to translate for the Chinese farmworkers in the immediate aftermath. She routinely goes to Half Moon Bay to deliver supplies and texts the farmworkers using WeChat, a Chinese messaging app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the farmworkers feel that the temporary housing, while comfortable, doesn’t feel like their homes. They will sleep there, but they still cook on the farm because the smoke from their woks fills the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They still do most of their living on the farm,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, most of the employees work six days a week. Their one day off is used to run errands. One older couple decided to retire, but the rest of the Chinese workers returned to work almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were eager to go back to work because if they didn’t work, they didn’t get paid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The five Chinese farmworkers sitting together in Half Moon Bay Library on a foggy afternoon last month were there to receive information about their permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been almost a year since they were displaced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">mass shooting at two produce farms\u003c/a> in the small city on California’s coast. They lost more than their homes. They also lost their sense of community and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadliest shooting recorded in San Mateo County was the third in a week of gun violence that rocked California in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 16, six people, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">teenage mother and her infant son\u003c/a>, were massacred in a house in Goshen, an unincorporated community in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 21, a gunman opened fire in a Monterey Park dance studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">killing 11 people\u003c/a> celebrating the Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Jan. 23, seven people were killed across two mushroom farms about three miles apart in Half Moon Bay. Five of the victims were Chinese, and two were Latino. Almost 30 people who lived on the farms in sheds, shipping containers and converted trailers were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A candlelit vigil for the victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay says, ‘We Stand With You’ after a vigil in their honor at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mass shooting brought renewed attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">living and working conditions of California’s farmworkers\u003c/a>. Farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants and fear deportation, are less likely to report safety violations and wage theft. In the state where the national movement to organize farmworkers began more than five decades ago, agricultural laborers still face employer retaliation for unionizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who toil in fields for long hours and low wages struggle to afford housing and find themselves sleeping in unsafe structures on farms. But experts, community advocates and survivors interviewed by KQED for this story said the gun violence in Half Moon Bay exposed the emergent vulnerability of Chinese farmworkers, who are almost invisible because they represent a sliver of migrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yvonne Lee, a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission, said AAPI farmworkers are vulnerable because of isolation. The closest Chinatown to Half Moon Bay is in San Francisco, about an hour’s drive.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a forever memory’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chunli Zhao opened fire at California Terra Garden, where he lived and worked as a forklift driver, killing four people and wounding Pedro Romero Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao then drove to Concord Farms, a farm he was reportedly fired from in 2015, and fatally shot three people. Zhao, 67, was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/half-moon-bay-shooting-suspect-interview/3140537/\">interview\u003c/a> three days after the shooting, Zhao told NBC Bay Area that he had endured years of bullying and long hours working at the two farms. According to Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, Zhao told investigators that he was angry at the time of the shootings because California Terra Garden demanded $100 to repair a damaged forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven victims were Jose Romero Pérez, 38; Zhishen Liu, 73; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50; Aixiang Zhang, 74; Qizhong Cheng, 66; Jingzhi Lu, 64; and Yetao Bing, 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large vigil with many bouquets of flowers, candles and handwritten signs in memory of those who were victims of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner lights a candle after a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting earlier in the week, which left 7 dead and 1 wounded, on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedro Romero Pérez, the younger brother of José Romero Pérez, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">learning to play accordion in a music therapy class\u003c/a> at another farm in Half Moon Bay, KQED reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were forced to move off the farms as the police and FBI conducted investigations. They’ve moved between hotels and short-term rentals. The rent will be paid by San Mateo County through March or April, according to a Half Moon Bay city official. The city will need to raise money for temporary housing, officials told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a December afternoon the week before Christmas, KQED interviewed a middle-aged Chinese couple through an interpreter at the Half Moon Bay Library. Before the mass shooting, they lived in a shed on Concord Farms without a kitchen or bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the library’s community room, an elderly Chinese couple never left each other’s side. The man walked with a hunch, and his wife clutched the handle of her cane with one hand and rested the other on his walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man joined the couple. In bits of English and Cantonese, he talked with a KQED reporter whose mother immigrated from China about how both of their families have roots in Guangdong, a coastal province in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speak with KQED, the younger of the two couples requested anonymity to maintain their privacy while discussing the massacre and their housing situation. Their case manager, Sao Leng U, translated from Mandarin to English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman made intense eye contact with Leng U during the interview. Her husband, a truck driver who was on his daily route when his coworkers and friends were fatally shot, kept his eyes glued to a handout printed in Mandarin.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gloria Brown was worried when she saw her husband raking leaves in the street outside their home in the city of San Mateo, bringing traffic to a halt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Brown had been diagnosed with dementia a couple of years before, and Gloria knew he could become agitated. He argued and raised his voice as she held his arms to coax him out of the street, but eventually, he allowed her to lead him indoors. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gloria Brown, San Mateo resident\"]‘They wrestled him down to the ground. There were at least four police officers and one, late 70-year-old man.’[/pullquote]Shortly after that, police were at their doorstep. An onlooker had called them, reporting an elderly couple physically fighting, according to the San Mateo police report on the June 20, 2017 incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers asked Arthur questions and moved close to him, Gloria said. Growing increasingly distressed, Arthur raised his hands to push the police away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wrestled him down to the ground,” Gloria said. “There were at least four police officers and one, late 70-year-old man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested and booked him under charges of resisting and obstructing an officer, according to police records. Gloria said he spent two nights in jail, and the charges were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so confused,” she said. “He should never, ever have been taken to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur died four years later from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Gloria Brown holds a photo of her and her late husband, Arthur Brown in her home on in San Mateo on Nov. 3, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-GLORIA-BROWN-LHM-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Brown holds a photo of her and her late husband, Arthur Brown in her home on in San Mateo on Nov. 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Luiz H. Monticelli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, San Mateo has hired a new police chief. With the help of Gloria Brown and the Alzheimer’s Association, the department has moved to improve how police respond to people with dementia. Officers and staff received additional training to understand the condition, and the department established a voluntary registry of vulnerable adults. Families or caregivers can alert police about loved ones who have special needs and can pass along information about what triggers agitation and what works to calm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not mental health professionals. We’re definitely not clinicians,” San Mateo Police Chief Ed Barberini said. “But it’s important for us to understand the signs of certain conditions and how to best interact with members of the public.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brie Williams, professor of Medicine, UCSF\"]‘Old people are not just older young people,” Williams said. “They are actually old people and have a different set of health conditions and risks that they need to be aware of when they’re interacting with them on the streets.’[/pullquote]California police are required to take a minimum of 15 hours of training at the academy on how to interact with people with disabilities, and that training includes at least some information about dementia. But advocates for the elderly say it’s not enough. In previous legislative sessions, two state bills that could have required specific training for responding to people with dementia — \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2583/id/2571105\">Assembly Bill 2583\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB21/id/2615832\">Assembly Bill 21\u003c/a> — failed to make it through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an area of exceptional need, really throughout the nation,” said Brie Williams, a professor of Medicine and director of Amend at UCSF. She is also the director of the Aging Research In Criminal Justice Health Network, and she \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555774/\">developed training about aging and dementia for San Francisco police.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said depending on the part of the brain that’s affected, people with dementia may engage in erratic behavior that can be scary for onlookers who do not understand what’s happening. Behavior that seems criminal may be medical, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People wandering on the highway may be doing so because of their dementia or appear evasive when attempting to remember certain words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Old people are not just older young people,” Williams said. “They are actually old people and have a different set of health conditions and risks that they need to be aware of when they’re interacting with them on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Excessive police response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The senior population is rapidly growing, and more than \u003ca href=\"https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/Profile%20of%20OA/2021%20Profile%20of%20OA/2021ProfileOlderAmericans_508.pdf\">one in six (PDF)\u003c/a> Americans are 65 or older. The number of older adults arrested is also growing faster than the population is aging, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/11/22/police-arrests-deadly-texas-florida-seniors-dementia-mental-health\">analysis\u003c/a> by The Marshall Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public, though, rarely learns when police harm people with dementia, said Rashmi Goel, an associate professor at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people walk along a small town shopping street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-DementiaCops-15-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of people walk down Main Street in downtown San Mateo on Jan. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her paper \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.du.edu/law_facpub/472/\">“Grandma Got Arrested: Police, Excessive Force, and People with Dementia,” \u003c/a>Goel reviewed several cases that have put a spotlight on the issue, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998433764/former-colorado-officers-who-arrested-73-year-old-woman-with-dementia-face-charg\">violent arrest\u003c/a> of 73-year-old Karen Garner in 2020 by police in Loveland, Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garner, who had dementia and died last year, left a Walmart without paying for about $14 worth of items and was picking flowers along the side of the road when police stopped her. The officer grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back, and the arrest left Garner with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm. Prosecutors criminally charged two officers, one of them sentenced to five years in prison, and the city and police settled a lawsuit over the arrest for $3 million. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Josth Stenner, community organizer, Kern County\"]‘Dementia patients or older folk need to be a part of the conversation as it relates to police accountability and restorative justice as a whole.’[/pullquote]“When they approach an individual who has dementia, who is unable to answer their questions, who may not understand they have to stop and respond to police, we see a number of cases where police have responded with a lot of force, excessive force, brutality, even to the point of shooting and killing an individual,” Goel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakersfield police shot and killed Francisco Serna, a 73-year-old man with dementia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11233089/attorney-general-to-review-kern-county-bakersfield-policing\">in 2016\u003c/a> when he refused to take his hand out of his pocket. Later, they found he had been clutching a crucifix. The killing galvanized the community, which demanded change in part because of Serna’s vulnerability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dementia patients or older folk need to be a part of the conversation as it relates to police accountability and restorative justice as a whole,” said Josth Stenner, who had been a community organizer with Faith in the Valley. “These are vulnerable populations that police often don’t have a culture of wanting to deal with very gently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Mateo adds training\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gloria Brown’s shock over her husband’s arrest grew into an urgent call to action in the summer of 2020 when George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer led to nationwide protests and demands for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘No more,’” Brown remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met with San Mateo Police Chief Ed Barberini, who had taken the position that year, and described her husband’s encounter with his department. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 10 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Days after a gunman killed seven farmworkers at their worksites in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County officials and activists are calling out the deplorable conditions that some of them lived in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his visit to the mourning community on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for some of the victims of Monday’s shooting rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s minimum wage is $15.50 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at what’s happening in terms of the living conditions,” San Mateo District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said Wednesday, after the shooting suspect’s first court appearance. “Our office will focus on the prosecution. But I have spoken with the county manager … [and] the president of our board of supervisors. They have been out there. They have seen some of the squalor that exists out there. … Now we have to act on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The suspect in Monday’s deadly rampage at two Half Moon Bay farm sites was denied bail during his first court appearance since the attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe emphasized that Chunli Zhao, the 66-year-old suspect, is a Chinese national and not a U.S. citizen, and therefore has “plenty of motive to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that reason, it was to me a very straightforward and simple request for no bail,” he told reporters afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao’s arraignment, initially scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed until Feb. 16, to allow him time to meet with his two attorneys, who were appointed by the court during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao, who used a Mandarin-language interpreter, used court papers to cover his face for much of the hearing and spoke only briefly to confirm his name when asked by Judge Susan Jakubowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not enter a plea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the hearing, Wagstaffe released Zhao’s charging documents, which include seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He said the charges were listed in the order in which the victims are believed to have been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the charges, Zhao could receive the death penalty or face life in prison without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making that decision on the death penalty is something that will take place over the course of the next many, many months as we have so much more to learn about this individual, about the victims and their families and the harm that’s been inflicted here,” Wagstaffe said, noting that the massacre was the deadliest set of mass shootings in the county’s history. “So we have a long way to go before we make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that after Zhao’s arrest, the suspect spoke with sheriff’s investigators through an interpreter and did not request an attorney at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a feeling on the motive at this point based on what he told us,” Wagstaffe said, but declined to provide specific details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the grievances that he had were personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao had been renting a trailer at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), where he had worked for years, a crisis-management consultant hired by the farm \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/california-shooting-half-moon-bay.html\">told The New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday confirmed the identities of six of the seven victims who were killed in Monday’s back-to-back shootings at two different mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victims include Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose residence is still unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Romero Pérez was the seventh person killed in the attack, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Chunli_Zhao-Complaint-Packet.pdf\">charging documents released Wednesday\u003c/a> by the San Mateo District Attorney’s Office. It also identified Pedro Romero Pérez, his brother, as the one surviving victim. He is currently being treated at Stanford Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican consulate confirmed that two of the deceased victims were Mexican nationals, as is survivor Pedro Romero Pérez, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/half-moon-bay-shooting-consulates-reach-out-to-families-of-victims-in-china-mexico/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>, which also reported that both Mexico and China will provide visa and travel assistance to the bereaved families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Servando Martinez Jimenez said his brother, Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, was a delivery person and manager at one of the farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened,” Martinez Jimenez said, in Spanish, while standing outside his Half Moon Bay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his brother never mentioned Zhao or discussed any issues related to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marciano Martinez Jimenez had lived in the United States for 28 years after arriving from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, according to Servando Martinez Jimenez, who said he is now working with the Mexican consulate to get his brother’s body home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Prosecutors will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven of his co-workers and former co-workers in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/northern-california-shootings-3eb00c19a36ad129ca7f0063f4b2aaf9\">back-to-back shootings\u003c/a> on Monday at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges, which San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced Wednesday morning, will be filed before the suspect, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, makes his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear whether Zhao had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao, who is believed to have acted alone, also faces a special-circumstance allegation of multiple murder, as well as sentencing enhancements on each count for the use of a firearm, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include additional allegations that could result in life in prison without parole or the death penalty, although Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on executions. Among those allegations are that Zhao used a gun, caused great bodily injury, and killed multiple people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> California leaders are calling for tighter laws and regulations for assault weapon sales and high-capacity magazines following deadly shootings in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s said all the time, ‘Only in America. No. 1 in gun ownership, No. 1 in gun deaths.’ It’s not even complicated,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. “This happened on our watch. It doesn’t have to be this way. It wasn’t always this way. A few decades ago we didn’t experience these things. We have allowed this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who recently visited residents and businesses reeling from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">mass shooting in Monterey Park near Los Angeles that killed 11 people\u003c/a>, appeared visibly shaken before reporters in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday. But he didn’t shy away from quickly politicizing the tragic event, calling out specific judges and politicians who have blocked gun safety legislation from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still waiting for Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House of Representatives. We haven’t heard a damn word from him. Not since Monterey Park, not here, not even one expression of prayers,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\">39 mass shootings in the United States since the start of the year\u003c/a> — more than any other year on record this early into the new year — according to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent gun violence data and research organization, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four victims are shot, either injured or killed, not including the shooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the country’s mass shooting events have occurred since the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have two horrific shootings in our state in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay come on the heels of the Lunar New Year is just unimaginable. It makes me think of everything we have done [to address gun violence in California],” said Assemblymember Phil Ting. “But unfortunately, it is still way too easy to purchase a legal firearm in this state. When two individuals who really absolutely have no right to have firearms and obtain it legally or illegally, there’s little we can do. My colleagues at the state level will be going back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressmember Anna Eshoo echoed those sentiments and outrage. “We have unfinished business in our country to address gun violence and workplace violence. Until that is finished business, there will be pain in many communities,” she said. “The story of America is not only to meet the challenges, but to make good on the promises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris will visit California on Wednesday to honor lives lost in the multiple mass shootings this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven people killed in Half Moon Bay were agricultural workers at two separate mushroom farms. Many lived with their families at the work sites and faced harsh work and living conditions before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the workers live in shipping containers and make around $9 per hour, Newsom said, far less than California’s $15.50 minimum wage, without access to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have exposed how our farmworker community is living, let’s not ignore that. The mental health support they need, let’s not ignore that,” said Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquín Jiménez Ureña. “Many come to this community for the pumpkin [festival] and ignore the farmworkers. Not today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus confirmed that a gunman killed five men and two women at two different farm-site locations in Half Moon Bay on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man, who was critically wounded during the shooting rampage, is out of surgery and in stable condition, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can tell you is that the coastal community came together and they were here together in a time of need,” Corpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Arraignment has been set for Half Moon Bay shooting suspect Chunli Zhao for Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao is facing seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, plus enhancements for using a firearm, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The suspect in a recent mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, who killed seven agricultural workers and left one in critical condition, had previously been accused of threatening and suffocating a coworker at a prior workplace, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-suspect-once-tried-to-17738909.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the suspect’s then-coworker filed a temporary restraining order against alleged shooter Chunli Zhao, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Zhao, 66, allegedly opened fire at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), where he was an employee, and then Concord Farms, both located on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay. Officials believe the attack was an instance of workplace violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. The Department of Labor considers workplace violence to be any act or threat of physical violence, harassment or intimidation that occurs at the work site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acts of violence are the third-leading cause of fatal workplace injuries in the U.S., according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Aaron Tung, the principal at Concord Farms, expressed gratitude for the groundswell of support following the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For certain, we thank the outpouring of thoughts and support from the community. We thank law enforcement for their swift response and actions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said Concord Farms is a family owned and operated mushroom farm that has been at its current location for 37 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are shook and very eager to gain more information from the authorities and their investigations,” he added. “Our hearts are with the victims, their families and the Chinese American community—from Half Moon Bay to Monterey Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11939048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer patrols an area at night that's cordoned off with caution tape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County sheriff’s deputy patrols the area as law enforcement officials conduct an investigation hours after a shooting massacre at two mushroom farms on Jan 23, 2023, in Half Moon Bay that left seven workers dead and another critically injured. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 7 p.m. Monday (updated 11 a.m. Tuesday): \u003c/strong>Seven agricultural workers were killed and another was critically injured in a related pair of shootings Monday afternoon at two different mushroom farms on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, marking California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?sort=asc&order=State\">third mass killing in just eight days\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, whom police apprehended just over two hours after the shootings, was an employee at the first site he attacked, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said the victims worked at the two facilities. She said some were Asian and others were Hispanic, including a number of migrant workers. The coroner’s office is still working on identification of victims and notifying the next of kin, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As some of these victims were members of our migrant community, this represents a unique challenge when it comes to notifications and identifications of next of kin,” Corpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said it received reports of a shooting at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), off Highway 92, at around 2:20 p.m. Deputies found four people dead from gunshot wounds. A fifth victim was rushed to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, and is now out of surgery and in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, officers found three more people dead from gunshot wounds at Concord Farms, about five miles south, along Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers arrested 66-year-old Chunli Zhao just before 5 p.m., after finding him in his car in the parking lot of a sheriff’s substation. He was taken into custody “without incident,” the sheriff’s office said. The firearm Zhao is believed to have used in the shootings — a legally purchased semi-automatic handgun — was inside his car, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pacifikate/status/1617687885796487168\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus on Tuesday confirmed that Zhao was an employee at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm). Officials hadn’t determined a motive for the shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only known connection between the victims and the suspect is that they may have been co-workers,” Corpus said during a morning press conference. “All of the evidence we have points to this being the instance of workplace violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that some workers at one facility lived on the premises and children may have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For children to witness this is unspeakable,” said Corpus, who was just sworn in earlier this month and is \u003ca href=\"http://Officials%20hadn't%20determined%20a%20motive%20for%20the%20shooting,%20Corpus%20said..\">the county’s first Latina sheriff\u003c/a>. “This is a devastating tragedy for this community and the families touched by this unspeakable act of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11939049 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial phot of police walking past several large warehouse buildings that are cordoned off with caution tape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1459137825-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies patrolling one of the Half Moon Bay mushroom farms where a gunman opened fire on Jan. 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials did not comment on Zhao’s criminal history, but said he had not been on their radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will say there were no specific indicators that would have led us to believe he was capable of something like this. And he was not known to us,” said Eamonn Allen, a sheriff’s office spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said the arraignment will be Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cases like this, we’ve never had one in this county of this many deaths at one time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the United Farm Workers union said the tragedy “leaves us heartbroken, angry, and demanding answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we did not know them, they were part of the too often invisible, yet always essential, agricultural workforce that feeds America and the world,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mass-shootings\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s rampage was the nation’s sixth mass killing (of four people or more) — and the third in California — just three weeks into the new year. It come less than 48 hours after a\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/monterey-park-california-shooting-updates-adf80afdeb201b866ec4c39a201f820b?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\"> gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance hall\u003c/a> in the Southern California city of Monterey Park during a Lunar New Year celebration, killing 11 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a week earlier, a 16-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby were among \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/16/visalia-goshen-california-baby-killed/\">six people killed in a shooting at a home in the Central Valley town of Goshen\u003c/a>, in what authorities believe was a targeted attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half Moon Bay has just faced tremendous hardship with the storms,” said County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine. “It’s a very close-knit community. And the workers are known in the community. And it’s just tearing at everyone’s hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine said he assumed the suspect was a “disgruntled worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gun violence has to stop,” he said. “This is a crazy and tragic world we live in right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden on Tuesday pledged “the full support of the federal government in the wake of this heinous attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the second time in recent days, California communities are mourning the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence,” Biden said in a statement. “Even as we await further details on these shootings, we know the scourge of gun violence across America requires stronger action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged Congress to “act quickly and deliver this Assault Weapons Ban to my desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller said his first thought after learning of the shootings was to mobilize county mental health services to support the farmworker community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get those services in place both in English and Spanish for the community at large because this community’s been through so much,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strength of this community will persevere,” he added. “But this is heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Qing Hai Zhao, a resident of nearby El Granada, dropped off blankets at a family reunification center at the I.D.E.S. Portuguese Hall in Half Moon Bay on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[This] is a very peaceful place,” he said. “And although you’ve heard of such kind of tragedy happening in many places, you can’t believe it actually happened in Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"EGmpye\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"kkoyGb\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 10 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Days after a gunman killed seven farmworkers at their worksites in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County officials and activists are calling out the deplorable conditions that some of them lived in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his visit to the mourning community on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for some of the victims of Monday’s shooting rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s minimum wage is $15.50 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at what’s happening in terms of the living conditions,” San Mateo District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said Wednesday, after the shooting suspect’s first court appearance. “Our office will focus on the prosecution. But I have spoken with the county manager … [and] the president of our board of supervisors. They have been out there. They have seen some of the squalor that exists out there. … Now we have to act on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The suspect in Monday’s deadly rampage at two Half Moon Bay farm sites was denied bail during his first court appearance since the attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe emphasized that Chunli Zhao, the 66-year-old suspect, is a Chinese national and not a U.S. citizen, and therefore has “plenty of motive to run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that reason, it was to me a very straightforward and simple request for no bail,” he told reporters afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao’s arraignment, initially scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed until Feb. 16, to allow him time to meet with his two attorneys, who were appointed by the court during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao, who used a Mandarin-language interpreter, used court papers to cover his face for much of the hearing and spoke only briefly to confirm his name when asked by Judge Susan Jakubowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not enter a plea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the hearing, Wagstaffe released Zhao’s charging documents, which include seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He said the charges were listed in the order in which the victims are believed to have been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the charges, Zhao could receive the death penalty or face life in prison without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making that decision on the death penalty is something that will take place over the course of the next many, many months as we have so much more to learn about this individual, about the victims and their families and the harm that’s been inflicted here,” Wagstaffe said, noting that the massacre was the deadliest set of mass shootings in the county’s history. “So we have a long way to go before we make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that after Zhao’s arrest, the suspect spoke with sheriff’s investigators through an interpreter and did not request an attorney at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a feeling on the motive at this point based on what he told us,” Wagstaffe said, but declined to provide specific details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say the grievances that he had were personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao had been renting a trailer at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), where he had worked for years, a crisis-management consultant hired by the farm \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/california-shooting-half-moon-bay.html\">told The New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday confirmed the identities of six of the seven victims who were killed in Monday’s back-to-back shootings at two different mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victims include Zhishen Liu, 73, of San Francisco; Aixiang Zhang, 74, of San Francisco; Qizhong Cheng, 66, of Half Moon Bay; Jingzhi Lu, 64, of Half Moon Bay; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, of Moss Beach; and Yetao Bing, 43, whose residence is still unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Romero Pérez was the seventh person killed in the attack, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Chunli_Zhao-Complaint-Packet.pdf\">charging documents released Wednesday\u003c/a> by the San Mateo District Attorney’s Office. It also identified Pedro Romero Pérez, his brother, as the one surviving victim. He is currently being treated at Stanford Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican consulate confirmed that two of the deceased victims were Mexican nationals, as is survivor Pedro Romero Pérez, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/half-moon-bay-shooting-consulates-reach-out-to-families-of-victims-in-china-mexico/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>, which also reported that both Mexico and China will provide visa and travel assistance to the bereaved families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Servando Martinez Jimenez said his brother, Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, was a delivery person and manager at one of the farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened,” Martinez Jimenez said, in Spanish, while standing outside his Half Moon Bay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his brother never mentioned Zhao or discussed any issues related to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marciano Martinez Jimenez had lived in the United States for 28 years after arriving from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, according to Servando Martinez Jimenez, who said he is now working with the Mexican consulate to get his brother’s body home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Prosecutors will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven of his co-workers and former co-workers in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/northern-california-shootings-3eb00c19a36ad129ca7f0063f4b2aaf9\">back-to-back shootings\u003c/a> on Monday at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges, which San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced Wednesday morning, will be filed before the suspect, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, makes his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear whether Zhao had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao, who is believed to have acted alone, also faces a special-circumstance allegation of multiple murder, as well as sentencing enhancements on each count for the use of a firearm, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include additional allegations that could result in life in prison without parole or the death penalty, although Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a moratorium on executions. Among those allegations are that Zhao used a gun, caused great bodily injury, and killed multiple people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> California leaders are calling for tighter laws and regulations for assault weapon sales and high-capacity magazines following deadly shootings in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s said all the time, ‘Only in America. No. 1 in gun ownership, No. 1 in gun deaths.’ It’s not even complicated,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. “This happened on our watch. It doesn’t have to be this way. It wasn’t always this way. A few decades ago we didn’t experience these things. We have allowed this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who recently visited residents and businesses reeling from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">mass shooting in Monterey Park near Los Angeles that killed 11 people\u003c/a>, appeared visibly shaken before reporters in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday. But he didn’t shy away from quickly politicizing the tragic event, calling out specific judges and politicians who have blocked gun safety legislation from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still waiting for Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House of Representatives. We haven’t heard a damn word from him. Not since Monterey Park, not here, not even one expression of prayers,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\">39 mass shootings in the United States since the start of the year\u003c/a> — more than any other year on record this early into the new year — according to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent gun violence data and research organization, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four victims are shot, either injured or killed, not including the shooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the country’s mass shooting events have occurred since the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have two horrific shootings in our state in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay come on the heels of the Lunar New Year is just unimaginable. It makes me think of everything we have done [to address gun violence in California],” said Assemblymember Phil Ting. “But unfortunately, it is still way too easy to purchase a legal firearm in this state. When two individuals who really absolutely have no right to have firearms and obtain it legally or illegally, there’s little we can do. My colleagues at the state level will be going back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressmember Anna Eshoo echoed those sentiments and outrage. “We have unfinished business in our country to address gun violence and workplace violence. Until that is finished business, there will be pain in many communities,” she said. “The story of America is not only to meet the challenges, but to make good on the promises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris will visit California on Wednesday to honor lives lost in the multiple mass shootings this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven people killed in Half Moon Bay were agricultural workers at two separate mushroom farms. Many lived with their families at the work sites and faced harsh work and living conditions before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the workers live in shipping containers and make around $9 per hour, Newsom said, far less than California’s $15.50 minimum wage, without access to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have exposed how our farmworker community is living, let’s not ignore that. The mental health support they need, let’s not ignore that,” said Half Moon Bay Vice Mayor Joaquín Jiménez Ureña. “Many come to this community for the pumpkin [festival] and ignore the farmworkers. Not today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus confirmed that a gunman killed five men and two women at two different farm-site locations in Half Moon Bay on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man, who was critically wounded during the shooting rampage, is out of surgery and in stable condition, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can tell you is that the coastal community came together and they were here together in a time of need,” Corpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Arraignment has been set for Half Moon Bay shooting suspect Chunli Zhao for Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao is facing seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, plus enhancements for using a firearm, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The suspect in a recent mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, who killed seven agricultural workers and left one in critical condition, had previously been accused of threatening and suffocating a coworker at a prior workplace, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-suspect-once-tried-to-17738909.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the suspect’s then-coworker filed a temporary restraining order against alleged shooter Chunli Zhao, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Zhao, 66, allegedly opened fire at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), where he was an employee, and then Concord Farms, both located on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay. Officials believe the attack was an instance of workplace violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. The Department of Labor considers workplace violence to be any act or threat of physical violence, harassment or intimidation that occurs at the work site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acts of violence are the third-leading cause of fatal workplace injuries in the U.S., according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Aaron Tung, the principal at Concord Farms, expressed gratitude for the groundswell of support following the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For certain, we thank the outpouring of thoughts and support from the community. We thank law enforcement for their swift response and actions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tung said Concord Farms is a family owned and operated mushroom farm that has been at its current location for 37 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are shook and very eager to gain more information from the authorities and their investigations,” he added. “Our hearts are with the victims, their families and the Chinese American community—from Half Moon Bay to Monterey Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11939048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer patrols an area at night that's cordoned off with caution tape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1458994536-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County sheriff’s deputy patrols the area as law enforcement officials conduct an investigation hours after a shooting massacre at two mushroom farms on Jan 23, 2023, in Half Moon Bay that left seven workers dead and another critically injured. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 7 p.m. Monday (updated 11 a.m. Tuesday): \u003c/strong>Seven agricultural workers were killed and another was critically injured in a related pair of shootings Monday afternoon at two different mushroom farms on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, marking California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?sort=asc&order=State\">third mass killing in just eight days\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, whom police apprehended just over two hours after the shootings, was an employee at the first site he attacked, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said the victims worked at the two facilities. She said some were Asian and others were Hispanic, including a number of migrant workers. The coroner’s office is still working on identification of victims and notifying the next of kin, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As some of these victims were members of our migrant community, this represents a unique challenge when it comes to notifications and identifications of next of kin,” Corpus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said it received reports of a shooting at California Terra Garden (formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm), off Highway 92, at around 2:20 p.m. Deputies found four people dead from gunshot wounds. A fifth victim was rushed to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, and is now out of surgery and in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, officers found three more people dead from gunshot wounds at Concord Farms, about five miles south, along Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers arrested 66-year-old Chunli Zhao just before 5 p.m., after finding him in his car in the parking lot of a sheriff’s substation. He was taken into custody “without incident,” the sheriff’s office said. The firearm Zhao is believed to have used in the shootings — a legally purchased semi-automatic handgun — was inside his car, officials said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s rampage was the nation’s sixth mass killing (of four people or more) — and the third in California — just three weeks into the new year. It come less than 48 hours after a\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/monterey-park-california-shooting-updates-adf80afdeb201b866ec4c39a201f820b?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\"> gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance hall\u003c/a> in the Southern California city of Monterey Park during a Lunar New Year celebration, killing 11 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a week earlier, a 16-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby were among \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/16/visalia-goshen-california-baby-killed/\">six people killed in a shooting at a home in the Central Valley town of Goshen\u003c/a>, in what authorities believe was a targeted attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half Moon Bay has just faced tremendous hardship with the storms,” said County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine. “It’s a very close-knit community. And the workers are known in the community. And it’s just tearing at everyone’s hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine said he assumed the suspect was a “disgruntled worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gun violence has to stop,” he said. “This is a crazy and tragic world we live in right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden on Tuesday pledged “the full support of the federal government in the wake of this heinous attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the second time in recent days, California communities are mourning the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence,” Biden said in a statement. “Even as we await further details on these shootings, we know the scourge of gun violence across America requires stronger action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged Congress to “act quickly and deliver this Assault Weapons Ban to my desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller said his first thought after learning of the shootings was to mobilize county mental health services to support the farmworker community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get those services in place both in English and Spanish for the community at large because this community’s been through so much,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strength of this community will persevere,” he added. “But this is heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Qing Hai Zhao, a resident of nearby El Granada, dropped off blankets at a family reunification center at the I.D.E.S. Portuguese Hall in Half Moon Bay on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[This] is a very peaceful place,” he said. “And although you’ve heard of such kind of tragedy happening in many places, you can’t believe it actually happened in Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"EGmpye\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"kkoyGb\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the transcript\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3TO7JkR\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people who visit Half Moon Bay today head to the beach for surf, sand and a snack. But another, spooky adventure awaits those who peel off Highway 1 and take a windy road up into the hills, especially on one of those days when the fog hangs low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find working farms and ranches and old homes from the 19th century — some still lived in, others not so much. And if you drive up Verde Road just a little ways, not even a quarter mile, there’s a cemetery that used to be part of a town that no longer exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to the ghost town of Purissima? I know that it was intended to be a much bigger town, but the railroad didn’t go all the way there, or something?” asks Julia Thollaug of Montara, on the coast. She’s a local teacher and choreographer who’s been aware of the cemetery for years, but not its backstory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anything about who lived there, or why they left,” she said. “That’s the thing that’s so interesting to me. Because Pescadero is still there [on the San Mateo County coast]. Half Moon Bay is there. So, like, why did they leave?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt='A small sign that says \"Purissima Cemetery\" sits on a free-standing gate amidst hedgerows of poison oak.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small sign that says ‘Purissima Cemetery’ sits on a freestanding gate amid hedgerows of poison oak. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you weren’t looking for the Purissima Cemetery, you would probably fly right past the signs facing the road. Even if you did stop, by then you’d already have passed the town!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitch Postel, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://historysmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County Historical Association\u003c/a>, joined me on a tour of Purissima Cemetery on an unseasonably wet August day. We started by reading from a plaque laid here in the 1960s by the Yerba Buena chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecvyb1.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E Clampus Vitus\u003c/a>, a fraternal organization dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the American West:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The town with stores, school, hotel, saloon, dance hall, harness, shop and blacksmith shop flourished from the early 1860s until the age of the motorcar.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Actually, I would say it was just a little bit of an exaggeration to say ‘flourished’ from the early 1860s until the age of the motorcar, because it was certainly up and down,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An older man stands in a creepy cemetery\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch Postel, president of the San Mateo County Historical Association, stands in Purissima Cemetery. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Purissima was pretty much washed up by the turn of the 20th century, though it was not entirely abandoned until the late 1930s, sometime before World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first written mention of the area was by Spaniards on the Portolá expedition of 1769:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The country had a gloomy aspect; the hills were bare and treeless, and, consequently, without fire-wood. On the northern side of this stream there were some abandoned Indian huts.\u003cbr>\n— Diary of Miguel Costansó\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the time these men explored what we now know as San Mateo County, the huts were already abandoned. The Ramaytush Ohlone peoples who lived in them were already gone. They might have left for any number of reasons: key people in the settlement dying, leaving to marry, opting for better fishing down the coast. But it wasn’t long before a bunch of European-style villages sprang up on or near the coast, wherever there was a creek, often on the very spots where the Chiguan and Cotegen who lived in this area had been. And when I say villages, I mean a clutch of farmhouses and barns and maybe a school or a stagecoach stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Orange lichen crowns an old tombstone.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dobbel family tombstone sits in a field of cracked cement in Purissima Cemetery. Multiple family members might be buried under the same stone. Each side of the obelisk is engraved with details about a different Dobbel. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 1868, a German immigrant named Henry Dobbel bought 1,000 acres and built a mansion on the south bank of Purissima Creek. This place was huge and opulent: 17 large rooms, indoor plumbing, imported carpets, even a ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t much in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastsidebuzz.com/history-lecture-the-lost-town-of-purissima/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historical records\u003c/a> about Dobbel’s personality, or that of his wife, but it is widely believed Dobbel made his money off the first restaurant to serve waffles in San Francisco. What we do know is that he built many of the buildings in Purissima, like the saloon across the way from the mansion. Also, the Dobbels employed 50 men to farm wheat, barley and potatoes. The waffle king was essentially the economic pillar of Purissima during its founding years. South of Half Moon Bay, the little town appealed to more folks than Dobbel’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half Moon Bay was known as Spanish Town because that was a place where a lot of people that were of Mexican heritage, Spanish heritage [lived],” Postel said. “They wanted to get away from what was happening with the Anglo-ization of California, so forth. They wanted to have a place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A diverse group of people moved to Half Moon Bay in the years that followed, many of them Roman Catholics, and — it’s a tale as old as California — when the Protestants made their way to the coast, “they didn’t feel quite comfortable in Spanish Town. So they created another place just a little bit further south, but right on a creek, a little bit inland,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A huge Monterey cypress in the foreground dwarfs a rotting 19th century structure in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Up Verde Road a ways and across from the cemetery, this rotting wood structure is believed by some to be one of two schools built in Purissima. But nobody knows for sure. It looks to me like a barn. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years that followed, the people of Purissima farmed, and logged redwoods, in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. Some oil was discovered, but it\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658023/oil-beneath-san-mateo-county-you-betcha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> wasn’t enough to make anybody rich\u003c/a>. And there were several, devastating crop failures, not to mention the time the Purissima Creek flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Dobbel, still the town’s biggest employer, went bankrupt. He was forced to sell his estate in 1890, and he died in 1891. Both he and his wife are buried in the village cemetery, along with a sobering number of people who died young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What killed people back then at such young ages? “A lot of the young women that you might see that are buried here could have died in childbirth,” Postel said. There were also workplace injuries, he said: “Farming accidents. Logging accidents. But I think most of it was disease. You know, medical assistance was very sparse. There was a town doctor in Half Moon Bay. There was one in Pescadero, too. But that’s a lot of miles between some of these remote farmhouses and a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Purissima lasted all of 70 years, give or take. Because the town was never officially incorporated, we don’t know the population figures. The gravestones feature some of the big-for-the-coast Protestant names of the 19th century, though: Dobbel, of course, and Hutch, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnstonhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnston\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2011px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2.jpg\" alt=\"A 1930s era photograph of a saloon.\" width=\"2011\" height=\"1459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2.jpg 2011w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1920x1393.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2011px) 100vw, 2011px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County’s archives contain a student monograph written by Blair Hyde, a 1939 student at San Mateo Junior College. At that time, there were a number of abandoned buildings still standing in Purissima. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heads up to our question asker, Julia: The Ocean Shore Railroad, which took locals up to San Francisco and back in the early 20th century, did include a stop here. Highway 1 used to run through here, until it didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I paid a visit to the San Mateo County archives in downtown Redwood City, where I read a student report on Purissima by Blair Hyde of San Mateo Junior College, written in 1939. Back then, the buildings were still standing, but Hyde explains that the people of Purissima gradually came to the inevitable conclusion that Half Moon Bay was the better place to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Coastside Land Trust owns much of what used to be the town. The 5-acre cemetery was acquired by Ed Bixby of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.steelmantowncemetery.com/purissima_cemetery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steelmantown Cemetery Company\u003c/a>, which has provided natural burials on the site for a number of years now, having cleared away enough poison oak to make space for them. There are now clear paths around the old gravestones, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A grave festooned with living, planted flowers and carefully arranged pinecones.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purissima Cemetery was acquired by the Steelmantown Cemetery Company, which provides natural burials in a number of cemeteries nationwide. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the transcript\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3TO7JkR\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people who visit Half Moon Bay today head to the beach for surf, sand and a snack. But another, spooky adventure awaits those who peel off Highway 1 and take a windy road up into the hills, especially on one of those days when the fog hangs low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find working farms and ranches and old homes from the 19th century — some still lived in, others not so much. And if you drive up Verde Road just a little ways, not even a quarter mile, there’s a cemetery that used to be part of a town that no longer exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to the ghost town of Purissima? I know that it was intended to be a much bigger town, but the railroad didn’t go all the way there, or something?” asks Julia Thollaug of Montara, on the coast. She’s a local teacher and choreographer who’s been aware of the cemetery for years, but not its backstory.\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>“I don’t know anything about who lived there, or why they left,” she said. “That’s the thing that’s so interesting to me. Because Pescadero is still there [on the San Mateo County coast]. Half Moon Bay is there. So, like, why did they leave?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924294\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt='A small sign that says \"Purissima Cemetery\" sits on a free-standing gate amidst hedgerows of poison oak.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-9-45-21-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small sign that says ‘Purissima Cemetery’ sits on a freestanding gate amid hedgerows of poison oak. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you weren’t looking for the Purissima Cemetery, you would probably fly right past the signs facing the road. Even if you did stop, by then you’d already have passed the town!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitch Postel, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://historysmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County Historical Association\u003c/a>, joined me on a tour of Purissima Cemetery on an unseasonably wet August day. We started by reading from a plaque laid here in the 1960s by the Yerba Buena chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecvyb1.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E Clampus Vitus\u003c/a>, a fraternal organization dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the American West:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The town with stores, school, hotel, saloon, dance hall, harness, shop and blacksmith shop flourished from the early 1860s until the age of the motorcar.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Actually, I would say it was just a little bit of an exaggeration to say ‘flourished’ from the early 1860s until the age of the motorcar, because it was certainly up and down,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An older man stands in a creepy cemetery\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-33-39-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch Postel, president of the San Mateo County Historical Association, stands in Purissima Cemetery. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Purissima was pretty much washed up by the turn of the 20th century, though it was not entirely abandoned until the late 1930s, sometime before World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first written mention of the area was by Spaniards on the Portolá expedition of 1769:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The country had a gloomy aspect; the hills were bare and treeless, and, consequently, without fire-wood. On the northern side of this stream there were some abandoned Indian huts.\u003cbr>\n— Diary of Miguel Costansó\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the time these men explored what we now know as San Mateo County, the huts were already abandoned. The Ramaytush Ohlone peoples who lived in them were already gone. They might have left for any number of reasons: key people in the settlement dying, leaving to marry, opting for better fishing down the coast. But it wasn’t long before a bunch of European-style villages sprang up on or near the coast, wherever there was a creek, often on the very spots where the Chiguan and Cotegen who lived in this area had been. And when I say villages, I mean a clutch of farmhouses and barns and maybe a school or a stagecoach stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Orange lichen crowns an old tombstone.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-25-17-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dobbel family tombstone sits in a field of cracked cement in Purissima Cemetery. Multiple family members might be buried under the same stone. Each side of the obelisk is engraved with details about a different Dobbel. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 1868, a German immigrant named Henry Dobbel bought 1,000 acres and built a mansion on the south bank of Purissima Creek. This place was huge and opulent: 17 large rooms, indoor plumbing, imported carpets, even a ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t much in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastsidebuzz.com/history-lecture-the-lost-town-of-purissima/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historical records\u003c/a> about Dobbel’s personality, or that of his wife, but it is widely believed Dobbel made his money off the first restaurant to serve waffles in San Francisco. What we do know is that he built many of the buildings in Purissima, like the saloon across the way from the mansion. Also, the Dobbels employed 50 men to farm wheat, barley and potatoes. The waffle king was essentially the economic pillar of Purissima during its founding years. South of Half Moon Bay, the little town appealed to more folks than Dobbel’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half Moon Bay was known as Spanish Town because that was a place where a lot of people that were of Mexican heritage, Spanish heritage [lived],” Postel said. “They wanted to get away from what was happening with the Anglo-ization of California, so forth. They wanted to have a place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A diverse group of people moved to Half Moon Bay in the years that followed, many of them Roman Catholics, and — it’s a tale as old as California — when the Protestants made their way to the coast, “they didn’t feel quite comfortable in Spanish Town. So they created another place just a little bit further south, but right on a creek, a little bit inland,” Postel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A huge Monterey cypress in the foreground dwarfs a rotting 19th century structure in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/rghfn4Zo-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Up Verde Road a ways and across from the cemetery, this rotting wood structure is believed by some to be one of two schools built in Purissima. But nobody knows for sure. It looks to me like a barn. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years that followed, the people of Purissima farmed, and logged redwoods, in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. Some oil was discovered, but it\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658023/oil-beneath-san-mateo-county-you-betcha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> wasn’t enough to make anybody rich\u003c/a>. And there were several, devastating crop failures, not to mention the time the Purissima Creek flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Dobbel, still the town’s biggest employer, went bankrupt. He was forced to sell his estate in 1890, and he died in 1891. Both he and his wife are buried in the village cemetery, along with a sobering number of people who died young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What killed people back then at such young ages? “A lot of the young women that you might see that are buried here could have died in childbirth,” Postel said. There were also workplace injuries, he said: “Farming accidents. Logging accidents. But I think most of it was disease. You know, medical assistance was very sparse. There was a town doctor in Half Moon Bay. There was one in Pescadero, too. But that’s a lot of miles between some of these remote farmhouses and a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Purissima lasted all of 70 years, give or take. Because the town was never officially incorporated, we don’t know the population figures. The gravestones feature some of the big-for-the-coast Protestant names of the 19th century, though: Dobbel, of course, and Hutch, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnstonhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnston\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2011px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2.jpg\" alt=\"A 1930s era photograph of a saloon.\" width=\"2011\" height=\"1459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2.jpg 2011w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Jun-17-10-16-52-AM-2-1920x1393.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2011px) 100vw, 2011px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County’s archives contain a student monograph written by Blair Hyde, a 1939 student at San Mateo Junior College. At that time, there were a number of abandoned buildings still standing in Purissima. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heads up to our question asker, Julia: The Ocean Shore Railroad, which took locals up to San Francisco and back in the early 20th century, did include a stop here. Highway 1 used to run through here, until it didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I paid a visit to the San Mateo County archives in downtown Redwood City, where I read a student report on Purissima by Blair Hyde of San Mateo Junior College, written in 1939. Back then, the buildings were still standing, but Hyde explains that the people of Purissima gradually came to the inevitable conclusion that Half Moon Bay was the better place to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Coastside Land Trust owns much of what used to be the town. The 5-acre cemetery was acquired by Ed Bixby of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.steelmantowncemetery.com/purissima_cemetery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steelmantown Cemetery Company\u003c/a>, which has provided natural burials on the site for a number of years now, having cleared away enough poison oak to make space for them. There are now clear paths around the old gravestones, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11924300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11924300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A grave festooned with living, planted flowers and carefully arranged pinecones.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Photo-Aug-01-10-28-23-AM-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purissima Cemetery was acquired by the Steelmantown Cemetery Company, which provides natural burials in a number of cemeteries nationwide. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Once collected, all the weapons are melted down and disposed of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation mourns another round of mass shootings, hundreds of people showed up for the event and had various reasons for wanting to turn in their guns. Recent mass shootings in Oklahoma, New York and Texas have prompted citizens and politicians alike to renew their focus on gun control measures and violence prevention. According to the nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gun Violence Archive\u003c/a>, there have been at least 233 mass shootings in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Giacomini inherited an old hunting rifle from his grandfather and decided he wanted to get rid of the gun after he saw the news about the event.[aside postID=\"news_11899691,forum_2010101889376\" label=\"Related Post\"]“There could be an accident at home,” said Giacomini in the North County Courthouse parking lot in San Mateo. “One of my children could get access to it or something like that. I felt it was best and I don’t really hunt anymore, so it’s made sense to get rid of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne Clemons inherited two old rifles from his father-in-law when he and his wife moved into their home years ago. He decided to turn them in after there was a shooting in a park near his home last year in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whoever did the shooting didn't care about the kids out here and killed somebody,\" said Clemons. \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>I was watching the news this morning and I said, man, I got two [guns] back here. Might as well get rid of them. I don't use them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with sunglasses sits in his car with a fluffy steering wheel\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Clemons from East Palo Alto sits in his car waiting to turn in two guns, both inherited from his father-in-law, on June 4. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, people can be paid $100 to $200 depending on the type of gun. He says sometimes guns can be hard to let go of, but people are now extra aware of how dangerous they can be, and many people could use the extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose of the gun buyback program is to make the County of San Mateo safer for those who live and work here,\" said Bolanos. \"Many households in the county have unwanted, unused and unsecured guns. The purpose of the gun buyback is to get rid of guns, no questions asked. We are providing a place for people to come and dispose of them and get some money in return. We feel this will improve public safety in our county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event included the South San Francisco and San Bruno police departments as well as the Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback. There was also a gun buyback event in Marin County on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were very fortunate that this past year, the Board of Supervisors in San Mateo County were able to allocate a significant part of some Measure K funding to support these [events] through 2023,\" said Al Comolli, a member of Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback. \"We've had a great response.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback was formed in 2018 right after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to minimize the risk of gun-related suicides and gun violence in the county.\u003cem> \u003c/em>The five-member group contacted Sheriff Bolanos about creating a buyback program and began raising money in different cities to distribute at the events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional gun buyback events are planned for later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Annelise Finney, The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There could be an accident at home,” said Giacomini in the North County Courthouse parking lot in San Mateo. “One of my children could get access to it or something like that. I felt it was best and I don’t really hunt anymore, so it’s made sense to get rid of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wayne Clemons inherited two old rifles from his father-in-law when he and his wife moved into their home years ago. He decided to turn them in after there was a shooting in a park near his home last year in East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whoever did the shooting didn't care about the kids out here and killed somebody,\" said Clemons. \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>I was watching the news this morning and I said, man, I got two [guns] back here. Might as well get rid of them. I don't use them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with sunglasses sits in his car with a fluffy steering wheel\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56447_Image-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Clemons from East Palo Alto sits in his car waiting to turn in two guns, both inherited from his father-in-law, on June 4. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, people can be paid $100 to $200 depending on the type of gun. He says sometimes guns can be hard to let go of, but people are now extra aware of how dangerous they can be, and many people could use the extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose of the gun buyback program is to make the County of San Mateo safer for those who live and work here,\" said Bolanos. \"Many households in the county have unwanted, unused and unsecured guns. The purpose of the gun buyback is to get rid of guns, no questions asked. We are providing a place for people to come and dispose of them and get some money in return. We feel this will improve public safety in our county.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event included the South San Francisco and San Bruno police departments as well as the Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback. There was also a gun buyback event in Marin County on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were very fortunate that this past year, the Board of Supervisors in San Mateo County were able to allocate a significant part of some Measure K funding to support these [events] through 2023,\" said Al Comolli, a member of Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback. \"We've had a great response.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback was formed in 2018 right after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to minimize the risk of gun-related suicides and gun violence in the county.\u003cem> \u003c/em>The five-member group contacted Sheriff Bolanos about creating a buyback program and began raising money in different cities to distribute at the events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional gun buyback events are planned for later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Annelise Finney, The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha and Izzy Bloom visited a 38-acre farm in San Gregorio, 40 miles west of San José, to follow a new project aimed at returning land to the Ramaytush, the Indigenous people of the San Francisco Peninsula. The project is spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/\">Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group led by women of color, whose goal, according to its founder Rupa Marya, is to “heal the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We spoke with three of the women leading this land back effort.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a flat stick standing in field, behind the skull of an elk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6204-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramaytush elder Cata Gomes on the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm in San Gregorio on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Catalina Gomes: Ramaytush Indigenous elder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Catalina Gomes was growing up in San José, she knew very little about her Indigenous roots. Gomes said her mother and grandmother wanted to protect her from the “trauma that we’ve suffered in the last 400 years,” so they didn’t speak about their heritage. The only thing they told her when she was a child was that she was a 12th-generation Californian. But Gomes said she always had a strong intuition that this wasn’t the full story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young adult, Gomes learned she was descended from the Salinan Tribe, from the Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia coastal range. Then, four years ago, Gomes’s cousin unearthed records from the Spanish missions that revealed their family also has Ramaytush ancestry\u003cem>.\u003c/em> In those records, they discovered an ancestor named Muchia Te’. The Spanish recorded her baptismal date as Oct. 2, 1782, when she was about 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomes said she feels lucky to know Muchia Te’s Indigenous name, because it was common for the Spanish to record only the baptismal names of Indigenous people. Gomes is now creating a land trust, called the “Muchia Te’ Indigenous Land Trust,” named after her ancestors. The 38 acres of farmland, which are currently being held by \u003ca href=\"http://openspacetrust.org\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>, will soon be returned to Gomes and the Ramaytush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911825 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_doctors--scaled-e1650672672633.jpeg\" alt=\"People gather in a farm structure, next to boxes of potatoes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF pediatricians-in-training learn about Indigenous foods from farm director Jibril Kyser at the Ramaytush Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rupa Marya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 1, Deep Medicine Circle will officially rename the farm Te Kwe A’naa Warep, which means “honoring Mother Earth” in the Ramaytush language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the farm include harvesting traditional indigenous herbs and medicines, setting up an herbal apothecary, and farming nutritious, organic food that will be available, for free, to communities in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>“We’re here to heal the land, and the land is here to heal us. So it’s a copacetic relationship that we have with the land and the creatures here, the creek, the plants. We’re all here working together, struggling to bring forward a better future than what we’ve been exposed to. … We’re hoping to grow this project and expand and get other land to hopefully get another property that we could open a health center and have an alternative approach to healing our bodies that have been so traumatized after the last 400 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What brings her joy\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“It is bringing me great joy to have a positive goal to look forward to. … It’s been a complete change of my mindset to go from COVID being the focus, to focusing on this land, healing the land and having the land heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911821 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with long hair in what looks like a wooden barn playing guitar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1020x1365.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-160x214.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1148x1536.jpeg 1148w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1530x2048.jpeg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1920x2570.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-scaled.jpeg 1913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musician, physician and farmer Rupa Marya sowing seeds and songs in the barn at Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm. \u003ccite>(Bija Milagro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rupa Marya: executive instigator and founder of Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Rupa Marya was 5 years old, she told her kindergarten teacher that she wanted to be “a ballerina and a surgeon.” Even then, she had a strong desire to heal. Art, she said, was a way for her to process and digest her experiences. Through art, everything made sense to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya’s career path didn’t veer too far from the one she imagined for herself as a child: She’s now an activist, physician and musician — the lead singer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theaprilfishes.com/\">Rupa and the April Fishes\u003c/a>. The polyglot band performs original songs in French, Spanish, English and Hindi, ranging in genre from jazz to punk to reggae. Their music also highlights Indigenous rights and social justice issues, like police violence and racism in the medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 years ago, Marya, who also is an \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/rupa.marya\">associate professor of medicine\u003c/a> at UCSF, noticed many young people coming to see her with stomach problems, and she became fascinated with stool cultures. She made the connection between inflammation of the human gut and the way the soil and earth’s systems are “inflamed.” Marya sought to reject capitalist food systems by growing nutritious food to give away to oppressed groups, an effort that led her to create the nonprofit Deep Medicine Circle, which is managing the farm and oversees the Land Back Solidarity Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"land-back\"]The group is focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/restore\">growing organic, nutritious food\u003c/a> using a blend of agroecology and Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. It’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/nourish\">decommodifying food\u003c/a> by giving away what it grows to marginalized communities, partnering with organizations like the American Indian Cultural District and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in San Francisco. The group also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/heal\">invites health care workers\u003c/a> to visit the farm and heal from the trauma of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya also co-authored the book “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/inflamed-deep-medicine-and-the-anatomy-of-injustice/9780374602512\">Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/a>” with economist Raj Patel, exploring how the earth’s gut — our soil — is causing diseases in the human gut and affecting community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“I would like to turn around and look at these hills and see tule elk grazing. I would love to see beaver back on the land, and the creek full of salmon, and the creek healthy. I would love to know that that whole valley and watershed has eliminated all the synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that are harmful to the soil. I would love to see young people learning this work, and people from many different cultures coming together to learn about Ramaytush heritage and culture and land stewardship and this model of farming. I would love to see people coming there to participate in growing food for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What brings her joy\u003c/b>:\u003cbr>\n“Knowing that I’m participating with my family in a great awakening and a great healing. My children aren’t waiting until they’re 20 to learn the truth about what happened to these lands, and they’re actively engaged in participating in that healing work. … Being together in this work in community is probably one of the best feelings I’ve had in a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women with a cap standing outside next to a barn, and wearing a t-shirt that says 'Phenomenally Indigenous.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_6196-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage La Pena, Deep Medicine Circle’s director of traditional ecological knowledge and an Indigenous plant medicine doctor, at the Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm on Feb. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Sage La Pena: Nomtipom Wintu ethnobotanist and certified medicinal herbalist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she was a child, Sage La Pena began working with and learning from Mabel McKay, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiamuseum.org/inductee/mabel-mckay\">globally respected doctor and basket weaver \u003c/a>from the Pomo and Wintun tribes of Northern California. La Pena later discovered that what McKay had taught her also is considered “ethnobotany,” the study of traditional customs, and the medicinal, religious and other uses of plants, and went on to teach at the \u003ca href=\"https://cshs.com/\">California School of Herbal Studies\u003c/a>, founded by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me I was an herbalist, and I didn’t know what an herbalist was,” La Pena said. “I thought the knowledge that was given and passes through me now was the norm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pena now works with Deep Medicine Circle to preserve and pass on traditional ecological knowledge. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the farm include harvesting traditional indigenous herbs and medicines, setting up an herbal apothecary, and farming nutritious, organic food that will be available, for free, to communities in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>“We’re here to heal the land, and the land is here to heal us. So it’s a copacetic relationship that we have with the land and the creatures here, the creek, the plants. We’re all here working together, struggling to bring forward a better future than what we’ve been exposed to. … We’re hoping to grow this project and expand and get other land to hopefully get another property that we could open a health center and have an alternative approach to healing our bodies that have been so traumatized after the last 400 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What brings her joy\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“It is bringing me great joy to have a positive goal to look forward to. … It’s been a complete change of my mindset to go from COVID being the focus, to focusing on this land, healing the land and having the land heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11911821 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with long hair in what looks like a wooden barn playing guitar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-800x1071.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1020x1365.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-160x214.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1148x1536.jpeg 1148w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1530x2048.jpeg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-1920x2570.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/DMC_rupa-with-guitar-scaled.jpeg 1913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musician, physician and farmer Rupa Marya sowing seeds and songs in the barn at Te Kwe A’naa Warep farm. \u003ccite>(Bija Milagro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Rupa Marya: executive instigator and founder of Deep Medicine Circle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Rupa Marya was 5 years old, she told her kindergarten teacher that she wanted to be “a ballerina and a surgeon.” Even then, she had a strong desire to heal. Art, she said, was a way for her to process and digest her experiences. Through art, everything made sense to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya’s career path didn’t veer too far from the one she imagined for herself as a child: She’s now an activist, physician and musician — the lead singer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theaprilfishes.com/\">Rupa and the April Fishes\u003c/a>. The polyglot band performs original songs in French, Spanish, English and Hindi, ranging in genre from jazz to punk to reggae. Their music also highlights Indigenous rights and social justice issues, like police violence and racism in the medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 years ago, Marya, who also is an \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/rupa.marya\">associate professor of medicine\u003c/a> at UCSF, noticed many young people coming to see her with stomach problems, and she became fascinated with stool cultures. She made the connection between inflammation of the human gut and the way the soil and earth’s systems are “inflamed.” Marya sought to reject capitalist food systems by growing nutritious food to give away to oppressed groups, an effort that led her to create the nonprofit Deep Medicine Circle, which is managing the farm and oversees the Land Back Solidarity Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The group also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/heal\">invites health care workers\u003c/a> to visit the farm and heal from the trauma of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marya also co-authored the book “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/inflamed-deep-medicine-and-the-anatomy-of-injustice/9780374602512\">Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003c/a>” with economist Raj Patel, exploring how the earth’s gut — our soil — is causing diseases in the human gut and affecting community health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What she hopes this project will achieve\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“I would like to turn around and look at these hills and see tule elk grazing. I would love to see beaver back on the land, and the creek full of salmon, and the creek healthy. I would love to know that that whole valley and watershed has eliminated all the synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that are harmful to the soil. 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