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Every single week,” said Aisha Nizar, a Palestinian Youth Movement organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Palestinian Youth Movement press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers at Malcolm X Plaza on campus in San Francisco on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaley Skantz, OAK’s public information officer, said in a statement to KQED that the airport has no information about the contents of shipments by cargo carrier tenants and that all of FedEx’s flight and loading operations are carried out directly by FedEx employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that FedEx — which has recently faced criticism for its role in shipping military cargo — is the airport’s largest cargo carrier and accounts for most of the 1.1 billion pounds of air freight passing through annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most notable items listed in the shipping documents is the BRU-68, a bomb release unit made for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/pneumatic-single-carriage-and-release-systems\">F-35 Lightning II\u003c/a> and capable of dropping \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2020-08/l3harris-release-systems-product-catalog-sas.pdf\">2,000-pound bombs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the same bombs that we have seen destroy hospitals, churches, mosques. They have leveled entire refugee camps over these past two years,” Nizar said. “And it’s concerning to us because this is being flown out of a civilian airport in a city that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">one of the first cities to call for a ceasefire\u003c/a>.”[aside postID=news_12047968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-13-BL-KQED.jpg']On July 13, 2024, \u003ca href=\"http://aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/13/israeli-air-raid-on-al-mawasi-kills-90-people-what-we-know-so-far\">Israel bombed the al-Mawasi camp\u003c/a> in southern Gaza, where officials said two senior Hamas members were hiding. The local health ministry said the strike killed at least 90 people and injured hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the strike, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Minister of Defense at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/yoavgallant/status/1812505691652808883\">posted to social media\u003c/a> a photo with fighter pilots, seated in front of what appeared to be an F-35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other F-35 parts in the shipments included components used to “guide weapons, power surveillance and targeting systems, and support critical flight operations — all essential to sustaining the combat readiness of Israel’s Air Force,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are able to conclude, beyond reasonable doubt, that military cargo being shipped out of OAK has been used by the Israeli Air Force to carry out airstrikes and commit genocide in Gaza,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International human rights groups have sharply criticized Israel for what some describe as indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A United Nations special committee investigating Israeli practices cited the use of heavy bombs in a report last year, concluding that Israel’s campaign in Gaza is consistent with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Hamza Z. 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Israeli officials have also blamed Hamas for operating within population centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents reviewed by KQED, along with FedEx tracking data, show the cargo originated from the city of Tracy, home to a military equipment distribution depot operated by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dla.mil/Distribution/Locations/San-Joaquin/\">Defense Logistics Agency\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12052642 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GazaGetty.jpg']A 2021 post from the agency’s website said that, “Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, located in Tracy, California, was selected as the Wholesale Air Vehicle Storage and Distribution location for F-35 Lightning II aircraft parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers stressed that they were limited by information accessible through public or commercially available datasets and that the total number of shipments could be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation by Belgian news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/f-35-componenten-via-belgie-naar-israel-vredesactie-dient-klacht-in-strafbare-medewerking-aan-oorlogsmisdaden~b57ad7c0/?ref=ontheditch.com&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontheditch.com%2Ffedex-under-criminal-investigation%2F\">\u003cem>De Morgen\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesoir.be/684075/article/2025-06-26/une-plainte-contre-fedex-pour-des-cargaisons-suspectes-destination-disrael?ref=ontheditch.com\">\u003cem>La Soir\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported in June that FedEx transported F-35 parts through Belgium on their way to Israel. They also list Tracy as the origin of some of those shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, FedEx does not disclose customer shipment details,” FedEx wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PYM also examined a sample of 500 shipments to Israel routed through FedEx’s Global Superhub in Memphis, Tennessee, between April and June. Oakland was the second most frequent U.S. transit point, accounting for 16% of Israel-bound shipments, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency, consistency, and content of these shipments underscore Oakland’s role not as a peripheral transit point, but as a dependable conduit for critical military technologies,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling on Oakland officials to end these shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a history of standing against apartheid, standing against war. 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The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amazon is the county’s largest employer. Walmart, Target, Costco and other companies have built sprawling warehouse operations in Tracy due its proximity to larger markets and relatively more affordable land prices and workforce costs, according to Thomas Pogue, who directs the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That locational advantage has been key,” Pogue said. “With any sector growing, you need to make sure that there are good jobs being created and not increasing hazardous employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, semi-trailer trucks drove in and out of the fenced Safeway facility, which has several buildings. The property’s largest warehouse is the size of about 18 football fields, more than 1 million square feet, according to San Joaquin County Assessor’s Office records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DishesRestaurantGetty-1020x602.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway workers have suffered debilitating strains and sprains from manually lifting and throwing loads of up to 80 pounds or pulling hundreds of cases an hour, according to one current and one former employee interviewed by KQED. They recalled seeing men breaking bones, cutting their hands and forearms on equipment, and hitting their heads on sharp metal rack edges in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are injured while rushing to meet Safeway’s increasingly demanding production standards, but the company has refused to prevent serious injuries, said Phil Creamer, who worked nearly 30 years at the Tracy facility until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to go as fast as they can just to try to keep from getting fired, and that’s when they get injured,” said Creamer, now a Teamsters Local 439 business agent representing most drivers, selectors, loaders and other warehouse workers at the Safeway distribution center. “The shocking thing is, how do you own a facility like this and just ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we try to talk to [Safeway] about safety, they just brush us off. We keep telling them that we got massive injuries here at the facility,” he added. “It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safeway declined an interview with KQED. In a statement, a spokesperson said the company is committed to ensuring safety across all its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking this matter very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “While we disagree with the investigation’s outcome, we are collaborating with OSHA to address their concerns, including conducting a comprehensive review at our Tracy Distribution Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to comment on the facility’s injury rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators, Cal/OSHA, recently determined that Safeway’s work pace poses a danger, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-02.html#:~:text=Oakland%E2%80%94The%20Department%20of%20Industrial,company's%20warehouse%20in%20Tracy%2C%20their\">issuing $182,000 in proposed penalties\u003c/a> for dozens of safety violations at the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A months-long Cal/OSHA inspection found Safeway failed to correct hazards for warehouse workers and truck drivers and did not effectively train managers, supervisors and other employees on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that employers recognize the physical demands and potential dangers faced by warehouse workers and take measures to protect their safety,” Cal/OSHA Chief Debra Lee said in a Jan. 7 press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serious hazards outlined in the citation included workers manually throwing cases above pallet heights of nearly 6 feet high, handling excessively heavy loads, lacking adequate access to eye wash stations when handling toxic materials and being without sufficient cool-down areas during scorching summer days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Widess, who served as Cal/OSHA chief from 2011–13, said the high injury rate at Safeway’s Tracy distribution center was unacceptable and questioned whether the agency’s fines would compel the company to address unsafe practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry that those proposed penalties, even if they stand, are not enough of an incentive. There has to be a very serious change of corporate culture,” Widess told KQED. “It just looks like there is not adequate attention to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022402 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway, a division of Albertsons Companies, operates 290 stores across Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii under banners including Andronico’s, Safeway, Pak N’ Save and Vons. Albertsons reported a \u003ca href=\"https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-details/2024/Albertsons-Companies-Inc.-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Results/default.aspx\">net income\u003c/a> of $1.3 billion in 2023, according to the most recent full-year financial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, businesses with 100 or more warehouse employees are prohibited from enforcing production quotas so intense they lead to unsafe working conditions or prevent workers from taking meal or bathroom breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency enforcing that state law, the Labor Commissioner’s Office, could not confirm whether it is currently investigating Safeway’s facility due to confidentiality reasons, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA gave Safeway until Jan. 3 to fix eight serious violations and until Jan. 27 to correct all others cited at the Tracy facility. Safeway filed an intent to appeal the citation on Jan. 17, which would delay the deadlines until the case is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creamer and Padilla said they have not seen any recent changes to improve safety for the facility’s mostly Latino workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safeway just don’t care about you,” said Padilla, who takes pain medicine almost daily to manage his workday. “Safeway, all they care about is their money and their numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of two children, ages 9 and 4, said he struggles to push a lawnmower at home or help his wife lift grocery bags. He wishes to be more active in his kids’ basketball and softball teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m limited as far as what I can actually do,” Padilla said. “It’s really sad that this company knows what they’ve done and what they’re doing and treats their employees the way they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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He was transferred to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of his injuries, including a gunshot wound he suffered during a physical struggle with Pearsall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teen’s parents were in the courtroom, as were representatives of Pearsall’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap clarified that the teen would be held in San Francisco and would likely be sentenced in San Joaquin County, where he would face another unrelated charge. Dunlap couldn’t confirm what kind of gun was used in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged the teen with attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic weapon and attempted second-degree robbery. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:40 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenage boy suspected of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002674/san-francisco-49ers-player-ricky-pearsall-stable-after-shooting-during-attempted-robbery-police-say\">shooting San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall\u003c/a> near Union Square was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and other crimes, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempted murder charge carries a special allegation of the personal and intentional discharge of a firearm. The suspect, identified only as a 17-year-old boy from Tracy, also faces charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and attempted second-degree robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the charges will be filed in juvenile court, Jenkins said at an afternoon press conference, noting that California law requires prosecutors to request a judge to rule on a minor’s fitness to be tried in the adult system. Jenkins’ office is still reviewing the case as it considers whether to seek a transfer to adult court, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is still a very fresh investigation,” Jenkins said, calling it “premature” for her to say whether she believes the suspect should be tried as an adult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager is expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearsall, 23, was shot in the chest on Saturday afternoon and released from San Francisco General Hospital the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the rookie has been added to the non-football injury list, meaning he will not play in at least the 49ers’ first four games, his team has confirmed he is back in the weight room and will be expected on the field this season. At a press conference on Tuesday, general manager John Lynch called the recovery of the team’s first-round draft pick “nothing short of miraculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the grace of God, Ricky Pearsall is here with the team, and doing well,” Lynch said. “We just all feel incredibly blessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After appearing at an autograph signing earlier Saturday, Pearsall was walking to his car alone at 3:30 p.m., carrying shopping bags from one of Union Square’s luxury stores, when the suspect “spotted him for his expensive watch,” the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect approached Pearsall at gunpoint over the Rolex near the corner of Geary Street and Grant Avenue. Pearsall and the suspect struggled over the gun, and during the tussle, both were shot, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video recorded by witnesses shows Pearsall in a daze in front of the Diptyque store, shirtless with blood streaming down his chest and a large bandage over the wound, as paramedics help him into an ambulance. Both Pearsall and the suspected shooter were transferred to San Francisco General Hospital for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearsall’s mother posted on social media on Sunday that her son had been shot in the chest, with the bullet exiting his back and missing his vital organs. Pearsall’s wound did not require surgery, the 49ers confirmed in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said a gun was recovered at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who spoke with Pearsall about what happened, added it doesn’t appear Pearsall was targeted due to being an NFL player. Jenkins said Tuesday that it was not yet clear whether the suspect acted alone or with anyone else, adding that police were still reviewing surveillance video and other evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"criminal justice coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the San Francisco Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/sfpd-warns-public-about-high-value-watch-robberies-22-094\">warned\u003c/a> of thieves targeting individuals wearing luxury watches such as Rolexes valued at tens of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed noted that this kind of incident is rare, and thanked law enforcement and first responders. “We hope that people who think that they can come to San Francisco and commit these acts understand that they will be held to account,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack on Pearsall has renewed fears over crime despite city data showing declining rates — in the first quarter of 2024, property crime fell by 32%, violent crime by 14%, and gun violence by 38%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/san-francisco-2024-crime-rates-down-city-prepares-implement-new-voter-approved-public-safety\">according to the city\u003c/a>. On the day of the shooting, mayoral candidate Mark Farrell criticized Breed on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” he posted on X. “If we want public safety in San Francisco, then we need change in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell also referenced the Aug. 21 shooting of a Galileo High School student and the severe injury of a young girl in a shooting in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood the same day Pearsall was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell’s opponents quickly responded and called the move to politicize the shooting “crass” and “opportunistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about public safety have remained a top issue for voters, and such a high-profile shooting in broad daylight threatens to become a public relations disaster as San Francisco struggles to rehabilitate the image of downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said she did not want to make an example of any case but argued she was elected district attorney “in large part because the city was fed up with the fact that crime was being overly tolerated.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I have attempted to make it clear that there will be accountability when people commit crimes, most certainly serious crimes of this nature,” she said. “Regardless of the status of the victim, my office’s job is to ensure that we have appropriate consequences, and I do want it to spread far and wide that that will be the case when something happens in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a> and Billy Cruz contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Members of the Sikh community are asking the FBI to investigate the death of a 64-year-old man killed during a nighttime walk in Gretchen Talley Park in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parmjit Singh was wearing his turban when he was fatally stabbed on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the seventh attack on an elderly, turban-wearing Sikh man since 2011 in the Central Valley and Northern California region,” said Amrith Kaur, legal director of the Sikh Coalition, a civil rights organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing came only a month after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article233171326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assault on a priest\u003c/a> at a Sikh Temple in Hughson (Stanislaus County), about a half-hour’s drive from Tracy. The priest said a masked person broke two windows of his home on temple property, punched him and told him to go back to his country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other incidents of violence against Sikh men took place in the Central Valley last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2018, two teenagers in Manteca — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/sikh-hate-crime-turban.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including the son of the police chief\u003c/a> — were charged with attacking, knocking to the ground, kicking and spitting on 71-year-old Sahib Singh Natt, whose turban was knocked off. Police say robbery was the motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2018, 50-year-old Surjit Malhi \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/sikh-hate-crime-turban.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was attacked in Turlock\u003c/a> while putting up political campaign signs. He was ambushed by two men who beat him and spray-painted a neo-Nazi symbol on his truck. No arrests have been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we look to learn more, we expect that local law enforcement will continue to investigate this case thoroughly, including the possibility that bias was a motivating factor in his murder,” Kaur said, referring to Parmjit Singh’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basim Elkarra, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sacval/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAIR-Sacramento,\u003c/a> released a statement standing in solidarity and urging witnesses to come forward. Elkarra urged community members to report any bias incidents to law enforcement and to CAIR-Sacramento Valley at 916-441-6269 or by \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/cairsvreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing a report. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11771049 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“People from all over came to show there support, from Modesto to Sacramento people showed up,” Raj Singh said of the vigil on Aug. 28, 2019 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sikhs of Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that hate crime charges be brought” when the killer is caught, said Megan Daly, spokeswoman for a global human rights advocacy group, United Sikhs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report by the California Attorney General’s Office\u003c/a>, records show hate crimes have jumped roughly 44% from 2014 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a community meeting in Tracy, some elderly people questioned if it was safe to go to the park. Local law enforcement stated that a hate crime has not been ruled out, but that it cannot be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not let this one incident affect how we feel about Tracy, and Tracy is a very safe, very family-friendly, and very diverse city,” said Jass Sangha, an organizer within the Sikh community at Monday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have not determined a motive for the Sunday attack but said they were looking into all possibilities. On Monday, they released video of a man who was seen running in the park area around the time of the stabbing, and asked for public help in identifying him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, investigators haven’t determined whether the man is connected to the killing, police said. The video was taken from a nearby elementary school. Surveillance cameras at the park haven’t worked for years because they were installed by a neighborhood watch group that has since disbanded, police told KXTV-TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38872_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0006-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members come together to remember Parmjit Singh at a vigil on Aug. 28, 2019 in Tracy, California \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sikhs of Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Singh came to the United States three years ago from India to stay with family in Tracy. He had two children and three grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sikh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a terrible time for the family. It’s a big loss for us,” Singh’s son-in-law, Harnek Singh Kang, told The Associated Press Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He described Singh as a good man who was involved with the Sikh community and was well-liked among neighbors of all religions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh was “one of the happiest men,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh walked 2 miles a day and was killed during his routine nighttime stroll, his son-in-law said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other community members recalled Parmjit Singh fondly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always see that gentleman. He’s very friendly. He always waves at everybody,” neighbor Marlo Soria told KXTV-TV. “It’s sad. We come to this park to bring our dogs. Just to even think that something like this could happen, right here where we live, is scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Parmjit Singh’s family announced that they will give $20,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tracy police ask that anyone with any information contact Detective Camillo Swiger at (209) 831-6648 or Detective Jarrod Jesser at (209) 831-6640; the Police Department at (209) 831-6550; or Tracy Crime Stoppers at (209) 831-4847 to remain anonymous. Tips can also be sent by text to 274637 (CRIMES), then write “TIPTPD” plus your message.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Members of the Sikh community are asking the FBI to investigate the death of a 64-year-old man killed during a nighttime walk in Gretchen Talley Park in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parmjit Singh was wearing his turban when he was fatally stabbed on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the seventh attack on an elderly, turban-wearing Sikh man since 2011 in the Central Valley and Northern California region,” said Amrith Kaur, legal director of the Sikh Coalition, a civil rights organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing came only a month after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article233171326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assault on a priest\u003c/a> at a Sikh Temple in Hughson (Stanislaus County), about a half-hour’s drive from Tracy. The priest said a masked person broke two windows of his home on temple property, punched him and told him to go back to his country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other incidents of violence against Sikh men took place in the Central Valley last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2018, two teenagers in Manteca — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/sikh-hate-crime-turban.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including the son of the police chief\u003c/a> — were charged with attacking, knocking to the ground, kicking and spitting on 71-year-old Sahib Singh Natt, whose turban was knocked off. Police say robbery was the motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2018, 50-year-old Surjit Malhi \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/sikh-hate-crime-turban.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was attacked in Turlock\u003c/a> while putting up political campaign signs. He was ambushed by two men who beat him and spray-painted a neo-Nazi symbol on his truck. No arrests have been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we look to learn more, we expect that local law enforcement will continue to investigate this case thoroughly, including the possibility that bias was a motivating factor in his murder,” Kaur said, referring to Parmjit Singh’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basim Elkarra, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sacval/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAIR-Sacramento,\u003c/a> released a statement standing in solidarity and urging witnesses to come forward. Elkarra urged community members to report any bias incidents to law enforcement and to CAIR-Sacramento Valley at 916-441-6269 or by \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/cairsvreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing a report. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11771049 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38873_Sikh_IMG-20190829-WA0007-qut.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“People from all over came to show there support, from Modesto to Sacramento people showed up,” Raj Singh said of the vigil on Aug. 28, 2019 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sikhs of Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that hate crime charges be brought” when the killer is caught, said Megan Daly, spokeswoman for a global human rights advocacy group, United Sikhs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report by the California Attorney General’s Office\u003c/a>, records show hate crimes have jumped roughly 44% from 2014 to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a community meeting in Tracy, some elderly people questioned if it was safe to go to the park. Local law enforcement stated that a hate crime has not been ruled out, but that it cannot be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not let this one incident affect how we feel about Tracy, and Tracy is a very safe, very family-friendly, and very diverse city,” said Jass Sangha, an organizer within the Sikh community at Monday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have not determined a motive for the Sunday attack but said they were looking into all possibilities. On Monday, they released video of a man who was seen running in the park area around the time of the stabbing, and asked for public help in identifying him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, investigators haven’t determined whether the man is connected to the killing, police said. The video was taken from a nearby elementary school. 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"content": "\u003cp>PLAYlive Nation, a nightclub-style video game lounge, is one big, dark room with club music playing in the background. Flat-screen televisions line the walls of the room with Xbox gaming systems plugged into each one. There's a big, comfortable chair for each television. Almost every screen is taken up by someone playing Fortnite. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a PLAYlive Nation lounge in Tracy, California, hosted its first Fortnite tournament and sold out. Hundreds of players bought tickets to play against each other and win prizes. Matt Harris runs the Tracy branch. He says he's been holding tournaments every few weeks ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seems like everybody wants to play it,\" he says. \"Even if I just mention it, people are like, 'Yeah! I'll play that!' versus trying to let people know about the other games we have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortnite is a cross-platform game, played on computers, gaming consoles and smartphones. The game's premise is simple: players sit in a flying bus which moves across a map. The player can drop down onto the map at any time and enter onto a battlefield. The player then has approximately 20 to 25 minutes to build fortresses, find supplies and kill other players until the last man is standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its release in September 2017, Fortnite has caused a major stir in the video gaming world by transforming casual video game players into avid ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joost van Dreunen is the CEO of Superdata Research, a video game analytics firm. He explains that most shooter games are serious and simulate violence. Fortnite, he says, is more like a friendly game of tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more colorful, it has a more tongue-and-cheek aesthetic to it. It's cartoony. So for all of those reasons, it's much more accessible and much more friendly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His company estimates the game has made about $223 million across all platforms in March alone. In lifetime sales, it had made about $614 million. The game is free to play, but Epic Games, the company which owns Fortnite, makes that money in micro-transactions. Players can spend real money to make cosmetic changes to their characters in the game. They can buy things like skins, which are like costumes, for their characters or e-motes — special dances their characters can do after winning or killing another player in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Garrett is a player from Athens, Georgia. She says she has spent about $70 on the game since downloading it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's always just so many fun skins that come out that are limited edition and you don't know if they'll be out again. Sometimes I just feel too tempted,\" Garrett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is her first shooting game. Before playing Fortnite, she says she had never been one to spend hours on a game. Now, Garrett plays for two to three hours a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett says she was initially attracted to the game because it didn't require much skill to win a round. \"And it's such a short match that you just get to go in and do it again,\" Garrett says. \"It doesn't take months to get that feeling of winning.\" When she's not playing, she watches other people play on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11661396\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch\u003c/a>, a streaming service specifically for video games. Garrett says she especially likes to watch the gamer Ninja's streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninja, the gamer name taken by 26-year-old Tyler Blevins, is now a legend in the Fortnite world. He's a master at the game and rocketed into popularity after playing in an online battle with rap artists Drake and Travis Scott on March 14. That battle has been watched more than 9 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4hk1jPRSrM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's what has been illuminating about the game — everyone seems to like playing it, from celebrities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/10/601072219/ohio-teacher-will-use-fortnite-video-game-in-final-exam\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high school teachers\u003c/a>. Harris from PLAYlive Nation says he can see that large demographic in the people who want to play Fortnite at his lounge, like Wissali Holman and her husband Skyla. They decided to join the tournament as a fun date night idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually walked by with my sister and I saw people playing Fortnite from outside and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, my husband would love this place!' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Married couples aren't a rarity, explains Harris. \"It goes anywhere from, on average, a 7-year-old all the way up to an adult. And it's pretty balanced, male to female as well,\" he says. \"It just seems to have kind of brought a lot of people together under one platform, which generally doesn't happen in the gaming genre.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Dreuner from Superdata Research says the attention Fortnite has been getting is similar to the attention Pokemon Go got two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time you have these breakout successes, there's a lot that goes on and a lot of attention on it for a few months, but these things persist,\" Van Dreuner says. \"In many ways, this is not just, 'Here's life and let's take a side road.' No. This is what life will be like. Gamers are fundamental to new behaviors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Dreuner believes gamers act as a \"canary in the coalmine\" for understanding online and digital consumption — so perhaps Fortnite is less of a wave and more a milestone for how mass consumption of entertainment is shifting toward normalizing video game play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 Capital Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mariela Zepeda is on the clock, time is precious. Zepeda works quickly, her nimble fingers grabbing everything from bottles of pills to boxes of condoms. She’s employed as a “picker” at a CVS distribution center in Patterson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything she picks, she packs into crates, which then get shipped to CVS stores around Northern California. The items end up on store shelves, ready for customers to purchase and start the whole cycle over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQnt95QGtbY#action=share\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zepeda is one of thousands of workers in the Central Valley who labor in the distribution industry. The business sector is booming, in part due to the growth of online retailer Amazon and its commitment to delivering consumer goods to your doorstep at ever faster speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local governments have welcomed the boost in employment, and they are even investing in training to prepare young people to take the new jobs. But there are questions about whether these jobs pay enough to be long-term solutions for local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s heavy work but it definitely beats fast food chains.’ \u003ccite>Mariela Zepeda, CVS pick selector\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Zepeda, for one, has aspirations beyond the distribution and logistics industry. She’s studying to be a history professor. In the meantime, she said the job at the warehouse “is heavy work but it definitely beats fast food chains or anything like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, Zepeda said, pay is better. She makes $14.79 an hour. For entry-level distribution jobs, companies advertise starting wages of $12 to $14, sometimes with benefits. They also tout the opportunities to advance within the distribution center, potentially into management positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson has about a dozen distribution centers nestled alongside Interstate 5. There’s one for Grainger, Kohl’s, Restoration Hardware and Amazon. The town, like others nearby, is betting on the industry, hoping it will provide jobs for future generations. Philip Alfano is superintendent of the Patterson Joint Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically we’ve been an agricultural-based economy,” Alfano said. “With our proximity to the Port of Oakland and rail lines, we’re now emerging as a logistics and supply chain hub.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has the jobs to prove it. Since 2000, warehouse and transport jobs like trucking in Stanislaus County more than doubled, from 4,000 to over 9,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the question was, who is going to take those jobs?” Alfano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson residents, Alfano hopes. That’s why he helped start a vocational program at Patterson High to train kids for the jobs. The district used state grant funds, and chipped in its own money to build a model warehouse, complete with virtual reality forklift simulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495467\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 527px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11495467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Hilario Garcia tries to prepare a student for forklift work at a distribution center. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teacher Hilario Garcia used to work in the distribution industry, and he gets choked up about his kids getting jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to be them,” Garcia said. “I was that guy in the back, wasn’t the greatest student in class. I didn’t know what I was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distribution helped Garcia get his start, and it is bringing in more entry-level jobs to an area where employment rates have lagged. But is the industry enough to sustain a community in the long term? Can workers afford a house nearby and support a family?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Tracy is grappling with these questions. It’s about 30 minutes north of Patterson and is another hub for distribution. The industry grew under Michael Maciel, Tracy’s mayor from the end of 2014 to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There were voices that said these aren’t the kind of jobs we want in Tracy.’ \u003ccite>Michael Maciel, former mayor of Tracy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He represented a strategy of taking “advantage of this growing segment of the economy,” Maciel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now though, he said, Tracy’s City Council has started taking a more critical approach to the industry. “In the council there were voices that said these aren’t the kind of jobs we want in Tracy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelley Burcham is Tracy’s economic development manager. “We know that there are citizens that require these entry-level jobs, or that’s their skill set, but we want to up the game,” Burcham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope is to lure industries with better-paying jobs — sectors like tech or high-skilled manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burcham said a big problem right now in Tracy is that most of its community spends several hours commuting each day for work. Local jobs often do not compensate people enough to afford Tracy, which is on the outer edge of the Bay Area’s real estate crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[WarehouseEmploymentGraph]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 70 percent of our resident workforce actually commutes out of Tracy every day,” Burcham said. Where do they go? To better-paying jobs in Fremont, San Jose and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy’s City Council wanted to know how much a job would have to pay for someone to afford to live in the city. They called this a “head-of-household job.” After crunching the numbers on real estate prices and cost of living, they arrived at a figure of $72,000 a year. Most jobs at a distribution center don’t pay that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tracy tries to bring in higher-paying industries, the distribution business here continues to grow. Amazon just opened a second fulfillment center, and now it employs over 3,000 people between the two. In many ways the high-profile company has become the face of the distribution boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local newspapers track the company’s growth and expansion plans. Local politicians debate the quality of jobs and the potential impact of automation. Residents speculate how the future of shopping will affect their own local retail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inside a Distribution Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s two squat complexes spread out over large grassy lots in what was once expansive, unbroken agricultural land. As soon as you pass into the building, you are enveloped in sound. Noises made by human workers and machines ricochet off concrete and metal into an indistinguishable industrial din, punctuated occasionally by the beep of a forklift backing up.[contextly_sidebar id=”5g2sjFaPgyFc8yyI1ugVam2CG8bedBTn”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conveyor belts compose the base of this droning. They snake around the entire building, taking abrupt turns, spiraling from ceiling to floor, alternating from metal rollers to long treadmills, speeding up, slowing down, crisscrossing and finally converging like lanes on a large and complex freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An endless stream of brown boxes ride these pathways, traveling from human — the pickers who fill them with items — to the bays of trucks waiting outside. Many will take the same roads as commuters of Tracy, away from the Central Valley to the ranks of consumers in the urban centers of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Robinson, an Amazon spokeswoman, said the jobs at the fulfillment centers may not be long-term solutions for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely we acknowledge that for some folks a job here at Amazon may be a lifelong career path, and for others it might be the step that they need between step one and, you know, step three,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tracy fulfillment center has a classroom and a career program to help workers find jobs at Amazon or even elsewhere. 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The district used state grant funds, and chipped in its own money to build a model warehouse, complete with virtual reality forklift simulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495467\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 527px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11495467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/DC_8-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Hilario Garcia tries to prepare a student for forklift work at a distribution center. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teacher Hilario Garcia used to work in the distribution industry, and he gets choked up about his kids getting jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to be them,” Garcia said. “I was that guy in the back, wasn’t the greatest student in class. 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The industry grew under Michael Maciel, Tracy’s mayor from the end of 2014 to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There were voices that said these aren’t the kind of jobs we want in Tracy.’ \u003ccite>Michael Maciel, former mayor of Tracy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He represented a strategy of taking “advantage of this growing segment of the economy,” Maciel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now though, he said, Tracy’s City Council has started taking a more critical approach to the industry. “In the council there were voices that said these aren’t the kind of jobs we want in Tracy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelley Burcham is Tracy’s economic development manager. “We know that there are citizens that require these entry-level jobs, or that’s their skill set, but we want to up the game,” Burcham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope is to lure industries with better-paying jobs — sectors like tech or high-skilled manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burcham said a big problem right now in Tracy is that most of its community spends several hours commuting each day for work. Local jobs often do not compensate people enough to afford Tracy, which is on the outer edge of the Bay Area’s real estate crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[WarehouseEmploymentGraph]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 70 percent of our resident workforce actually commutes out of Tracy every day,” Burcham said. Where do they go? To better-paying jobs in Fremont, San Jose and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy’s City Council wanted to know how much a job would have to pay for someone to afford to live in the city. They called this a “head-of-household job.” After crunching the numbers on real estate prices and cost of living, they arrived at a figure of $72,000 a year. Most jobs at a distribution center don’t pay that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tracy tries to bring in higher-paying industries, the distribution business here continues to grow. Amazon just opened a second fulfillment center, and now it employs over 3,000 people between the two. In many ways the high-profile company has become the face of the distribution boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local newspapers track the company’s growth and expansion plans. Local politicians debate the quality of jobs and the potential impact of automation. Residents speculate how the future of shopping will affect their own local retail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inside a Distribution Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s two squat complexes spread out over large grassy lots in what was once expansive, unbroken agricultural land. As soon as you pass into the building, you are enveloped in sound. Noises made by human workers and machines ricochet off concrete and metal into an indistinguishable industrial din, punctuated occasionally by the beep of a forklift backing up.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conveyor belts compose the base of this droning. 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Many will take the same roads as commuters of Tracy, away from the Central Valley to the ranks of consumers in the urban centers of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Robinson, an Amazon spokeswoman, said the jobs at the fulfillment centers may not be long-term solutions for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely we acknowledge that for some folks a job here at Amazon may be a lifelong career path, and for others it might be the step that they need between step one and, you know, step three,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tracy fulfillment center has a classroom and a career program to help workers find jobs at Amazon or even elsewhere. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 158px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/img_2345/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93745\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93745 \" title=\"Pint-Sized Biker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/IMG_2345-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family fun – or environmental threat on wheels? Jun Bato’s 5-year-old son is one of many children you’ll spot on the trails of Carnegie SVRA. (KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be. Take, for example, the story of \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1172\">Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour’s drive east of San Francisco, Carnegie draws motorcyclists from all over the western United States to tear up and down its hills. The challenge is pretty obvious—climb about 500 feet in a matter of seconds without losing control of your vehicle. It looks exhilarating—and terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Outlet for Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Majidy of Piedmont loves to come here. He rides a Honda CR 250 dirt bike, and he notes many of the biggest names in the sport have come to Carnegie, too, including California-grown greats like Modesto’s Kenny Roberts and Berkeley’s Brad Lackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many parents who frequent Carnegie, Majidy says the promise of a weekend on dirt bikes is an excellent way to encourage kids (especially boys) to behave at home. “Even though we don’t come out here very often,” Majidy says, “it just motivates them to have something to look forward to other than, you know, playing video games and watching TV all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Diablo Range park is most accessible to motorcycles, other four-wheelers such as sand rails, razors and military jeeps also ply Carnegie’s territory. The state purchased this stretch of 1,300 acres from a private operator in 1979. In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She’s quick to say he’s not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: “It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. “When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,” she says. “Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There’s no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont’s Tesla Motors–except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, “It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining ‘sustainable’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS’ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,” Caldera explains. “These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. As long as we’re monitoring it and identifying that, it’s sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just to be clear, “sustainable” doesn’t mean sustainable for flora and fauna, so much as it means the soil isn’t eroding down the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/carnegiegrooves/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93929\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/CarnegieGrooves-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Caldera talks, there’s no escaping the visual of deep grooves worn into the hillsides behind him. But the hills outside the park also show evidence of human interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Mead of Concord comes here on a regular basis with her family, including her 18-year-old son, Logan, who’s become a top competitor on the hill-climb circuit. She’s also an organizer with CORVA, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corva.org/\">California Off Road Vehicle Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on the Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that ranchers have remade the local landscape. With the naked eye, you can see how nibbling grazers in the area have worn ridges of their own into the hills, (albeit soft horizontal ones that grass grows over quickly). Those small clutches of oak trees surrounded by green in winter, yellow in summer? That’s a new vista, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wide open vistas are not indigenous to this area,” Mead says. “They’re that way because of the cattle. It’s beautiful, but let’s understand: There’s all kinds of human activity that impacts our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yes, she acknowledges, motorbike trails tear up the hillsides and some of her fellow Californians might find that “abhorrent. I understand that when you see that trail, that that viscerally bothers you in the pit of your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she pointed out that ranching carries a cost, too. “I find what cattle do to our water systems to be abhorrent,” she said. “But I’m not a vegetarian, so I kind of understand we need to manage this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mead argues off-roaders are trying to operate inside the boundary lines set by the law, the \u003ca href=\"http://ca.regstoday.com/law/prc/ca.regstoday.com/laws/prc/calaw-prc_DIVISION5_CHAPTER1p25.aspx\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act of 1988\u003c/a>. Garamendi counters the law needs to be reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, there will be a series of public meetings over Carnegie’s environmental impact report and \u003ca href=\"http://carnegiegeneralplan.com/\">general plan\u003c/a>. The process is expected to wrap up by the end of the year—but that just means the state parks’ Off-Highway Division will then be free to start the approval process with the general parks leadership, the state Finance Department and state lawmakers. That could take another three to four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear the story as it sounded on The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She’s quick to say he’s not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: “It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. “When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,” she says. “Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There’s no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont’s Tesla Motors–except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, “It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining ‘sustainable’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS’ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,” Caldera explains. “These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. As long as we’re monitoring it and identifying that, it’s sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just to be clear, “sustainable” doesn’t mean sustainable for flora and fauna, so much as it means the soil isn’t eroding down the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/carnegiegrooves/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93929\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/CarnegieGrooves-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Caldera talks, there’s no escaping the visual of deep grooves worn into the hillsides behind him. But the hills outside the park also show evidence of human interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Mead of Concord comes here on a regular basis with her family, including her 18-year-old son, Logan, who’s become a top competitor on the hill-climb circuit. She’s also an organizer with CORVA, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corva.org/\">California Off Road Vehicle Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on the Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that ranchers have remade the local landscape. With the naked eye, you can see how nibbling grazers in the area have worn ridges of their own into the hills, (albeit soft horizontal ones that grass grows over quickly). Those small clutches of oak trees surrounded by green in winter, yellow in summer? That’s a new vista, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wide open vistas are not indigenous to this area,” Mead says. “They’re that way because of the cattle. It’s beautiful, but let’s understand: There’s all kinds of human activity that impacts our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yes, she acknowledges, motorbike trails tear up the hillsides and some of her fellow Californians might find that “abhorrent. I understand that when you see that trail, that that viscerally bothers you in the pit of your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she pointed out that ranching carries a cost, too. “I find what cattle do to our water systems to be abhorrent,” she said. “But I’m not a vegetarian, so I kind of understand we need to manage this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mead argues off-roaders are trying to operate inside the boundary lines set by the law, the \u003ca href=\"http://ca.regstoday.com/law/prc/ca.regstoday.com/laws/prc/calaw-prc_DIVISION5_CHAPTER1p25.aspx\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act of 1988\u003c/a>. Garamendi counters the law needs to be reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, there will be a series of public meetings over Carnegie’s environmental impact report and \u003ca href=\"http://carnegiegeneralplan.com/\">general plan\u003c/a>. The process is expected to wrap up by the end of the year—but that just means the state parks’ Off-Highway Division will then be free to start the approval process with the general parks leadership, the state Finance Department and state lawmakers. That could take another three to four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear the story as it sounded on The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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