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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irst, Dan Harberts heard the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At home on Atlas Peak Road, on a hillside overlooking the Napa Valley, he noticed the breeze rising all evening after a beautiful October day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started picking up to the point where as we got into bed, branches were falling on the roof and making a racket,” Harberts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour or so later, for no reason he can explain, Harberts climbed out of bed to take a look outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t hear anything, I didn’t see anything,” he says. “I just got up. 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But he immediately encountered neighbors who said the fire was blocking the road in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an anxious hour or so, Harberts and his family wondered whether help would come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688343\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11688343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/danharberts1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park owner Dan Harberts. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, a man in a California Highway Patrol flight suit appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I got out of my car,” Harberts says. “I ran up to him and said, ‘I’ve got a 97-year-old mother. 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The next morning, a family friend made it through police lines — and found the truck intact and the dog waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He looked in the window, and there’s Drake, saying, ‘Why did you leave me?’ ” Harberts says. “And he was perfectly fine. Perfectly fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/PrA5mCFRcgg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat happy ending has an extra poignancy in Harberts’ case. He has spent the better part of his 66 years attending to the special needs of thousands and thousands of Bay Area pet owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He owns and runs Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park — yes, a pet cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a documentary film fanatic, the name might be familiar. That’s because Bubbling Well was featured in the widely celebrated “\u003ca href=\"http://www.errolmorris.com/film/gates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gates of Heaven\u003c/a>,” the first feature by filmmaker Errol Morris, released 40 years ago this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie captures Bubbling Well and the Harberts family in the park’s early years. The cemetery was created by Dan’s father, the late John Calvin Harberts, an entrepreneur who thought he detected a new need in a society that was placing a new importance on four-legged family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Harberts says he was a student at Chico State in the early 1970s when he got a phone call from his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he said, ‘Son, I’ve got an idea. 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He expected it to continue long into the future, and it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even immediately after the Atlas Peak fire, the pet cemetery’s well-watered landscaping was verdant and looked largely untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Dan Harberts pointed out on a recent tour of the grounds, whatever could burn at Bubbling Well, did. The cemetery’s business office, chapel and workshop were all destroyed. So was Harberts’ home, along with two other residences on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688345\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/41491428445_39ea9ce81c_k-e1534980821124.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11688345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/41491428445_39ea9ce81c_k-1020x1289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"809\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sculpture at Napa’s Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park, which suffered damage from the Atlas Peak fire in October 2017. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the cemetery, which works with more than three hundred veterinarians and clinics in Northern California to handle recently deceased dogs, cats and other pets, has continued to operate from a temporary office several miles away in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of pet owners who have pre-need arrangements where they have burial sites that they’ve already purchased,” Harberts says. “We have people who want to bury their pets here, so we’re having to drive back and forth to do the business up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding has been slow. 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He has spent the better part of his 66 years attending to the special needs of thousands and thousands of Bay Area pet owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He owns and runs Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park — yes, a pet cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a documentary film fanatic, the name might be familiar. That’s because Bubbling Well was featured in the widely celebrated “\u003ca href=\"http://www.errolmorris.com/film/gates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gates of Heaven\u003c/a>,” the first feature by filmmaker Errol Morris, released 40 years ago this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie captures Bubbling Well and the Harberts family in the park’s early years. 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He expected it to continue long into the future, and it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even immediately after the Atlas Peak fire, the pet cemetery’s well-watered landscaping was verdant and looked largely untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Dan Harberts pointed out on a recent tour of the grounds, whatever could burn at Bubbling Well, did. The cemetery’s business office, chapel and workshop were all destroyed. 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"content": "\u003cp>A few months ago, I was offered the opportunity to film the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831648/kelly-johnson-former-berkeley-symphony-director-chooses-to-end-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last days\u003c/a> of Kelly Johnson’s life. I did not know him. I did not know how or why the date of his death was predetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told to show up the next morning at Peet’s in The Fillmore. Then I’d walk half a block with my equipment to a beautiful blue Victorian overlooking Fillmore Street where he’d lived since 1969. After climbing two flights of stairs, each step creaking with antiquity, I entered the top flat. I followed an oxygen tube strewn across the carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance. It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Kelly Johnson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson sat on his red couch, calmly staring out the window, as I approached with my camera in hand. A smile stretched across his face as he greeted me. He was ready for his close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I only met Kelly during the last two weeks of his life, but came to feel as if I had known him longer than I’ve been alive. His spirit was unrestrained. But his body was incapacitated, tethered to his oxygen concentrator and restricted to a walker and, at the end, a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My body has given out,” he said. “You take away my medication, my oxygen, and I’ll be dead by sundown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 75 years old, Kelly's breathing was labored and his body wracked with arthritis. He was terminally ill with pulmonary disease. After several years of declining health, barely able to leave his apartment, he began planning his death. On May 7 of this year, Kelly Johnson died after invoking California’s aid-in-dying law — a memory I cannot erase.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/412308225924469/\">Screening of 'A Dance With Death'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1920x1080.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for the 24-minute film by Arash Malekzadeh.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A screening of a longer version of \"A Dance With Death\" will be held on \u003cstrong>Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre\u003c/strong>, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh and Kelly Johnson's daughter Leda Meredith. Kim Nalley and Tammy Hall will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tickets available \u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/clay-theatre/film-info/a-dance-with-death?attributes=165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686334/a-lesson-in-how-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear a conversation\u003c/a> with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'The Bay'\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016, allowing terminally ill adults to be prescribed aid-in-dying medication under certain conditions. Patients must have the capacity to make medical decisions for themselves and self-administer the drug, either by eating, drinking or swallowing it. Pharmacies and physicians can opt out at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, about a week after Kelly passed, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669924/california-moves-to-defend-law-allowing-life-ending-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law was temporarily halted\u003c/a> by legal challenges. On June 15, a California appeals court reinstated the End of Life Option Act while those challenges make their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly came to his decision on the way to Peet’s, a community hub on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. He \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2017/01/02/kellys-corner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a regular there\u003c/a>, having spent countless mornings and afternoons cultivating friendships over cups of coffee and conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reached a point where people were coming and dragging me down to Peet’s, and I was just gasping for breath,” Kelly said. “There was nothing left of me.” He realized his patronage at Peet’s would soon come to a halt. “I got about three or four steps from my house and I just wanted to die,” he said. “I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Kelly performed with his sister on the vaudeville circuit in Chicago as a contortionist and tap dancer. When he moved to California as an adult in the late 1960s, he and his wife started the San Francisco Dance Theater on Fillmore Street — and changed the face of Bay Area dance in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, he shifted his focus after becoming executive director of the Berkeley Symphony, working alongside international greats such as conductor Kent Nagano, until his diminishing health pushed him toward retirement. In the final stretch of his career, he became a concert pianist, embarking on a tour of retirement communities in Northern California, playing classical piano concerts and composing original music of his own. Earlier this year, he issued a final album of ballet music he wrote and performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686196 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1200x914.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1180x898.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-520x396.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Johnson in 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve managed to produce something that I’ve loved until the very end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kellyjohnson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an entertainer at heart\u003c/a>. He’d arranged countless performances throughout his life and was determined to orchestrate his own death — the grand finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance,” he said. “It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I documented his final weeks, I witnessed a person truly coming to peace with the end of his life. Kelly spent his evenings in the intimate company of his friends, listening to private performances from various musical guests. The sounds of the piano and B3 organ, vocal melodies and clinking glasses floated through his living room window out into the night air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in my home, I’ve got live music, I’ve got a lot of people,” he said. “I can go to a nursing home and I’d have a chest at the end of my bed with all my belongings in it, with someone who’s prolonging my life in misery. But you don’t have to have a black period in your life. I don’t, and I’m very fortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I felt intrusive — following his final moments with a camera, recording private conversations and interactions. Yet Kelly didn’t mind. He wanted the world to hear his story and to know about the end-of-life option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly acknowledged that he could let his life naturally take its course, or take his chances by quitting the medication that was keeping him alive. But he was determined to choreograph exactly how he would leave the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy he can go the way he wants to,” said Leda Meredith, his daughter. “What the rest of us have to deal with, as far as grieving after the fact, is not his problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his last day, seven hours before his death, I followed Kelly on his final trip down to Peet’s. He was surrounded by his eclectic community of longtime companions and neighborhood friends, all eager to say their final goodbyes. On the wall was a newly hung portrait of him. He read from a brass plaque attached to the place where he often sat, engraved with the words “Kelly’s Corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his last day, Kelly Johnson was surrounded by friends at his favorite spot, the Peet's in The Fillmore. \u003ccite>(Arash Malekzadeh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'In loving remembrance of Kelly Johnson, Mayor of Peet’s and friend to all,'” he read aloud before the emotional crowd erupted in applause. After an hour of goodbyes, he retreated back to his home to prepare to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set up my tripod next to his baby grand piano. My lens peeked around the corner of the archway leading into his living room. I knew what to expect, although I couldn’t say I was ready. But Kelly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took his anti-nausea medication in preparation for the aid-in-dying drug. He sat with his daughter on his left and his best friend and neighbor on his right. He drank a rare tequila from India as he listened to a recording of himself playing Scriabin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 11. His hands jolted as his muscle memory played along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not perfect, but I love those pieces,” he said. “If anything musically is me, it’s those pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1020x1026.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1192x1200.jpg 1192w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1920x1932.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1180x1187.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-960x966.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-375x377.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-520x523.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Kelly on Fillmore\" by Anne Ruth Isaacson \u003ccite>(Anne Ruth Isaacson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the 40-minute composition ended, he was handed the aid-in-dying medication — 90 capsules of powder mixed with orange juice. He had two minutes before the concoction turned to sludge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think now my brain is telling me it’ll fade away peacefully and leave me with my friends,” Kelly said. “That’s my everlasting life. And I’m very happy, just very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his cue, the room filled with his most recent recording, Chopin’s Nocturne 21 B. With no hesitation, he quickly sipped the cocktail through an oversized straw. As the music fluttered through the speakers, his eyes settled shut in the embrace of his most beloved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was previously published in \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2018/05/31/the-final-days-of-kelly-johnson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Fillmore\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A screening of a longer version of\u003c/em> A Dance With Death \u003cem>will be held on Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre. More information can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/412308225924469/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh appeared on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686334/a-lesson-in-how-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13th episode of The Bay\u003c/a> to discuss his time spent with Kelly Johnson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few months ago, I was offered the opportunity to film the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831648/kelly-johnson-former-berkeley-symphony-director-chooses-to-end-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last days\u003c/a> of Kelly Johnson’s life. I did not know him. I did not know how or why the date of his death was predetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told to show up the next morning at Peet’s in The Fillmore. Then I’d walk half a block with my equipment to a beautiful blue Victorian overlooking Fillmore Street where he’d lived since 1969. After climbing two flights of stairs, each step creaking with antiquity, I entered the top flat. I followed an oxygen tube strewn across the carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance. It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Kelly Johnson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson sat on his red couch, calmly staring out the window, as I approached with my camera in hand. A smile stretched across his face as he greeted me. He was ready for his close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I only met Kelly during the last two weeks of his life, but came to feel as if I had known him longer than I’ve been alive. His spirit was unrestrained. But his body was incapacitated, tethered to his oxygen concentrator and restricted to a walker and, at the end, a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My body has given out,” he said. “You take away my medication, my oxygen, and I’ll be dead by sundown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 75 years old, Kelly's breathing was labored and his body wracked with arthritis. He was terminally ill with pulmonary disease. After several years of declining health, barely able to leave his apartment, he began planning his death. On May 7 of this year, Kelly Johnson died after invoking California’s aid-in-dying law — a memory I cannot erase.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/412308225924469/\">Screening of 'A Dance With Death'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1920x1080.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for the 24-minute film by Arash Malekzadeh.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A screening of a longer version of \"A Dance With Death\" will be held on \u003cstrong>Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre\u003c/strong>, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh and Kelly Johnson's daughter Leda Meredith. Kim Nalley and Tammy Hall will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tickets available \u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/clay-theatre/film-info/a-dance-with-death?attributes=165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686334/a-lesson-in-how-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear a conversation\u003c/a> with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'The Bay'\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016, allowing terminally ill adults to be prescribed aid-in-dying medication under certain conditions. Patients must have the capacity to make medical decisions for themselves and self-administer the drug, either by eating, drinking or swallowing it. Pharmacies and physicians can opt out at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, about a week after Kelly passed, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669924/california-moves-to-defend-law-allowing-life-ending-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law was temporarily halted\u003c/a> by legal challenges. On June 15, a California appeals court reinstated the End of Life Option Act while those challenges make their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly came to his decision on the way to Peet’s, a community hub on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. He \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2017/01/02/kellys-corner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a regular there\u003c/a>, having spent countless mornings and afternoons cultivating friendships over cups of coffee and conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reached a point where people were coming and dragging me down to Peet’s, and I was just gasping for breath,” Kelly said. “There was nothing left of me.” He realized his patronage at Peet’s would soon come to a halt. “I got about three or four steps from my house and I just wanted to die,” he said. “I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Kelly performed with his sister on the vaudeville circuit in Chicago as a contortionist and tap dancer. When he moved to California as an adult in the late 1960s, he and his wife started the San Francisco Dance Theater on Fillmore Street — and changed the face of Bay Area dance in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, he shifted his focus after becoming executive director of the Berkeley Symphony, working alongside international greats such as conductor Kent Nagano, until his diminishing health pushed him toward retirement. In the final stretch of his career, he became a concert pianist, embarking on a tour of retirement communities in Northern California, playing classical piano concerts and composing original music of his own. Earlier this year, he issued a final album of ballet music he wrote and performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686196 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1200x914.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1180x898.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-520x396.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Johnson in 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve managed to produce something that I’ve loved until the very end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kellyjohnson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an entertainer at heart\u003c/a>. He’d arranged countless performances throughout his life and was determined to orchestrate his own death — the grand finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance,” he said. “It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I documented his final weeks, I witnessed a person truly coming to peace with the end of his life. Kelly spent his evenings in the intimate company of his friends, listening to private performances from various musical guests. The sounds of the piano and B3 organ, vocal melodies and clinking glasses floated through his living room window out into the night air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in my home, I’ve got live music, I’ve got a lot of people,” he said. “I can go to a nursing home and I’d have a chest at the end of my bed with all my belongings in it, with someone who’s prolonging my life in misery. But you don’t have to have a black period in your life. I don’t, and I’m very fortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I felt intrusive — following his final moments with a camera, recording private conversations and interactions. Yet Kelly didn’t mind. He wanted the world to hear his story and to know about the end-of-life option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly acknowledged that he could let his life naturally take its course, or take his chances by quitting the medication that was keeping him alive. But he was determined to choreograph exactly how he would leave the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy he can go the way he wants to,” said Leda Meredith, his daughter. “What the rest of us have to deal with, as far as grieving after the fact, is not his problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his last day, seven hours before his death, I followed Kelly on his final trip down to Peet’s. He was surrounded by his eclectic community of longtime companions and neighborhood friends, all eager to say their final goodbyes. On the wall was a newly hung portrait of him. He read from a brass plaque attached to the place where he often sat, engraved with the words “Kelly’s Corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his last day, Kelly Johnson was surrounded by friends at his favorite spot, the Peet's in The Fillmore. \u003ccite>(Arash Malekzadeh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'In loving remembrance of Kelly Johnson, Mayor of Peet’s and friend to all,'” he read aloud before the emotional crowd erupted in applause. After an hour of goodbyes, he retreated back to his home to prepare to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set up my tripod next to his baby grand piano. My lens peeked around the corner of the archway leading into his living room. I knew what to expect, although I couldn’t say I was ready. But Kelly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took his anti-nausea medication in preparation for the aid-in-dying drug. He sat with his daughter on his left and his best friend and neighbor on his right. He drank a rare tequila from India as he listened to a recording of himself playing Scriabin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 11. His hands jolted as his muscle memory played along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not perfect, but I love those pieces,” he said. “If anything musically is me, it’s those pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1020x1026.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1192x1200.jpg 1192w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1920x1932.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1180x1187.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-960x966.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-375x377.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-520x523.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Kelly on Fillmore\" by Anne Ruth Isaacson \u003ccite>(Anne Ruth Isaacson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the 40-minute composition ended, he was handed the aid-in-dying medication — 90 capsules of powder mixed with orange juice. He had two minutes before the concoction turned to sludge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think now my brain is telling me it’ll fade away peacefully and leave me with my friends,” Kelly said. “That’s my everlasting life. And I’m very happy, just very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his cue, the room filled with his most recent recording, Chopin’s Nocturne 21 B. With no hesitation, he quickly sipped the cocktail through an oversized straw. As the music fluttered through the speakers, his eyes settled shut in the embrace of his most beloved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was previously published in \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2018/05/31/the-final-days-of-kelly-johnson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Fillmore\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A screening of a longer version of\u003c/em> A Dance With Death \u003cem>will be held on Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a cramped office in San Pablo, a group of health care providers work as fast as they can to treat a growing line of people seeking treatment. Already, at the break of dawn on this April morning, the line is spilling down the hall and out the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since LifeLong Medical Care opened in April 2015, the staff has grown used to long lines. The facility opened the same week that neighboring Doctors Medical Center (DMC), one of West Contra Costa County’s most relied-upon hospitals, closed its doors after years of financial strife.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If there’s a Nordstrom, there’ll be health care. Health care follows the dollar, simple as that.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Dr. Desmond Carson, LifeLong Medical Care\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Located directly across the street from the now-shuttered DMC, LifeLong is one of the few urgent care facilities left to serve more than 400,000 residents in Richmond and surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike DMC, LifeLong provides only urgent care, is not a full-service hospital and does not have an emergency department. When patients come in with life-threatening emergencies, LifeLong’s staff does their best to connect them to services elsewhere. But there aren’t many options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta Bates in Berkeley is 11 miles south and the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez is 16 miles to the east. The only other high-volume emergency option is John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, more than 20 miles away. Add in rush-hour traffic, and travel times from West Contra Costa County increase dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679813 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Graphic by Hao Guo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now that DMC is closed, the only emergency room left in the Richmond/San Pablo area is Kaiser’s Richmond Medical Center, a 50-bed hospital. In a statement, Kaiser reported a 50 percent increase in ER visits since DMC closed in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time is muscle,” said Dr. Desmond Carson, an urgent care physician at LifeLong. The farther that residents have to travel, Carson said, the worse their chances are of surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For East Bay residents, access to emergency care might soon be getting even harder to come by. In 2016, Sutter Health, which owns Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, announced it will close the emergency room and consolidate those services into its Oakland location at an unspecified time in the future. The Oakland facility is located 2.6 miles south of the Berkeley facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sutter Health explained that California’s seismic regulations require the Alta Bates campus to cease operating as a hospital by 2030. Aware of the community’s concerns, Sutter also assured that this transition won’t be abrupt either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11679810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo closed in 2015. (Bo Kovitz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Dr. Brian Potts, who runs the emergency department at Alta Bates, a planned transition that could take as long as 10 years will allow enough time to build the infrastructure necessary for what he projects to be the biggest emergency room in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transition will be worth it, said Potts, explaining that consolidating services under one roof, rather than having two separate emergency rooms miles apart, will improve quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the community fear the closure of Alta Bates’ emergency department is part of a similar story: hospital leaders more concerned with cost efficiency than providing care, no matter the cost. As a result, East Bay residents are facing life in a hospital desert. Gunshot wounds, delivering babies and heart attacks could become even more life-threatening when the move does happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harder you make it to get to that care, the more difficult it’s going to be and the more of a need it’s going to be,” said Marty Lynch, LifeLong’s CEO. “There’s no question that folks in Richmond and folks in San Pablo need a good system of emergency care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679816 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LifeLong Medical Care in San Pablo is one of the few urgent care facilities remaining in West Contra Costa County. (Bo Kovitz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Sullivan, a community leader in Richmond who fought to keep DMC open, found herself rushing her husband to the emergency room when he was shot in the streets last year. Doctors at Kaiser’s Richmond facility, she said, couldn’t operate on him and spent about 30 minutes determining which hospital to send him to. They finally came to the decision to send him to John Muir Medical Center, over 20 miles away in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, it was 5 p.m. It was bumper-to-bumper traffic, all the way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sullivan’s husband was lucky. If the bullet had pierced just a quarter of an inch in either direction, it would have hit a major artery, and he would have died long before they left town. Sullivan calls it a death sentence to be shot or hurt in Richmond. She said residents often don’t even bother to call the ambulance. “What’s the point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at other cities that have a hospital that’s sitting in their town. They’ve found the resources to go in and renovate the hospital and keep it there,” said Sullivan. “Hospitals lose the incentive to work through alternatives because it’s not financially lucrative to try to meet halfway for communities who are primarily Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMC, whose medical base was about 80 percent Medi-Cal recipients, closed after years of financial crisis brought on, in part, by this reimbursement model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679809\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679809 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Desmond Carson is a physician at LifeLong Medical Care in San Pablo. (Bo Kovitz) \u003ccite>(Bo Kovitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Desmond Carson, who worked at DMC for 15 years, said the hospital closed for a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a Nordstrom, there’ll be health care. Health care follows the dollar, simple as that,” he said. It’s not profitable, he added, to serve struggling black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariana Moore, a director at the nonprofit Richmond Community Foundation, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the reimbursement model from the federal level down to local hospitals that serve primarily Medi-Cal patients, it’s not a sustainable financial model,” said Moore. “These closures happen in communities that are people of color, that are low income, that have less political power, and it’s just the story of our country, as well as the story [Contra Costa County] in this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To LifeLong CEO Lynch and his staff, the memory of the DMC closure lingers every day at the urgent care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a long history of feeling that the community did not necessarily get served as it needed to be served,” Lynch said. “There’s a long history of feeling like, ‘Well, why was the county medical center built in Martinez (in 1998), far away from West Contra Costa.’ The community felt that was both a mistake and a conscious disregard for the needs of poor communities.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch remembers what DMC meant to this high-need community. Every day, he sees reminders of what the community lost: not just in the number of people crowded into his waiting room, but in the feeling that the community is not being heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Nuria Marquez Martinez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to include the distance between the Alta Bates Berkeley facility and the Oakland facility. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a cramped office in San Pablo, a group of health care providers work as fast as they can to treat a growing line of people seeking treatment. Already, at the break of dawn on this April morning, the line is spilling down the hall and out the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since LifeLong Medical Care opened in April 2015, the staff has grown used to long lines. The facility opened the same week that neighboring Doctors Medical Center (DMC), one of West Contra Costa County’s most relied-upon hospitals, closed its doors after years of financial strife.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If there’s a Nordstrom, there’ll be health care. Health care follows the dollar, simple as that.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Dr. Desmond Carson, LifeLong Medical Care\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Located directly across the street from the now-shuttered DMC, LifeLong is one of the few urgent care facilities left to serve more than 400,000 residents in Richmond and surrounding cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike DMC, LifeLong provides only urgent care, is not a full-service hospital and does not have an emergency department. When patients come in with life-threatening emergencies, LifeLong’s staff does their best to connect them to services elsewhere. But there aren’t many options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta Bates in Berkeley is 11 miles south and the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez is 16 miles to the east. The only other high-volume emergency option is John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, more than 20 miles away. Add in rush-hour traffic, and travel times from West Contra Costa County increase dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679813 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/2_map-of-ERs-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Graphic by Hao Guo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now that DMC is closed, the only emergency room left in the Richmond/San Pablo area is Kaiser’s Richmond Medical Center, a 50-bed hospital. In a statement, Kaiser reported a 50 percent increase in ER visits since DMC closed in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time is muscle,” said Dr. Desmond Carson, an urgent care physician at LifeLong. The farther that residents have to travel, Carson said, the worse their chances are of surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For East Bay residents, access to emergency care might soon be getting even harder to come by. In 2016, Sutter Health, which owns Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, announced it will close the emergency room and consolidate those services into its Oakland location at an unspecified time in the future. The Oakland facility is located 2.6 miles south of the Berkeley facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sutter Health explained that California’s seismic regulations require the Alta Bates campus to cease operating as a hospital by 2030. Aware of the community’s concerns, Sutter also assured that this transition won’t be abrupt either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11679810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/3_DMC-closed2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo closed in 2015. (Bo Kovitz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Dr. Brian Potts, who runs the emergency department at Alta Bates, a planned transition that could take as long as 10 years will allow enough time to build the infrastructure necessary for what he projects to be the biggest emergency room in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transition will be worth it, said Potts, explaining that consolidating services under one roof, rather than having two separate emergency rooms miles apart, will improve quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the community fear the closure of Alta Bates’ emergency department is part of a similar story: hospital leaders more concerned with cost efficiency than providing care, no matter the cost. As a result, East Bay residents are facing life in a hospital desert. Gunshot wounds, delivering babies and heart attacks could become even more life-threatening when the move does happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harder you make it to get to that care, the more difficult it’s going to be and the more of a need it’s going to be,” said Marty Lynch, LifeLong’s CEO. “There’s no question that folks in Richmond and folks in San Pablo need a good system of emergency care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679816 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/5_Lifelong-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LifeLong Medical Care in San Pablo is one of the few urgent care facilities remaining in West Contra Costa County. (Bo Kovitz)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Sullivan, a community leader in Richmond who fought to keep DMC open, found herself rushing her husband to the emergency room when he was shot in the streets last year. Doctors at Kaiser’s Richmond facility, she said, couldn’t operate on him and spent about 30 minutes determining which hospital to send him to. They finally came to the decision to send him to John Muir Medical Center, over 20 miles away in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, it was 5 p.m. It was bumper-to-bumper traffic, all the way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sullivan’s husband was lucky. If the bullet had pierced just a quarter of an inch in either direction, it would have hit a major artery, and he would have died long before they left town. Sullivan calls it a death sentence to be shot or hurt in Richmond. She said residents often don’t even bother to call the ambulance. “What’s the point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at other cities that have a hospital that’s sitting in their town. They’ve found the resources to go in and renovate the hospital and keep it there,” said Sullivan. “Hospitals lose the incentive to work through alternatives because it’s not financially lucrative to try to meet halfway for communities who are primarily Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMC, whose medical base was about 80 percent Medi-Cal recipients, closed after years of financial crisis brought on, in part, by this reimbursement model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679809\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679809 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/1_Dr.-Carson4-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Desmond Carson is a physician at LifeLong Medical Care in San Pablo. (Bo Kovitz) \u003ccite>(Bo Kovitz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Desmond Carson, who worked at DMC for 15 years, said the hospital closed for a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a Nordstrom, there’ll be health care. Health care follows the dollar, simple as that,” he said. It’s not profitable, he added, to serve struggling black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariana Moore, a director at the nonprofit Richmond Community Foundation, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the reimbursement model from the federal level down to local hospitals that serve primarily Medi-Cal patients, it’s not a sustainable financial model,” said Moore. “These closures happen in communities that are people of color, that are low income, that have less political power, and it’s just the story of our country, as well as the story [Contra Costa County] in this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To LifeLong CEO Lynch and his staff, the memory of the DMC closure lingers every day at the urgent care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a long history of feeling that the community did not necessarily get served as it needed to be served,” Lynch said. “There’s a long history of feeling like, ‘Well, why was the county medical center built in Martinez (in 1998), far away from West Contra Costa.’ The community felt that was both a mistake and a conscious disregard for the needs of poor communities.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch remembers what DMC meant to this high-need community. Every day, he sees reminders of what the community lost: not just in the number of people crowded into his waiting room, but in the feeling that the community is not being heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by Nuria Marquez Martinez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or any-thing if I like but not there, there is no there there.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gertrude Stein, 1937, “Everybody’s Autobiography”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That quote, much abused and shortened, taken out of context and misunderstood, has long been misapplied to Oakland. You’ve probably heard it, maybe even said it yourself, “there is no there there.” But Stein wasn’t talking about some lacunae at the heart of the town. She was talking about her own childhood home, her own neighborhood, that feeling we have when we return to the place where we were young only to find it no longer there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was talking nostalgically, that the Oakland she knew no longer existed,” Ishmael Reed, the prolific \u003ca href=\"http://ishmaelreed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland-based novelist\u003c/a>, said, “a lot of people have taken that as a put down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other writers have been clearly insulting in their takes on Oakland. “Bret Harte, when the earthquake hit, he said it didn’t do much damage in Oakland, because there are some places even the earth won’t swallow,” Reed said. “I mean that’s the kind of hit you get on Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed has written around a dozen novels, and that does not include his \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ishmael-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countless books\u003c/a> of history, poems, criticism and plays. His latest, \u003ca href=\"https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/soul-brother-krishna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Conjugating Hindi”\u003c/a>, set in part in California and Oakland, was published this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange has also just published a book, his first novel, “There There.” It’s been heaped with praise by reviewers and has been on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/books/tommy-orange-there-there-native-american.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a> Best Sellers list for the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AAKnopf/status/1007274371923234816\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said he set out to write an Oakland novel, a novel that contained the city he grew up in, which is why he picked the Stein quote. “’There, there’ has been used to say it doesn’t have culture. Or it doesn’t have place, or it doesn’t have a feel to it,” Orange said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very convenient quote if you’re gentrifying some place, to be like ‘there’s no place there anyway,’ or ‘nobodys from Oakland’,” Orange said. “All the new people here, all the new white people gentrifying, it’s very convenient to have that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling, Orange said, is just wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Oakland artists are pushing back against the narrative of an invisible city, for all the world to see. They are portraying the place and the people from here with spectacular and sweeping visions, from a film that uses satirical science fiction to take on capitalism, racism and gentrification, to a story spanning the intertwining lives of urban Native Americans and their deep history in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley, musician with The Coup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/magazine/how-boots-riley-infiltrated-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activist, local intellectual and man-about-The-Town\u003c/a>, filmed his movie “Sorry To Bother You” over 28 days last summer in Oakland. Now, after getting attention on the festival circuit, it’s opening nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeISaoQDh2g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said growing up in Oakland, he would endlessly \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ride the bus back and forth through the flatlands of the city\u003c/a>. From San Leandro, through East Oakland, all the way down Telegraph Avenue and into Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland that I grew up in was one in which we were constantly wanting to be engaged with something bigger than us,” Riley said. “We felt like there was nothing to do, we felt like there weren’t things available to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when they got older, they would drive in cars, “we didn’t get on the freeway because that trip was what it was all about, looking for signs of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those long car rides, they would pass boarded up buildings, neighborhoods abandoned by infrastructure, places and people in which the city did not invest. They would also find others like them, say hello while stopped at red lights, whole streams of young people driving in cars, looking for life and each other. It sounds like a scene out of “American Graffiti,” or any of our childhoods, before social media. But Riley said because these were black teenagers, Oakland passed anti-cruising laws, making what for so many was a rite of passage into an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop culture and creativity from creeping up through cracks in the concrete. The young people of Oakland made music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668394/spinning-rims-spinning-cars-the-history-of-the-oakland-sideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staged sideshows\u003c/a>, invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turfing\u003c/a>, a specific style of street dancing known for its fluid and hypnotic movements, and created a new genre of hip-hop that came to be called hyphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said the city and local businesses continually put up bars to access and inclusion. Even when they had the artists and wanted to set up shows, the city wouldn’t approve permits for them, or would make them prohibitively expensive to put on. There was a fear of black people gathering en masse, he said. It wasn’t just the anti-cruising laws, it was also clamp downs on events like Festival at The Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusing access to places, has been a big part of my growing up,” Riley said. He said that was especially true when it came to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most glaring example for Riley is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oakland-Pulls-Plug-on-Rap-Concert-City-rejects-2983526.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, who many claim as Oakland’s own. “Tupac couldn’t perform in Oakland,” Riley said. “They wouldn’t let it happen. The venues that existed in Oakland, wouldn’t do hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that there was “no there there” for Riley, it was that systems of power and economic forces were working very hard against people being anywhere. If they were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/X3mUlxpeLUg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fighting Cliched Representation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley’s film is now available to audiences across the country, representing Oakland to the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling represented, feeling seen, is important, Riley said. He remembers when Sheila E. came back to her high school, Oakland High, where Riley was a student, to pass out tickets to her new movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEJ5UqH0pY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krush Groove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She came to the school in her full Prince-style regalia,” he said. “It seemed like there was a light around her as she walked through the hall, like of your high school!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That meant that we meant something,” he said. “We were told so much that we are insignificant. Through life, and what we see on television or in the movies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation is important, but for Riley making this movie is about more than reflecting Oakland back to the people who live here. Representation is also about how Oakland appears to the outside world. Not just with images of the city and its residents, but the radical politics that thrive here, from the Black Panthers to Occupy Oakland to Black Lives Matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fighting cliche,” Riley said. “Usually when we make something, we tend to fall into the conventions of the people that have done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation on the left has problems of its own, Riley said. For him, diversifying representation is not enough. “Even on the left, we’ve moved away from class struggle in the last 50 years and started talking about things in terms of people’s personalities,” he said. “As an effect of the McCarthy era, even in places like public radio, people won’t put out an idea that makes them look like they might be a communist. So they water down their philosophy so much, that we lie to people, we tell each other that the way to change things is by letting our voice be heard.” This perpetuates a myth that representation — that ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/article/not-giving-voice-voiceless\">giving voice to the voiceless\u003c/a>‘ as the cliche has it — is enough. For Riley, representation without rigorous class analysis, without tools for reshaping the power dynamics that cage the working class from the ruling class, can never be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art, Riley said, has the power to reshape our conceptions, even to spread the message that power structures can be dismantled by the withholding of labor. “Much of what we believe about the world, like what we envision of the world, is formed by works of art: Movies, TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, sometimes that does start with the way we see places. “Like I’ve never been to Delhi,” Riley said. “I’ve a picture in my head of what it looks like and that picture is not even from the news, it’s probably from James Bond movies, with really racist ideas about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been immune from these kinds of racist, outsider representations. When President Donald Trump was a candidate, he was asked by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/donald-trump-primary-win.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times where the most dangerous place he had ever been to was\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world,” Trump responded. “You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland did have a high crime rate in the 1990’s and in the 2000’s, but the crime, and murder rate, has dropped significantly in recent years. It is not, by these statistics, one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, let alone the entire world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those broad brush strokes have shaped Oakland’s image for a long time, often erasing the culture, political and artistic, of people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange is all too familiar with that myth of Oakland. “People know of Oakland, but it was like the murder capital in the 90’s and sort of has that representation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange wanted to find different representations of his hometown. He searched for Oakland novels while writing his book, and was surprised to find so few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of writing this,” Orange said, “came from the native invisibility, and then the Oakland invisibility thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orange, the Gertrude Stein quote speaks not just to the invisibility of Oakland, but the invisibility of native people, especially in cities. “For native people, similarly, we live on land that has been changed from what it was,” Orange said. “The novel is about identity and native identity, and figuring out how we make sense of living in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange came into an understanding of his identity, as what he calls an urban Indian, over time. Urban Indian is a term that has come to refer to native people who have moved and relocated, whether by force or choice, to cities and metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always say I’m native, but I’d probably say I’m half,” he said. “Because as a native person you’re constantly have to qualify yourself, or how much, or you’re actually being directly asked how much you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew my mom was white and my dad was Indian,” he said. “It was a conflict in the house to some extent, and I knew it was a deep conflict based on history, and that was just something that I always knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what he didn’t always know was where he fit. “There’s a difference identity-wise, if you were born on the rez, and you’re part of…” he pauses. “If you’re from a reservation you’re surrounded by people of your same tribe. People from the city, who grew up in the city, not only are you not around your tribe, you’re around a lot of non-Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange’s parents divorced when he was 13-years-old, and he said his teenage years were hard. But in 2005, he got a job at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativehealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, and found the urban Indian community here, “I felt that sense of belonging again, and belonging to a community of people that were like me,” he said. “I didn’t even know that community existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely changed me in a big way to feel like, oh there’s other people like me here, and there’s a long history of us being here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/therethere-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A copy of Tommy Orange's "There There," a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of Tommy Orange’s “There There,” a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He writes of that community in “There There”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bought and rented homes, slept on the streets, under freeways, we went to school, joined the armed forces, populated Indian bars in the Fruitvale in Oakland, and in the Mission in San Francisco. We lived in boxcar villages in Richmond. We made art and we made babies and we made way for our people to go back and forth between reservation and city. We did not move to cities to die. The sidewalks and streets, the concrete absorbed our heaviness. The glass, metal, rubber and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses—the city took us in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving representation to the urban Indian, Orange said, is a big part of why he wrote this book. “It’s a totally different experience being an urban Indian than it is being a rez Indian, and so much of representation is based on reservation Indians or historical Indians,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It risks being erased, if all you can refer to as self is historical — then you’re basically already gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone, as in not there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here, Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are these subtle parallels between the experiences of exclusion and the search for significance and belonging in both Riley’s and Orange’s childhoods, and in their paths to storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, the biggest parallel, is that they are both telling stories grounded in their Oaklands, which both are, and are not, the same place. Maybe it is a coincidence, that in the same summer, their work is finding acclaim before a national audience. Oakland seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said that isn’t just happening in books and movies. His socialist and communist ideologies, of dismantling capitalism through withholding labor, are finding a foothold in national politics. Which is why Riley said despite everything that is happening in American politics right now, he is hopeful. “The population is much more radical than the democratic party,” Riley said. “There was a right wing think tank that did this study of millennials and they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/millennials-think-socialism-would-create-great-safe-space-study-finds.html\">up in arms\u003c/a> at the results,” Riley said. “The results were that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/socialism-young-americans-bernie-sanders\">one in two millennials think this should be a socialist society\u003c/a>, and that gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GettyImages-986802002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of 'Sorry To Bother You' at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riley sees artists like himself being embraced as part of a deeper change in radical representation. Tommy Orange also sees his success as part of a larger phenomenon, both of Native writers, and of the city he is from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s having a great year,” Orange said. He’s referring not only to Riley and himself, but also a certain hometown basketball team. “And hopefully that will not be a wave that comes and goes and recedes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently Orange had his own Gertrude Stein moment, going back to the street he grew up on. But unlike with Stein, his house was still there. He took his wife and son, and they had a picnic near his childhood home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked totally small, because when you go back to things from your childhood you just feel big, because you are bigger,” he said. “But there’s also something about memory and the way size and scope changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was another change he noticed too, “the money that has come into Oakland, has changed the street. It was a lot nicer than I remember it,” he laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said the people still felt very much the same. But that isn’t true for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland writer Ishmael Reed said he doesn’t recognize his neighborhood anymore. “This used to be a black neighborhood,” he said. “It’s now, no longer that. Everybody knew everybody, it was like more of a family neighborhood. But now, people seem to be alienated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here comes the classic moment in any Oakland story, that always turns the knife. The city in which both Riley and Orange were raised is changing. And for many Native and black people, it is no longer affordable. At the same moment that these storytellers are gaining national attention for their work about diverse and complicated Oakland, it has become less and less possible for black and Native people to afford to live here. In the glow of all this representation, of them showing the \u003cem>there\u003c/em> that is \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, the people that have been here all along, can’t always stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy Orange and his family do not live in Oakland, because he has not been able to afford the steadily rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re currently live out in Angels Camp,” he said. “Were thinking of moving back in the fall, because now we can afford it. And we haven’t been able to move back, because we haven’t been able to afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the success of his new book, he may just be able to come back. Writing a book about his beloved Oakland, may have provided him the resources to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we make it back in the fall,” Orange said, “I’ll think of it like that. Like Oakland allowed me to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or any-thing if I like but not there, there is no there there.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gertrude Stein, 1937, “Everybody’s Autobiography”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That quote, much abused and shortened, taken out of context and misunderstood, has long been misapplied to Oakland. You’ve probably heard it, maybe even said it yourself, “there is no there there.” But Stein wasn’t talking about some lacunae at the heart of the town. She was talking about her own childhood home, her own neighborhood, that feeling we have when we return to the place where we were young only to find it no longer there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was talking nostalgically, that the Oakland she knew no longer existed,” Ishmael Reed, the prolific \u003ca href=\"http://ishmaelreed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland-based novelist\u003c/a>, said, “a lot of people have taken that as a put down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other writers have been clearly insulting in their takes on Oakland. “Bret Harte, when the earthquake hit, he said it didn’t do much damage in Oakland, because there are some places even the earth won’t swallow,” Reed said. “I mean that’s the kind of hit you get on Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Orange said he set out to write an Oakland novel, a novel that contained the city he grew up in, which is why he picked the Stein quote. “’There, there’ has been used to say it doesn’t have culture. Or it doesn’t have place, or it doesn’t have a feel to it,” Orange said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very convenient quote if you’re gentrifying some place, to be like ‘there’s no place there anyway,’ or ‘nobodys from Oakland’,” Orange said. “All the new people here, all the new white people gentrifying, it’s very convenient to have that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling, Orange said, is just wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Oakland artists are pushing back against the narrative of an invisible city, for all the world to see. They are portraying the place and the people from here with spectacular and sweeping visions, from a film that uses satirical science fiction to take on capitalism, racism and gentrification, to a story spanning the intertwining lives of urban Native Americans and their deep history in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sorry To Bother You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley, musician with The Coup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/magazine/how-boots-riley-infiltrated-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activist, local intellectual and man-about-The-Town\u003c/a>, filmed his movie “Sorry To Bother You” over 28 days last summer in Oakland. Now, after getting attention on the festival circuit, it’s opening nationally.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XeISaoQDh2g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XeISaoQDh2g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Riley said growing up in Oakland, he would endlessly \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ride the bus back and forth through the flatlands of the city\u003c/a>. From San Leandro, through East Oakland, all the way down Telegraph Avenue and into Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland that I grew up in was one in which we were constantly wanting to be engaged with something bigger than us,” Riley said. “We felt like there was nothing to do, we felt like there weren’t things available to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when they got older, they would drive in cars, “we didn’t get on the freeway because that trip was what it was all about, looking for signs of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those long car rides, they would pass boarded up buildings, neighborhoods abandoned by infrastructure, places and people in which the city did not invest. They would also find others like them, say hello while stopped at red lights, whole streams of young people driving in cars, looking for life and each other. It sounds like a scene out of “American Graffiti,” or any of our childhoods, before social media. But Riley said because these were black teenagers, Oakland passed anti-cruising laws, making what for so many was a rite of passage into an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t stop culture and creativity from creeping up through cracks in the concrete. The young people of Oakland made music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668394/spinning-rims-spinning-cars-the-history-of-the-oakland-sideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staged sideshows\u003c/a>, invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turfing\u003c/a>, a specific style of street dancing known for its fluid and hypnotic movements, and created a new genre of hip-hop that came to be called hyphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said the city and local businesses continually put up bars to access and inclusion. Even when they had the artists and wanted to set up shows, the city wouldn’t approve permits for them, or would make them prohibitively expensive to put on. There was a fear of black people gathering en masse, he said. It wasn’t just the anti-cruising laws, it was also clamp downs on events like Festival at The Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusing access to places, has been a big part of my growing up,” Riley said. He said that was especially true when it came to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most glaring example for Riley is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oakland-Pulls-Plug-on-Rap-Concert-City-rejects-2983526.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, who many claim as Oakland’s own. “Tupac couldn’t perform in Oakland,” Riley said. “They wouldn’t let it happen. The venues that existed in Oakland, wouldn’t do hip-hop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not that there was “no there there” for Riley, it was that systems of power and economic forces were working very hard against people being anywhere. If they were black.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/X3mUlxpeLUg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/X3mUlxpeLUg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fighting Cliched Representation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boots Riley’s film is now available to audiences across the country, representing Oakland to the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling represented, feeling seen, is important, Riley said. He remembers when Sheila E. came back to her high school, Oakland High, where Riley was a student, to pass out tickets to her new movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjEJ5UqH0pY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krush Groove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She came to the school in her full Prince-style regalia,” he said. “It seemed like there was a light around her as she walked through the hall, like of your high school!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That meant that we meant something,” he said. “We were told so much that we are insignificant. Through life, and what we see on television or in the movies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation is important, but for Riley making this movie is about more than reflecting Oakland back to the people who live here. Representation is also about how Oakland appears to the outside world. Not just with images of the city and its residents, but the radical politics that thrive here, from the Black Panthers to Occupy Oakland to Black Lives Matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fighting cliche,” Riley said. “Usually when we make something, we tend to fall into the conventions of the people that have done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representation on the left has problems of its own, Riley said. For him, diversifying representation is not enough. “Even on the left, we’ve moved away from class struggle in the last 50 years and started talking about things in terms of people’s personalities,” he said. “As an effect of the McCarthy era, even in places like public radio, people won’t put out an idea that makes them look like they might be a communist. So they water down their philosophy so much, that we lie to people, we tell each other that the way to change things is by letting our voice be heard.” This perpetuates a myth that representation — that ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/article/not-giving-voice-voiceless\">giving voice to the voiceless\u003c/a>‘ as the cliche has it — is enough. For Riley, representation without rigorous class analysis, without tools for reshaping the power dynamics that cage the working class from the ruling class, can never be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art, Riley said, has the power to reshape our conceptions, even to spread the message that power structures can be dismantled by the withholding of labor. “Much of what we believe about the world, like what we envision of the world, is formed by works of art: Movies, TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, sometimes that does start with the way we see places. “Like I’ve never been to Delhi,” Riley said. “I’ve a picture in my head of what it looks like and that picture is not even from the news, it’s probably from James Bond movies, with really racist ideas about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has not been immune from these kinds of racist, outsider representations. When President Donald Trump was a candidate, he was asked by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/donald-trump-primary-win.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times where the most dangerous place he had ever been to was\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world,” Trump responded. “You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland did have a high crime rate in the 1990’s and in the 2000’s, but the crime, and murder rate, has dropped significantly in recent years. It is not, by these statistics, one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, let alone the entire world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those broad brush strokes have shaped Oakland’s image for a long time, often erasing the culture, political and artistic, of people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Tommy Orange is all too familiar with that myth of Oakland. “People know of Oakland, but it was like the murder capital in the 90’s and sort of has that representation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange wanted to find different representations of his hometown. He searched for Oakland novels while writing his book, and was surprised to find so few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of writing this,” Orange said, “came from the native invisibility, and then the Oakland invisibility thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There There\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orange, the Gertrude Stein quote speaks not just to the invisibility of Oakland, but the invisibility of native people, especially in cities. “For native people, similarly, we live on land that has been changed from what it was,” Orange said. “The novel is about identity and native identity, and figuring out how we make sense of living in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange came into an understanding of his identity, as what he calls an urban Indian, over time. Urban Indian is a term that has come to refer to native people who have moved and relocated, whether by force or choice, to cities and metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always say I’m native, but I’d probably say I’m half,” he said. “Because as a native person you’re constantly have to qualify yourself, or how much, or you’re actually being directly asked how much you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew my mom was white and my dad was Indian,” he said. “It was a conflict in the house to some extent, and I knew it was a deep conflict based on history, and that was just something that I always knew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what he didn’t always know was where he fit. “There’s a difference identity-wise, if you were born on the rez, and you’re part of…” he pauses. “If you’re from a reservation you’re surrounded by people of your same tribe. People from the city, who grew up in the city, not only are you not around your tribe, you’re around a lot of non-Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange’s parents divorced when he was 13-years-old, and he said his teenage years were hard. But in 2005, he got a job at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nativehealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland, and found the urban Indian community here, “I felt that sense of belonging again, and belonging to a community of people that were like me,” he said. “I didn’t even know that community existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely changed me in a big way to feel like, oh there’s other people like me here, and there’s a long history of us being here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/therethere-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A copy of Tommy Orange's "There There," a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of Tommy Orange’s “There There,” a first novel from the author, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for the past month. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He writes of that community in “There There”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bought and rented homes, slept on the streets, under freeways, we went to school, joined the armed forces, populated Indian bars in the Fruitvale in Oakland, and in the Mission in San Francisco. We lived in boxcar villages in Richmond. We made art and we made babies and we made way for our people to go back and forth between reservation and city. We did not move to cities to die. The sidewalks and streets, the concrete absorbed our heaviness. The glass, metal, rubber and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses—the city took us in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving representation to the urban Indian, Orange said, is a big part of why he wrote this book. “It’s a totally different experience being an urban Indian than it is being a rez Indian, and so much of representation is based on reservation Indians or historical Indians,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It risks being erased, if all you can refer to as self is historical — then you’re basically already gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gone, as in not there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here, Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are these subtle parallels between the experiences of exclusion and the search for significance and belonging in both Riley’s and Orange’s childhoods, and in their paths to storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, the biggest parallel, is that they are both telling stories grounded in their Oaklands, which both are, and are not, the same place. Maybe it is a coincidence, that in the same summer, their work is finding acclaim before a national audience. Oakland seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley said that isn’t just happening in books and movies. His socialist and communist ideologies, of dismantling capitalism through withholding labor, are finding a foothold in national politics. Which is why Riley said despite everything that is happening in American politics right now, he is hopeful. “The population is much more radical than the democratic party,” Riley said. “There was a right wing think tank that did this study of millennials and they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/millennials-think-socialism-would-create-great-safe-space-study-finds.html\">up in arms\u003c/a> at the results,” Riley said. “The results were that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/socialism-young-americans-bernie-sanders\">one in two millennials think this should be a socialist society\u003c/a>, and that gives me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GettyImages-986802002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of 'Sorry To Bother You' at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Boots Riley attends the Film Independent At LACMA Presents Screening And Q&A Of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ at Bing Theater At LACMA on June 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Riley sees artists like himself being embraced as part of a deeper change in radical representation. Tommy Orange also sees his success as part of a larger phenomenon, both of Native writers, and of the city he is from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s having a great year,” Orange said. He’s referring not only to Riley and himself, but also a certain hometown basketball team. “And hopefully that will not be a wave that comes and goes and recedes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently Orange had his own Gertrude Stein moment, going back to the street he grew up on. But unlike with Stein, his house was still there. He took his wife and son, and they had a picnic near his childhood home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked totally small, because when you go back to things from your childhood you just feel big, because you are bigger,” he said. “But there’s also something about memory and the way size and scope changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was another change he noticed too, “the money that has come into Oakland, has changed the street. It was a lot nicer than I remember it,” he laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange said the people still felt very much the same. But that isn’t true for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland writer Ishmael Reed said he doesn’t recognize his neighborhood anymore. “This used to be a black neighborhood,” he said. “It’s now, no longer that. Everybody knew everybody, it was like more of a family neighborhood. But now, people seem to be alienated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here comes the classic moment in any Oakland story, that always turns the knife. The city in which both Riley and Orange were raised is changing. And for many Native and black people, it is no longer affordable. At the same moment that these storytellers are gaining national attention for their work about diverse and complicated Oakland, it has become less and less possible for black and Native people to afford to live here. In the glow of all this representation, of them showing the \u003cem>there\u003c/em> that is \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, the people that have been here all along, can’t always stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy Orange and his family do not live in Oakland, because he has not been able to afford the steadily rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re currently live out in Angels Camp,” he said. “Were thinking of moving back in the fall, because now we can afford it. And we haven’t been able to move back, because we haven’t been able to afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the success of his new book, he may just be able to come back. Writing a book about his beloved Oakland, may have provided him the resources to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a wet sidewalk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Michael Cameron approached a middle-aged man snorting a white powder cupped in his hands. Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guys were sitting there snorting coke and smoking dope and didn't want to move,” said Cameron, who grew up in the Tenderloin. “You know, they want time. But we got these babies coming by!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron is one of about two dozen volunteers with Safe Passage, a citizens’ effort that transforms the Tenderloin’s sidewalks into a more kid-friendly environment a couple of hours every schoolday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/RomeroSafePassageTenderloin.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" Title=\"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin\" program=\"The California Report\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it is also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the most expensive cities in the nation, and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It didn’t work either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there’s more trust that the RCV system works the way it’s supposed to, said Arntz, adding that “it’s not as much of a mystery to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in describing recently how RCV votes are counted and reported out to the public, Arntz got a little tongue-twisted and soon acknowledged how complicated it was to explain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow — try writing a memo about this stuff, man!” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of RCV say it avoids costly runoff elections with low turnout and encourages more civilized campaigning as candidates avoid alienating their opponents’ supporters in hopes of winning their second-place vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Eric Jaye, who’s running Supervisor Jane Kim’s campaign for mayor, wouldn’t say whether he likes RCV or not, but he acknowledges that it deprives voters of a one-on-one comparison that existed under the old system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It removes that intense runoff where the candidates get vetted and tested by a campaign,” Jaye said, adding that “we’re running under the system we have. 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While Perata was on top after all the first-place votes were counted, Quan edged him out 51 to 49 percent after second- and third-choice votes were added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perata’s political consultant at the time, John Whitehurst, called it “a travesty,” noting that his candidate won 78 percent of the city’s precincts but ended up losing. 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It didn’t work either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there’s more trust that the RCV system works the way it’s supposed to, said Arntz, adding that “it’s not as much of a mystery to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in describing recently how RCV votes are counted and reported out to the public, Arntz got a little tongue-twisted and soon acknowledged how complicated it was to explain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow — try writing a memo about this stuff, man!” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of RCV say it avoids costly runoff elections with low turnout and encourages more civilized campaigning as candidates avoid alienating their opponents’ supporters in hopes of winning their second-place vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Eric Jaye, who’s running Supervisor Jane Kim’s campaign for mayor, wouldn’t say whether he likes RCV or not, but he acknowledges that it deprives voters of a one-on-one comparison that existed under the old system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It removes that intense runoff where the candidates get vetted and tested by a campaign,” Jaye said, adding that “we’re running under the system we have. 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I want everybody in the room to believe that,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim spent much of her time recounting her legislative wins around affordable housing and stressing the need for regional and statewide solutions to the city’s homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When counties like Marin refuse to have a 365-day shelter system, that’s a problem,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim also got into a memorable back-and-forth with Greenberg when he interrupted her to note that the free City College of San Francisco program Kim helped create isn’t free for home sellers paying a higher transfer tax, which funds the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know Richie, it was a tax on the ultra-luxury property owners in the city,” Kim said to applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues of homelessness and affordable housing dominated the conversation throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said the city needs to get more creative providing support services for people before they lose their homes and aggressively helping people on the streets with substance abuse and mental health issues. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, a San Francisco native who grew up in public housing, pushed back when asked about criticism that she is too close to tech executives and former Mayor Willie Brown — and whether they have too much power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/alioto-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto speaks at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every time I get this kind of question I think about everything I experienced in my life. 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She also expressed support for a change to state law limiting rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656797\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Greenberg-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Businessman and lone Republican Richie Greenberg at a San Francisco mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a manageable crisis. I want everybody in the room to believe that,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim spent much of her time recounting her legislative wins around affordable housing and stressing the need for regional and statewide solutions to the city’s homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When counties like Marin refuse to have a 365-day shelter system, that’s a problem,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim also got into a memorable back-and-forth with Greenberg when he interrupted her to note that the free City College of San Francisco program Kim helped create isn’t free for home sellers paying a higher transfer tax, which funds the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656798\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11656798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/kim-20180319-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim at a mayoral debate on March 19, 2018. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know Richie, it was a tax on the ultra-luxury property owners in the city,” Kim said to applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues of homelessness and affordable housing dominated the conversation throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said the city needs to get more creative providing support services for people before they lose their homes and aggressively helping people on the streets with substance abuse and mental health issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 2:40 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of students across the Bay Area and California joined a nationwide school walkout Wednesday to protest gun violence and to press for stricter gun laws, exactly one month after a mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/15/586095587/17-people-died-in-the-parkland-shooting-here-are-their-names\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left 17 dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers estimate nearly 3,000 walkouts, sit-ins and other forms of protest were planned across the U.S. following the Valentine's Day massacre of 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Oakland Technical High School began to gather on the front lawn of the campus as early as 8:30 a.m., organizing and making signs. Hundreds began streaming out of the school at 10 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/umH3-Y5kuKU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following 17 minutes of remembrance for the 17 Parkland victims, student activists led chants of \"Enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Youth happen at the forefront of almost every social movement in American history, and real change starts with young people. Gun violence is a youth issue, a youth injustice, and it is a human rights issue,\" said 14-year-old Oakland Tech freshman and walkout organizer Maxwell Stern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our politicians in Washington and across the country have perpetuated a vicious cycle of lip service and inaction,\" Stern said to the crowd. \"Thoughts and prayers are no longer good enough. Action must be taken on stricter gun control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews/videos/1836960639711658/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on KQED News' Facebook page\u003c/a>, \"We are so proud of these Tech students and OUSD students across the city for organizing, taking action and using their collective voice to create change!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vanessarancano/status/973968936663375872\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Encinal High School in Alameda stood side by side, holding signs that spelled out \"Never Again.\" Protesters chanted \"No more silence, end gun violence\" and \"We want change.\" Others carried signs reading \"Too many empty promises. Stop the bullets. Save the kids\" and \"Do not underestimate our generation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m participating because how many students have to die before the NRA and Congress realize that nobody should be able to buy military-style assault rifles,\" said 18-year-old Encinal High School senior Gabby Gustafsson. \"We can’t wait around anymore on empty promises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/973967711658164224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CConsaul/status/973968943780999169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Lowell High School in San Francisco, students left campus and began a march to Civic Center, where they met up with hundreds of other students from around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Older generations think that we're desensitized with all the technology, which to a certain extent may be true,\" Lowell High School student Devyn Gallagher said. \"But I think with this specific movement, we're really proving ourselves and showing that our generation isn't desensitized and we're actually making a difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/erikaaaguilar/status/974002291547168769\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Central Valley, more than 200 students walked out of Delano High School. Students not only spoke about gun violence and gun safety, but also about the importance of mental health services at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Change is coming, and we want to be a part of it,\" senior Adrian Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chalexhall/status/973970772350783488\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, several hundred high school students from the Miguel Contreras Learning Center joined the national protest in support of tighter gun control regulations. Contreras is just blocks away from Salvador Castro Middle School where a 12-year-old girl brought a handgun to campus last month. The gun accidentally discharged, injuring two teenagers. A smaller group of students broke off from the rally and took to the streets. But they only marched around the school. A spokesperson for the school confirmed that the students came back to class -- as did the hundreds who joined today’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty California Assembly members also joined in solidarity with students at the state Capitol and walked out. \"Assemblymembers participating in this event will join the thousands of other supporters walking out to honor the victims and support the student-led efforts for change,\" a media release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordinated walkout was organized by Empower, the youth wing of the Women's March, which brought thousands to Washington, D.C., last year. The group urged students to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes -- one minute for each victim in the Florida shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Mixed Reaction From School Administrators Across the U.S.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned protests drew mixed reactions from school administrators across the nation. While some applauded the students for taking a stand, others threatened discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Technical High School supported the student protest, and Principals Staci Ross-Morrison and Josue Diaz \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/blog/2018/03/principal-letter-re-student-led-ot-day-of-action-march-14/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to the school's website\u003c/a>: \"Here at Oakland Tech we fully support our students’ First Amendment rights, and we will be helping amplify their voices on March 14.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They encouraged students at the school to stay on campus and to sit in on the school's front lawn for the 17-minute moment of silence. They said they would encourage students to register to vote, write letters to the nation's officials and listen to community members speak about gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa Unified School District Superintendent Matthew Duffy left a voicemail message with parents Tuesday night that he wanted students to stay in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are encouraging students to stay on campus. The safety of our students is our utmost importance and the safest place for our students to engage civically around gun violence is on campus,\" Duffy's message said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will encourage our students to stay on campus and use their voice in spaces, events, and actions at school. Principals, teachers, and school staff are working to provide safe spaces for our students to observe the 17 minutes of action at 10 am to honor of the 17 Parkland victims,\" Duffy also wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts in Sayreville, New Jersey, and Maryland's Harford County drew criticism this week when they said students could face punishment for leaving class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In suburban Atlanta, one of Georgia's largest school systems announced that students who participate might face unspecified consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some vowed to walk out anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other schools sought a middle ground, offering \"teach-ins\" or group discussions on gun violence. Some worked with students to arrange protests in safe locations on campus. Officials at Boston Public Schools said they arranged a day of observance Wednesday with a variety of activities \"to provide healthy and safe opportunities for students to express their views, feelings and concerns.\" Students who didn't want to participate could bring a note from a parent to opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, free speech advocates geared up for a battle. The American Civil Liberties Union issued advice for students who walked out, saying schools can't legally punish them more harshly because of the political nature of their message. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Texas, some lawyers said they would provide free legal help to students who are punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's walkout is just one of several protests planned for the coming weeks. The March for Our Lives rally for school safety is expected to draw hundreds of thousands to Washington, D.C., on March 24, its organizers said. 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