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We’re going to stomp right through this and we’re going to stick you in some sheds,’” Carter-Griffin continued. “Sheds are so six years ago. There are many different types of unhoused people. We’re not the shed type. That wasn’t good for us. … That’s a prison cell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black police officer is shown standing behind a chain link fence as city workers behind him haul wood and other materials into large garbage trucks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland works to clear items from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Wood Street Commons' tag='wood-street-commons']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has long planned to redevelop the formerly vacant lot into affordable housing. It \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=745898&GUID=9A69A99B-2EA1-4B3E-BA84-C0DE1D47F9E0&Options=&Search=\">purchased the property, which is across from Raimondi Park, in 2007 for $8 million\u003c/a> as part of a larger redevelopment of the area that authorized around \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=742328&GUID=6BB49C5D-30C9-4253-85B8-6E66E8499C3A&Options=&Search=\">1,500 new homes and apartments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3759867&GUID=ECC644E3-BC09-4E5E-A98E-A04FCE3B7F11&Options=&Search=\">progress at the lot was delayed for more than a decade\u003c/a>, due in part to the 2008 foreclosure crisis and subsequent Great Recession, according to a city report. In 2018, the city selected a developer to build 170 affordable, for-sale and rental apartments at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One housed neighbor, Mo, who declined to give his last name, said he’s lived in the area for 16 years and watched the community at the Commons grow from a few trailers into dozens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has become more and more expensive out here. And, that’s why homeless people cannot afford to live in Oakland and that’s why they are here on the street,” Mo said. “They’ve been here for over ten years, and now they’ve been kicked out so people can build more high rises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially scheduled evictions for Jan. 9, so the developer could start assessing the kind of environmental remediation it needs to build housing there. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940107/judge-to-allow-evictions-at-long-running-oakland-homeless-encampment-residents-vow-to-fight\">residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order\u003c/a> — citing the onslaught of historic storms and lack of adequate alternative housing as grounds to delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received two state grants last year, totaling \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5962116&GUID=B467C58E-50EB-4A4C-BE99-496372BE92B6&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=%22Wood+Street%22\">$8.3 million, to relocate residents to a new cabin community site\u003c/a> at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, consisting of 70 “tuff shed” structures with space for 100 beds. But the site hadn’t yet opened when the city issued its eviction orders, and Federal District Judge William Orrick ordered the city to delay evictions until it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a black headdress and T-shirt looks heartbroken as she stares downward. Two men, one Black and one white-presenting, are pictured behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents John Janosko and Mona Choyce listen to an outreach worker talk about the tuff sheds in Oakland on April 10, 2023, while the city of Oakland begins to evict the encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Give us some real options. Instead of putting us in the cycle of being housed — get us housed,” said Jessica “Freeway” Blalock, a Wood Street resident, who had a bad experience at a different “community cabin” site in Oakland. “With all of the vacant lots and all the vacant houses that are here, there’s no reason all of us couldn’t be housed — and then some.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/14G98PfutiSU4vCEEummva59RGH6XWeNK/view?usp=sharing\">Feb. 24 court filing\u003c/a>, Supervising Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson wrote that the city had opened the community cabin site and had RV parking spaces available. Orrick lifted the restraining order three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, volunteers and advocates were on site to assist residents with moving. Kelly Thompson, 75, who is himself homeless in Oakland, sat in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting on somebody to say, ‘I need a tow,'” he said. “But where are they supposed to go? Where do they want to go? There’s no place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commons is the last remaining portion of the much larger Wood Street settlement, which, until last year, was home to around 300 people. It stretched for more than a mile under Interstate 880 on land owned by Caltrans, BNSF railway, private individuals and the city of Oakland. In September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">Caltrans evicted residents\u003c/a> from the land it owns, citing safety concerns, after a fire on July 11 sent plumes of black smoke onto the freeway above, stopping traffic.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Freeway, resident, Wood Street\"]‘The people that are here. The community that’s here. The family that’s here. … That’s not going anywhere.’[/pullquote]Considered one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/homeless-wood-street-oakland-17717303.php\">largest encampments in Northern California\u003c/a>, Wood Street grew over the course of a decade. Many residents said that, by at least 2019, city workers and police officers were directing them to Wood Street after they had been evicted from other encampments in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked the cops who were telling us to move where we should go, they said, ‘On the other side of that fence,’ and pointed to the fence that separated where we were from the BNSF lands,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who moved to the settlement in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview that year with KPIX News, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_yDu2nqSA\">former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf defended the city’s actions\u003c/a>, saying, “We don’t have a permanent place for that encampment yet, so you will see us use interim measures because we don’t have enough beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Wood Street residents such as Blalock were not removed from the site on Monday, the process will be ongoing during the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Destroying this community, taking down the buildings in this community, is only going to change the scenery,” she said. “The people that are here. The community that’s here. The family that’s here. … That’s not going anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying. We’re doing the best we can. If we had resources, we’d be a whole lot better,” said LaMonte Ford, 48, a longtime resident and lead organizer at Wood Street. “We’re just like you. We’re normal people. I have two jobs. I cannot afford the rent. I’ve been here 10 years. You think I can pack it up in two bags?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 60 people live in RVs and trailers at the site, located at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945682/the-last-residents-of-oaklands-wood-street-encampment\">1707 Wood Street in West Oakland\u003c/a>. Residents have built the space into a resource hub, complete with a communal kitchen, outdoor meeting areas, a free store, space for food and clothing donations, storage facilities and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man looks through a chain link fence at police officers on the other side of it. The man has a crowd of people behind him as his fingers rest in between the fence coils.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident LaMonte Ford speaks to the police as the city of Oakland begins to evict the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jean Walsh, spokesperson for the city, said the city is offering residents beds at a new “cabin community” site a few blocks away, as well as parking spaces at a recently opened RV lot in East Oakland and at shelters throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Walsh said four residents had agreed to relocate to the new cabin site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re being cattle-rustled from one camp to another camp, and around and around we go,” Wood Street resident Mavin Carter-Griffin said at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like, ‘Move over, homeless. We’re going to stomp right through this and we’re going to stick you in some sheds,’” Carter-Griffin continued. “Sheds are so six years ago. There are many different types of unhoused people. We’re not the shed type. That wasn’t good for us. … That’s a prison cell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black police officer is shown standing behind a chain link fence as city workers behind him haul wood and other materials into large garbage trucks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland works to clear items from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has long planned to redevelop the formerly vacant lot into affordable housing. It \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=745898&GUID=9A69A99B-2EA1-4B3E-BA84-C0DE1D47F9E0&Options=&Search=\">purchased the property, which is across from Raimondi Park, in 2007 for $8 million\u003c/a> as part of a larger redevelopment of the area that authorized around \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=742328&GUID=6BB49C5D-30C9-4253-85B8-6E66E8499C3A&Options=&Search=\">1,500 new homes and apartments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3759867&GUID=ECC644E3-BC09-4E5E-A98E-A04FCE3B7F11&Options=&Search=\">progress at the lot was delayed for more than a decade\u003c/a>, due in part to the 2008 foreclosure crisis and subsequent Great Recession, according to a city report. In 2018, the city selected a developer to build 170 affordable, for-sale and rental apartments at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One housed neighbor, Mo, who declined to give his last name, said he’s lived in the area for 16 years and watched the community at the Commons grow from a few trailers into dozens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has become more and more expensive out here. And, that’s why homeless people cannot afford to live in Oakland and that’s why they are here on the street,” Mo said. “They’ve been here for over ten years, and now they’ve been kicked out so people can build more high rises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially scheduled evictions for Jan. 9, so the developer could start assessing the kind of environmental remediation it needs to build housing there. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940107/judge-to-allow-evictions-at-long-running-oakland-homeless-encampment-residents-vow-to-fight\">residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order\u003c/a> — citing the onslaught of historic storms and lack of adequate alternative housing as grounds to delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received two state grants last year, totaling \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5962116&GUID=B467C58E-50EB-4A4C-BE99-496372BE92B6&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=%22Wood+Street%22\">$8.3 million, to relocate residents to a new cabin community site\u003c/a> at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, consisting of 70 “tuff shed” structures with space for 100 beds. But the site hadn’t yet opened when the city issued its eviction orders, and Federal District Judge William Orrick ordered the city to delay evictions until it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a black headdress and T-shirt looks heartbroken as she stares downward. Two men, one Black and one white-presenting, are pictured behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents John Janosko and Mona Choyce listen to an outreach worker talk about the tuff sheds in Oakland on April 10, 2023, while the city of Oakland begins to evict the encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Give us some real options. Instead of putting us in the cycle of being housed — get us housed,” said Jessica “Freeway” Blalock, a Wood Street resident, who had a bad experience at a different “community cabin” site in Oakland. “With all of the vacant lots and all the vacant houses that are here, there’s no reason all of us couldn’t be housed — and then some.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/14G98PfutiSU4vCEEummva59RGH6XWeNK/view?usp=sharing\">Feb. 24 court filing\u003c/a>, Supervising Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson wrote that the city had opened the community cabin site and had RV parking spaces available. Orrick lifted the restraining order three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, volunteers and advocates were on site to assist residents with moving. Kelly Thompson, 75, who is himself homeless in Oakland, sat in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting on somebody to say, ‘I need a tow,'” he said. “But where are they supposed to go? Where do they want to go? 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"content": "\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen, considered one of the oldest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/132331/your-guide-to-black-owned-eateries-around-the-bay\">Black-owned restaurants\u003c/a> in Northern California, recently served up a history lesson to Oakland high school students alongside its menu of soul food favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buildings have been torn down. New buildings been built. But in terms of here, it’s always been the same. Everybody wants to find Lois the Pie Queen and see what it’s all about,” said restaurant owner Corey Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen’s decades-long staying power in the community made it the ideal first stop during a high school field trip tour of historic Black sites in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Tony Green, a teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School, led the field trip for a group of juniors and seniors enrolled in his Advanced Placement African American Studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of a diner counter with hot sauce bottles, glass sugar containers, salt and pepper shakers, packets of jelly and plastic bottles of ketchup neatly arranged. In the background, a large collage of individually framed photos decorate the wall leaving no room between each frame. In the center, coffee pots warm on the coffee station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos fill the wall behind the lunch counter at Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, Green said he’s taught his students about the wealth gap, redlining and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s meaningful because it’s an attempt at telling the actual truth about African Americans and their relationship with the rest of the world,” said Green, who’s been teaching a version of the class for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tony Green speaks to his African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Colbert, a junior, said Green’s teaching style — which aims not only to explain historical facts, but to also show how they’re interconnected across time — resonated with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like a lot of history classes are just like bits and pieces of history,” he said. “Classes like these, kind of give you the whole thing, from like, ancient in Mali, to like, all the way to the Black Panthers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit at desks inside a classroom. A projector displays a presentation. Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Gholamipour, student\"]‘History is mainly white history. You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.’[/pullquote]Recently, the curriculum became part of a national political debate around teaching history in schools. The focus on topics such as Black feminism, among others, is one of the reasons why \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153434464/college-boards-revised-ap-african-american-studies-course-draws-new-criticism\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> initially refused to offer the course in schools in that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also had its share of discussions around social studies requirements. Starting with the class of 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891396/new-california-law-will-require-ethnic-studies-class-for-high-schoolers\">a new law\u003c/a> mandates all high school students in the Golden State complete a semester of ethnic studies — in part to help students of color see themselves reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History is mainly white history,” said Catherine Gholamipour, a student in Green’s class. “You don’t get a ton of exposure to stuff like this in other classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her peer Nartan Farucht, a senior, echoed the importance of a class that fills in the gaps of other social studies classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign hangs outside of a brick building reads \"Marcus Books.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63815_009_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Marcus Book Store hangs above the business in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t actually talk about the way we built our government, where we built our cities, we built our schools, without talking about the slave trade and the people who actually built these locations on their backs,” Farucht said.[aside postID=news_11942006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Mother-and-Son-1020x765.jpeg']Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? 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Everybody wants to find Lois the Pie Queen and see what it’s all about,” said restaurant owner Corey Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63804_007_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lois the Pie Queen’s decades-long staying power in the community made it the ideal first stop during a high school field trip tour of historic Black sites in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Tony Green, a teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School, led the field trip for a group of juniors and seniors enrolled in his Advanced Placement African American Studies class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of a diner counter with hot sauce bottles, glass sugar containers, salt and pepper shakers, packets of jelly and plastic bottles of ketchup neatly arranged. In the background, a large collage of individually framed photos decorate the wall leaving no room between each frame. In the center, coffee pots warm on the coffee station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63800_001_KQED_LoisthePieQueenOakland_03222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos fill the wall behind the lunch counter at Lois the Pie Queen restaurant in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the year, Green said he’s taught his students about the wealth gap, redlining and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s meaningful because it’s an attempt at telling the actual truth about African Americans and their relationship with the rest of the world,” said Green, who’s been teaching a version of the class for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63818_001_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Tony Green speaks to his African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christian Colbert, a junior, said Green’s teaching style — which aims not only to explain historical facts, but to also show how they’re interconnected across time — resonated with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like a lot of history classes are just like bits and pieces of history,” he said. “Classes like these, kind of give you the whole thing, from like, ancient in Mali, to like, all the way to the Black Panthers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students sit at desks inside a classroom. 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Three high school boys stand at the podium in front of the classroom ready to speak.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63824_008_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Colbert (right), a junior, speaks about urban development and redlining during a presentation in Tony Green’s African American studies class at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bishop O’Dowd, a Catholic school, is among 60 schools in the U.S. currently piloting the \u003ca href=\"https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-african-american-studies-course-framework.pdf\">College Board AP African American Studies curriculum (PDF)\u003c/a> — which covers early African societies, the slave trade and the history of resistance and resilience in the U.S.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Green and his students all live in Oakland, a city lush with history and the birthplace of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. During the field trip, the class made additional stops at Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the country, and the West Oakland Mural Project, whose blue facade recognizes the women of the Black Panther Party and houses the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to the organization’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jilchristina Vest, the museum’s founder and curator, explained to Green’s class how the party was instrumental in community service efforts, offering free breakfast programs, health care and food co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s uplifting all of us, and if I’m not allowed to learn my history as an American, then why do we have schools at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias Aisien, a junior at Bishop O’Dowd, said the museum visit helped him make connections to the history he’s been studying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63826_011_KQED_TonyGreenClassBishopODowd_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobias Aisien, a Bishop O’Dowd High School junior, listens to speakers during Tony Green’s African American studies class in Oakland on March 22, 2023, following a field trip to historic Black sites in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Women’s involvement in the Black Panthers, you don’t really learn about that in the history books. So it’s just really cool to see,” Aisien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s contributions to Black history are highlighted in the AP course’s national curriculum, which includes a unit about the origins and contributions of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a bookstore, a wall is covered in colorful imagery and black and white posters of historic figures such as James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63808_003_KQED_MarcusBooksOakland_03222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black history posters line a wall at Marcus Book Store in Oakland on March 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green said AP African American Studies is expected to expand to hundreds of schools nationwide next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a very diverse country and everybody here has made contributions,” he said. “So that’s what history is supposed to be, right? It gives us, the citizens of society, a sense of who they are and what their values should be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mixed-race\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post is part of a series of stories on The California Report Magazine about the experience of being mixed race.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he’s not always recognized as part of the Asian American community, Oakland-born rapper Guap is fiercely proud of his Filipino roots. On the last track of his 2021 album, \u003cem>1176\u003c/em>, he tells an origin story spanning decades and continents. His grandfather, a Black merchant marine stationed in Subic Bay in the Philippines, found himself with a rip in the pocket of his uniform. He found a young Filipina seamstress to repair the pocket — and fell in love. When his time in Subic Bay came to an end, the two married and moved to a one-story house in West Oakland, where they would eventually raise their grandchild Guap, the first-born child of their youngest daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1176\u003c/em>, created in collaboration with Filipino American producer !llmind, is Guap’s most personal work to date. It’s the culmination of a circuitous path into the music industry, from first getting recognition as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRgVCLfRHw&skip_registered_account_check=true\">scam rapper\u003c/a> to being featured on \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/2n3quCZ0anEa46j2IveacI\">a Grammy-nominated album\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-0vapGE0A\">Marvel movie soundtrack\u003c/a>. For the KQED series “Mixed: Stories of Mixed-Race Californians,” hosts Sasha Khokha and Marisa Lagos spoke to Guap about growing up Black and Filipino, the cultural impact his lola had on him, and how his mixed identity shows up in his music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity — for the full version, listen to the audio at the top of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2250px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit.png\" alt=\"A weathered white and light blue house sits in the middle as a young man in a light pink track suit points toward it with one hand, while holding his grandmother with the other. To the left, three teenagers are gathered as two kneel on the sidewalk playing dice.\" width=\"2250\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit.png 2250w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-2048x2048.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/1176-no-edit-1920x1920.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap and his grandmother looking at the West Oakland house he grew up in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On growing up with his grandparents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of my creativity and explorative intent just came from [my grandfather, Douglas]. He was super handy in carpentry and home improvement. I probably get everything else in my life from my grandma. She is the most hard-working, sacrificial person ever. She doesn’t have a selfish bone in her body. I actually want her to be more selfish. I watched her work so many under-the-table jobs, fight to get legalized, even dealing with breast cancer and she’s still here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Guap, rapper and musician\"]‘[My home] was really like a cultural hub for the neighborhood because my grandma would cook so much Filipino food.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We had a lot of fruit trees — a calamansi tree, which is a Filipino citrus fruit, a cherry tree, and an apple tree. And [my home] was really like a cultural hub for the neighborhood because my grandma would cook so much Filipino food, and we had an open-door policy. We had a lot of food and we shared it a lot so that my house was a home, not only to me growing up, but to a lot of my friends and people around us. My circle got so used to eating it that they kind of expected certain dishes: pancit, adobo, lumpia especially. I think that’s from the nature of my relationship with my grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943568 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Filipina grandmother in a fuzzy, brown coat and wearing sunglasses smiles as she poses for a photo with her grandson, who towers above her and lays his cheek on top of his head, wears a pink, knitted sweater and silver durag.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/fnf-14-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap and his grandmother, Corazon Mckinzy, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On navigating Blackness in the Filipino community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There was a lot of love inherently and a lot of acceptance, but there was also a lot of subtle racism. Even the Filipino elders, who I was receiving it from, didn’t really understand that it was racist. I never played sports, but I got compared to almost every athlete, mostly basketball players. And I used to be so irritated by that. I don’t want to be compared to them. There was even light pressure to get me to try to play basketball, and it got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More from The California Report’s ‘Mixed’ series\" tag=\"mixed\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was little things that built up over time. Comments and assumptions. Now, I know that a lot of my mischievousness as a child was because of ADHD. [Back then] I’d fiddle around with something and get in trouble and that was because I was the Black kid, not because something else was troubling me. 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A stack of blue, plastic chairs are off to the side.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap with his extended family in the Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On performing at an LA Clippers game for Filipino Heritage Night\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shout out to the homie Roslynn and her company, 1587. She’s a connector for a lot of Filipino American artists, and because of her, I was able to perform at halftime at the Crypto Arena. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking up at 15,000 people or something like that. It was a great vibe and I was just super humbled by it. When things like that happen, it doesn’t even hit me until I get home and I just smile about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7siF0VKjY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On tapping into his roots when creating the song ‘Chicken Adobo’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was making this album with !llmind, who’s Filipino as well, and we were just kind of going over Filipino goals. [Like] what do I want out of this project? And I was like, you know, I always wanted a song that the Filipino kids or the islander kids with the ukulele can sing at the talent show, because we all know they’re going to do it. He was going through some beats and he was like, “You know, I have the perfect one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DaovaJgytE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I was like, man, this makes me feel so warm. I want to make a love song. But if it’s for Filipino kids, I’ll talk about chicken adobo. That’s my favorite food. And eating food reminds me of love [and] love for family. It’s always food when I think about the old house, you know? So I was trying to channel that energy into the song, which is why I’m comparing the love of food to my love for this girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1708px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943561 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper, musician Guap performs live on stage at a concert. He holds a mic in his hand as he wears a white tank top and red and orange-patterned pants.\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-scaled.jpg 1708w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-78-1920x2879.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap performing at a live concert in Manila, Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On advice for fellow mixed-race artists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I need all my mixed people to talk about it. Express yourself. Express your vantage point, your perspective and put that in your art, especially to the artists. Let it become a part of your identity. I promise [that] the more you are self-aware, the less writer’s block you have. You don’t have to make anything up or fabricate anything when you can fully tap in with yourself. So don’t deny your art that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[hearken id=\"7528\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/7528.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She’s a connector for a lot of Filipino American artists, and because of her, I was able to perform at halftime at the Crypto Arena. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking up at 15,000 people or something like that. It was a great vibe and I was just super humbled by it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. This is about years of environmental waste that’s impacting a specific community, when I say years, I’m talking about 30 to 40 years of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Longer even\u003c/em>, I thought to myself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a noise outside the door interrupted the discussion. \u003cem>I’m about to slap these little girls in the face, so somebody better go get them right now\u003c/em>, said an adult’s voice from the hallway. \u003cem>Where is the principal? … I’m not dealing with this anymore. I done had every emotion this week, and they want to come in here being disrespectful…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, tensions were high, and even the adults were on edge. Our circle sat quietly as the voice outside passed by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor briefly stepped out to address the noise, while Ms. Saba broke the silence. “I don’t want ya’ll to get distracted, I want ya’ll to focus on what ya’ll want to share and what’s important to ya’ll. We have one more question before we close out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She instructed everyone to take a deep breath. “What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible? And what do you need? What do you personally need from your principal and from yourself and from your peers?” asked Ms. Saba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor held the talking piece and said, “From everybody, we need a little compassion and a little understanding. Everybody’s anxiety levels are already past ten… The students, I need them to understand that, it’s not their fault, and it’s not our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor then somberly brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/funeral-services-set-for-mcclymonds-football-standout-darryl-aikens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Aikens\u003c/a>, who was one of his students and who died of leukemia in 2017. “Everybody keeps using him as an excuse, you know, ‘He caught cancer from the school,’” Principal Taylor said in air-quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t even know his mom. Don’t know his family. And they keep putting him out there, and it’s making his mother sick. His grandmother sick… I just want it to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa from OUSD’s central office took the talking piece, and noted that “compassion and empathy” are required on all fronts; she concluded by asking that the students, “Continue to be that voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>iles, designer scarf around his forehead and a big jacket, took the talking piece and brought the discussion to another form of toxicity that exists at many schools, not just McClymonds. “What I need from the staff is for them to show that they actually care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that some faculty members bring their own issues with them to the classroom, and leave it to the students to educate themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to be teaching us, we’re not adults yet. I’m only in the 10th grade,” said Miles. “They’re looking at us like we’re 35. Like we’re supposed to be teaching them. They’ve gotta teach us.” He was met with at least one person’s supportive applause when he made that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talking piece landed back in Ms. Saba’s hands. She closed the circle by thanking all the participants and ended by sharing a quote from Margaret Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,” she recited. “Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aggregatespacegallery.org/\">Aggregate Space Gallery\u003c/a>, the artist-run gallery displaced from its Oakland warehouse location of seven years last July, will reopen blocks away in a two-story unit previously occupied by a circus company in a move that promises stability and more than doubles its exhibition space. [aside postID=arts_13851268,arts_13847646,arts_13851209]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate founders Conrad and Willis Meyers, whose video and installation curating and museum-quality exhibitions made ASG a standout Oakland gallery, called the 3,500 square-foot commercial space at 1255 26th Street a lifeline in a forbidding rental market. “We can do everything we used to, plus the things we’ve dreamed of—and not be so cold,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a tour, the Meyers described the possibilities of an anticipated $150,000 buildout: A screening room upstairs in what was originally a performance venue with 20-foot high ceilings, and workspace for a residency program in one of the rooms along the mezzanine. Conrad, who’s also a contractor, was relieved to point out fire sprinklers and a wheelchair-accessible elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg\" alt=\"Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1200x731.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Downstairs is a large storefront with additional rooms for office or studio space. There the Meyers see an opportunity for both earned income and community engagement: Before opening, they plan to host neighbors to learn what kind of subtenant could fill the needs of the immediate area. “We want to involve neighbors in this process from the beginning,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New works by Nasim Moghadam, a Bay Area photographer and multimedia artist, will mark Aggregate’s first solo show in the new space, and 68th exhibition overall, come Friday, Apr. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downstairs portion opens Friday, Feb. 7 to show \u003cem>Invulnerable Routes\u003c/em>, a month-long exhibition derived from the gallery’s annual open call for video. The selections, curated by Conrad and Shaghayegh Cyrous, address relationships to society outside patriarchal structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlords, Jacqueline Jackson and her daughter Shannon, a scholar of art and social change at UC Berkeley, will provide the Meyers a decreasing rent subsidy over five years. The deal allows Aggregate, a nonprofit organization, to recover the fundraising momentum lost with its former home. The Jacksons “get Aggregate,” Willis said. “They’re officially our biggest donors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg\" alt=\"The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery's new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery’s new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Storied Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Meyers hesitated. As KQED\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847646/uc-berkeley-art-professor-displaces-dance-studio-to-create-new-art-space\"> previously reported\u003c/a>, the Jacksons displaced Skyhigh Odditorium, a circus arts studio in the space since 2012, after buying the property in 2017, a move seen as hypocritical given their mission to buoy the arts. “We’ve also struggled with a landlord, so we related,” Conrad said. “Whatever happens in our old place, I’ll probably be pissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Jackson, a prominent figure in the local arts funding establishment, earlier declined to address displacing Skyhigh Odditorium in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she declined to renew the lease for Skyhigh and another tenant, an unpermitted cannabis cultivator, due to “all kinds of health and safety violations,” and that she restored the units to code compliance at “significant expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyhigh Odditorium founder Madamn Burnz, a circus performer and teacher, said that she’s pleased to learn another arts organization is taking over the space. But she bristled at Jackson’s assertion of safety shortcomings. “That’s bullshit—the place was a dump and we remodeled it,” she said. “If that was her concern why didn’t she say so? … I never even met her before she evicted us.” (Jackson disputes this.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg\" alt=\"Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she has a sideline in Oakland real estate investment, Jackson said she acquired the $3.7 million property, which has 11 live-work units in addition to the commercial space, to create the conditions for an “adventurous aesthetic experiment while also adhering to codes for health and safety.” She continued, “We needed a partner who would be transparent and work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping up Momentum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate was displaced from its Grand Avenue location last year after the owner insisted on a $1,500 monthly rent hike and for the Meyers to absorb the cost of an estimated $50,000 in code compliance work. The gallery had doubled its annual operating budget every year for the four years prior, in 2018 reaching $142,000, and was beginning to win grants from national funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870004/flight-deck-oaklands-only-black-box-theater-to-close-in-march\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Deck theater’s displacement\u003c/a>, showed the difficulties for Oakland’s growing and creatively rich but not yet institutional arts organizations. In the interim, Aggregate relocated \u003cem>Flash Point\u003c/em>, a video exhibition by Chicago artist Jefferson Pinder, to the San Francisco Art Institute. Oakland artist Leila Weefur sold an edition of \u003cem>Between Beauty & Horror\u003c/em>, which debuted at one of ASG’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851209/leila-weefur-positions-black-experience-between-beauty-horror\">final shows\u003c/a> in the old gallery, to Kadist gallery in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13851534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg\" alt=\"Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallerys original location on Grand Avenue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallery’s original location on Grand Avenue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before settling on the 26th St. location, the Meyers toured the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, which Orton Development is marketing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861121/kaiser-auditorium-redevelopment-proceeds-with-permanent-affordability-for-arts-groups\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">partly to nonprofits\u003c/a>, and met with other real estate developers seeking commercial tenants below new housing. At the previous location in early 2019, Conrad \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851268/despite-doubling-budget-aggregate-space-gallery-faces-displacement\">said\u003c/a> Aggregate wouldn’t move into “the all-windows bottom-floor of condos that’ll be a Gap by 2024.” As it turned out, Aggregate couldn’t afford the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pitch was a five-year partnership where we meet fundraising benchmarks and then accept rent increases,” Conrad said. “No one was receptive until the Jacksons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate struck Shannon Jackson as an organization with proven fundraising and curatorial abilities that needed a runway to fiscal stability, and developed the unique lease terms as an experiment. The rent subsidy is also intended to nudge other property owners “to figure out what we can do to sustain the Bay Area cultural life that we all say we adore,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Reimagining’ the Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property is the site of earlier experiments: In the 2000s, the Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating the solar-powered live-work units and performance space on what was previously an underground venue called the “Noodle Factory,” keeping the name. The plan excited the local performing arts community, but the land trust’s project floundered amid the 2008 financial crisis, and an investment firm bought the property out of foreclosure in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Burnz leased the space in 2012, it’d been neglected for years. She redid the floors and walls, and treated the place for bedbugs. The landlord at the time, Urban Green Investments, installed a since-removed kitchen and shower. Skyhigh offered classes in pole and aerial dancing, and subleased workspace to other artists. “We brought it back to life,” Burnz said. Since being displaced, Skyhigh has operated out of a nearby studio and a Richmond fitness facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The land trust planned affordable live-work condominiums occupied by working artists who could also use the performance and rehearsal space. Jackson revived the Noodle Factory moniker in a nod to the vision, and said she’s interested in integrating the various tenants. In November, 2018 Jackson and the San Francisco nonprofit Community Arts Stabilization Trust hosted an event attended by local artists and gallerists billed “Reimagining the Noodle Factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who last fall joined Oakland city officials in an “empowering artists” delegation to France, said that when the Noodle Factory came on the market, she sensed an opportunity. “My mother and I wanted to use our connection to the field of real estate to support a space that could be the embodiment of our values,” she said. Other bidders, she said, wanted to redevelop the whole site. “So we saw it was about to become another story in the gentrification chronicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Meyers poured their personal resources into the Grand Avenue warehouse in 2011 without a long-term plan for sustainability they were “overconfident and naive,” Conrad said. Now, though, he feels the gallery is fortunate to have a financial partner in the Jacksons who also appreciate Aggregate’s mission. “I want people to have the feeling here that nothing like this will ever happen again,” Conrad said. “And come back in four weeks to feel like that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: This article has been updated to clarify that Skyhigh Odditorium was not legally evicted, but that its lease was not renewed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate founders Conrad and Willis Meyers, whose video and installation curating and museum-quality exhibitions made ASG a standout Oakland gallery, called the 3,500 square-foot commercial space at 1255 26th Street a lifeline in a forbidding rental market. “We can do everything we used to, plus the things we’ve dreamed of—and not be so cold,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a tour, the Meyers described the possibilities of an anticipated $150,000 buildout: A screening room upstairs in what was originally a performance venue with 20-foot high ceilings, and workspace for a residency program in one of the rooms along the mezzanine. Conrad, who’s also a contractor, was relieved to point out fire sprinklers and a wheelchair-accessible elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg\" alt=\"Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-768x468.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1-1200x731.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aggregate Space Gallery was displaced from its West Oakland location of nine years in 2018. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Downstairs is a large storefront with additional rooms for office or studio space. There the Meyers see an opportunity for both earned income and community engagement: Before opening, they plan to host neighbors to learn what kind of subtenant could fill the needs of the immediate area. “We want to involve neighbors in this process from the beginning,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New works by Nasim Moghadam, a Bay Area photographer and multimedia artist, will mark Aggregate’s first solo show in the new space, and 68th exhibition overall, come Friday, Apr. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downstairs portion opens Friday, Feb. 7 to show \u003cem>Invulnerable Routes\u003c/em>, a month-long exhibition derived from the gallery’s annual open call for video. The selections, curated by Conrad and Shaghayegh Cyrous, address relationships to society outside patriarchal structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landlords, Jacqueline Jackson and her daughter Shannon, a scholar of art and social change at UC Berkeley, will provide the Meyers a decreasing rent subsidy over five years. The deal allows Aggregate, a nonprofit organization, to recover the fundraising momentum lost with its former home. The Jacksons “get Aggregate,” Willis said. “They’re officially our biggest donors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg\" alt=\"The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery's new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/3-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mezzanine-lined upstairs portion of Aggregate Space Gallery’s new 1255 26th Street location was originally build as a performance venue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Storied Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Meyers hesitated. As KQED\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13847646/uc-berkeley-art-professor-displaces-dance-studio-to-create-new-art-space\"> previously reported\u003c/a>, the Jacksons displaced Skyhigh Odditorium, a circus arts studio in the space since 2012, after buying the property in 2017, a move seen as hypocritical given their mission to buoy the arts. “We’ve also struggled with a landlord, so we related,” Conrad said. “Whatever happens in our old place, I’ll probably be pissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shannon Jackson, a prominent figure in the local arts funding establishment, earlier declined to address displacing Skyhigh Odditorium in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she declined to renew the lease for Skyhigh and another tenant, an unpermitted cannabis cultivator, due to “all kinds of health and safety violations,” and that she restored the units to code compliance at “significant expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyhigh Odditorium founder Madamn Burnz, a circus performer and teacher, said that she’s pleased to learn another arts organization is taking over the space. But she bristled at Jackson’s assertion of safety shortcomings. “That’s bullshit—the place was a dump and we remodeled it,” she said. “If that was her concern why didn’t she say so? … I never even met her before she evicted us.” (Jackson disputes this.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg\" alt=\"Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Madamn-Burnz-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madamn Burnz founded dance studio and events space Skyhigh Odditorium in 2012. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she has a sideline in Oakland real estate investment, Jackson said she acquired the $3.7 million property, which has 11 live-work units in addition to the commercial space, to create the conditions for an “adventurous aesthetic experiment while also adhering to codes for health and safety.” She continued, “We needed a partner who would be transparent and work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping up Momentum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate was displaced from its Grand Avenue location last year after the owner insisted on a $1,500 monthly rent hike and for the Meyers to absorb the cost of an estimated $50,000 in code compliance work. The gallery had doubled its annual operating budget every year for the four years prior, in 2018 reaching $142,000, and was beginning to win grants from national funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870004/flight-deck-oaklands-only-black-box-theater-to-close-in-march\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Deck theater’s displacement\u003c/a>, showed the difficulties for Oakland’s growing and creatively rich but not yet institutional arts organizations. In the interim, Aggregate relocated \u003cem>Flash Point\u003c/em>, a video exhibition by Chicago artist Jefferson Pinder, to the San Francisco Art Institute. Oakland artist Leila Weefur sold an edition of \u003cem>Between Beauty & Horror\u003c/em>, which debuted at one of ASG’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851209/leila-weefur-positions-black-experience-between-beauty-horror\">final shows\u003c/a> in the old gallery, to Kadist gallery in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13851534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg\" alt=\"Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallerys original location on Grand Avenue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/seated-5-e1580347958946-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conrad and Willis Meyers sit in the workshop at Aggregate Space Gallery’s original location on Grand Avenue. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before settling on the 26th St. location, the Meyers toured the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, which Orton Development is marketing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861121/kaiser-auditorium-redevelopment-proceeds-with-permanent-affordability-for-arts-groups\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">partly to nonprofits\u003c/a>, and met with other real estate developers seeking commercial tenants below new housing. At the previous location in early 2019, Conrad \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851268/despite-doubling-budget-aggregate-space-gallery-faces-displacement\">said\u003c/a> Aggregate wouldn’t move into “the all-windows bottom-floor of condos that’ll be a Gap by 2024.” As it turned out, Aggregate couldn’t afford the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pitch was a five-year partnership where we meet fundraising benchmarks and then accept rent increases,” Conrad said. “No one was receptive until the Jacksons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregate struck Shannon Jackson as an organization with proven fundraising and curatorial abilities that needed a runway to fiscal stability, and developed the unique lease terms as an experiment. The rent subsidy is also intended to nudge other property owners “to figure out what we can do to sustain the Bay Area cultural life that we all say we adore,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Reimagining’ the Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property is the site of earlier experiments: In the 2000s, the Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating the solar-powered live-work units and performance space on what was previously an underground venue called the “Noodle Factory,” keeping the name. The plan excited the local performing arts community, but the land trust’s project floundered amid the 2008 financial crisis, and an investment firm bought the property out of foreclosure in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Burnz leased the space in 2012, it’d been neglected for years. She redid the floors and walls, and treated the place for bedbugs. The landlord at the time, Urban Green Investments, installed a since-removed kitchen and shower. Skyhigh offered classes in pole and aerial dancing, and subleased workspace to other artists. “We brought it back to life,” Burnz said. Since being displaced, Skyhigh has operated out of a nearby studio and a Richmond fitness facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13847686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Noodle-Factory-e1580348117675-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern California Land Trust spent millions creating 11 live-work units and the performance and rehearsal space at what was known as the Noodle Factory. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The land trust planned affordable live-work condominiums occupied by working artists who could also use the performance and rehearsal space. Jackson revived the Noodle Factory moniker in a nod to the vision, and said she’s interested in integrating the various tenants. In November, 2018 Jackson and the San Francisco nonprofit Community Arts Stabilization Trust hosted an event attended by local artists and gallerists billed “Reimagining the Noodle Factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who last fall joined Oakland city officials in an “empowering artists” delegation to France, said that when the Noodle Factory came on the market, she sensed an opportunity. “My mother and I wanted to use our connection to the field of real estate to support a space that could be the embodiment of our values,” she said. Other bidders, she said, wanted to redevelop the whole site. “So we saw it was about to become another story in the gentrification chronicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Meyers poured their personal resources into the Grand Avenue warehouse in 2011 without a long-term plan for sustainability they were “overconfident and naive,” Conrad said. Now, though, he feels the gallery is fortunate to have a financial partner in the Jacksons who also appreciate Aggregate’s mission. “I want people to have the feeling here that nothing like this will ever happen again,” Conrad said. “And come back in four weeks to feel like that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Less than a mile from a West Oakland house that a group of mothers, widely known as Moms 4 Housing, occupied in protest against real estate speculation sits another house, another mom with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gayla Newsome was among the first East Bay residents to begin fighting foreclosures during the financial mortgage crisis with the help of community activist groups which put pressure on banks. They also used some of the same protest tactics that unfolded over the last two months with the Moms 4 Housing group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coalition of homeless and marginally housed mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced a major victory on Monday\u003c/a> following their high-profile, months-long occupation of a vacant West Oakland home. Activists and moms Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim started living at 2928 Magnolia St. without permission in November to bring attention to Oakland's housing and homelessness crisis, and to protest real estate speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a legal battle that culminated in Walker's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eviction\u003c/a>, Moms 4 Housing said a deal had been reached for them to buy the home. Wedgewood Inc., the investment company that owns the home — along with dozens of others in Oakland — agreed to sell it to the Oakland Community Land Trust, through which the moms could then purchase it. The moms plan to make it a headquarters for their movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the first time people have prevailed after taking over a home in Oakland to protest displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2011, Gayla Newsome broke the kitchen window of a house on Adeline Street — the same house she had raised her kids in — after she was evicted following a foreclosure. It’s where she pasted notes with legal language she scribbled down on loose paper at the advice of her attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody knows this as the 'occupy house,' \" said Newsome as she walked through the downstairs of her two-story townhouse in the Victoria Court complex in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above the sink sits a white ceramic angel, a gift from a supporter during the months-long occupation to keep the house safe. More than eight years later, Newsome said it’s still doing its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Gayla Newsome\"]'This is for my entire West Oakland community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome originally bought the cream-colored townhouse in 1997 for about $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the first person to buy one of the homes in this development,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things started to unravel around the economic downturn. Newsome lost her job running a local nonprofit. She got divorced, and her two daughters were both in college out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Newsome decided she needed to take out a second loan. “And I got behind on that second loan,” she said. “So the second lender placed a foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome remembers clearly what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I was at work one day and my daughter called me and she said, ‘Mom, the sheriff is here. And we are outside with two emergency suitcases and they've already changed the locks,’ ” Newsome remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11797085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40814_20200120GaylaNewsomeMS_1-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gayla Newsome was evicted from her West Oakland home in 2011 after it was foreclosed on, but she eventually won it back by occupying it. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home was auctioned off to an investor and she was evicted. Newsome was given four hours to collect all her belongings that were locked inside. Most of her things ended up left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a motel with her daughters in Silicon Valley, where she worked as a technology salesperson. Eventually, she moved back in with her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the Occupy movement was beginning to expand beyond Wall Street, and a new movement was taking place to reclaim vacant property and homes lost to the foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome heard about it and got in touch with local organizers, which included \u003ca href=\"https://occupyoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Occupy Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland ACCE\u003c/a>, the group that has been working recently with Moms 4 Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she made a decision: She was going to do whatever it took to move back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I said I've got to take that risk because I've gotta get my house back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occupation took months. Most nights Newsome slept on the floor in a sleeping bag alongside her two older daughters. The constant battle with law enforcement took its toll. Newsome ended up having to take time off work because of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Moms 4 Housing, the movement around Newsome’s home swelled with supporters, eager to act as eviction defense when the sheriff showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever anybody — a mayor, law enforcement, homeowner's association — if anybody like that showed up, somebody hit the phone tree,” she said. “And there was like a human barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And organizers began to take on the banks. For two hours, they shut down the branch of Chase Bank in downtown Oakland where Newsome had her mortgage. Activists flew to San Diego to protest outside the office of Residential Capital Mortgage Income Fund, the second lender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome made her own personal plea to the CEO of that lender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put it all in a letter to him to explain my total situation,” Newsome said. “And when I wrote him the personal letter, they took the second loan off basically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually got the deed back and is once again the rightful owner of her house. But she said the fight was bigger than just her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is for my entire West Oakland community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"moms-4-housing\" label=\"Moms 4 housing\"]Newsome pointed out other homes on her block that neighbors have lost to foreclosure, many of them in the same complex she lives in. Sometimes she doesn’t even realize it's happened until they're gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who used to live in Oakland, they can't afford to even rent on this block,” let alone be a homeowner, Newsome said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As gentrification has crossed the bay, Newsome has seen her black and brown neighbors priced out of a changing Oakland. Her own house increased in value by more than four times its original sale price. It’s now estimated on Zillow to be worth just under $700,000. Most of the other homes on her block are going for even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a million-dollar block now,\" Newsome said. \"And that's what's going on in this community. That's what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome has been following the Moms 4 Housing story closely. Earlier this month, she met the moms shortly before they were evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said while their stories aren't identical, they strike a similar chord. They’re stories of the trauma and pain of eviction, of seeing your hometown change and witnessing how close you can be to living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So people like myself, people like Moms 4 Housing, that's that voice,\" she said. \"Those people finally have a voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A voice, Newsome said, for people who are still fighting every day to stay in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome originally bought the cream-colored townhouse in 1997 for about $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the first person to buy one of the homes in this development,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things started to unravel around the economic downturn. Newsome lost her job running a local nonprofit. She got divorced, and her two daughters were both in college out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Newsome decided she needed to take out a second loan. “And I got behind on that second loan,” she said. “So the second lender placed a foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsome remembers clearly what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I was at work one day and my daughter called me and she said, ‘Mom, the sheriff is here. 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And we’re not leaving,” she told media and supporters outside the home Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney said Walker has no valid rights of possession to the home on Magnolia Street, which is owned by Redondo Beach-based real estate investment group Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, McKinney said “the court recognizes the importance of these issues, but, as raised in connection with Ms. Walker’s claim of right to possession, finds that they are outside the scope of this proceeding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795616\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40725_Moms4Housing_Solomon011020-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Walker with Moms 4 Housing speaks to media and supporters outside 2928 Magnolia Street, a vacant house that she has lived in without permission from the owner since Nov. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker, 34, and other mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">began occupying the three-bedroom home on Magnolia Street in November\u003c/a> to avoid living on the streets. The mothers said the house had been vacant for two years, and that they were acting partly in protest against speculators buying up properties in the Bay Area and leaving them empty amid a growing homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Dominique Walker, Moms 4 Housing']'Today is not a defeat. This is the beginning of a movement.'[/pullquote]The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said it plans to enforce the court's eviction order. Spokesman Sgt. 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At the December hearing, he had expressed doubts that the courtroom was the right venue to hear these arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice is served,” Sam Singer, a Wedgewood spokesman, said in a statement. “The court’s ruling is the correct legal, moral and ethical judgment against the squatters that broke in and illegally occupied the company’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Sam Singer, a Wedgewood spokesman']'The court’s ruling is the correct legal, moral and ethical judgment against the squatters that broke in and illegally occupied the company’s home.'[/pullquote]Despite the judge’s ruling against her, Walker intends to keep fighting for her right to housing. And, she said, she won’t stop until every person experiencing homelessness has shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is not a defeat,” she said. “This is the beginning of a movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Leah Simon-Weisberg, who is representing Walker, said they weren't surprised by the ruling: “We understand that the court's hands are tied because in this country, property rights are valued over human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why the California Constitution needs to be amended to include the right to housing,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms 4 Housing has gained support from California lawmakers and Oakland city officials, including City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Nikki Fortunato Bas. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said it plans to enforce the court's eviction order. Spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said the department has offered to discuss alternative housing solutions with the mothers, but its offer for a sit-down conversation was rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does not appear that they are willing to meet us halfway,” said Kelly. “They have decided that they are staying put and are wanting to take this case to the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney has been considering the ruling since he heard oral arguments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793299/moms-4-housing-in-oakland-vow-to-fight-potential-eviction\">Dec. 30\u003c/a>. Attorneys for Walker argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793704/west-oakland-housing-human-right-moms4housing\">housing is a human right\u003c/a>, and that if the moms were evicted, their constitutional rights would be severely impacted. The judge had previously made a tentative ruling in favor of Wedgewood. At the December hearing, he had expressed doubts that the courtroom was the right venue to hear these arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice is served,” Sam Singer, a Wedgewood spokesman, said in a statement. “The court’s ruling is the correct legal, moral and ethical judgment against the squatters that broke in and illegally occupied the company’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters for two mothers who moved into a vacant house in West Oakland without permission say they plan to protest any effort to evict them as they wait for a judge to decide whether they can stay or must go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Patrick McKinney heard the arguments of the newly formed group called Moms 4 Housing early Monday, with about 100 of their supporters turning up at the Hayward Hall of Justice. McKinney is expected to issue a ruling later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, an Oakland activist\"]‘If I’m sleeping in the streets with my children and you refuse to give me housing, your expectation is that I continue to lay there in the streets with my child and die? No!’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinney issued a tentative ruling last week in favor of Wedgewood, the Redondo-Beach based real estate investment group that owns the property. But the mothers remain hopeful since the judge did not immediately reject their claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We consider that a win for right now,” Dominique Walker told reporters outside the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EHarringtonTV/status/1211710412250472448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker, 34, and Sameerah Karim, 41, began occupying the three-bedroom home on Magnolia Street\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in November\u003c/a> to avoid living on the streets. The mothers said the house had been vacant for two years, and they were acting partly in protest against speculators buying up property in the Bay Area and leaving them empty amid a growing homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the women argue that housing is a human right. In a brief filed with the court, attorneys Leah Simon-Weisberg and Micah Clatterbaugh said the home in West Oakland was located in a community severely impacted by the housing crisis and if evicted, the mothers would “face the dangerous and untenable conditions of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11793436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11793436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40616_IMG_2285-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks in support of the group Moms 4 Housing outside the Hayward Hall of Justice. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at Monday’s hearing, the judge remained skeptical that the courts were the right way to resolve there conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt these are extremely important issues, but I think it’s finding the right venue and the right case for that,” he said. “I’m not convinced that this is the case, but I’ll certainly consider all the arguments presented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg said there is legal precedent that housing is a human right under international law — an argument the courts should recognize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wedgewood spokesperson Sam Singer to Oakland officials pushing for the developer to negotiate a deal\"]‘… you are encouraging criminal activity, in this instance the theft of people’s property.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The need has arisen to such a point that the courts must, are able and have the authority to intervene,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Wedgewood disagreed, calling the mothers trespassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The claim must be denied,” said attorney Francisco Gutierrez. “Trespassers do not have the right to possession of the property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Monday’s hearing, about 125 people met outside the West Oakland home on Magnolia Street. Many linked arms, forming lines with their bodies around the house, as people stood up on the porch to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m sleeping in the streets with my children and you refuse to give me housing, your expectation is that I continue to lay there in the streets with my child and die? No!” said Cat Brooks, an Oakland activist who unsuccessfully ran for mayor last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll Fife, director of the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, became emotional as she described how living in the home has already changed the lives of the mothers and their children: Sunday night, the kids put clean sheets on their beds and started decorating the room. The week before, a Christmas tree stood in the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fife said the support for these mothers needs to continue and include others in the community who are grappling with the region’s housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101875112,news_11792889,news_11791573\" \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">label=\u003c/i>\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need students for housing, we need teachers for housing, we need janitors for housing,” said Fife. “We need everybody for housing, because it is a human right that you need to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the group’s supporters was Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are doing is incredibly brave,” Bas\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/katewolffe/status/1211717055314980864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> told the women\u003c/a> after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bas, fellow Councilmember Dan Kalb and Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan have urged Wedgewood to negotiate a sale of the home to the nonprofit Oakland Community Land Trust, which has previously worked with the city to buy vacant properties to sell to low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this judge looks at this conflict between the right to adequate housing, and the right for speculators to profit — I want to be on the side of these moms,” Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood rejected the offer and said it won’t work out a deal until the mothers vacate the property. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/katewolffe/status/1211415190761164800?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a response letter\u003c/a> to the Oakland officials, Wedgewood spokesperson Sam Singer said the company is “deeply concerned that you are encouraging criminal activity, in this instance the theft of people’s property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Judge McKinney rules against the mothers, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said they will carry out the eviction likely after Jan. 1. 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