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She says, while social media is a powerful tool for activism, “There’s no way to not be exposed to the vitriol” you get in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrities are amplifiers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar-winning actor and \u003cem>Thelma & Louise\u003c/em> star Susan Sarandon describes her lifelong activism as something that’s ingrained in her being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a personality flaw,” she laughs, “I mean, when I was little, I thought that my dolls all came alive at midnight, and I rotated their dresses so one doll didn’t have all the nice dresses all the time. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODEPINK\"]‘We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves.’[/pullquote]Sarandon recently attended a protest calling for a cease-fire on Capitol Hill organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.codepink.org/\">CODEPINK\u003c/a>. The feminist group alerted the press she was coming. \u003cem>NBC\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Al Jazeera\u003c/em> and other outlets showed up. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin says Sarandon’s presence was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves,” she gushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the Congress people. Sarandon met with Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. But Ritchie Torres refused to see her. Sarandon told reporters she suspected that’s because he receives money from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. On social media, Torres says Sarandon trafficked in “anti-Semitic victim blaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the harsh repercussions that can result, some artists are still using their star power to call for a cease-fire. Fans of \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer learned that she and dozens of anti-war protesters were arrested earlier this week in the lobby of NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, timed to President Biden’s interview on \u003cem>Late Night with Seth Meyers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schafer’s arrest was covered by numerous media outlets, including the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hunter-schafer-arrest-protest-israel-gaza-biden-seth-myers-e1cd343fae8d02dbd322dfa7ebec4775\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/02/28/hunter-schafer-arrested-anti-zionism-israel-hamas-war-rally/72772198007/\">\u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-28/hunter-schafer-euphoria-arrest-in-cease-fire-30-rock-jvp\">\u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>amplifying the cease-fire message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But backlash can be swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will and Grace \u003c/em>star Debra Messing is one of several celebrities who’ve been outspoken in their support of Israel. Others include actors Michael Rapaport and Amy Schumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March for Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPA_gww57Q\">rally\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., last November, Messing told the crowd of some 300,000 people, “We will pray for the success of the IDF in a war Israel did not start and did not want but a war Israel will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messing also traveled to Israel and met with family members of hostages held by Hamas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C1V0PoQxVCa/\">posted\u003c/a> videos of those visits on social media. She visited a tunnel built by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her trip was coordinated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/\">Creative Community for Peace\u003c/a> (CCFP), an organization working to “promote the arts as a bridge to peace” and “educate about rising antisemitism within the entertainment industry.” The trips to Israel are intended to help artists “bear witness to what happened in the kibbutzim to meet people and survivors of the attack,” CCFP’s executive director Ari Ingel says. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ari Ingel, executive director, Creative Community for Peace\"]‘I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation.’[/pullquote]While many people on social media thanked Messing for sharing stories about the hostages and their families, she was also called out for only talking about one side of the conflict and not addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza or the tens of thousands of Palestinians who Israeli forces have killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something about standing with a colonial force that is expelling people from their homes and killing thousands of civilians doesn’t exactly say ‘activist,'” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzXy3deMR4I/\">reads one comment\u003c/a> on Messing’s Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says more than 2,000 artists and industry leaders, including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jerry Seinfeld, Mayim Bialik, Chris Pine and Michael Douglas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2023/10/12/israel-under-attack-open-letter/\">signed CCFP’s open letter supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter calls for the “entertainment community to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war, and do whatever is in their power to urge the terrorist organization to return the innocent hostages to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says celebrities who’ve spoken up in support of Israel have faced “condemnation.” He points to a \u003ca href=\"https://cnycentral.com/news/local/activists-march-for-shut-it-down-for-palestine-movement-through-downtown-syracuse\">protest\u003c/a> outside a Syracuse theater where Seinfeld performed. Equally troubling, he says, was the “silence” from individuals and organizations after the Hamas attacks. He points to the Writers Guild of America \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-israel-attack-open-letter-1235756946/\">waiting\u003c/a> more than two weeks to comment on the atrocity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation,” Ingel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong> ‘Taking a stand’ vs. ‘Nag, Nag, Nag’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the storied March on Washington in 1963, the late activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/archival-video-harry-belafonte-speaks-march-washington-1963-45832971\">told the crowd\u003c/a> that he believed artists “revealed” society to itself. Sometimes, that means revealing things that are hard to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda has done that often throughout her life. In 1973, speaking to KQED about the Vietnam War, she asked, “What business have we to try and exterminate a people?” Fonda was insistent, “My father fought against people in the Second World War who were trying to exterminate a people. I don’t think today we should repudiate everything that our fathers fought against.”[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']Fonda was widely criticized for things she said about U.S. troops in Vietnam. But her antiwar stance resonated with millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often see celebrities getting a lot of backlash for their activism when they speak out about foreign policy,” says Sarah King, an assistant professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Aiken who has studied celebrity activism \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12458\">during\u003c/a> the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash appears to be especially degrading toward women, King says. She notes that Fonda’s activism was described more harshly than her fellow actor Donald Sutherland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is discussed as taking a stand, whereas Jane Fonda is described in much more negative terms,” King notes. “\u003cem>Nag, Nag, Nag,”\u003c/em> read the headline of a 1971 \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.life.com/page/29/?p=0\">article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should artists speak out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We live in a time … where celebrity voices matter more than most,” says Rania Batrice, who spearheaded the Artists4Ceasefire \u003ca href=\"https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/\">letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Biden and signed by more than 300 people, including Jon Stewart, Jordan Peele, Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the letter cites the tens of thousands of dead and injured, “numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic,” it says. “We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batrice says many of the artists were discouraged from signing the letter by their agents or publicists, and those who did face pushback from friends and others in the entertainment industry.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rania Batrice, activist and leader in creating the Artists4Ceasefire letter]‘I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.’[/pullquote]Still, Batrice believes if they have a platform, they should use it to help those who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of have this expectation that people will step up and utilize their privilege,” Batrice says, “I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor Melissa Barrera has vowed to continue her activism. She was fired from the cast of the next \u003cem>Scream \u003c/em>movie when she posted pro-Palestinian messages on social media. But instead of retreating, she doubled down. She issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz-SbMgsjGQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">statement\u003c/a> that says she condemned “Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia” and that she would, quote, “continue to speak out for those that need it most.” She joined a protest calling for a cease-fire at the Sundance Film Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/movie-premieres-movies-park-city-utah-melissa-barrera-6bcfc464baad4b3e87b5fb3258ce8da7\">expressed\u003c/a> no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like I finally am becoming who I’m supposed to be in life, and the last few months have been awakening of that,” she told the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists, a publicist told me, are “supposed to show emotion … That’s the whole point of art.” He preferred not to be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Middle East crisis has sharply divided Hollywood. Celebrities who've spoken out have lost jobs and been harassed. But there's a long history of celebrities lending their voices to bigger causes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709346519,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1911},"headData":{"title":"As Celebrities Join Protests, Media Follows — and So Does the Backlash | KQED","description":"The Middle East crisis has sharply divided Hollywood. Celebrities who've spoken out have lost jobs and been harassed. But there's a long history of celebrities lending their voices to bigger causes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Andrew Harnik","nprByline":"Elizabeth Blair","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1232497188","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1232497188&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1232497188/israel-hamas-celebrity-activism?ft=nprml&f=1232497188","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:18:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:18:07 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:18:07 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11977734/as-celebrities-join-protests-media-follows-and-so-does-the-backlash","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alyssa Milano first became an activist more than 30 years ago. But she tells the story of her eureka moment like it was yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s, when she starred in the sitcom \u003cem>Who’s the Boss?, \u003c/em>one of her fans was a \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/livinghistory/\">teenager \u003c/a>named Ryan White, who was HIV positive. The two became friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alyssa Milano, actor and UNICEF National Ambassador","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He asked me if I would go on TV and give him a kiss to show that you couldn’t get AIDS from casual contact,” Milano recalls. She agreed and kissed White on Phil Donahue’s national talk show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/alyssa-milano\">championed\u003c/a> many causes, including reproductive rights, gun reform and the #MeToo movement. Over time, she learned the good and bad of having both a high profile and a sense of purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Milano, a UNICEF National Ambassador, used her social media platform to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyg6ricyfam/\">share\u003c/a> the NGO’s messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the backlash was swift. “I felt like every time I posted from this place of peace, I was either a terrorist sympathizer, or I did not fight strong enough for the oppression of the Palestinian people,” Milano explains. She says, while social media is a powerful tool for activism, “There’s no way to not be exposed to the vitriol” you get in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrities are amplifiers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar-winning actor and \u003cem>Thelma & Louise\u003c/em> star Susan Sarandon describes her lifelong activism as something that’s ingrained in her being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a personality flaw,” she laughs, “I mean, when I was little, I thought that my dolls all came alive at midnight, and I rotated their dresses so one doll didn’t have all the nice dresses all the time. Anything that’s unfair always really hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon has been voicing her support for Palestinians for many years, so she says she was “shocked” when she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/22/1214833761/melissa-barrera-susan-sarandon-israel-gaza\">dropped\u003c/a> by United Talent Agency (UTA) for a speech she gave at a rally calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her words were taken out of context. Nonetheless, she issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0VdJBjuTFa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">statement\u003c/a> on social media apologizing if she offended anyone. UTA declined NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon says that while the “isolation from my tribe” has been “painful,” she will continue lending her voice to calls for a cease-fire. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODEPINK","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sarandon recently attended a protest calling for a cease-fire on Capitol Hill organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.codepink.org/\">CODEPINK\u003c/a>. The feminist group alerted the press she was coming. \u003cem>NBC\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Al Jazeera\u003c/em> and other outlets showed up. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin says Sarandon’s presence was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves,” she gushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the Congress people. Sarandon met with Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. But Ritchie Torres refused to see her. Sarandon told reporters she suspected that’s because he receives money from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. On social media, Torres says Sarandon trafficked in “anti-Semitic victim blaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the harsh repercussions that can result, some artists are still using their star power to call for a cease-fire. Fans of \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer learned that she and dozens of anti-war protesters were arrested earlier this week in the lobby of NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, timed to President Biden’s interview on \u003cem>Late Night with Seth Meyers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schafer’s arrest was covered by numerous media outlets, including the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hunter-schafer-arrest-protest-israel-gaza-biden-seth-myers-e1cd343fae8d02dbd322dfa7ebec4775\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/02/28/hunter-schafer-arrested-anti-zionism-israel-hamas-war-rally/72772198007/\">\u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-28/hunter-schafer-euphoria-arrest-in-cease-fire-30-rock-jvp\">\u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>amplifying the cease-fire message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But backlash can be swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will and Grace \u003c/em>star Debra Messing is one of several celebrities who’ve been outspoken in their support of Israel. Others include actors Michael Rapaport and Amy Schumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March for Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPA_gww57Q\">rally\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., last November, Messing told the crowd of some 300,000 people, “We will pray for the success of the IDF in a war Israel did not start and did not want but a war Israel will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messing also traveled to Israel and met with family members of hostages held by Hamas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C1V0PoQxVCa/\">posted\u003c/a> videos of those visits on social media. She visited a tunnel built by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her trip was coordinated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/\">Creative Community for Peace\u003c/a> (CCFP), an organization working to “promote the arts as a bridge to peace” and “educate about rising antisemitism within the entertainment industry.” The trips to Israel are intended to help artists “bear witness to what happened in the kibbutzim to meet people and survivors of the attack,” CCFP’s executive director Ari Ingel says. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ari Ingel, executive director, Creative Community for Peace","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While many people on social media thanked Messing for sharing stories about the hostages and their families, she was also called out for only talking about one side of the conflict and not addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza or the tens of thousands of Palestinians who Israeli forces have killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something about standing with a colonial force that is expelling people from their homes and killing thousands of civilians doesn’t exactly say ‘activist,'” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzXy3deMR4I/\">reads one comment\u003c/a> on Messing’s Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says more than 2,000 artists and industry leaders, including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jerry Seinfeld, Mayim Bialik, Chris Pine and Michael Douglas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2023/10/12/israel-under-attack-open-letter/\">signed CCFP’s open letter supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter calls for the “entertainment community to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war, and do whatever is in their power to urge the terrorist organization to return the innocent hostages to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says celebrities who’ve spoken up in support of Israel have faced “condemnation.” He points to a \u003ca href=\"https://cnycentral.com/news/local/activists-march-for-shut-it-down-for-palestine-movement-through-downtown-syracuse\">protest\u003c/a> outside a Syracuse theater where Seinfeld performed. Equally troubling, he says, was the “silence” from individuals and organizations after the Hamas attacks. He points to the Writers Guild of America \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-israel-attack-open-letter-1235756946/\">waiting\u003c/a> more than two weeks to comment on the atrocity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation,” Ingel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong> ‘Taking a stand’ vs. ‘Nag, Nag, Nag’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the storied March on Washington in 1963, the late activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/archival-video-harry-belafonte-speaks-march-washington-1963-45832971\">told the crowd\u003c/a> that he believed artists “revealed” society to itself. Sometimes, that means revealing things that are hard to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda has done that often throughout her life. In 1973, speaking to KQED about the Vietnam War, she asked, “What business have we to try and exterminate a people?” Fonda was insistent, “My father fought against people in the Second World War who were trying to exterminate a people. I don’t think today we should repudiate everything that our fathers fought against.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11969701","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fonda was widely criticized for things she said about U.S. troops in Vietnam. But her antiwar stance resonated with millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often see celebrities getting a lot of backlash for their activism when they speak out about foreign policy,” says Sarah King, an assistant professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Aiken who has studied celebrity activism \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12458\">during\u003c/a> the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash appears to be especially degrading toward women, King says. She notes that Fonda’s activism was described more harshly than her fellow actor Donald Sutherland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is discussed as taking a stand, whereas Jane Fonda is described in much more negative terms,” King notes. “\u003cem>Nag, Nag, Nag,”\u003c/em> read the headline of a 1971 \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.life.com/page/29/?p=0\">article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should artists speak out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We live in a time … where celebrity voices matter more than most,” says Rania Batrice, who spearheaded the Artists4Ceasefire \u003ca href=\"https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/\">letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Biden and signed by more than 300 people, including Jon Stewart, Jordan Peele, Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the letter cites the tens of thousands of dead and injured, “numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic,” it says. “We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batrice says many of the artists were discouraged from signing the letter by their agents or publicists, and those who did face pushback from friends and others in the entertainment industry.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":"citation=\"Rania Batrice, activist and leader in creating the Artists4Ceasefire letter"},"numeric":["citation=\"Rania","Batrice,","activist","and","leader","in","creating","the","Artists4Ceasefire","letter"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, Batrice believes if they have a platform, they should use it to help those who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of have this expectation that people will step up and utilize their privilege,” Batrice says, “I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor Melissa Barrera has vowed to continue her activism. She was fired from the cast of the next \u003cem>Scream \u003c/em>movie when she posted pro-Palestinian messages on social media. But instead of retreating, she doubled down. She issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz-SbMgsjGQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">statement\u003c/a> that says she condemned “Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia” and that she would, quote, “continue to speak out for those that need it most.” She joined a protest calling for a cease-fire at the Sundance Film Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/movie-premieres-movies-park-city-utah-melissa-barrera-6bcfc464baad4b3e87b5fb3258ce8da7\">expressed\u003c/a> no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like I finally am becoming who I’m supposed to be in life, and the last few months have been awakening of that,” she told the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists, a publicist told me, are “supposed to show emotion … That’s the whole point of art.” He preferred not to be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977734/as-celebrities-join-protests-media-follows-and-so-does-the-backlash","authors":["byline_news_11977734"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5394","news_28043","news_27626","news_6631","news_33641","news_1100"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11977735","label":"news_253"},"news_11972999":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11972999","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11972999","score":null,"sort":[1705618842000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jewish-protesters-unfurl-banner-on-coit-tower-urging-cease-fire-in-gaza","title":"Anti-Occupation Jewish Group Unfurls Banner From Top of Coit Tower Urging Cease-Fire in Gaza","publishDate":1705618842,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Anti-Occupation Jewish Group Unfurls Banner From Top of Coit Tower Urging Cease-Fire in Gaza | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters in San Francisco unfurled a large banner from a Coit Tower balcony on Thursday that read “Jews Say: Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration, organized by Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, was aimed at pressuring California politicians like Sen. Alex Padilla, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Sen. Laphonza Butler, along with President Joe Biden, to join them in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters gathered outside a building holding signs and chanting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza at Coit Tower in San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Cynthia Papermaster said she is hopeful that continued actions like these can convince politicians to change course, citing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and California Rep. Ro Khanna (South Bay), who joined the call for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are over 60 members of Congress now who are supporting cease-fire, and we started with only 15 or 18 of them,” Papermaster said. “So that is growing, but it’s not happening fast enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papermaster said it was important to her and her fellow demonstrators to send this message as a Jewish group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman holds a sign with more protesters behind her also holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Papermaster demonstrates in front of Coit Tower to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really want to get that message out loud and clear coming from Jews because, you know, if you call for a cease-fire, sometimes you’re accused of anti-Semitism, which is completely illogical and wrong,” Papermaster said. “This is a group of young and old Jews, Jews of every stripe, who are really exhibiting true Jewish values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the base of the tower, a group of more than 50 chanted “cease-fire now” and held signs reading “Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged man speaks into a microphone wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satchel Forrester speaks at an event organized by IfNotNow calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group booed at the mention of San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/breed-condemns-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-18608002.php\">spoke out over the weekend\u003c/a> against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972100/san-francisco-supervisors-approve-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Board of Supervisors resolution\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire, according to several news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week, three Jewish advocacy groups — the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee — had \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/leading-jewish-organizations-call-on-mayor-breed-to-veto-sf-israel-hamas-resolution-thank-her-for-rebuking-board-of-supervisors/\">issued a joint statement\u003c/a> urging Mayor London Breed to veto the Board of Supervisors’ cease-fire resolution, which they said created “a deeply toxic atmosphere,” and that “a veto would send a strong message in support of our safety and belonging in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Antisemitism continues to surge in San Francisco, with unprecedented targeting of Jewish businesses, students, and congregations,” the Jan. 16 statement read. “The Supervisors in support of the resolution have given license to provocateurs to spew lies and vitriol in city hall and far beyond, retraumatizing the Jewish community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters on a tower unfurling a banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza and unfurl a 60-foot-long banner from Coit Tower. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The banner on Coit Tower flew for less than an hour before demonstrators pulled it back up to the balcony and left Coit Tower as police arrived on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, which manages Coit Tower, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Workers at the tower said the balcony where protesters unfurled the banner is usually closed to the public but did not share how the group gained access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The anti-occupation group IfNotNow hung a banner that read 'Jews Say: Let Gaza Live' on the San Francisco landmark as they seek to pressure California politicians and President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711998259,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":601},"headData":{"title":"Anti-Occupation Jewish Group Unfurls Banner From Top of Coit Tower Urging Cease-Fire in Gaza | KQED","description":"The anti-occupation group IfNotNow hung a banner that read 'Jews Say: Let Gaza Live' on the San Francisco landmark as they seek to pressure California politicians and President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11972999/jewish-protesters-unfurl-banner-on-coit-tower-urging-cease-fire-in-gaza","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters in San Francisco unfurled a large banner from a Coit Tower balcony on Thursday that read “Jews Say: Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration, organized by Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, was aimed at pressuring California politicians like Sen. Alex Padilla, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Sen. Laphonza Butler, along with President Joe Biden, to join them in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters gathered outside a building holding signs and chanting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza at Coit Tower in San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Cynthia Papermaster said she is hopeful that continued actions like these can convince politicians to change course, citing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and California Rep. Ro Khanna (South Bay), who joined the call for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are over 60 members of Congress now who are supporting cease-fire, and we started with only 15 or 18 of them,” Papermaster said. “So that is growing, but it’s not happening fast enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papermaster said it was important to her and her fellow demonstrators to send this message as a Jewish group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman holds a sign with more protesters behind her also holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Papermaster demonstrates in front of Coit Tower to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really want to get that message out loud and clear coming from Jews because, you know, if you call for a cease-fire, sometimes you’re accused of anti-Semitism, which is completely illogical and wrong,” Papermaster said. “This is a group of young and old Jews, Jews of every stripe, who are really exhibiting true Jewish values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the base of the tower, a group of more than 50 chanted “cease-fire now” and held signs reading “Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged man speaks into a microphone wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satchel Forrester speaks at an event organized by IfNotNow calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group booed at the mention of San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/breed-condemns-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-18608002.php\">spoke out over the weekend\u003c/a> against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972100/san-francisco-supervisors-approve-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Board of Supervisors resolution\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire, according to several news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week, three Jewish advocacy groups — the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee — had \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/leading-jewish-organizations-call-on-mayor-breed-to-veto-sf-israel-hamas-resolution-thank-her-for-rebuking-board-of-supervisors/\">issued a joint statement\u003c/a> urging Mayor London Breed to veto the Board of Supervisors’ cease-fire resolution, which they said created “a deeply toxic atmosphere,” and that “a veto would send a strong message in support of our safety and belonging in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Antisemitism continues to surge in San Francisco, with unprecedented targeting of Jewish businesses, students, and congregations,” the Jan. 16 statement read. “The Supervisors in support of the resolution have given license to provocateurs to spew lies and vitriol in city hall and far beyond, retraumatizing the Jewish community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters on a tower unfurling a banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza and unfurl a 60-foot-long banner from Coit Tower. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The banner on Coit Tower flew for less than an hour before demonstrators pulled it back up to the balcony and left Coit Tower as police arrived on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, which manages Coit Tower, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Workers at the tower said the balcony where protesters unfurled the banner is usually closed to the public but did not share how the group gained access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11972999/jewish-protesters-unfurl-banner-on-coit-tower-urging-cease-fire-in-gaza","authors":["11761"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_33333","news_20310","news_33728","news_33338","news_1100"],"featImg":"news_11972985","label":"news"},"news_11971858":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11971858","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11971858","score":null,"sort":[1704672163000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"berkeley-locals-lament-the-closure-of-peoples-park-as-shipping-container-barricades-go-up","title":"Berkeley Locals Lament the Closure of People's Park as Shipping Container Barricades Go Up","publishDate":1704672163,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Berkeley Locals Lament the Closure of People’s Park as Shipping Container Barricades Go Up | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Activists and residents living near People’s Park in Berkeley expressed shock and anger at the double-high wall of shipping containers closing off the community landmark that was once a green public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I drive up here … get a look at it with the containers surrounding it and the security guys and all those cop cars … It’s terrible, very depressing,” said Roger Fox, a former Berkeley resident, who described the barricade as “grotesque,” comparing it to the Berlin Wall. “It’s ugly, it’s unnecessary, it’s stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Loa Niumeitolu, Berkeley resident\"]‘People’s Park has been a piece of land that all communities have come together to ask the city to please preserve for many generations, to come as a place of peace, as a place of abundance, for all diverse communities to work together.’[/pullquote]Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, hundreds of officers arrived at the park to clear the site of its occupants in preparation for building student housing. Construction crews then began installing 160 double-stacked shipping containers around the park’s perimeters, as demonstrators gathered at the intersection of Telegraph and Haste avenues outside the park. In the ensuing skirmishes and scuffles with police, nearly a dozen people were arrested on charges including resisting arrest and battery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Song Ly, who moved to the neighborhood a few months ago, said she was shocked to see the trees being cut with chainsaws and added that her car was towed. She said the containers were like “being in prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing … apocalyptic feeling, there’s nobody here,” said Ly as she left her house by the park. “It’s just people in uniforms, and getting to and from the apartment is like, ‘Who are you?’ And I’m like, ‘I live here.’ And they don’t believe you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work to construct the planned student housing at the park stalled in February 2023 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">an appeals court\u003c/a> ruled UC Berkeley could not move forward with construction until it evaluated other possible sites for the housing and addressed concerns that noise pollution from students would impact neighbors. In September, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">signed a bill\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1307\">AB 1307\u003c/a> — clearing the way for construction of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-california-berkeley-university-of-c0b263490acde542c3a67a656a56d02e\">controversial $312 million project\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley says would create sorely needed housing for some 1,100 UC Berkeley students. A separate facility would also house roughly 125 of the unhoused people that currently live on the 2.8-acre site south of campus that is owned by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11971902 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at People’s Park in Berkeley on Jan. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11971577,news_11942975,news_11959483\" label=\"Related Stories\"]South Berkeley resident and native Utahan Loa Niumeitolu, and Zachary Greer, a former Oakland resident, said they were both attracted to the Bay Area and to People’s Park because of the “rich history” of “people-powered movements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a piece of land that all communities have come together to ask the city to please preserve for many generations, to come as a place of peace, as a place of abundance, for all diverse communities to work together,” said Niumeitolu, who described the containers and decision to cut down trees as “horrific.” “The UC [is] … just blatantly saying, ‘We don’t care. We’re going to go ahead and build whatever we want without your consent.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson said the university’s goal is to ensure the park’s closure is “as peaceful as possible,” adding that the park would reopen after construction is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over two-thirds of this site will be a brand new public park that will be open to the community and will not be fenced,” said Gibson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Niumeitolu considers People’s Park a “community sacred site,” with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\">a decades-long history\u003c/a> that made it more than just a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land is sacred here, and the struggle of the people is sacred here. And that’s why we’re standing with it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, a “Protect People’s Park/Free Palestine” protest march is planned for 5 p.m. at Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney, Spencer Whitney, Attila Pelit, Erin Baldassari, Vanessa Rancaño and Rachael Vasquez contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Protesters and local residents are dismayed at the heavy police presence and loss of public green space at People’s Park, as UC Berkeley awaits court approval to construct student housing at the site.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704833925,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":797},"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Locals Lament the Closure of People's Park as Shipping Container Barricades Go Up | KQED","description":"Protesters and local residents are dismayed at the heavy police presence and loss of public green space at People’s Park, as UC Berkeley awaits court approval to construct student housing at the site.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11971858/berkeley-locals-lament-the-closure-of-peoples-park-as-shipping-container-barricades-go-up","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Activists and residents living near People’s Park in Berkeley expressed shock and anger at the double-high wall of shipping containers closing off the community landmark that was once a green public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I drive up here … get a look at it with the containers surrounding it and the security guys and all those cop cars … It’s terrible, very depressing,” said Roger Fox, a former Berkeley resident, who described the barricade as “grotesque,” comparing it to the Berlin Wall. “It’s ugly, it’s unnecessary, it’s stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘People’s Park has been a piece of land that all communities have come together to ask the city to please preserve for many generations, to come as a place of peace, as a place of abundance, for all diverse communities to work together.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Loa Niumeitolu, Berkeley resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, hundreds of officers arrived at the park to clear the site of its occupants in preparation for building student housing. Construction crews then began installing 160 double-stacked shipping containers around the park’s perimeters, as demonstrators gathered at the intersection of Telegraph and Haste avenues outside the park. In the ensuing skirmishes and scuffles with police, nearly a dozen people were arrested on charges including resisting arrest and battery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Song Ly, who moved to the neighborhood a few months ago, said she was shocked to see the trees being cut with chainsaws and added that her car was towed. She said the containers were like “being in prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing … apocalyptic feeling, there’s nobody here,” said Ly as she left her house by the park. “It’s just people in uniforms, and getting to and from the apartment is like, ‘Who are you?’ And I’m like, ‘I live here.’ And they don’t believe you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work to construct the planned student housing at the park stalled in February 2023 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941907/appeals-court-sends-uc-berkeley-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-peoples-park-development\">an appeals court\u003c/a> ruled UC Berkeley could not move forward with construction until it evaluated other possible sites for the housing and addressed concerns that noise pollution from students would impact neighbors. In September, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">signed a bill\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1307\">AB 1307\u003c/a> — clearing the way for construction of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-california-berkeley-university-of-c0b263490acde542c3a67a656a56d02e\">controversial $312 million project\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley says would create sorely needed housing for some 1,100 UC Berkeley students. A separate facility would also house roughly 125 of the unhoused people that currently live on the 2.8-acre site south of campus that is owned by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11971902 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240104-PEOPLES-PARK-MD-10-qut-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at People’s Park in Berkeley on Jan. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11971577,news_11942975,news_11959483","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>South Berkeley resident and native Utahan Loa Niumeitolu, and Zachary Greer, a former Oakland resident, said they were both attracted to the Bay Area and to People’s Park because of the “rich history” of “people-powered movements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a piece of land that all communities have come together to ask the city to please preserve for many generations, to come as a place of peace, as a place of abundance, for all diverse communities to work together,” said Niumeitolu, who described the containers and decision to cut down trees as “horrific.” “The UC [is] … just blatantly saying, ‘We don’t care. We’re going to go ahead and build whatever we want without your consent.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson said the university’s goal is to ensure the park’s closure is “as peaceful as possible,” adding that the park would reopen after construction is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over two-thirds of this site will be a brand new public park that will be open to the community and will not be fenced,” said Gibson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Niumeitolu considers People’s Park a “community sacred site,” with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917145/a-brief-history-battle-peoples-park-berkeley-protests\">a decades-long history\u003c/a> that made it more than just a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land is sacred here, and the struggle of the people is sacred here. And that’s why we’re standing with it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, a “Protect People’s Park/Free Palestine” protest march is planned for 5 p.m. at Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annelise Finney, Spencer Whitney, Attila Pelit, Erin Baldassari, Vanessa Rancaño and Rachael Vasquez contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11971858/berkeley-locals-lament-the-closure-of-peoples-park-as-shipping-container-barricades-go-up","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_29198","news_1100"],"featImg":"news_11971864","label":"news"},"news_11964835":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964835","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964835","score":null,"sort":[1697623232000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sorrow-fear-and-rage-local-reactions-to-the-israel-hamas-war","title":"Sorrow, Fear, and Rage: Local Reactions to the Israel-Hamas War","publishDate":1697623232,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Sorrow, Fear, and Rage: Local Reactions to the Israel-Hamas War | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People across the Bay Area have been watching in horror at the war between Israel and Hamas. Today, we bring you voices from three different rallies and gatherings that took place over the weekend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Links:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1205017249/how-to-talk-to-children-violence-israeli-palestinian-gaza-hamas\">How to talk to children about the violence in Israel and Gaza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9791318874\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep You Rooted. Over the past week, people across the Bay Area have been watching in horror at the war between Israel and Hamas, and they are responding with sadness, anxiety, fear and outrage. On Friday, hundreds dressed in blue carrying Israeli flags gathered outside San Francisco City Hall, calling for the release of hostages still being held by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>On Saturday, an estimated 3000 people marched from the ferry building, an upmarket street demanding that Israel stop bombarding and blockading Gaza. And at least married in Oakland, Jewish groups calling for the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Held a vigil on Sunday to mourn those killed in the war. Today, we’re going to take you to those actions and we’ll hear from the people here in the Bay Area about how they’re feeling in this moment and how they’re processing the events in Israel and Gaza. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>audio from protest*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 6: \u003c/strong>Would you mind just stating your first and last name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 8: \u003c/strong>Yes. My name is Arthur Zico. I I’m Israeli born and an American citizen now. So at a time like this. You want to feel that you are part of a community who is feeling what you’re feeling. And of course, as a sign of solidarity and support. It’s a sad day for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Do you mind saying your first and last name for mme?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 10: \u003c/strong>NEARY. HASAN I’m here because this girl on the poster is a neighbor of my mother. I was raised and born in Kibbutz Nicholas. And on last Friday night, we were celebrating with friends. And someone all of a sudden said, there are rockets over Israel. And we tried to ignore. But then someone said, oh, my terrorists have crossed the border in Gaza. And immediately I felt like, oh, this is so serious. This is like the one worst nightmare I had as a child. I called my mother. She didn’t really know. And I told her, shut off the TV, go into the Mahmoud secure room and close the door, closed the TV, everything. And so we were we are five siblings, so we were following her the entire day until at midnight she was rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 10: \u003c/strong>She’s physically fine, but she’s part of a shattered community. My good friends, his mother was kidnaped. She’s 84. She’s barely walking. We know of Eliakim family, the parents of this beautiful girl who were kidnaped and so many. I don’t know if we have enough synonyms. Just nightmare. All that is just. There are no words anymore. There are no words You don’t liberate by kidnaping, abducting people, slaughtering them. Stop with the equation that Hamas is Palestinian. It’s actually hurting the Palestinians. In my humble opinion, the Hamas is the sole responsible for these atrocities, and this is regardless of any political argument or conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>Would you mind stating your first and last name real quick, and your title?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Becker: \u003c/strong> Sure, Josh Becker California State Senator, District 13. This rally is about bringing home the hostages and communicating very clearly to Hamas and to the world that they must release the hostages now. And vice chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. We’ve been in touch with our U.S. senators, our State Department. We are working every angle. And this rally is one of those. No matter how you feel about Middle East politics, we can all agree that kidnaping women and children and the elderly is wrong. It’s a violation of international law. We need them released now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 12: \u003c/strong>Do not mistake this as a fight for freedom. Freedom can never be stopped through brutal, inhumane and barbaric actions. As a citizen of Israel, I stand united with my country in our fight against Hamas. I call on the local, local and global community to stand with Israel as we fight for our lives, our homes and our future. I call on mothers and fathers to voice their horror and rage against these brutal crimes. I call all mothers and fathers to help Israel get our children back alive and safe with no negotiations right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Where people are connected by businesses, by what people are still deciding that nothing that’s golden. Step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suzanna Ali: \u003c/strong>My name is Suzanne Ali. I’m an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area. This week has been personally so difficult. You know, it’s not a new issue for us. Of course, the mainstream media has been portraying it as if this is something that just a war or a war that broke out like two or three days ago. But this is something that’s been ongoing for us. And having family in in Palestine, specifically me having family in Gaza, in Khan Yunis, which was bombarded last night, as I saw, is really difficult. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve gone to school here and I’ve always been faced with, you know, teachers telling me that Palestine doesn’t exist. And that’s horrifying to hear, you know, And to it in this day and age when we’re seeing another genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 5: \u003c/strong>Would have you believe that this race, this notion that we want this violence to happen, that we want to bury close to 600 of our children in the last seven days. But the only thing we want is an end to the occupation and then through colonialism, an end to ethnic cleansing, an end to the siege of Gaza and honest reporting. That is the cruelty. And I think that this is the truth and stop with the propaganda and lies. The year is 2023 when it looks like the headlines read this 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maysa Al-Sharif: \u003c/strong>My name is Maysa. Al-Sharif. I’ve been protesting since I was a kid, and unfortunately I’m here today with my kids now, maybe in the past year. Sure. He’s nine and she’s five. I’ve been telling them the truth that their lives would it matter if they lived there? And it’s not fair that we get to live here and our people got to our family got to leave and we’re safe and they’re not. So I’m letting them know without traumatizing them as much as I could. But I’m definitely letting them know the way that I grew up knowing. We do live in India. They last heard of them days ago. Yeah, they’re not sure where. They know their houses were bombed and they’re not sure where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Right. Palestine. Palestine, Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 14: \u003c/strong>Thank you all so, so much for joining us today. It’s so powerful to be here in community with all of you, with other Jews who know that Jewish safety can only come through ending apartheid and ensuring Palestinian safety and freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suzanna Ali: \u003c/strong>Can I get your first and last name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sidney Levy: \u003c/strong>Yes. Sidney Levy. I’m Jewish, Jewish, American. I’m in solidarity with Palestine. I have family that’s in the Israeli army, family in Israel. I have friends in Palestine on both sides of the border. Everybody is concerned. Everybody is upset and fearful, But nothing justifies what is happening now in Gaza. Last week has been very heavy, has been in mostly despair because so many things that we have been building as a movement of solidarity with Palestine at the beginning seem to be collapsing. What you hear from the U.S. government with all of the support, with all of that, it’s just incredible. But I think that people are waking up from their grief, which is still real into action. So one of the ways to deal with the despair is not to fall into the oppression, which I was depressed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sidney Levy: \u003c/strong>And it’s just moving into action and just saying, we’re here, we’re opposed to what is happening, and we want a different world, a world without apartheid. It’s not that hard. A friend of mine was saying that in order to move from A to B, from the violence to action, you have to pass through the grief. And somebody was commenting here, it’s very hard to pursue the grief because the violence and the killing is still happening is taking place. So you’re grieving not only for the people that have died, but for the people that will continue to die, unfortunately. And that’s why you have to be able to hold both the community and the grief, but also the action, because there are things that we can still stop. We cannot stop the people that were killed yesterday. We can stop the killings. That will happen tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>We’re all grieving for so, so many people right now. And I think we’re also all grieving for something that’s beyond people or values or a Jewish community that we can trust. I mean, on our Mardi Gras day, the higher ground, your man on fire the whole day. It’s like a gala, man. You. I mean, the whole schmear. Rabbi McGrath Well, I’m on my.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unidentified: \u003c/strong>On my, on for a number of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The audio you heard in this episode was gathered by KQED’s Sidney Johnson and Analise Finney. This episode was cut down and edited by Maria Esquinca and me. Allan Montecillo is our senior editor. By the way, I’m going to leave you all a link in our shownotes. It’s a story from NPR about how to talk to children about the violence in Israel and Gaza. I know much of what is happening right now. It can feel hard to explain. So in case you need it, it’s there. The Bay’s a production of member supported KQED. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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My name is Arthur Zico. I I’m Israeli born and an American citizen now. So at a time like this. You want to feel that you are part of a community who is feeling what you’re feeling. And of course, as a sign of solidarity and support. It’s a sad day for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Do you mind saying your first and last name for mme?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 10: \u003c/strong>NEARY. HASAN I’m here because this girl on the poster is a neighbor of my mother. I was raised and born in Kibbutz Nicholas. And on last Friday night, we were celebrating with friends. And someone all of a sudden said, there are rockets over Israel. And we tried to ignore. But then someone said, oh, my terrorists have crossed the border in Gaza. And immediately I felt like, oh, this is so serious. This is like the one worst nightmare I had as a child. I called my mother. She didn’t really know. 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In my humble opinion, the Hamas is the sole responsible for these atrocities, and this is regardless of any political argument or conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>Would you mind stating your first and last name real quick, and your title?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Becker: \u003c/strong> Sure, Josh Becker California State Senator, District 13. This rally is about bringing home the hostages and communicating very clearly to Hamas and to the world that they must release the hostages now. And vice chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. We’ve been in touch with our U.S. senators, our State Department. We are working every angle. And this rally is one of those. No matter how you feel about Middle East politics, we can all agree that kidnaping women and children and the elderly is wrong. It’s a violation of international law. We need them released now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 12: \u003c/strong>Do not mistake this as a fight for freedom. Freedom can never be stopped through brutal, inhumane and barbaric actions. As a citizen of Israel, I stand united with my country in our fight against Hamas. I call on the local, local and global community to stand with Israel as we fight for our lives, our homes and our future. I call on mothers and fathers to voice their horror and rage against these brutal crimes. I call all mothers and fathers to help Israel get our children back alive and safe with no negotiations right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 9: \u003c/strong>Where people are connected by businesses, by what people are still deciding that nothing that’s golden. Step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suzanna Ali: \u003c/strong>My name is Suzanne Ali. I’m an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area. This week has been personally so difficult. You know, it’s not a new issue for us. Of course, the mainstream media has been portraying it as if this is something that just a war or a war that broke out like two or three days ago. But this is something that’s been ongoing for us. And having family in in Palestine, specifically me having family in Gaza, in Khan Yunis, which was bombarded last night, as I saw, is really difficult. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve gone to school here and I’ve always been faced with, you know, teachers telling me that Palestine doesn’t exist. And that’s horrifying to hear, you know, And to it in this day and age when we’re seeing another genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 5: \u003c/strong>Would have you believe that this race, this notion that we want this violence to happen, that we want to bury close to 600 of our children in the last seven days. But the only thing we want is an end to the occupation and then through colonialism, an end to ethnic cleansing, an end to the siege of Gaza and honest reporting. That is the cruelty. And I think that this is the truth and stop with the propaganda and lies. The year is 2023 when it looks like the headlines read this 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maysa Al-Sharif: \u003c/strong>My name is Maysa. Al-Sharif. I’ve been protesting since I was a kid, and unfortunately I’m here today with my kids now, maybe in the past year. Sure. He’s nine and she’s five. I’ve been telling them the truth that their lives would it matter if they lived there? And it’s not fair that we get to live here and our people got to our family got to leave and we’re safe and they’re not. So I’m letting them know without traumatizing them as much as I could. But I’m definitely letting them know the way that I grew up knowing. We do live in India. They last heard of them days ago. Yeah, they’re not sure where. 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Last week has been very heavy, has been in mostly despair because so many things that we have been building as a movement of solidarity with Palestine at the beginning seem to be collapsing. What you hear from the U.S. government with all of the support, with all of that, it’s just incredible. But I think that people are waking up from their grief, which is still real into action. So one of the ways to deal with the despair is not to fall into the oppression, which I was depressed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sidney Levy: \u003c/strong>And it’s just moving into action and just saying, we’re here, we’re opposed to what is happening, and we want a different world, a world without apartheid. It’s not that hard. A friend of mine was saying that in order to move from A to B, from the violence to action, you have to pass through the grief. And somebody was commenting here, it’s very hard to pursue the grief because the violence and the killing is still happening is taking place. So you’re grieving not only for the people that have died, but for the people that will continue to die, unfortunately. And that’s why you have to be able to hold both the community and the grief, but also the action, because there are things that we can still stop. We cannot stop the people that were killed yesterday. We can stop the killings. That will happen tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 7: \u003c/strong>We’re all grieving for so, so many people right now. And I think we’re also all grieving for something that’s beyond people or values or a Jewish community that we can trust. I mean, on our Mardi Gras day, the higher ground, your man on fire the whole day. It’s like a gala, man. You. I mean, the whole schmear. Rabbi McGrath Well, I’m on my.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unidentified: \u003c/strong>On my, on for a number of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The audio you heard in this episode was gathered by KQED’s Sidney Johnson and Analise Finney. This episode was cut down and edited by Maria Esquinca and me. Allan Montecillo is our senior editor. By the way, I’m going to leave you all a link in our shownotes. It’s a story from NPR about how to talk to children about the violence in Israel and Gaza. I know much of what is happening right now. It can feel hard to explain. So in case you need it, it’s there. The Bay’s a production of member supported KQED. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964835/sorrow-fear-and-rage-local-reactions-to-the-israel-hamas-war","authors":["8654","11649","11802"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_6631","news_1741","news_33333","news_17968","news_1100","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11963856","label":"source_news_11964835"},"news_11904278":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904278","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904278","score":null,"sort":[1644339627000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","title":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures","publishDate":1644339627,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director\"]'We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students' families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it's going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it's on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the '70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you're about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I'm in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it's a beautiful thing, but that hasn't always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don't get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644442885,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1601},"headData":{"title":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures | KQED","description":"The Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11904278 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904278","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/08/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures/","disqusTitle":"Teachers and Families Rally Ahead of Upcoming Vote on Oakland School Closures","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel Mann, a fourth grade teacher at Allendale Elementary, sat on the concrete steps of the amphitheater in front of Oakland’s City Hall on Friday, among the roughly 200 people gathered to protest the city’s recently announced school closure plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are a school district,” Mann said. “We should be keeping schools open and cutting everything else we could possibly cut.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of January, the Oakland Unified School District announced its controversial \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWL0ZdDNCWBGV4OgE3oyQ0nNgHi4F-Nj/view?usp=sharing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to close eight schools and merge six others over the next two years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If approved, the move would disproportionately affect Black students, who make up only 22% of the district's enrollees, but about 43% of students at the eight schools slated for closure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/01/12/how-to-watch-and-participate-in-oakland-school-board-meetings/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP6PBhDmARIsAPWMq6l80j09E4PPDprx-M-slG7l7Ah3rqM0OtHxTiE_6wHP_MVq0izmCHAaAlsTEALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will vote on the plan on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in a meeting open to the public virtually via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/boewatch\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53505_20220204-IMG_2199-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Brown, Oakland Education Association President, speaks to the crowd during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the announcement, families and teachers opposing the proposal have demonstrated on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/protesters-caravan-to-denounce-ousd-school-closures/\">in car caravans and outside the homes of school board members\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mike Hutchinson, OUSD school board director","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mann said she’d rather see cuts come from the salaries of district administrators or from the money OUSD pays to lease and operate its downtown headquarters. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think those things should be cut first before actual humans are made to change their whole entire lives and go to a new school or have no school in their neighborhood,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing nearby was Audrey Darnis, a teacher at Manzanita Community School, which serves students in Fruitvale and East Oakland. The district’s proposal would merge her school with Fruitvale Elementary, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many of the students live right in the neighborhood, right? So they walk to school. A majority of my students' families do not have cars,” Darnis said, noting that Fruitvale Elementary is about a mile away from Manzanita. “If their school shuts down, it's going to be very hard for them to get to another school.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt='Three young people stand with their signs. One in a purple jacket, one in a red jacket and one person in a jean jacket with a sign saying \"Hands off our schools.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53509_20220204-IMG_2284-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malou, a Melrose Leadership Academy student, listens to speeches with two friends during a rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she understands the district’s proposal is hard on students and teachers, especially given Oakland’s history of school closures over the last two decades — many of them campuses where the majority of students were Black. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101887739,news_11900752","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We have been through so much trauma and they have every right to feel distrustful and fearful about this decision,” she said in an interview with KQED on Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment in OUSD has declined by nearly 20,000 students over the last two decades, from over 52,000 in 2002 to just under 35,500 now, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Historic?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">district data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And because state funding for public schools is tied to attendance, as students left the district, so did a lot of money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf says consolidating schools is necessary to fix structural problems in the district’s budget. “When you look at districts like Stockton, Fremont, San Jose, they serve roughly the same number of students — about 33,000,” she said. “But they do it in almost half the campuses — between 41 and 48 campuses — in those three districts, whereas Oakland has 80 campuses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Schaaf, the consolidation would allow the district to redirect more funds from building upkeep and redundant administrative costs to student services. “This is an opportunity to do better for our students, our educators, and our families,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School board member Mike Hutchinson, who is opposed to the consolidation plan, said it breaks promises the district made to the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, the school board passed the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knTRaGliW06LnPCATRmaILnwrgViLgsC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reparations for Black Students Resolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a response to longtime efforts by community activists to call attention to the displacement of Black students and the disproportionate impact school closures in the district have had on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the resolution, the board promised, among other things, to work with the newly created Black Students and Families Thriving Task Force to develop an equity impact analysis before announcing additional school closures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on January 12, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DPEJIKPw_pyiS_6ZTzya59OpvIAYtPC/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the board instructed the superintendent\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to move forward on a consolidation plan, in spite of its commitments made in the Reparations for Black Students resolution. They also instructed the district to do so without consideration for previous resolutions designed to improve community engagement ahead of school closures. Instead, the board asked for a plan as soon as possible, that could be put into action in the next school year and the year after. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-800x589.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1020x751.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-2048x1508.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-1920x1413.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, school board director for District 5, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally there on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says the rush is eroding community trust in the board. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We forget the real services that our public schools provide, everything from a community meeting space to educating generations of kids, to the anchor and the source of pride for a lot of communities,” Hutchinson said at a rally on Saturday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prescott, an elementary school in West Oakland, is a prime example. The school, which has served Oakland students for more than a century, is where Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first Black teacher, began teaching in the 1920s. Now it's on the chopping block.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavena Brown, who attended a rally at Prescott on Saturday morning, says she lives near the school and was once a student there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's a lot of memories here,” she said of Prescott, the only elementary school in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. “All my family, my parents went to this school. I went to this school in the '70s, my parents way before me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the district’s plan, Prescott students would go to either Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary — about a mile away — or Hoover Elementary — about two miles away — starting next school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904314 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black head scarf and a black hoodie with images from Mario Kart poses for a portrait the a young child wearing glasses. The child is holding a sign that reads, "Don't cut our kids." Stick into the frame above them is the top of a basketball hoop. Behind them are two cream and blue portable classrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7838-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Wade and her son Samuel pose for a portrait during a rally at Prescott School on Feb. 5, 2022. Wade is a graduate of Prescott and Samuel is a student at OUSD's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hutchinson says keeping neighborhood schools open is a basic issue of fairness. “Every community pays taxes. Every community deserves the same access to resources,” he says. “If our anchor public elementary schools close, that leaves that community, that neighborhood, without access to public resources.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across town, two OUSD staff members have turned to more drastic methods to protest the closure plan: Moses Omolade, OUSD’s program director for community schools, and Maurice André San-Chez, a choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School, have been on a hunger strike since last Monday. The two are camped out on the front lawn of the school, which, under the district’s proposal, would be merged with West Oakland Middle School, roughly two miles away. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904317\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904317 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg\" alt='Two tents, one gray and one red stand on a lawn above a small retaining wall. A sign next to the tents reads, \"Westlake Middle School, Westlake convocation hunger strike day 5.\" In front of the tents a line of protest signs lines the edge of the retaining wall. Two read, \"No cuts, no closures.\" Behind the tents and one story white and green school building is visible. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7847-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OUSD staff members engaged in a hunger strike have set up a camp on the front lawn of Westlake Middle School. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omolade says the short timeline for the approval of the plan and the lack of community engagement in the process has backed the families and teachers into a corner. When the plan was announced, he says, his world was turned upside down. “The community was struck. Kids freaking out, parents freaking out, staff freaking out,” he said. “Prescott, 150 years! At the stroke of a pen and a Zoom call, you think you're about to take Prescott?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In thinking about how to protest, Omolade said he reflected on how his body has always been politicized. “I'm in a really large Black body — 6’8”, 210, and dark as night. And it's a beautiful thing, but that hasn't always been the messaging.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904316 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A waist-up photo of a man wearing a maroon beanie and a gray Westlake Middle School t-shirt. He's sitting in a green armchair. He has two nose piercings and septum piercing. He has beaded necklaces around his neck and his arms are spread out over the arms of the armchair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7846-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses Omolade, OUSD program director of community schools, sits in an armchair outside Westlake Middle School. Omolade is one of two OUSD staff members on a hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says his decision to go on hunger strike is a way to show the board how much these closures will affect the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is what it looks like when you continue to make choices that create harm that you are so far removed from,” he said. “You don't get to see those children and those families hurt and cry and travel across Oakland, lose hubs, community hubs, that produced their ancestors. So now this is what it looks like. I want you to see my body.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_18540","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26850","news_20013","news_27626","news_30635","news_18","news_3202","news_3366","news_1100","news_2923","news_24524","news_2998"],"featImg":"news_11904279","label":"news"},"news_11904277":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904277","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904277","score":null,"sort":[1644177046000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-the-end-goal-a-group-of-mothers-protest-drug-use-at-the-tenderloin-linkage-center","title":"'What's the End Goal?': Mothers Protest Drug Use at the Tenderloin Linkage Center","publishDate":1644177046,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A group of five mothers staged a protest on Saturday outside the Tenderloin Linkage Center to call for an end to drug use at the site. The center was set up as part of San Francisco Mayor London Breed's emergency declaration to address a rise in drug overdoses. The site is meant to help connect people to drug treatment, housing and other services.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gina McDonald, mother\"]'If you want to open a safe consumption site, don't do it here. You don't offer services and allow open-air drug dealing in the same place. What's the end goal?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mothers who organized the protest have all been affected by the drug epidemic, and say they support the center but believe allowing drug use will make it more difficult for people to get help. People have been using drugs on the center property in a fenced-off area outside the building and have not been asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think linking people to services is great and it's way past time,\" said Gina McDonald, a former heroin user whose daughter is in treatment for addiction. \"If you want to open a safe consumption site, don't do it here. You don't offer services and allow open-air drug dealing in the same place. What's the end goal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a dozen people also arrived as part of a counterprotest in an effort to show support for the center, which they said has been effective at offering people the services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing over the emergency declaration that fast-tracked this site and sparked a debate over how best to address drug dealing and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqui Berlinn is one of the organizers of the protest and founders of the group Mothers Against Drug Deaths. Her son, Corey, lives on the streets of San Francisco and is addicted to fentanyl. She says that when she heard about the linkage center, she was excited that her son might have a safe space to go and get some help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then when she learned people were using drugs at the site, she said, her heart dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that my son will say it's just more of the same,\" she said. \"It's just what the city's been doing, enabling and encouraging. They're not serious about helping them get well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlinn said that Corey did drop by the site, but left when he saw people in the fenced-off area outside the building using drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope was that it was going to be a safe space for him just to have 30 minutes, 60 minutes, two hours free of drugs in his face,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Thomas, the director of harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, came to the linkage center because she said it's important to support evidence-based practices like harm reduction. The idea of low barriers to service and \"meeting people where they're at\" is a core harm reduction practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Treating people with dignity and respect is more of a value issue than an evidence issue, but the evidence backs that up,\" she said. When you meet people where they are, they are able to make positive steps, she added. \"The linkage center is being effective at connecting people to services, whether that's showers or laundry or housing or substance use treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas worried that because of the protest and the increased police presence, less people were showing up for services. Few people entered the site during the protest.[aside tag=\"tenderloin\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]But before the linkage center opened and the protest started, about six people waited in line to get in. Willie Penilton had come to the linkage center to sleep and get some breakfast. He uses crystal meth, and says he's seen too many people overdose. At the center, he said, people are safe. He said he couldn't understand why people were protesting the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're using drugs anywhere on the street anyway. Now people don't get to walk out and see it. You've got a safe environment,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kristin Hogan Schildwachter, a spokesperson with the Department of Emergency Management, said the linkage center offers low-barrier access for those ready to receive support and care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who is running for State Assembly, came to the site and was approached by Berlinn while she was holding a poster that showed photos of her son. She described how she supports harm reduction, but her son was discouraged by the people using drugs at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said he first proposed a safe consumption site in 2016 while a San Francisco supervisor, and thousands of lives could have been saved if that had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My issue that I'm addressing right now is the fact that this should be a safe space for [people] to go,\" Berlinn replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said the Board of Supervisors have the same goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The mothers who organized the protest have all been affected by the drug epidemic, and say they support the center but believe allowing drug use will make it more difficult for people to get help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644275874,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":858},"headData":{"title":"'What's the End Goal?': Mothers Protest Drug Use at the Tenderloin Linkage Center | KQED","description":"The mothers who organized the protest have all been affected by the drug epidemic, and say they support the center but believe allowing drug use will make it more difficult for people to get help.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11904277 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904277","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/06/whats-the-end-goal-a-group-of-mothers-protest-drug-use-at-the-tenderloin-linkage-center/","disqusTitle":"'What's the End Goal?': Mothers Protest Drug Use at the Tenderloin Linkage Center","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11904277/whats-the-end-goal-a-group-of-mothers-protest-drug-use-at-the-tenderloin-linkage-center","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of five mothers staged a protest on Saturday outside the Tenderloin Linkage Center to call for an end to drug use at the site. The center was set up as part of San Francisco Mayor London Breed's emergency declaration to address a rise in drug overdoses. The site is meant to help connect people to drug treatment, housing and other services.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If you want to open a safe consumption site, don't do it here. You don't offer services and allow open-air drug dealing in the same place. What's the end goal?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Gina McDonald, mother","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mothers who organized the protest have all been affected by the drug epidemic, and say they support the center but believe allowing drug use will make it more difficult for people to get help. People have been using drugs on the center property in a fenced-off area outside the building and have not been asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think linking people to services is great and it's way past time,\" said Gina McDonald, a former heroin user whose daughter is in treatment for addiction. \"If you want to open a safe consumption site, don't do it here. You don't offer services and allow open-air drug dealing in the same place. What's the end goal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a dozen people also arrived as part of a counterprotest in an effort to show support for the center, which they said has been effective at offering people the services they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing over the emergency declaration that fast-tracked this site and sparked a debate over how best to address drug dealing and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqui Berlinn is one of the organizers of the protest and founders of the group Mothers Against Drug Deaths. Her son, Corey, lives on the streets of San Francisco and is addicted to fentanyl. She says that when she heard about the linkage center, she was excited that her son might have a safe space to go and get some help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then when she learned people were using drugs at the site, she said, her heart dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that my son will say it's just more of the same,\" she said. \"It's just what the city's been doing, enabling and encouraging. They're not serious about helping them get well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlinn said that Corey did drop by the site, but left when he saw people in the fenced-off area outside the building using drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope was that it was going to be a safe space for him just to have 30 minutes, 60 minutes, two hours free of drugs in his face,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Thomas, the director of harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, came to the linkage center because she said it's important to support evidence-based practices like harm reduction. The idea of low barriers to service and \"meeting people where they're at\" is a core harm reduction practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Treating people with dignity and respect is more of a value issue than an evidence issue, but the evidence backs that up,\" she said. When you meet people where they are, they are able to make positive steps, she added. \"The linkage center is being effective at connecting people to services, whether that's showers or laundry or housing or substance use treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas worried that because of the protest and the increased police presence, less people were showing up for services. Few people entered the site during the protest.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"tenderloin","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But before the linkage center opened and the protest started, about six people waited in line to get in. Willie Penilton had come to the linkage center to sleep and get some breakfast. He uses crystal meth, and says he's seen too many people overdose. At the center, he said, people are safe. He said he couldn't understand why people were protesting the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're using drugs anywhere on the street anyway. Now people don't get to walk out and see it. You've got a safe environment,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kristin Hogan Schildwachter, a spokesperson with the Department of Emergency Management, said the linkage center offers low-barrier access for those ready to receive support and care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who is running for State Assembly, came to the site and was approached by Berlinn while she was holding a poster that showed photos of her son. She described how she supports harm reduction, but her son was discouraged by the people using drugs at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said he first proposed a safe consumption site in 2016 while a San Francisco supervisor, and thousands of lives could have been saved if that had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My issue that I'm addressing right now is the fact that this should be a safe space for [people] to go,\" Berlinn replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said the Board of Supervisors have the same goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904277/whats-the-end-goal-a-group-of-mothers-protest-drug-use-at-the-tenderloin-linkage-center","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_30636","news_30637","news_1100","news_38","news_3181"],"featImg":"news_11904287","label":"news"},"news_11886733":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886733","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886733","score":null,"sort":[1630199644000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives","title":"San Francisco Turns Out in Solidarity With Worldwide Protest for Afghan Lives","publishDate":1630199644,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting \"from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,\" said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally's co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]'At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States' struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has \"been a beam of hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans \"is something that's really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. \"I'm Afghan myself, and I'm out here to support my people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to continue to have hope,\" she added. \"I'm very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it's important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don't have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they've been struggling for, for the last twenty years,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,\" Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan's history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. \"Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,\" she said. \"There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. ... That's how scared they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song \"Sarzamine Man,\" or \"My Homeland,\" followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California's 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. \"I'm here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Biden, you have not ended the war, you've caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,\" she said. \"These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. \"Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,\" organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that's too much to ask when you're an Afghan,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla's office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. Barbara Lee's office\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: If you or a loved one needs help evacuating Afghanistan or needs assistance regarding a special immigrant visa or an immigrant visa, please see the resources below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can call the Department of State hotline for Afghanistan evacuation at:\u003cbr>\n(888) 407-4747 (domestic calls)\u003cbr>\n(202) 501-4444 (overseas calls)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotline is open from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need assistance with a casework issue related to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, email: lee.afghanistaninquiries@mail.house.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please include in your email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Name(s) of every individual that are you seeking assistance for\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A description of the issue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your contact information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The best time of day to reach you\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco joined over 40 cities around the globe in a world day of protest for Afghan lives.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634684027,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1235},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Turns Out in Solidarity With Worldwide Protest for Afghan Lives | KQED","description":"San Francisco joined over 40 cities around the globe in a world day of protest for Afghan lives.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11886733 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11886733","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/28/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Turns Out in Solidarity With Worldwide Protest for Afghan Lives","audioUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/KQED-Newscast.mp3","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting \"from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,\" said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally's co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States' struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has \"been a beam of hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans \"is something that's really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. \"I'm Afghan myself, and I'm out here to support my people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to continue to have hope,\" she added. \"I'm very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11885170,news_11885908","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it's important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don't have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they've been struggling for, for the last twenty years,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,\" Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan's history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. \"Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,\" she said. \"There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. ... That's how scared they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1431276649744502788"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song \"Sarzamine Man,\" or \"My Homeland,\" followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California's 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. \"I'm here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Biden, you have not ended the war, you've caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,\" she said. \"These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. \"Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,\" organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that's too much to ask when you're an Afghan,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla's office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. Barbara Lee's office\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: If you or a loved one needs help evacuating Afghanistan or needs assistance regarding a special immigrant visa or an immigrant visa, please see the resources below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can call the Department of State hotline for Afghanistan evacuation at:\u003cbr>\n(888) 407-4747 (domestic calls)\u003cbr>\n(202) 501-4444 (overseas calls)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotline is open from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need assistance with a casework issue related to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, email: lee.afghanistaninquiries@mail.house.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please include in your email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Name(s) of every individual that are you seeking assistance for\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A description of the issue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your contact information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The best time of day to reach you\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives","authors":["11772","11626"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29800","news_19537","news_19112","news_22185","news_1037","news_1100","news_28765","news_38","news_28894","news_29844"],"featImg":"news_11886750","label":"news"},"news_11885027":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11885027","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11885027","score":null,"sort":[1629122817000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-shift-from-protest-to-policy","title":"How to Shift From Protest to Policy","publishDate":1629122817,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How to Shift From Protest to Policy | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":28779,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how-to newsletter\u003c/a> series is an extension of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bythepeople\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the People\u003c/a> episodes that look into how democracy functions in the spaces around us — and where, exactly, each of us can plug in. These features include changemakers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guides with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11885124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-800x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-800x200.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-1020x255.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-160x40.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-1536x384.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3.png 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest and policy can work together. Protests may raise awareness and understanding about issues and \u003ca href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-common-sense-9780190203986?cc=us&lang=en&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affect legislation \u003c/a>— such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 protests\u003c/a> against the Keystone XL Pipeline in North Dakota that threatened sacred Native American sites and burial grounds and risked polluting a major water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The added pressure from protests led to President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/with-a-pen-stroke-president-joe-biden-cancels-keystone-xl-pipeline-project/a-56285371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canceling permits for the controversial project on his first day in office\u003c/a>. Last year’s protests around George Floyd’s death have \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/george-floyd-protests-blm-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shifted\u003c/a> the national conversation and demands for change in policing and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/mission-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March for Our Lives\u003c/a> protests can be added to the list. After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/692717472/parkland-school-shooting-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mass shooting\u003c/a> at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/24/596679790/hundreds-of-thousands-march-for-gun-control-across-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2 million people in 387 congressional districts\u003c/a> across the country protested the lack of meaningful gun control legislation. Since then, the organization has done bus tours to understand how gun violence affects communities, and registered over 50,000 new voters — contributing to record youth voter turnout during the 2018 election. In 2020 March for Our Lives wrote specific \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/demands/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=The%20Bay&mc_key=00Q1Y00001wB9IBUA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy demands\u003c/a> for the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eve Levenson, March for Our Lives\"]‘The powerful personal stories that we hear at protests and see on social media also need to be shared directly with the people who are writing laws.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March for Our Lives members Yasmine Mabene and Eve Levenson believe protest and policy don’t have to be seen as separate from one another. “Once you’re able to get people mobilized, you have the attention and then you can come up with demands and policy proposals for your legislators,” Mabene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson added that “the powerful personal stories that we hear at protests and see on social media also need to be shared directly with the people who are writing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabene and Levenson both got involved with the organization by leading demonstrations at their own high schools in Southern California after the Parkland shootings. Neither had been involved in policy work before, and they learned quite a bit from their time with the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Mabene and Levenson’s tips for leveraging protest for policy:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Start local\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mabene and Levenson acknowledge how inaccessible policy work can be. So it’s best to research coalitions, organizations or people in your own community, says Mabene, who are working on something you are passionate about — perhaps the environment, housing, or voting access. Join in to see where you can provide support, keep yourself up to date on the issues that are most important to you, and follow up on the policies affecting those issues.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yasmine Mabene, March for Our Lives members\"]‘I think a lot of attempts at reducing gun violence have led to criminalization that hurt communities of color so it’s also important to make sure that the approach that they’re taking isn’t going to further marginalize communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson also suggests getting connected to programs that invest in teaching young people about policymaking and lobbying, like \u003ca href=\"https://ourbluefuture.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Future\u003c/a> (check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamenough.org/who-we-are?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team ENOUGH\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://click.email.kqed.org/?qs=3ef26f4357ec2b68310c557cb441a0d672c18e1f245a4057eb7462190334a871f818fbb0d06018968c8030c755ef69fd86e6a1ab897b2375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brady campaign\u003c/a>, both of which Levenson helped found). In addition to these groups, Levenson recommends knowing who the decision makers are in your community, such as city council and local elected leaders. “Those people are more likely to listen to you because you help to vote them in. You can contact them via phone, email, and, once COVID gets better, also in-person lobbying meetings,” Levenson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Dip your foot in the pool\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Policy work involves writing, research, creative thinking and, most of all, participation. For Mabene, attending city council or school board meetings helped her gain awareness of how these meetings work and allowed her to gain some exposure to what a city council does. “A lot of times local officials will host town halls, and not a lot of people show up, especially not a lot of young people,” Mabene says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City council agendas are made public and there is usually a time period allotted for the public to make comments. You can speak out during those meetings or you can email elected officials directly.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you choose to lobby legislators, Mabene says you won’t always talk to the elected officials themselves, but rather their chief lobbyist or someone of a similar position. Most of the time, legislative staff are the ones taking notes and relaying the message, but they’re still important people to talk to and establish relationships with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, you don’t have to be registered or eligible to vote to partake in this process. Plus, you can lobby in areas you don’t live in, as seen through nationwide efforts for \u003ca href=\"http://teenvogue.com/story/5-youth-led-climate-justice-groups-to-save-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more on how to prepare for city council meetings, check out “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852506/by-the-people-oaklands-longtime-city-clerk-on-how-to-make-use-of-city-council-meetings?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=The%20Bay&mc_key=00Q1Y00001wB9IBUA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the People: Oakland’s Longtime City Clerk on Participating in Council Meetings\u003c/a>.” \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2983267421&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Do your research\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Suddenly you’ve got partners and you’re sitting in on local meetings. Next, it’s all about putting those policy ideas on paper, and finding the money to support them. How? Research!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, identify the issue you want to fix. “If you have a specific issue in your city, look at neighboring cities that don’t have that issue,” Mabene says. “Base your proposal off what models they have and explore if that can work in your specific jurisdiction.” You can also look into the models of other states or countries to really examine the issue you are trying to address from a solutions-oriented perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Stay with it\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that passing policy is just the first step. The next step is making sure it gets implemented properly. “There are a lot of times where you’ll have really good policy, there’s research that backs it, but it ends up getting implemented poorly,” Mabene said. “It ends up not really achieving the goal you wanted.” [aside tag=\"the-bay, democracy\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy takes time. In general, Levenson says policy at the federal level moves slowly. Gun legislation, for example, moves dangerously slow. Nevertheless, Levenson and Mabene are hopeful about President Biden’s recent executive actions on guns. “It’s definitely exciting that the Biden administration is recognizing gun violence as a public health epidemic, which it is, and it’s long overdue for it to be treated as such,” Mabene said. “I think a lot of attempts at reducing gun violence have led to criminalization that hurt communities of color so it’s also important to make sure that the approach that they’re taking isn’t going to further marginalize communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting policy passed and implemented requires a team and nonstop work. But, there is solace in the partnerships created and unfaltering motivation in the pursuit of bigger change. “I’m only 21 right now, and to know that there are people who have been doing this work for much longer, it gives me hope,” Levenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11885125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Isabeth Mendoza is the engagement producer for The Bay, a podcast that explores local news every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We launched a newsletter and episode series called \u003ca href=\"https://click.email.kqed.org/?qs=de9b073e9d21239f50f202cec0ebe6e98c8b13843e30e1061d8fee1c4457340bcf34b3833b85a9c8a14704995b30714fb0be02251915e015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By The People\u003c/a> shortly after U.S. Election Day in 2020. The purpose of the series was to look into how democracy functions in the spaces around us, and the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform?usp=send_form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newsletter\u003c/a> continued the conversation focusing on how to plug in. We looked at how to run for office, how to use digital spaces for advocacy and how to get a measure on a ballot. If any of these spark your curiosity, keep reading because we break it down for you in simple how-to guides.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"March for Our Lives members Yasmine Mabene and Eve Levenson believe protest and policy don’t have to be seen as separate from one another.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700692712,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1415},"headData":{"title":"How to Shift From Protest to Policy | KQED","description":"March for Our Lives members Yasmine Mabene and Eve Levenson believe protest and policy don’t have to be seen as separate from one another.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"path":"/news/11885027/how-to-shift-from-protest-to-policy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how-to newsletter\u003c/a> series is an extension of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bythepeople\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the People\u003c/a> episodes that look into how democracy functions in the spaces around us — and where, exactly, each of us can plug in. These features include changemakers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guides with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11885124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-800x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-800x200.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-1020x255.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-160x40.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3-1536x384.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/How-To-Headers-3.png 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest and policy can work together. Protests may raise awareness and understanding about issues and \u003ca href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-common-sense-9780190203986?cc=us&lang=en&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affect legislation \u003c/a>— such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 protests\u003c/a> against the Keystone XL Pipeline in North Dakota that threatened sacred Native American sites and burial grounds and risked polluting a major water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The added pressure from protests led to President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/with-a-pen-stroke-president-joe-biden-cancels-keystone-xl-pipeline-project/a-56285371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canceling permits for the controversial project on his first day in office\u003c/a>. Last year’s protests around George Floyd’s death have \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/george-floyd-protests-blm-impact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shifted\u003c/a> the national conversation and demands for change in policing and funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/mission-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March for Our Lives\u003c/a> protests can be added to the list. After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/692717472/parkland-school-shooting-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mass shooting\u003c/a> at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/24/596679790/hundreds-of-thousands-march-for-gun-control-across-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2 million people in 387 congressional districts\u003c/a> across the country protested the lack of meaningful gun control legislation. Since then, the organization has done bus tours to understand how gun violence affects communities, and registered over 50,000 new voters — contributing to record youth voter turnout during the 2018 election. In 2020 March for Our Lives wrote specific \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/demands/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=The%20Bay&mc_key=00Q1Y00001wB9IBUA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy demands\u003c/a> for the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The powerful personal stories that we hear at protests and see on social media also need to be shared directly with the people who are writing laws.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Eve Levenson, March for Our Lives","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March for Our Lives members Yasmine Mabene and Eve Levenson believe protest and policy don’t have to be seen as separate from one another. “Once you’re able to get people mobilized, you have the attention and then you can come up with demands and policy proposals for your legislators,” Mabene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson added that “the powerful personal stories that we hear at protests and see on social media also need to be shared directly with the people who are writing laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabene and Levenson both got involved with the organization by leading demonstrations at their own high schools in Southern California after the Parkland shootings. Neither had been involved in policy work before, and they learned quite a bit from their time with the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Mabene and Levenson’s tips for leveraging protest for policy:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Start local\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mabene and Levenson acknowledge how inaccessible policy work can be. So it’s best to research coalitions, organizations or people in your own community, says Mabene, who are working on something you are passionate about — perhaps the environment, housing, or voting access. Join in to see where you can provide support, keep yourself up to date on the issues that are most important to you, and follow up on the policies affecting those issues.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think a lot of attempts at reducing gun violence have led to criminalization that hurt communities of color so it’s also important to make sure that the approach that they’re taking isn’t going to further marginalize communities.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Yasmine Mabene, March for Our Lives members","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson also suggests getting connected to programs that invest in teaching young people about policymaking and lobbying, like \u003ca href=\"https://ourbluefuture.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Future\u003c/a> (check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamenough.org/who-we-are?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team ENOUGH\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://click.email.kqed.org/?qs=3ef26f4357ec2b68310c557cb441a0d672c18e1f245a4057eb7462190334a871f818fbb0d06018968c8030c755ef69fd86e6a1ab897b2375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brady campaign\u003c/a>, both of which Levenson helped found). In addition to these groups, Levenson recommends knowing who the decision makers are in your community, such as city council and local elected leaders. “Those people are more likely to listen to you because you help to vote them in. You can contact them via phone, email, and, once COVID gets better, also in-person lobbying meetings,” Levenson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Dip your foot in the pool\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Policy work involves writing, research, creative thinking and, most of all, participation. For Mabene, attending city council or school board meetings helped her gain awareness of how these meetings work and allowed her to gain some exposure to what a city council does. “A lot of times local officials will host town halls, and not a lot of people show up, especially not a lot of young people,” Mabene says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City council agendas are made public and there is usually a time period allotted for the public to make comments. You can speak out during those meetings or you can email elected officials directly.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you choose to lobby legislators, Mabene says you won’t always talk to the elected officials themselves, but rather their chief lobbyist or someone of a similar position. Most of the time, legislative staff are the ones taking notes and relaying the message, but they’re still important people to talk to and establish relationships with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, you don’t have to be registered or eligible to vote to partake in this process. Plus, you can lobby in areas you don’t live in, as seen through nationwide efforts for \u003ca href=\"http://teenvogue.com/story/5-youth-led-climate-justice-groups-to-save-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more on how to prepare for city council meetings, check out “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852506/by-the-people-oaklands-longtime-city-clerk-on-how-to-make-use-of-city-council-meetings?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=The%20Bay&mc_key=00Q1Y00001wB9IBUA0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the People: Oakland’s Longtime City Clerk on Participating in Council Meetings\u003c/a>.” \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2983267421&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Do your research\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Suddenly you’ve got partners and you’re sitting in on local meetings. Next, it’s all about putting those policy ideas on paper, and finding the money to support them. How? Research!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, identify the issue you want to fix. “If you have a specific issue in your city, look at neighboring cities that don’t have that issue,” Mabene says. “Base your proposal off what models they have and explore if that can work in your specific jurisdiction.” You can also look into the models of other states or countries to really examine the issue you are trying to address from a solutions-oriented perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Stay with it\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that passing policy is just the first step. The next step is making sure it gets implemented properly. “There are a lot of times where you’ll have really good policy, there’s research that backs it, but it ends up getting implemented poorly,” Mabene said. “It ends up not really achieving the goal you wanted.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"the-bay, democracy","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy takes time. In general, Levenson says policy at the federal level moves slowly. Gun legislation, for example, moves dangerously slow. Nevertheless, Levenson and Mabene are hopeful about President Biden’s recent executive actions on guns. “It’s definitely exciting that the Biden administration is recognizing gun violence as a public health epidemic, which it is, and it’s long overdue for it to be treated as such,” Mabene said. “I think a lot of attempts at reducing gun violence have led to criminalization that hurt communities of color so it’s also important to make sure that the approach that they’re taking isn’t going to further marginalize communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting policy passed and implemented requires a team and nonstop work. But, there is solace in the partnerships created and unfaltering motivation in the pursuit of bigger change. “I’m only 21 right now, and to know that there are people who have been doing this work for much longer, it gives me hope,” Levenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11885125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/HOW-TO-Newsletter-Graphic-44.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Isabeth Mendoza is the engagement producer for The Bay, a podcast that explores local news every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We launched a newsletter and episode series called \u003ca href=\"https://click.email.kqed.org/?qs=de9b073e9d21239f50f202cec0ebe6e98c8b13843e30e1061d8fee1c4457340bcf34b3833b85a9c8a14704995b30714fb0be02251915e015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By The People\u003c/a> shortly after U.S. Election Day in 2020. The purpose of the series was to look into how democracy functions in the spaces around us, and the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform?usp=send_form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newsletter\u003c/a> continued the conversation focusing on how to plug in. We looked at how to run for office, how to use digital spaces for advocacy and how to get a measure on a ballot. If any of these spark your curiosity, keep reading because we break it down for you in simple how-to guides.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11885027/how-to-shift-from-protest-to-policy","authors":["11673"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_223","news_18540","news_8","news_33520","news_13"],"tags":["news_28976","news_27626","news_29795","news_1100","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11885040","label":"news_28779"},"news_11874353":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11874353","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11874353","score":null,"sort":[1621539743000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pro-palestinian-demonstrators-rally-at-san-franciscos-israeli-consulate-demanding-more-than-just-ceasefire","title":"Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Rally at SF's Israeli Consulate in Lead Up to Cease-Fire","publishDate":1621539743,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Rally at SF’s Israeli Consulate in Lead Up to Cease-Fire | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Over 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on Tuesday in solidarity with a general strike staged by Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel in response to ongoing attacks by the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local action, among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998191383/u-s-scenes-of-protest-over-the-violence-in-gaza-and-israel\">scores of similar demonstrations\u003c/a> across the United States, comes as pressure grew on President Biden to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group fighting from Gaza.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leiya Kadah, Bay Area high school student\"]‘My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it.’[/pullquote]On Wednesday, Biden purportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">unleashed another wave\u003c/a> of airstrikes across Gaza early Thursday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others, while Hamas continued firing rockets into Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, the Israeli Cabinet \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998644377/israels-cabinet-announces-unilateral-cease-fire-in-gaza-conflict\">said they have voted for a cease-fire plan\u003c/a> after 11 days of fighting. Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. And \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-demands-biden-hard-171958106.html\">Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>, an independent from Vermont, this week urged Biden to take a “hard look” at U.S. military aid to Israel, suggesting that it be conditional on the country’s human rights record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"palestine\"]Israel, however, has long been one of America’s strongest allies, prompting Biden to proceed cautiously on the issue, with his administration this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-17-2021/\">reiterating its position\u003c/a> that Israel has the right to defend itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on May 10, coalitions of Palestinian advocacy groups in dozens of cities across the U.S. have organized rallies, raised funds for displaced Palestinians and pushed for a boycott of Israeli commerce. Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. For her, organizing has become a space in which multiple generations can learn from each other, while expressing care and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to call the Jewish community in. We understand what’s been handed down, the trauma,” she said. “It takes time, it takes patience. It also takes principles. It takes a lot of organizing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Sara Hossaini, NPR’s Merrit Kennedy and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on ahead of a new cease-fire agreement announced Thursday, activists in San Francisco and across the country this week demonstrated in solidarity with Palestinians.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700512858,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1498},"headData":{"title":"Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Rally at SF's Israeli Consulate in Lead Up to Cease-Fire | KQED","description":"As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on ahead of a new cease-fire agreement announced Thursday, activists in San Francisco and across the country this week demonstrated in solidarity with Palestinians.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11874353/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-rally-at-san-franciscos-israeli-consulate-demanding-more-than-just-ceasefire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on Tuesday in solidarity with a general strike staged by Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel in response to ongoing attacks by the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local action, among \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998191383/u-s-scenes-of-protest-over-the-violence-in-gaza-and-israel\">scores of similar demonstrations\u003c/a> across the United States, comes as pressure grew on President Biden to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group fighting from Gaza.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Leiya Kadah, Bay Area high school student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Wednesday, Biden purportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">unleashed another wave\u003c/a> of airstrikes across Gaza early Thursday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others, while Hamas continued firing rockets into Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, the Israeli Cabinet \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998644377/israels-cabinet-announces-unilateral-cease-fire-in-gaza-conflict\">said they have voted for a cease-fire plan\u003c/a> after 11 days of fighting. Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. And \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-demands-biden-hard-171958106.html\">Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>, an independent from Vermont, this week urged Biden to take a “hard look” at U.S. military aid to Israel, suggesting that it be conditional on the country’s human rights record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"palestine"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Israel, however, has long been one of America’s strongest allies, prompting Biden to proceed cautiously on the issue, with his administration this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-17-2021/\">reiterating its position\u003c/a> that Israel has the right to defend itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on May 10, coalitions of Palestinian advocacy groups in dozens of cities across the U.S. have organized rallies, raised funds for displaced Palestinians and pushed for a boycott of Israeli commerce. Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. For her, organizing has become a space in which multiple generations can learn from each other, while expressing care and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to call the Jewish community in. We understand what’s been handed down, the trauma,” she said. “It takes time, it takes patience. It also takes principles. It takes a lot of organizing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Sara Hossaini, NPR’s Merrit Kennedy and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11874353/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-rally-at-san-franciscos-israeli-consulate-demanding-more-than-just-ceasefire","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29486","news_19442","news_29476","news_6631","news_1741","news_717","news_29475","news_1100","news_38","news_29485"],"featImg":"news_11874360","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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