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It found a revolving door of homelessness, with most people who access services placed in interim housing. Of those, just 13% ended up with a permanent place to live, while 44% returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San José) \u003ca href=\"https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-cortese-and-supervisor-chavez-initiate-audit-request-state-funding-san-joses-homeless\">requested the audit \u003c/a>in November 2022 after touring a sprawling San José encampment that has since been cleared. The audit request was approved in March 2023.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San José, who requested the audit\"]‘There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday, he said the audit revealed a “data desert” and added that there clearly wasn’t enough capacity — either planned or built — to ensure that people living on the streets could get permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness … on a bed-by-bed, project-by-project level,” Cortese said. “Basically, you have a system where cities are putting money out … but not based on a concrete plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huduser.gov%2Fportal%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2F2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused (DOC)\u003c/a> in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s despite an unprecedented nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/2023-24-Budget-Housing-Homelessness-Proposed-Budget-Changes-032923.pdf\">$24 billion in state spending on homelessness over the same period (PDF)\u003c/a>, in addition to local and federal investments, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is facing a concerning paradox: despite an exorbitant amount of dollars spent, the state’s homeless population is not slowing down,” Sen. Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement. “These audit results are a wake-up call for a shift toward solutions that prioritize self-sufficiency and cost-effectiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's Homeless Population, In Thousands\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-gPa5h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gPa5h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"487\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, the auditor’s office focused on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and reviewed five state-funded homelessness programs to assess cost-effectiveness. The review found the state lacks information in three of the five programs about how much they cost and whether or not they’re working — and doesn’t even have a consistent system for collecting this information for individual programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor’s office found the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey program and the California Department of Social Services’ CalWORKs Housing Support Program is cost‑effective but couldn’t determine whether the other three programs it studied — the State Rental Assistance Program, the Encampment Resolution Funding Program, and the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program — were because the state hasn’t collected enough data on outcomes.[aside postID=news_11981737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/vallejo-nav-center-rendering-2-1020x680.jpg']“In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, neither city studied could account for all of its homelessness-related funding and spending despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. The auditor blames a failure to establish a system for tracking and reporting spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absence of such a mechanism limits the transparency and accountability of the cities’ uses of funding to address homelessness,” State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to the governor and legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities weren’t tracking how effective their contracts with service providers were or holding them to clear performance measures, the audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, despite clear evidence that placing people in permanent housing leads to better outcomes, both cities have invested heavily in developing temporary shelters and still lack the capacity to house their homeless residents at those sites. While both cities are developing permanent housing, neither “has a clear, long‑term plan to ensure that they have the housing necessary,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for All Home, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, said that without ongoing funding to build housing at scale for people exiting homelessness, cities will continue to fall short. She was heartened, she said, by a proposed $10-$20 billion regional affordable housing bond for the Bay Area that \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahousingforall.org/frequently-asked-questions/\">could appear on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ability to really fund more permanent housing solutions, folks will be stuck waiting outside for that permanent housing solution, or they will be moving inside to interim solutions, but without anywhere to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some other report findings included:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state agency in charge of coordinating and tracking the effectiveness of its programs — the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — has not tracked or reported on the state’s funding for homelessness programs since 2023, when it issued a report covering fiscal years 2018 through 2021. Currently, it has no plans to perform a similar assessment in the future, according to the report.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH’s actions are not aligned with goals mandated by the Legislature. The report notes that without this alignment, the agency “lacks assurance that the actions it takes will effectively enable it to reach those goals.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH has no consistent method for gathering information on homelessness programs’ costs and outcomes. “As a result,” the report noted, “the state lacks information that would allow it to make data‑driven policy decisions and identify gaps in services.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH doesn’t know whether the data it gathers is accurate, nor has it used that data to evaluate whether programs to address homelessness are working.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The report found that 86% of people placed in housing statewide moved into interim housing rather than permanent housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people left interim housing, only 13% moved into permanent housing. By contrast, 44% of the people who left interim housing returned to homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people were placed in permanent housing, they returned to homelessness 4% of the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As street homelessness becomes increasingly visible, public skepticism of the state’s response has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A demonstration of that skepticism came during the March election, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to tackle the homelessness crisis by the thinnest margins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom raised more than $13 million promoting Proposition 1, which will compel county behavioral health departments to spend some of their funding on housing and drug treatment programs.[aside postID=news_11981595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg']Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-february-2024/\">top concerns in polls\u003c/a>, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending. Newsom has paired new funding with demands for greater oversight, while a federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-08/federal-judge-seeks-audit-of-mayors-signature-program-inside-safe\">seeking an audit\u003c/a> of homelessness programs in the city, and auditors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981767/audit-finds-sf-homeless-housing-provider-misspent-taxpayer-money\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/report-finds-homeless-service-provider-dema-unable-to-account-for-about-40/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> recently investigated homeless services providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-dac338003e3f78986bc9369430cddd0b\">scathing 2021 audit\u003c/a> found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative. The report recommended California follow the example of other states in assigning oversight to a single entity tasked with developing a statewide strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, where more than 6,000 people are unhoused, Mayor Matt Mahan and his predecessor Sam Liccardo have pushed for the city to invest in interim housing as a way to quickly move unhoused residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in San Jose\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Dw8zM\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Dw8zM/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"385\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness increased in San José between 2015 to 2022, from just over 4,000 to 6,650. The population dipped slightly in 2023 to 6,340 — an accomplishment Mahan attributes to the city’s investment in interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget proposal last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">Mahan proposed an increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a> and shelter, a shift that could result in fewer investments in building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">similar effort from the mayor was met with some resistance \u003c/a>from the council last year, but Mahan argued that a new mandate from regional water officials to clear encampments from the city’s river beds added urgency to his focus on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing,homeless\" label=\"More Housing Stories\"]“More than anything, it seems like the audit calls for us to do more,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer for Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement Santa Clara County’s plan to end homelessness. “That costs money, and at a time where we’re seeing the funds that we’re getting be reduced or cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local taxes and bonds have raised money in recent years, Bramson pointed out that federal housing and homelessness funding has been stagnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been decades and decades of disinvestment in our poorest residents at both the state and the federal levels,” he said, reiterating a common refrain calling for ongoing — as opposed to one-time — state funding. “While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report recommended the Legislature amend state law to require Cal ICH, by March 2025, to mandate reporting by state agencies on the costs and outcomes of its programs related to homelessness. To do that, Cal ICH has to establish guidelines for the agency to follow when it collects that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ray Bramson, chief operating officer, Destination Home\"]‘While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.’[/pullquote]The audit also recommends Cal ICH determine how much it would cost to collect and publish this information annually and request the necessary funding. By September 2025, the agency should begin publishing this data on costs and outcomes annually and create a scorecard showing how well each program is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is facing an estimated $73 billion budget, according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office. But despite this shortfall, Cortese said now was not the time to hold back on funding for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, it’s really really important that this [data] system that the state stood up last year starts delivering to us immediately the state’s analysis of the effectiveness of those dollars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Cal ICH Executive Officer Meghan Marshall said the agency “generally agrees” with the auditor’s recommendations and “will take appropriate measures to implement where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite allocating about $20 billion to address homelessness in California since 2019, the state experienced a 19% increase in unhoused residents, surpassing 181,000 individuals in 2023. 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Of those, just 13% ended up with a permanent place to live, while 44% returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San José) \u003ca href=\"https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-cortese-and-supervisor-chavez-initiate-audit-request-state-funding-san-joses-homeless\">requested the audit \u003c/a>in November 2022 after touring a sprawling San José encampment that has since been cleared. The audit request was approved in March 2023.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"California Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San José, who requested the audit","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday, he said the audit revealed a “data desert” and added that there clearly wasn’t enough capacity — either planned or built — to ensure that people living on the streets could get permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are not clear plans in place even at the local level to establish goals that would eradicate homelessness … on a bed-by-bed, project-by-project level,” Cortese said. “Basically, you have a system where cities are putting money out … but not based on a concrete plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huduser.gov%2Fportal%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2F2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused (DOC)\u003c/a> in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.\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>That’s despite an unprecedented nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/2023-24-Budget-Housing-Homelessness-Proposed-Budget-Changes-032923.pdf\">$24 billion in state spending on homelessness over the same period (PDF)\u003c/a>, in addition to local and federal investments, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is facing a concerning paradox: despite an exorbitant amount of dollars spent, the state’s homeless population is not slowing down,” Sen. Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks), vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a statement. “These audit results are a wake-up call for a shift toward solutions that prioritize self-sufficiency and cost-effectiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California's Homeless Population, In Thousands\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-gPa5h\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gPa5h/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"487\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, the auditor’s office focused on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and reviewed five state-funded homelessness programs to assess cost-effectiveness. The review found the state lacks information in three of the five programs about how much they cost and whether or not they’re working — and doesn’t even have a consistent system for collecting this information for individual programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor’s office found the Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey program and the California Department of Social Services’ CalWORKs Housing Support Program is cost‑effective but couldn’t determine whether the other three programs it studied — the State Rental Assistance Program, the Encampment Resolution Funding Program, and the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program — were because the state hasn’t collected enough data on outcomes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981737","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/vallejo-nav-center-rendering-2-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, neither city studied could account for all of its homelessness-related funding and spending despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. The auditor blames a failure to establish a system for tracking and reporting spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The absence of such a mechanism limits the transparency and accountability of the cities’ uses of funding to address homelessness,” State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to the governor and legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities weren’t tracking how effective their contracts with service providers were or holding them to clear performance measures, the audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, despite clear evidence that placing people in permanent housing leads to better outcomes, both cities have invested heavily in developing temporary shelters and still lack the capacity to house their homeless residents at those sites. While both cities are developing permanent housing, neither “has a clear, long‑term plan to ensure that they have the housing necessary,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for All Home, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, said that without ongoing funding to build housing at scale for people exiting homelessness, cities will continue to fall short. She was heartened, she said, by a proposed $10-$20 billion regional affordable housing bond for the Bay Area that \u003ca href=\"https://bayareahousingforall.org/frequently-asked-questions/\">could appear on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the ability to really fund more permanent housing solutions, folks will be stuck waiting outside for that permanent housing solution, or they will be moving inside to interim solutions, but without anywhere to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some other report findings included:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state agency in charge of coordinating and tracking the effectiveness of its programs — the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — has not tracked or reported on the state’s funding for homelessness programs since 2023, when it issued a report covering fiscal years 2018 through 2021. Currently, it has no plans to perform a similar assessment in the future, according to the report.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH’s actions are not aligned with goals mandated by the Legislature. The report notes that without this alignment, the agency “lacks assurance that the actions it takes will effectively enable it to reach those goals.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH has no consistent method for gathering information on homelessness programs’ costs and outcomes. “As a result,” the report noted, “the state lacks information that would allow it to make data‑driven policy decisions and identify gaps in services.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cal ICH doesn’t know whether the data it gathers is accurate, nor has it used that data to evaluate whether programs to address homelessness are working.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The report found that 86% of people placed in housing statewide moved into interim housing rather than permanent housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people left interim housing, only 13% moved into permanent housing. By contrast, 44% of the people who left interim housing returned to homelessness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When people were placed in permanent housing, they returned to homelessness 4% of the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As street homelessness becomes increasingly visible, public skepticism of the state’s response has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A demonstration of that skepticism came during the March election, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to tackle the homelessness crisis by the thinnest margins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom raised more than $13 million promoting Proposition 1, which will compel county behavioral health departments to spend some of their funding on housing and drug treatment programs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981595","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-february-2024/\">top concerns in polls\u003c/a>, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending. Newsom has paired new funding with demands for greater oversight, while a federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-08/federal-judge-seeks-audit-of-mayors-signature-program-inside-safe\">seeking an audit\u003c/a> of homelessness programs in the city, and auditors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981767/audit-finds-sf-homeless-housing-provider-misspent-taxpayer-money\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/report-finds-homeless-service-provider-dema-unable-to-account-for-about-40/\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> recently investigated homeless services providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-dac338003e3f78986bc9369430cddd0b\">scathing 2021 audit\u003c/a> found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative. The report recommended California follow the example of other states in assigning oversight to a single entity tasked with developing a statewide strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, where more than 6,000 people are unhoused, Mayor Matt Mahan and his predecessor Sam Liccardo have pushed for the city to invest in interim housing as a way to quickly move unhoused residents off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in San Jose\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Dw8zM\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Dw8zM/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"385\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness increased in San José between 2015 to 2022, from just over 4,000 to 6,650. The population dipped slightly in 2023 to 6,340 — an accomplishment Mahan attributes to the city’s investment in interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his budget proposal last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">Mahan proposed an increase in funding for temporary housing\u003c/a> and shelter, a shift that could result in fewer investments in building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">similar effort from the mayor was met with some resistance \u003c/a>from the council last year, but Mahan argued that a new mandate from regional water officials to clear encampments from the city’s river beds added urgency to his focus on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"housing,homeless","label":"More Housing Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“More than anything, it seems like the audit calls for us to do more,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer for Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement Santa Clara County’s plan to end homelessness. “That costs money, and at a time where we’re seeing the funds that we’re getting be reduced or cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local taxes and bonds have raised money in recent years, Bramson pointed out that federal housing and homelessness funding has been stagnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been decades and decades of disinvestment in our poorest residents at both the state and the federal levels,” he said, reiterating a common refrain calling for ongoing — as opposed to one-time — state funding. “While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report recommended the Legislature amend state law to require Cal ICH, by March 2025, to mandate reporting by state agencies on the costs and outcomes of its programs related to homelessness. To do that, Cal ICH has to establish guidelines for the agency to follow when it collects that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘While there’s been more investments recently, we really need some permanent, reliable sources if we’re going to implement these big system changes.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ray Bramson, chief operating officer, Destination Home","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The audit also recommends Cal ICH determine how much it would cost to collect and publish this information annually and request the necessary funding. By September 2025, the agency should begin publishing this data on costs and outcomes annually and create a scorecard showing how well each program is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is facing an estimated $73 billion budget, according to the Legislative Analysts’ Office. But despite this shortfall, Cortese said now was not the time to hold back on funding for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, it’s really really important that this [data] system that the state stood up last year starts delivering to us immediately the state’s analysis of the effectiveness of those dollars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Cal ICH Executive Officer Meghan Marshall said the agency “generally agrees” with the auditor’s recommendations and “will take appropriate measures to implement where possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmarzorati\">Guy Marzorati\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \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/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_20904","news_18538","news_27626","news_4020","news_32023","news_1775","news_38","news_18541","news_4981"],"featImg":"news_11982284","label":"news"},"news_11969882":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969882","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969882","score":null,"sort":[1702638008000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-disaster-strikes-in-english-only","title":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only","publishDate":1702638008,"format":"audio","headTitle":"When Disaster Strikes in English Only | 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\">Despite the many languages spoken in the Bay Area, Alameda and Solano Counties only send out emergency alerts in English, leaving at least one in ten Bay Area residents at risk of missing life-saving information in the face of disaster. El Timpano senior reporter \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/author/jasmine-aguilera/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jasmine Aguilera\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains why that is, and which counties are succeeding in disseminating critical information to everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\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=KQINC5665754787\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/public-safety/alert-this-is-an-emergency-but-for-english-speakers-only/\">ALERT: This is an emergency — but for English speakers only\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784071/in-latino-heavy-sonoma-a-tiny-radio-station-relays-critical-fire-information-in-indigenous-languages\">The Tiny Radio Station Relaying Critical Kincade Fire Information in Indigenous Languages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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. Back in September when wildfire smoke hovered over the Bay Area, emergency alerts started popping up on people’s phones. Air quality reached hazardous levels for those with respiratory diseases, the alerts read. But for the thousands of Bay Area residents who speak a language other than English at home, it would take days for them to receive the same alert in their native language, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>According to reporting from El Timpano, more than a quarter of non-English speakers living in the Bay Area don’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language. Today, we’re going to dig into this language gap in local emergency alert systems here in the bay and how one county has been working to change that. Jasmine, I wonder if you can maybe just start by explaining when a disaster strikes, do we have systems set up to let everyone know when stuff hits the fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>The short answer, unfortunately, is for a lot of people, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jasmine Aguilera is a senior reporter for El Timpano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>For the most part, not everybody will receive timely and accurate information and in their own language or analysis adulting. But I found that of California’s 58 counties, only 21 offer alerts in a language other than English. We’re also giving these counties the benefit of the doubt because a lot of times we cannot actually test whether or not these alerts will send out until we can actually test their systems. So we took a look at the nine Bay Area counties here and determined that 3.2 million people here speak a language other than English at home. And because Alameda County and Solano counties do not offer alerts in a language other than English, we’re talking about at least 27% of the population that doesn’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So those two counties that you mentioned, Alameda and Solano County, are the only counties in the Bay Area who aren’t offering alerts in any language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Exactly. And I mean, two out of the nine. You know, that’s not bad. But these are counties with gigantic non-English populations. So it is a significant part of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, I wonder if we can step back a little bit and explain for us how these emergency alert systems work exactly and why is this happening? Where is the breakdown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So even signing up for alerts we found can be really challenging for non-English speakers. And we cover the Latino and Mayan immigrant communities here in the Bay Area. And we’ve done several surveys that show that often times, especially older immigrants do not have computers at home, do not have Internet at home. They may not even have an email address. And for the vast majority of California counties, you have to opt into the program. You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. And so purposefully, the state of California has tried to make sure that each county is empowered to design their own individual opt in programs because they want to make sure that officials can handle whatever disaster is going on on a very localized level. But that means there isn’t one simple solution if you’re trying to make sure that disaster responses can be very, very localized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And we found that, you know, sometimes there are the best intentions, just a lack of resources or other times they really just isn’t enough willpower to try to, you know, create a system. Maybe the population of non-English speakers is small enough that it’s just not top of mind for people when they’ve got so many other things that are on their plate. And then we found other counties that are in the middle of actually trying as hard as possible to create a robust system. But at least at the time of reporting, we found, you know, the vast majority of California’s programs are not up to the task right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about one Bay Area county that has put in the work to reach more residents in an emergency. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Your reporting kind of zoomed into one Bay Area county in particular that was really trying to get its act together specifically for the Spanish speaking population. Can you tell me about that and what what your reporting found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We didn’t have to look very far. We went over to Sonoma County and saw the steps that they’ve taken. Basically, I mean, officials, they themselves will say it’s because they’ve faced disaster after disaster after disaster essentially since 2017. And they realized since the Tubbs fire of 2017 that their communications were just lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>In 2017 when that fire hit. None of this was in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We spoke to Alma Bowen, who is the founder and executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, a nonprofit organization that focuses on disaster preparedness and reaching specifically Spanish speaking communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And there was no organization. And so there were either duplication of services or there were needs that were not met because we simply didn’t know who could fill those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, what they did is they revamped their Sonoma County coed community organizations active in disaster. That’s what the acronym for which was a coalition of nonprofit organizations that are all each doing their own individual work for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>As soon as they’re going to activate their EOC or emergency operations center. That call gets put to code. From that moment on, until the emergency sovereign shuts down, one of us is present in that room. The expectation is that the message is go out simultaneously and at least English and Spanish, because those are our highest populations. And then year round, that’s part of the conversations we’re always having with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And also giving them a seat at the county government table so that everybody is in communication. Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. It could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that, you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There’s still a lot of people who will be left out even now. But, you know, as far as we could see, they are the ones who have really taken on the task and have have tried to do as much as possible since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m wondering, Jasmine, why you think Sonoma County was able to get its act together in this where I guess address this and why haven’t other counties been able to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Alma Bowen said it best that Sonoma County really had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>Had we not had Kincade Walbridge Glass, you know, all those different fires right out like almost on the heel of each other? I don’t know. It’s like every time a fire hit, it just kept smacking him into reality. You have to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>She also said it’s important for these counties in California to realize that they have time right now. They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. It’s a matter of willpower and it’s a matter of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There is not a one size fits all that will solve the problem for each each county. We did find examples of other counties who are making efforts. They are taking steps at the moment. It’s a it’s a process. It takes time. I even in Sonoma County, it’s taken years. It’s complicated, but it’s also not complicated in a weird way. You know, there are solutions, there are models. Sonoma County is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s doable. It’s doable. What is your biggest takeaway from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>My biggest takeaway really has been how essential language access is. It’s something that, you know, as an English speaker, as a bilingual speaker, but primarily English speaker. I realize the enormous privilege now that I have whenever I receive an alert about, you know, just a traffic jam in San Francisco that I can avoid, other people will probably get stuck up in that jam. Imagine, you know, just kind of the snowball effect there. If you get stuck in that traffic jam, you’re late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And for me, maybe being late for work isn’t so much a significant thing. But for someone else who is an hourly worker, that’s significant. It’s not even just emergencies. Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting through your daily life. Making things more accessible through language, I think is kind of the least we can do in California. You know, the state with the largest immigrant population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much, Ericka. Really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Jasmine Aguilera, a senior reporter for El Timpano. We’ll leave you a link to Jasmine’s full story in El Timpano. In our show notes, this 30 minute conversation with Jasmine was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer, she scored this episode and added all the tape, additional production support from me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast squad here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations Manager. Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. And Holly Kernan, our Chief Content officer. The Bay is a production of your local public media station KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. 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El Timpano senior reporter \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/author/jasmine-aguilera/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jasmine Aguilera\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains why that is, and which counties are succeeding in disseminating critical information to everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\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=KQINC5665754787\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/public-safety/alert-this-is-an-emergency-but-for-english-speakers-only/\">ALERT: This is an emergency — but for English speakers only\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784071/in-latino-heavy-sonoma-a-tiny-radio-station-relays-critical-fire-information-in-indigenous-languages\">The Tiny Radio Station Relaying Critical Kincade Fire Information in Indigenous Languages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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>\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>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Back in September when wildfire smoke hovered over the Bay Area, emergency alerts started popping up on people’s phones. Air quality reached hazardous levels for those with respiratory diseases, the alerts read. But for the thousands of Bay Area residents who speak a language other than English at home, it would take days for them to receive the same alert in their native language, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>According to reporting from El Timpano, more than a quarter of non-English speakers living in the Bay Area don’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language. Today, we’re going to dig into this language gap in local emergency alert systems here in the bay and how one county has been working to change that. Jasmine, I wonder if you can maybe just start by explaining when a disaster strikes, do we have systems set up to let everyone know when stuff hits the fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>The short answer, unfortunately, is for a lot of people, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jasmine Aguilera is a senior reporter for El Timpano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>For the most part, not everybody will receive timely and accurate information and in their own language or analysis adulting. But I found that of California’s 58 counties, only 21 offer alerts in a language other than English. We’re also giving these counties the benefit of the doubt because a lot of times we cannot actually test whether or not these alerts will send out until we can actually test their systems. So we took a look at the nine Bay Area counties here and determined that 3.2 million people here speak a language other than English at home. And because Alameda County and Solano counties do not offer alerts in a language other than English, we’re talking about at least 27% of the population that doesn’t have access to emergency alerts in their native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So those two counties that you mentioned, Alameda and Solano County, are the only counties in the Bay Area who aren’t offering alerts in any language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Exactly. And I mean, two out of the nine. You know, that’s not bad. But these are counties with gigantic non-English populations. So it is a significant part of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, I wonder if we can step back a little bit and explain for us how these emergency alert systems work exactly and why is this happening? Where is the breakdown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So even signing up for alerts we found can be really challenging for non-English speakers. And we cover the Latino and Mayan immigrant communities here in the Bay Area. And we’ve done several surveys that show that often times, especially older immigrants do not have computers at home, do not have Internet at home. They may not even have an email address. And for the vast majority of California counties, you have to opt into the program. You have to actually go to the county website, put in your information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And oftentimes these websites are asking for first name, last name, email addresses and home addresses. It is pretty obvious that if you’re an undocumented person, older person not familiar with technology, you may feel nervous about, you know, giving the government your personal address or you may not even understand what’s going on on this Web page. Many of the Web pages technically may offer a translated version if you select a widget at the top of the page to change your language preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>But if you’re not a tech savvy person, you may not know that at the top of the page where it says language, that means Ijeoma that you can change the language there. We found very few counties where you can text in to opt in, and even those it’s very hit or miss, whether or not even if you’re opting in, in your native language, whether you’ll actually receive ultimately those alerts in your native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about why it is an opt in system when any one of us would want to know what’s happening as soon as it happens, if there’s an emergency in our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>It sounds like a simple fix would be to create one gigantic system where people can opt in and then those that are at a federal level that exists. But we’re talking about a state that is gigantic, very complicated, very ecologically diverse. Disasters will vary depending on what part of the state you’re in. And so purposefully, the state of California has tried to make sure that each county is empowered to design their own individual opt in programs because they want to make sure that officials can handle whatever disaster is going on on a very localized level. But that means there isn’t one simple solution if you’re trying to make sure that disaster responses can be very, very localized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And we found that, you know, sometimes there are the best intentions, just a lack of resources or other times they really just isn’t enough willpower to try to, you know, create a system. Maybe the population of non-English speakers is small enough that it’s just not top of mind for people when they’ve got so many other things that are on their plate. And then we found other counties that are in the middle of actually trying as hard as possible to create a robust system. But at least at the time of reporting, we found, you know, the vast majority of California’s programs are not up to the task right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about one Bay Area county that has put in the work to reach more residents in an emergency. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Your reporting kind of zoomed into one Bay Area county in particular that was really trying to get its act together specifically for the Spanish speaking population. Can you tell me about that and what what your reporting found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We didn’t have to look very far. We went over to Sonoma County and saw the steps that they’ve taken. Basically, I mean, officials, they themselves will say it’s because they’ve faced disaster after disaster after disaster essentially since 2017. And they realized since the Tubbs fire of 2017 that their communications were just lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>In 2017 when that fire hit. None of this was in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>We spoke to Alma Bowen, who is the founder and executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, a nonprofit organization that focuses on disaster preparedness and reaching specifically Spanish speaking communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And there was no organization. And so there were either duplication of services or there were needs that were not met because we simply didn’t know who could fill those needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Ultimately, what they did is they revamped their Sonoma County coed community organizations active in disaster. That’s what the acronym for which was a coalition of nonprofit organizations that are all each doing their own individual work for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>As soon as they’re going to activate their EOC or emergency operations center. That call gets put to code. From that moment on, until the emergency sovereign shuts down, one of us is present in that room. The expectation is that the message is go out simultaneously and at least English and Spanish, because those are our highest populations. And then year round, that’s part of the conversations we’re always having with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And also giving them a seat at the county government table so that everybody is in communication. Everybody knows what to do whenever a disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>And so what’s happened is over time, we have become true partners now with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And then on top of that, they’ve also created essentially this bank of alerts prepared in advance in English and Spanish at the county level. So we’re talking about thousands of clips of audio in English and Spanish that are localized per Sonoma County zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>So if there’s, you know, flooding in zone four, you know, they’ve got a clip already prerecorded so that they can just send that out in a push of a button rather than, you know, trying to gather all of the people and find a translator and make sure, you know, that that it’s all recorded before sending. It saves potentially, you know, minutes or hours. It could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>You know, if you’re not hearing that, you’re evacuating because it’s misunderstood or they’re telling you the wrong area, you might not get out in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There’s still a lot of people who will be left out even now. But, you know, as far as we could see, they are the ones who have really taken on the task and have have tried to do as much as possible since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m wondering, Jasmine, why you think Sonoma County was able to get its act together in this where I guess address this and why haven’t other counties been able to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>Alma Bowen said it best that Sonoma County really had no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>Had we not had Kincade Walbridge Glass, you know, all those different fires right out like almost on the heel of each other? I don’t know. It’s like every time a fire hit, it just kept smacking him into reality. You have to do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>She also said it’s important for these counties in California to realize that they have time right now. They can right now in this moment, try to revamp their programs, because when a disaster hits, that’s you know, that’s not the moment that you need to be trying to fix your system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alma Bowen: \u003c/strong>My words of advice is, don’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how do we do that then, Jasmyne? How do we get other counties on the same level as Sonoma County here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>In the state of California themselves will tell you that every county has to own this. Lisa California, for example, it is a government level organization that will aid counties in revamping their system, that will provide, you know, language already pre written and resources already established. But each county needs to be able to own. They don’t want to step on toes is what they told me. It’s a matter of willpower and it’s a matter of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>There is not a one size fits all that will solve the problem for each each county. We did find examples of other counties who are making efforts. They are taking steps at the moment. It’s a it’s a process. It takes time. I even in Sonoma County, it’s taken years. It’s complicated, but it’s also not complicated in a weird way. You know, there are solutions, there are models. Sonoma County is an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It’s doable. It’s doable. What is your biggest takeaway from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>My biggest takeaway really has been how essential language access is. It’s something that, you know, as an English speaker, as a bilingual speaker, but primarily English speaker. I realize the enormous privilege now that I have whenever I receive an alert about, you know, just a traffic jam in San Francisco that I can avoid, other people will probably get stuck up in that jam. Imagine, you know, just kind of the snowball effect there. If you get stuck in that traffic jam, you’re late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Aguilera: \u003c/strong>And for me, maybe being late for work isn’t so much a significant thing. But for someone else who is an hourly worker, that’s significant. It’s not even just emergencies. Sometimes it’s as simple as just getting through your daily life. Making things more accessible through language, I think is kind of the least we can do in California. You know, the state with the largest immigrant population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Jasmine, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and joining us on the show. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anna Roth, CEO, Contra Costa Health Services\"]‘So it’s going up. It’s not huge. We are able to handle the increased demand for some hospital beds, but it is going up.’[/pullquote] Roth also said the latest vaccine — which isn’t considered a booster, but an entirely new vaccine that replaces the former vaccine and handles the newest variants — will be available in Contra Costa County either at the end of this week or the beginning of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of you who have not been vaccinated in the last 60 days, you will be eligible,” Roth said. “This is a vaccine for everybody 6 months and over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said the county is no longer running any mass vaccination sites and people should go to their regular providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do expect that there will be high demand the first couple of weeks,” Roth said. “What we have historically seen is that demand settles down and your regular providers will have the vaccine available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said Contra Costa Health providers will turn no one away, but it’s important to go to a regular provider, who can record the vaccination for people to keep track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Sefanit Mekuria, the county’s deputy health officer, told the board that the county — and county libraries — are still offering free test kits through the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County’s health officer issued a similar order Tuesday for health care workers who work directly with patients to wear face masks during an anticipated surge in the transmission of respiratory viruses this fall and winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order lasts from Nov. 1 to April 30 and covers workers in facilities such as hospitals, clinics and other facilities where patient care is provided indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each year we see that higher rates of influenza, COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses that can cause severe respiratory infections occur annually between late fall and spring,” said Dr. Karen Smith, Sonoma County’s health officer. [aside postID=news_11960630 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/005_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-qut.jpg'] “Patients and residents in our health care and congregate facilities, especially young children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with chronic health conditions, are at greater risk for respiratory virus-related hospitalizations and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers in direct care, health care, and congregate facilities are at risk for respiratory illness and can transmit the viruses to their clients, patients and coworkers,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith also strongly recommended that everyone who is at least 6 months old get an updated COVID-19 vaccine and a flu shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out more about COVID-19 in Contra Costa County, go to \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/covid19\">https://cchealth.org/covid19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sonoma and Contra Costa counties issued health orders Tuesday that urged masking for high-risk facilities, specifically hospitals and skilled nursing centers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695250068,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":697},"headData":{"title":"Growing Number of Bay Area Counties Requiring Masks in 'High-Risk' Health Care Facilities | KQED","description":"Sonoma and Contra Costa counties issued health orders Tuesday that urged masking for high-risk facilities, specifically hospitals and skilled nursing centers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TonyBaloney1967\">Tony Hicks\u003c/a>\u003cbr>Bay City News","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961817/bay-area-counties-requiring-masks-high-risk-health-care-facilities","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957790/the-new-covid-eris-variant-and-rising-cases-what-you-need-to-know\">COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> are again rising in Contra Costa County as it and other Bay Area counties are issuing a new masking order that applies to workers at “high-risk” health care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Health Services CEO Anna Roth told the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday that countywide hospital admissions for COVID-19 have increased since July, from 8.1 per day to 12.1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s going up,” Roth said. “It’s not huge. We are able to handle the increased demand for some hospital beds, but it is going up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the increased cases in the Bay Area — which health officials attribute to the latest mutated strain of COVID-19 — Roth said Contra Costa Health and other Bay Area health agencies are implementing new mask requirements for health care workers.\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>“We are issuing the health order today around masking for high-risk facilities, health care facilities specifically,” Roth said. “So again, masking in hospitals, masking in skilled nursing facilities, masking in high-risk facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new masking order will not affect patients or visitors to affected health care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said the new order will not include other residential congregate settings, such as detention facilities and homeless shelters. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘So it’s going up. It’s not huge. We are able to handle the increased demand for some hospital beds, but it is going up.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Anna Roth, CEO, Contra Costa Health Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Roth also said the latest vaccine — which isn’t considered a booster, but an entirely new vaccine that replaces the former vaccine and handles the newest variants — will be available in Contra Costa County either at the end of this week or the beginning of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of you who have not been vaccinated in the last 60 days, you will be eligible,” Roth said. “This is a vaccine for everybody 6 months and over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said the county is no longer running any mass vaccination sites and people should go to their regular providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do expect that there will be high demand the first couple of weeks,” Roth said. “What we have historically seen is that demand settles down and your regular providers will have the vaccine available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said Contra Costa Health providers will turn no one away, but it’s important to go to a regular provider, who can record the vaccination for people to keep track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Sefanit Mekuria, the county’s deputy health officer, told the board that the county — and county libraries — are still offering free test kits through the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County’s health officer issued a similar order Tuesday for health care workers who work directly with patients to wear face masks during an anticipated surge in the transmission of respiratory viruses this fall and winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order lasts from Nov. 1 to April 30 and covers workers in facilities such as hospitals, clinics and other facilities where patient care is provided indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each year we see that higher rates of influenza, COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses that can cause severe respiratory infections occur annually between late fall and spring,” said Dr. Karen Smith, Sonoma County’s health officer. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11960630","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/005_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “Patients and residents in our health care and congregate facilities, especially young children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with chronic health conditions, are at greater risk for respiratory virus-related hospitalizations and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers in direct care, health care, and congregate facilities are at risk for respiratory illness and can transmit the viruses to their clients, patients and coworkers,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith also strongly recommended that everyone who is at least 6 months old get an updated COVID-19 vaccine and a flu shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out more about COVID-19 in Contra Costa County, go to \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/covid19\">https://cchealth.org/covid19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961817/bay-area-counties-requiring-masks-high-risk-health-care-facilities","authors":["byline_news_11961817"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_26042","news_1467","news_27504","news_27804","news_18543","news_4981"],"featImg":"news_11961868","label":"news"},"news_11957505":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957505","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957505","score":null,"sort":[1694516454000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"campesinos-denunciaron-a-un-vinedo-por-abusos-laborales-y-ganaron","title":"Cómo un grupo de campesinos denunció a un viñedo por abusos laborales y ganó","publishDate":1694516454,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Cómo un grupo de campesinos denunció a un viñedo por abusos laborales y ganó | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956413/how-california-farmworkers-took-on-a-sonoma-winery-over-abuses-and-won\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc. en el condado de Sonoma pagará 328 mil 077 dólares a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">21 de sus ex empleados\u003c/a> como parte de un \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885712/settlement-agreement-june-2023.pdf\">acuerdo legal\u003c/a> con la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB, por sus siglas en inglés), el mayor acuerdo monetario que se ha visto en la oficina de Santa Rosa de esta dependencia. Funcionarios de la ALRB, junto con decenas de activistas laborales y trabajadores agrícolas, anunciaron el acuerdo en una conferencia de prensa el lunes 24 de julio de 2023 en Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc, que gestiona los viñedos, es una empresa independiente y distinta de Mauritson Wines. Ambas empresas son propiedad de la familia Mauritson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tras una investigación impulsada por las quejas de los trabajadores agrícolas, los funcionarios del ALRB determinaron que Mauritson Farms tomó represalias contra el equipo entero de antiguos empleados porque algunos de ellos se organizaron a finales de la temporada de cultivo de 2021 para denunciar las condiciones de trabajo inseguras en los viñedos de Mauritson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debemos reconocer que se trata de una victoria iniciada por los trabajadores para defender no sólo sus derechos, sino también su dignidad”, dijo el activista Davin Cárdenas en una conferencia que se llevó a cabo el pasado 24 de julio. Cárdenas es el director de la organización North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ, por sus siglas en inglés), un grupo de derechos laborales que apoyó a los trabajadores en su denuncia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se trata de un caso que establece un precedente para otros trabajadores de la región”, afirmó Cárdenas.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, uno de los seis trabajadores que denunciaron el trato recibido en Mauritson\"]‘Después de tantos abusos, creo que es justo que se respeten nuestros derechos y se nos respete por lo que somos.’[/pullquote]Los trabajadores implicados eran inmigrantes mexicanos, originarios del estado de Oaxaca, y se encontraban en los Estados Unidos con la visa H-2A, que permite a los trabajadores agrícolas permanecer en el país por períodos limitados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED r\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">eportó por vez primera el año pasado\u003c/a> que ninguno de los trabajadores oaxaqueños que denunciaron los hechos en 2021 fueron recontratados para la temporada de cultivo de 2022, pese a las promesas que hizo la dirección de la empresa. En su denuncia presentada contra Mauritson el pasado mes de marzo, el ALRB \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885711/alrb-complaint-march-2023.pdf\">determinó que el hecho de que Mauritson no volviera a contratar a estos trabajadores representa una violación de sus derechos laborales\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando recibí la noticia, agradecí a Dios que se ganó porque no fue nada fácil. Teníamos mucho miedo de hablar. Fue un proceso complicado, pero hay que quitarse ese miedo”, dijo Martín Sandoval Rivera, uno de los trabajadores que denunció las condiciones en Mauritson Farms. Actualmente se encuentra en Oaxaca, con varios trabajos para mantener a su familia.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nSandoval Rivera y sus compañeros dijeron que sufrieron acoso verbal por parte de su supervisor, que se les negó sombra mientras trabajaban en los campos cuando las temperaturas superaban los 90 grados Fahrenheit (equivalente a 32 centígrados) y que no recibieron sus períodos de descanso y almuerzo en algunas ocasiones. Todo esto viola las regulaciones laborales de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seis de los trabajadores, incluido Sandoval Rivera, buscaron el apoyo del grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ para mediar en la situación. NBJWJ organizó una reunión con los trabajadores y los directivos de la empresa en octubre de 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En esa reunión, el director del viñedo, Cameron Mauritson, prometió que las condiciones en los campos mejorarían y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">aseguró a los trabajadores que volvería a contratarlos en 2022\u003c/a>, aliviando así la mayor preocupación de los trabajadores: que se les fuera a negar empleo en el futuro por haber pedido mejoras laborales. Después de esa plática, Mauritson Farms, que según los trabajadores previamente gestionaba el proceso de contratación a través de las redes sociales, contrató a CIERTO Global, una empresa multinacional que busca mano de obra en el extranjero para el sector agrícola de Estados Unidos.[aside postID=\"news_11919450\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarmworkersIlloVignet-1020x659-1.jpg\"]Mauritson Farms pide a CIERTO Global que busque a trabajadores para la temporada de 2022, y por ende le cierra la puerta a los campesinos oaxaqueños. Según la denuncia del ALRB, para las empresas de cultivo de uva, CIERTO Global sólo recluta a trabajadores que viven en el estado mexicano de Baja California, no en Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además, las capturas de pantalla de un grupo de Facebook que los trabajadores oaxaqueños compartieron con KQED mostraron que los directivos de Mauritson compartieron información incorrecta sobre cómo debían ponerse en contacto los trabajadores con CIERTO para ser considerados para la temporada de 2022. Representantes de CIERTO confirmaron a KQED que esas instrucciones eran falsas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estas instrucciones no reflejan nuestras prácticas con ninguno de los trabajadores a los que atendemos”, respondió por correo electrónico un representante de CIERTO. “Las instrucciones de Mauritson no fueron autorizadas ni difundidas por CIERTO”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando los trabajadores se dieron cuenta de lo que estaba ocurriendo, alertaron al grupo NBJWJ. En febrero de 2022, los activistas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">presentaron una demanda ante el ALRB en nombre de los seis trabajadores que asistieron a la reunión con Mauritson\u003c/a>. Inicialmente, seis de ellos hablaron, pero en su investigación, el ALRB descubrió que Mauritson había tomado represalias contra todo la cuadrilla de 21 personas al que pertenecían los seis trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El acuerdo de 328 mil 077 dólares que beneficiará a los 21 trabajadores representa lo que los trabajadores perdieron en ingresos por haber sido excluidos de la temporada de 2022, según los cálculos del ALRB. Una audiencia con un juez ya había sido programada para finales de este verano, pero el acuerdo entre la empresa y el ALRB concluye este proceso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una declaración enviada por correo electrónico a KQED, Mauritson Farms declaró que “cree firmemente que [no estaba] en ninguna violación de la Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas (ALRA). Este acuerdo es estrictamente una decisión empresarial que nos permite resolver este asunto sin necesidad de más litigios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957507 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS.jpg\" alt='Varias personas de distintas edades sostienen letreros con consignas. Algunos letreros dicen, \"La unión hace la fuerza\".' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los trabajadores agrícolas Antonio Flores (izquierda) y su hijo Mateo, Rosalba Gutiérrez (centro) y Valentina Sosa (derecha) se sientan en la conferencia de prensa organizada por el grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ, donde se dio a conocer el acuerdo con Mauritson Farms en la plaza central de Healdsburg el lunes 24 de julio de 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Después de tantos abusos, creo que es justo que se respeten nuestros derechos y se nos respete por lo que somos”, dijo Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, uno de los seis trabajadores que se reunieron con Mauritson. Durante el último año y medio, ha buscado cualquier trabajo en su comunidad rural de Oaxaca para mantener a su esposa y sus dos hijos y, al mismo tiempo, se ha mantenido en contacto con funcionarios del ALRB que investigaban la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante meses, el ALRB trabajó para localizar a los 21 trabajadores que no fueron recontratados. Una vez finalizada la temporada de 2021, muchos regresaron a pueblos remotos de Oaxaca, donde el acceso al internet y la cobertura de telefonía móvil son extremadamente limitados y, para algunos, inexistentes. Localizar a la gente fue uno de los retos, dijo la directora regional de ALRB, Jessica Arciniega. El otro era establecer confianza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En muchos casos, resulta difícil mantener la comunicación con los trabajadores”, explica. “Pueden no estar familiarizados con nuestro proceso, con nosotros como agencia gubernamental y con lo que realmente hacemos. Así que puede que no siempre se sientan 100% preparados o cómodos de compartir toda esta información”.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ana Salgado, antigua trabajadora agrícola y miembro de la junta de NBJWJ\"]‘Muchos [trabajadores H-2A] tienen miedo de perder la oportunidad que tienen \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… \u003c/span> Pueden estar sufriendo muchos abusos, pero no quieren decir nada porque temen perder lo que consideran un privilegio.’[/pullquote]Los trabajadores no sólo temen sufrir más represalias del mismo empleador, sino que, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">como informó KQED el año pasado, muchos empleadores utilizan una red de reclutadores para impedir que los trabajadores que denuncian encuentren otro empleo en el futuro\u003c/a>. En ese mismo reportaje, KQED compartió la historia de Kevin y Samuel, dos ex empleados de Mauritson que estaban entre los seis que hicieron la primera denuncia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin y Samuel eran en realidad los alias de Sandoval Rivera y Bravo Silva, respectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel momento, ambos hombres tenían mucho miedo de las repercusiones que podría tener el compartir públicamente sus identidades durante la investigación del ALRB. A medida la investigación se hacía más larga, Sandoval Rivera sentía cada vez menos confianza en que hubiera una respuesta por parte de las autoridades, especialmente a medida que empeoraba la situación económica de su familia. “La necesidad te hace pensar muchas cosas”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él y Bravo Silva se alegran de haber esperado los resultados de la investigación y el acuerdo. Esto no sólo les beneficiará a ellos, dice Bravo Silva, “sino también a los trabajadores inmigrantes que ahora trabajan en esa empresa, para que se les respete más y no se sientan solos. Hay leyes que protegen a los trabajadores agrícolas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Celebrando una difícil victoria\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Con pancartas y carteles, muchos de ellos con la frase de Emiliano Zapata, como “La tierra es de quien la trabaja”, decenas de trabajadores agrícolas y activistas con NBJWJ llenaron parte de la plaza principal de Healdsburg para la conferencia de prensa que se realizó el pasado 24 de julio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ustedes representan a los trabajadores agrícolas que no pueden estar hoy aquí, pero cuya valentía nos ha dejado este legado, que luchando y encontrando aliados, los trabajadores podemos lograr muchas cosas”, dijo Ana Salgado, quien anteriormente era una trabajadora agrícola y ahora es una activista comunitaria y forma parte de la junta directiva de NBJWJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957508 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally.jpg\" alt=\"Una mujer habla enfrente de una multitud. Muchos en la multitud sostienen letreros y pancartas con lemas de justicia labora.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Salgado (centro), ex trabajadora agrícola y miembro de la junta directiva de NBJWJ, habla en la rueda de prensa del lunes, 24 de julio de 2023, en la plaza central de Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A pocas calles de esa plaza se encuentra el centro comunitario donde Salgado conoció a varios de los hombres que entonces trabajaban para Mauritson. Recuerda las primeras conversaciones que mantuvo con los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miré a uno de ellos y vi la preocupación en su cara”, dijo, “tomé su mano y le dije ‘ya puedes abrirte, estás en un espacio seguro'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tantos trabajadores que tienen la visa H-2A temen perder la oportunidad que tienen porque los empleadores les dicen que es un privilegio ser traídos de México con una visa”, explicó. “Pueden estar sufriendo muchos abusos, pero no quieren decir nada porque tienen miedo de perder lo que consideran un privilegio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Leyes que no se cumplen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El programa de visados H-2A es el sucesor del Programa Bracero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers\">que trajo trabajadores mexicanos a los campos agrícolas de Estados Unidos durante la década de 1940\u003c/a>. El actual sistema H-2A ahora trae a trabajadores de todo el mundo para trabajar en Estados Unidos y, como parte del programa, los empleadores deben proporcionar alojamiento, transporte y comidas, lo que da a las empresas un increíble poder sobre la vida personal de sus trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y al igual que el Programa Bracero, \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2023/04/14/h2a-visa-wage-theft-exploitation/\">el sistema H-2A está plagado de robo de salarios, abuso físico y mental a los empleados, y represalias por parte de los empleadores hacia los trabajadores que denuncian\u003c/a> las condiciones laborales, esto según una investigación de 18 meses publicada en abril por las agencias de noticias Prism, Futuro Investigates y Latino USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957509 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally.jpg\" alt=\"Un hombre da un discurso ante una multitud. Muchos de los asistentes sostienen pancartas con consignas de protesta. El grupo se encuentra en un parque.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davin Cárdenas, director del grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ, habla en la rueda de prensa del 24 de agosto en la plaza central de Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanto el gobierno federal como el de California han reforzado sus leyes laborales desde la década de 1940, así que ¿por qué persiste el abuso de los trabajadores H-2A?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de las razones es que las dependencias regulatorias necesitan más personal y recursos para hacer cumplir las normas laborales, dice Josephine Weinberg, abogada de California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés), un bufete de abogados sin fines de lucro que representa a campesinos que han sufrido represalias y abusos en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contamos con las dependencias. Contamos con normas. Pero faltan los mecanismos para hacer cumplir las leyes y monitorear los campos. Así que lo que nos toca no es más que leyes simbólicas'”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente 1 de cada 3 puestos sigue vacante en la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral de California, uno de los organismos encargados de investigar el robo de sueldos y las represalias en todas las industrias en el estado. La escasez de empleados en esta dependencia deja al personal actual sobrecargado de casos, lo que significa que quienes presentan una denuncia a menudo tienen que esperar años para obtener un resultado. Decenas de empleados de esta agencia mandaron una carta a legisladores estatales a principios de julio, argumentando que ellos están “fracasando en nuestra misión si no podemos contratar y retener al personal necesario”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el ALRB, la directora regional Jessica Arciniega señala que su agencia tiene cinco oficinas repartidas por varias regiones agrícolas del estado, “pero California es un estado inmenso y hay muchos trabajadores agrícolas en todo el estado”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No tenemos oficinas en todas las regiones agrícolas”, dice, “así que hacemos lo que podemos en este enorme estado para cubrir dondequiera que estén los trabajadores”. Añade que el departamento colabora estrechamente con organizaciones comunitarias y sindicales, como NBJWJ, para conectar con más obreros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero activistas laborales insisten en que hay que hacer más para aplicar mejor las normas laborales y mejorar el programa H-2A en su conjunto. Weinberg, de CRLA, añade que los reguladores deben vigilar más de cerca los campos agrícolas, con visitas aleatorias durante la temporada de cultivo. Y por otro lado, los empleadores deben facilitar que las agencias y los grupos laborales hablen con los campesinos sin restricciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La forma en que se diseñó el programa H-2A, en el que las empresas tienen un control directo sobre el alojamiento, el transporte, la situación migratoria e incluso la alimentación de sus empleados, dificulta enormemente que los trabajadores puedan hablar libremente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No tienen acceso a un lugar donde sientan que pueden hablar confidencialmente o de forma anónima sobre lo que está pasando”, dijo Weinberg.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']El 19 de julio, el gobernador Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956315/some-migrant-farmworkers-to-get-free-legal-help-with-immigration\">anunció un programa piloto de 4.5 millones de dólares para proporcionar servicios legales gratuitos de inmigración a los trabajadores agrícolas que están involucrados en investigaciones laborales estatales\u003c/a>. Esto incluiría servicios de revisión de casos, asesoramiento jurídico y representación por un abogado a los trabajadores en California que tienen un caso pendiente ya sea con el ALRB, la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral o Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de este programa, según los funcionarios, es abordar uno de los temores que impiden a los empleados hablar, que es el miedo a perder su visado o a no volver a ser contratado, poniéndolos en contacto con expertos en inmigración que podrían ayudarles a encontrar formas de permanecer en este país. Y a principios de este año, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941448/que-es-el-programa-de-accion-diferida-de-la-administracion-biden-para-trabajadores-indocumentados\">el gobierno del presidente Biden presentó una nueva y simplificada iniciativa de “acción diferida”\u003c/a> que permite a los trabajadores solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección frente a la deportación si cooperan con una investigación sobre derechos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, por encima de todo, afirma Salgado de NBJWJ, lo que realmente ayuda a la gente a sentirse con la seguridad de hablar es saber que hay casos en los que el sistema funciona a favor de los trabajadores. “Sin duda, el resultado del caso Mauritson, reafirma la fe entre nosotros, pero también la credibilidad del trabajo que hacemos cuando salimos a hablar con los trabajadores”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del editor: La versión original de este reportaje describió de manera errónea a Mauritson Farms como una bodega vinícola, en vez de una empresa de viñedos. Este reportaje ha sido actualizado para aclarar la relación entre Mauritson Farms, Inc. y Mauritson Wines.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo incluye información de las periodistas Farida Jhabvala Romero y Tyche Hendricks, de KQED. Además fue traducido por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"El viñedo Mauritson Farms Inc. ubicado en California, pagará $328,077 a 21 de sus ex empleados, quienes trabajaron por varios años por este empleador con una visa H-2A y reportaron faltas a sus derechos laborales.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694517592,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":3143},"headData":{"title":"Cómo un grupo de campesinos denunció a un viñedo por abusos laborales y ganó | KQED","description":"El viñedo Mauritson Farms Inc. ubicado en California, pagará $328,077 a 21 de sus ex empleados, quienes trabajaron por varios años por este empleador con una visa H-2A y reportaron faltas a sus derechos laborales.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"KQED en Español","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/kqedenespanol","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4479236b-6b94-45b8-aea6-b05301139438/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957505/campesinos-denunciaron-a-un-vinedo-por-abusos-laborales-y-ganaron","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956413/how-california-farmworkers-took-on-a-sonoma-winery-over-abuses-and-won\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc. en el condado de Sonoma pagará 328 mil 077 dólares a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">21 de sus ex empleados\u003c/a> como parte de un \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885712/settlement-agreement-june-2023.pdf\">acuerdo legal\u003c/a> con la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB, por sus siglas en inglés), el mayor acuerdo monetario que se ha visto en la oficina de Santa Rosa de esta dependencia. Funcionarios de la ALRB, junto con decenas de activistas laborales y trabajadores agrícolas, anunciaron el acuerdo en una conferencia de prensa el lunes 24 de julio de 2023 en Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc, que gestiona los viñedos, es una empresa independiente y distinta de Mauritson Wines. Ambas empresas son propiedad de la familia Mauritson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tras una investigación impulsada por las quejas de los trabajadores agrícolas, los funcionarios del ALRB determinaron que Mauritson Farms tomó represalias contra el equipo entero de antiguos empleados porque algunos de ellos se organizaron a finales de la temporada de cultivo de 2021 para denunciar las condiciones de trabajo inseguras en los viñedos de Mauritson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debemos reconocer que se trata de una victoria iniciada por los trabajadores para defender no sólo sus derechos, sino también su dignidad”, dijo el activista Davin Cárdenas en una conferencia que se llevó a cabo el pasado 24 de julio. Cárdenas es el director de la organización North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ, por sus siglas en inglés), un grupo de derechos laborales que apoyó a los trabajadores en su denuncia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se trata de un caso que establece un precedente para otros trabajadores de la región”, afirmó Cárdenas.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Después de tantos abusos, creo que es justo que se respeten nuestros derechos y se nos respete por lo que somos.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, uno de los seis trabajadores que denunciaron el trato recibido en Mauritson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los trabajadores implicados eran inmigrantes mexicanos, originarios del estado de Oaxaca, y se encontraban en los Estados Unidos con la visa H-2A, que permite a los trabajadores agrícolas permanecer en el país por períodos limitados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED r\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">eportó por vez primera el año pasado\u003c/a> que ninguno de los trabajadores oaxaqueños que denunciaron los hechos en 2021 fueron recontratados para la temporada de cultivo de 2022, pese a las promesas que hizo la dirección de la empresa. En su denuncia presentada contra Mauritson el pasado mes de marzo, el ALRB \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885711/alrb-complaint-march-2023.pdf\">determinó que el hecho de que Mauritson no volviera a contratar a estos trabajadores representa una violación de sus derechos laborales\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando recibí la noticia, agradecí a Dios que se ganó porque no fue nada fácil. Teníamos mucho miedo de hablar. Fue un proceso complicado, pero hay que quitarse ese miedo”, dijo Martín Sandoval Rivera, uno de los trabajadores que denunció las condiciones en Mauritson Farms. Actualmente se encuentra en Oaxaca, con varios trabajos para mantener a su familia.\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>\u003cbr>\nSandoval Rivera y sus compañeros dijeron que sufrieron acoso verbal por parte de su supervisor, que se les negó sombra mientras trabajaban en los campos cuando las temperaturas superaban los 90 grados Fahrenheit (equivalente a 32 centígrados) y que no recibieron sus períodos de descanso y almuerzo en algunas ocasiones. Todo esto viola las regulaciones laborales de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seis de los trabajadores, incluido Sandoval Rivera, buscaron el apoyo del grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ para mediar en la situación. NBJWJ organizó una reunión con los trabajadores y los directivos de la empresa en octubre de 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En esa reunión, el director del viñedo, Cameron Mauritson, prometió que las condiciones en los campos mejorarían y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">aseguró a los trabajadores que volvería a contratarlos en 2022\u003c/a>, aliviando así la mayor preocupación de los trabajadores: que se les fuera a negar empleo en el futuro por haber pedido mejoras laborales. Después de esa plática, Mauritson Farms, que según los trabajadores previamente gestionaba el proceso de contratación a través de las redes sociales, contrató a CIERTO Global, una empresa multinacional que busca mano de obra en el extranjero para el sector agrícola de Estados Unidos.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11919450","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarmworkersIlloVignet-1020x659-1.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mauritson Farms pide a CIERTO Global que busque a trabajadores para la temporada de 2022, y por ende le cierra la puerta a los campesinos oaxaqueños. Según la denuncia del ALRB, para las empresas de cultivo de uva, CIERTO Global sólo recluta a trabajadores que viven en el estado mexicano de Baja California, no en Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además, las capturas de pantalla de un grupo de Facebook que los trabajadores oaxaqueños compartieron con KQED mostraron que los directivos de Mauritson compartieron información incorrecta sobre cómo debían ponerse en contacto los trabajadores con CIERTO para ser considerados para la temporada de 2022. Representantes de CIERTO confirmaron a KQED que esas instrucciones eran falsas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estas instrucciones no reflejan nuestras prácticas con ninguno de los trabajadores a los que atendemos”, respondió por correo electrónico un representante de CIERTO. “Las instrucciones de Mauritson no fueron autorizadas ni difundidas por CIERTO”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando los trabajadores se dieron cuenta de lo que estaba ocurriendo, alertaron al grupo NBJWJ. En febrero de 2022, los activistas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">presentaron una demanda ante el ALRB en nombre de los seis trabajadores que asistieron a la reunión con Mauritson\u003c/a>. Inicialmente, seis de ellos hablaron, pero en su investigación, el ALRB descubrió que Mauritson había tomado represalias contra todo la cuadrilla de 21 personas al que pertenecían los seis trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El acuerdo de 328 mil 077 dólares que beneficiará a los 21 trabajadores representa lo que los trabajadores perdieron en ingresos por haber sido excluidos de la temporada de 2022, según los cálculos del ALRB. Una audiencia con un juez ya había sido programada para finales de este verano, pero el acuerdo entre la empresa y el ALRB concluye este proceso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una declaración enviada por correo electrónico a KQED, Mauritson Farms declaró que “cree firmemente que [no estaba] en ninguna violación de la Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas (ALRA). Este acuerdo es estrictamente una decisión empresarial que nos permite resolver este asunto sin necesidad de más litigios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957507 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS.jpg\" alt='Varias personas de distintas edades sostienen letreros con consignas. Algunos letreros dicen, \"La unión hace la fuerza\".' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/LA-UNION-HACE-LA-FUERZA-BANNERS-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los trabajadores agrícolas Antonio Flores (izquierda) y su hijo Mateo, Rosalba Gutiérrez (centro) y Valentina Sosa (derecha) se sientan en la conferencia de prensa organizada por el grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ, donde se dio a conocer el acuerdo con Mauritson Farms en la plaza central de Healdsburg el lunes 24 de julio de 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Después de tantos abusos, creo que es justo que se respeten nuestros derechos y se nos respete por lo que somos”, dijo Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, uno de los seis trabajadores que se reunieron con Mauritson. Durante el último año y medio, ha buscado cualquier trabajo en su comunidad rural de Oaxaca para mantener a su esposa y sus dos hijos y, al mismo tiempo, se ha mantenido en contacto con funcionarios del ALRB que investigaban la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante meses, el ALRB trabajó para localizar a los 21 trabajadores que no fueron recontratados. Una vez finalizada la temporada de 2021, muchos regresaron a pueblos remotos de Oaxaca, donde el acceso al internet y la cobertura de telefonía móvil son extremadamente limitados y, para algunos, inexistentes. Localizar a la gente fue uno de los retos, dijo la directora regional de ALRB, Jessica Arciniega. El otro era establecer confianza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En muchos casos, resulta difícil mantener la comunicación con los trabajadores”, explica. “Pueden no estar familiarizados con nuestro proceso, con nosotros como agencia gubernamental y con lo que realmente hacemos. Así que puede que no siempre se sientan 100% preparados o cómodos de compartir toda esta información”.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Muchos [trabajadores H-2A] tienen miedo de perder la oportunidad que tienen \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… \u003c/span> Pueden estar sufriendo muchos abusos, pero no quieren decir nada porque temen perder lo que consideran un privilegio.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Ana Salgado, antigua trabajadora agrícola y miembro de la junta de NBJWJ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los trabajadores no sólo temen sufrir más represalias del mismo empleador, sino que, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">como informó KQED el año pasado, muchos empleadores utilizan una red de reclutadores para impedir que los trabajadores que denuncian encuentren otro empleo en el futuro\u003c/a>. En ese mismo reportaje, KQED compartió la historia de Kevin y Samuel, dos ex empleados de Mauritson que estaban entre los seis que hicieron la primera denuncia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin y Samuel eran en realidad los alias de Sandoval Rivera y Bravo Silva, respectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel momento, ambos hombres tenían mucho miedo de las repercusiones que podría tener el compartir públicamente sus identidades durante la investigación del ALRB. A medida la investigación se hacía más larga, Sandoval Rivera sentía cada vez menos confianza en que hubiera una respuesta por parte de las autoridades, especialmente a medida que empeoraba la situación económica de su familia. “La necesidad te hace pensar muchas cosas”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, él y Bravo Silva se alegran de haber esperado los resultados de la investigación y el acuerdo. Esto no sólo les beneficiará a ellos, dice Bravo Silva, “sino también a los trabajadores inmigrantes que ahora trabajan en esa empresa, para que se les respete más y no se sientan solos. Hay leyes que protegen a los trabajadores agrícolas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Celebrando una difícil victoria\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Con pancartas y carteles, muchos de ellos con la frase de Emiliano Zapata, como “La tierra es de quien la trabaja”, decenas de trabajadores agrícolas y activistas con NBJWJ llenaron parte de la plaza principal de Healdsburg para la conferencia de prensa que se realizó el pasado 24 de julio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ustedes representan a los trabajadores agrícolas que no pueden estar hoy aquí, pero cuya valentía nos ha dejado este legado, que luchando y encontrando aliados, los trabajadores podemos lograr muchas cosas”, dijo Ana Salgado, quien anteriormente era una trabajadora agrícola y ahora es una activista comunitaria y forma parte de la junta directiva de NBJWJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957508 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally.jpg\" alt=\"Una mujer habla enfrente de una multitud. Muchos en la multitud sostienen letreros y pancartas con lemas de justicia labora.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/healdsburg-plaza-farm-workers-rally-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Salgado (centro), ex trabajadora agrícola y miembro de la junta directiva de NBJWJ, habla en la rueda de prensa del lunes, 24 de julio de 2023, en la plaza central de Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A pocas calles de esa plaza se encuentra el centro comunitario donde Salgado conoció a varios de los hombres que entonces trabajaban para Mauritson. Recuerda las primeras conversaciones que mantuvo con los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miré a uno de ellos y vi la preocupación en su cara”, dijo, “tomé su mano y le dije ‘ya puedes abrirte, estás en un espacio seguro'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tantos trabajadores que tienen la visa H-2A temen perder la oportunidad que tienen porque los empleadores les dicen que es un privilegio ser traídos de México con una visa”, explicó. “Pueden estar sufriendo muchos abusos, pero no quieren decir nada porque tienen miedo de perder lo que consideran un privilegio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Leyes que no se cumplen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El programa de visados H-2A es el sucesor del Programa Bracero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers\">que trajo trabajadores mexicanos a los campos agrícolas de Estados Unidos durante la década de 1940\u003c/a>. El actual sistema H-2A ahora trae a trabajadores de todo el mundo para trabajar en Estados Unidos y, como parte del programa, los empleadores deben proporcionar alojamiento, transporte y comidas, lo que da a las empresas un increíble poder sobre la vida personal de sus trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y al igual que el Programa Bracero, \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2023/04/14/h2a-visa-wage-theft-exploitation/\">el sistema H-2A está plagado de robo de salarios, abuso físico y mental a los empleados, y represalias por parte de los empleadores hacia los trabajadores que denuncian\u003c/a> las condiciones laborales, esto según una investigación de 18 meses publicada en abril por las agencias de noticias Prism, Futuro Investigates y Latino USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11957509 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally.jpg\" alt=\"Un hombre da un discurso ante una multitud. Muchos de los asistentes sostienen pancartas con consignas de protesta. El grupo se encuentra en un parque.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/davin-cardenas-with-migrant-workers-at-rally-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davin Cárdenas, director del grupo de derechos laborales NBJWJ, habla en la rueda de prensa del 24 de agosto en la plaza central de Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanto el gobierno federal como el de California han reforzado sus leyes laborales desde la década de 1940, así que ¿por qué persiste el abuso de los trabajadores H-2A?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de las razones es que las dependencias regulatorias necesitan más personal y recursos para hacer cumplir las normas laborales, dice Josephine Weinberg, abogada de California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés), un bufete de abogados sin fines de lucro que representa a campesinos que han sufrido represalias y abusos en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contamos con las dependencias. Contamos con normas. Pero faltan los mecanismos para hacer cumplir las leyes y monitorear los campos. Así que lo que nos toca no es más que leyes simbólicas'”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente 1 de cada 3 puestos sigue vacante en la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral de California, uno de los organismos encargados de investigar el robo de sueldos y las represalias en todas las industrias en el estado. La escasez de empleados en esta dependencia deja al personal actual sobrecargado de casos, lo que significa que quienes presentan una denuncia a menudo tienen que esperar años para obtener un resultado. Decenas de empleados de esta agencia mandaron una carta a legisladores estatales a principios de julio, argumentando que ellos están “fracasando en nuestra misión si no podemos contratar y retener al personal necesario”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En el ALRB, la directora regional Jessica Arciniega señala que su agencia tiene cinco oficinas repartidas por varias regiones agrícolas del estado, “pero California es un estado inmenso y hay muchos trabajadores agrícolas en todo el estado”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No tenemos oficinas en todas las regiones agrícolas”, dice, “así que hacemos lo que podemos en este enorme estado para cubrir dondequiera que estén los trabajadores”. Añade que el departamento colabora estrechamente con organizaciones comunitarias y sindicales, como NBJWJ, para conectar con más obreros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero activistas laborales insisten en que hay que hacer más para aplicar mejor las normas laborales y mejorar el programa H-2A en su conjunto. Weinberg, de CRLA, añade que los reguladores deben vigilar más de cerca los campos agrícolas, con visitas aleatorias durante la temporada de cultivo. Y por otro lado, los empleadores deben facilitar que las agencias y los grupos laborales hablen con los campesinos sin restricciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La forma en que se diseñó el programa H-2A, en el que las empresas tienen un control directo sobre el alojamiento, el transporte, la situación migratoria e incluso la alimentación de sus empleados, dificulta enormemente que los trabajadores puedan hablar libremente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No tienen acceso a un lugar donde sientan que pueden hablar confidencialmente o de forma anónima sobre lo que está pasando”, dijo Weinberg.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Más en español ","tag":"kqed-en-espanol"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El 19 de julio, el gobernador Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956315/some-migrant-farmworkers-to-get-free-legal-help-with-immigration\">anunció un programa piloto de 4.5 millones de dólares para proporcionar servicios legales gratuitos de inmigración a los trabajadores agrícolas que están involucrados en investigaciones laborales estatales\u003c/a>. Esto incluiría servicios de revisión de casos, asesoramiento jurídico y representación por un abogado a los trabajadores en California que tienen un caso pendiente ya sea con el ALRB, la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral o Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de este programa, según los funcionarios, es abordar uno de los temores que impiden a los empleados hablar, que es el miedo a perder su visado o a no volver a ser contratado, poniéndolos en contacto con expertos en inmigración que podrían ayudarles a encontrar formas de permanecer en este país. Y a principios de este año, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941448/que-es-el-programa-de-accion-diferida-de-la-administracion-biden-para-trabajadores-indocumentados\">el gobierno del presidente Biden presentó una nueva y simplificada iniciativa de “acción diferida”\u003c/a> que permite a los trabajadores solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección frente a la deportación si cooperan con una investigación sobre derechos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, por encima de todo, afirma Salgado de NBJWJ, lo que realmente ayuda a la gente a sentirse con la seguridad de hablar es saber que hay casos en los que el sistema funciona a favor de los trabajadores. “Sin duda, el resultado del caso Mauritson, reafirma la fe entre nosotros, pero también la credibilidad del trabajo que hacemos cuando salimos a hablar con los trabajadores”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del editor: La versión original de este reportaje describió de manera errónea a Mauritson Farms como una bodega vinícola, en vez de una empresa de viñedos. Este reportaje ha sido actualizado para aclarar la relación entre Mauritson Farms, Inc. y Mauritson Wines.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo incluye información de las periodistas Farida Jhabvala Romero y Tyche Hendricks, de KQED. Además fue traducido por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\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/11957505/campesinos-denunciaron-a-un-vinedo-por-abusos-laborales-y-ganaron","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1169","news_28523"],"tags":["news_31272","news_32371","news_28586","news_32372","news_18269","news_4338","news_32889","news_20202","news_27775","news_28444","news_19904","news_29865","news_31268","news_31269","news_31275","news_4981","news_244","news_31320","news_18208","news_31276"],"featImg":"news_11957506","label":"source_news_11957505"},"news_11959242":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11959242","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11959242","score":null,"sort":[1693076152000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happened-at-tough-mudder-sonoma-hundreds-get-sick-with-possible-bacterial-infection","title":"What Happened at Tough Mudder Sonoma: Hundreds Get Sick With Possible Bacterial Infection","publishDate":1693076152,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What Happened at Tough Mudder Sonoma: Hundreds Get Sick With Possible Bacterial Infection | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>More than 100 athletes who participated last weekend in the Tough Mudder obstacle course race at Sonoma Raceway have since reported experiencing fevers, vomiting, muscle pain and a distinct rash that includes boils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County public health officials on Wednesday released \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/sonoma-county-issues-health-advisory-for-tough-mudder-race-participants\">a health advisory \u003c/a>— urging anyone with symptoms to see their doctor or go to a local emergency room, and notify the county \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/environmental-health-and-safety/contact-us\">via a form on their website\u003c/a>. An email and text message from event organizers also went out to participants, with Tough Mudder noting it was working with local health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tough Mudder event involves hundreds of people climbing over and crawling through mud and muddy water, which is likely how participants picked up the infection, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most affected persons have pustular rash, fever, myalgias, and headache. These symptoms could be indicative of a minor illness called ‘swimmer’s itch,’ but they can also indicate a staph infection or other more serious bacterial infection such as Aeromonas,” reads the health advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of people with symptoms is likely greater than what’s been so far officially reported, as thousands of people participated in the event over the two days and reports have been accumulating on social media and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Toughmudder/comments/15xpoqu/sonoma_group_email_about_bumpsinfections/\">a Reddit thread\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday afternoon, a handful of people with symptoms reported tests from doctors indicating the presence of the bacteria Aeromonas, which is naturally occurring in mud and warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not surprised this would happen once in a while,” said Ian Young, an infectious disease expert and associate professor with Toronto Metropolitan University who specializes in recreational waterborne illnesses. If you’re crawling through mud and water, you’ll be exposed to bacteria in that dirt and water. But, he emphasized, given the number of events like this that happen every weekend, an outbreak of this kind is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confused about why people would subject themselves to crawling through mud and dirty water? Tough Mudder is actually a very popular race, held at dozens of venues around the country and attracting hundreds of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is Tough Mudder?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder is a type of obstacle course race (commonly called “OCR” among athletes who race them frequently). Over a distance of anywhere from 5 kilometers to 15 miles, depending on the event, participants complete a range of “obstacles” that can include anything from \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/kiss-of-mud/\">crawling through the mud under barbed wire\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/block-ness-monster/\">climbing over walls and logs\u003c/a> to traversing through \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/mudderhorn/\">complicated rope courses\u003c/a> and monkey bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder, which was founded in 2010, is one of several companies that organize these kinds of obstacle course races. Spartan Race, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.spartan.com/blogs/unbreakable-race-stories/spartan-acquires-tough-mudder\">acquired\u003c/a> Tough Mudder in 2020, is the other major race organizer and specializes in more competitive events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are elite athletes who compete for prizes in some of these races, Tough Mudder is known more for its camaraderie and experiential vibe. Times are generally not recorded, and athletes are expected to help each other over walls and through obstacles. Tough Mudder is known more for \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/in-cold-mud\">pushing a person’s comfort boundaries\u003c/a> than for its physical challenges. For example, the final obstacle is always a field of lightly electrified dangling wires participants have to run through to reach the finish line. (In my experience, having completed a few of these, it’s best not to think too much about it and just go.)[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Spinosa, Tough Mudder participant\"]‘I knew that could happen … I don’t think this was any more gross than any other of these events.’[/pullquote]Most of the people who did the Tough Mudder in Sonoma are recreational athletes, who do it with friends, and mix it in with marathons or CrossFit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Spinosa said this year’s event was her second one. “I got two soccer moms to do this with me and we did the full 9-mile event,” she said, joking that they were over 10 years older than most of the men around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Spinosa works in public health, she said she had signed up for the first time-slot at the start of the day — thinking it would simply be less gross than going after the sun beat down on thousands of bodies crawling through mud. (A tactic I also adhere to.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that could happen,” Spinosa said of the infection risk, although she emphasized that despite the unintended outcome it still seemed like a well-run event. “I don’t think this was any more gross than any other of these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of the appeal, she said, is the camaraderie as you work with other people to overcome obstacles, some of which by design cannot be completed without help. “You’re working with strangers to accomplish something that’s gross and hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wait, what?! Why do people do Tough Mudder and obstacle course races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because jumping into mud pits is fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something really empowering, too,” about knowing you can do these challenging things, Spinosa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder, historically, has billed itself as a way to push people’s boundaries and help them find out what they’re capable of. There’s a whole shelf of \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=cc_etds_theses\">research (CGI)\u003c/a> that’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/breaking-the-ennui-of-office-work-through-painful-exercise/520746/\">hotly\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/why-are-most-endurance-athletes-rich/\">discussed\u003c/a> about why this particular brand of what’s known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/24/what-is-type-2-fun/\">Type II fun\u003c/a> is especially popular among white-collar workers. But it doesn’t take much theorizing to realize there’s some innate appeal to getting muddy with your friends and climbing over a log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two main reasons people do these,” said Erin Beresini, author of the book \u003cem>Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing\u003c/em>. One is the physical challenge, she said. “Where everything in life has gotten so easy, there’s this primal need to be challenged physically that they’re not getting in their every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second reason is the camaraderie. Bonds formed in that challenge, she said, tend to be stronger and form faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, having done a half-dozen OCRs, I’ve always found the Spartan Races more interesting, because they’re less about inflicting pain and more about the actual physical obstacles. But, as the sport has developed, they’ve also become more challenging and require more training and skill, compared to Tough Mudder races. It doesn’t take too much training to crawl through mud — hence their appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I have an infection?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County health officials are urging anyone with symptoms to see a doctor or, if you don’t have a primary care provider, to go to your local emergency department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing and investigations are still being done to figure out whether the outbreak was caused by staph — which can be carried by other humans — or a bacteria, like Aeromonas, found in the mud and water. There are lots of different kinds of possible bacteria in muddy water, noted Young, the infectious disease expert, and runoff from nearby cow pastures in Sonoma could certainly contribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aeromonas, which has already been detected in a number of participants, is believed to be the main culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bacterial infections can develop when skin is exposed to soils and mud,” county health officials said in its letter to participants. “If untreated, serious illness and sepsis can develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is Aeromonas and how common is it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/pathogen-safety-data-sheets-risk-assessment/aeromonas-hydrophila.html\">Aeromonas hydrophila\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is a type of bacteria that’s found naturally in mud and warm fresh and brackish water — meaning it isn’t necessarily the result of contamination or human influence. It’s found in North America, as well as in other parts of the world, said Young — \u003ca href=\"https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/wellness/2022/07/12/aeromonas-hydrophilia-dangerous-bacteria-found-freshwater/10017340002/\">especially warmer areas\u003c/a>, like in Florida — and may be emerging as climate change warms waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01337/full\">ubiquitous\u003c/a> in fish, reptiles and mammals, and can lead to gastrointestinal distress. But an outbreak like this is pretty uncommon. “It’s just bad luck,” Young said, while noting there is always a risk, especially when people may have open cuts or have to submerge themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with almost all forms of bacteria, there are \u003ca href=\"https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13256-018-1854-1\">a few documented cases\u003c/a> of incredibly rare severe drug-resistant infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there any regulations on these kinds of races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, and no. Largely, the extent of the regulations depend both on where the race is held and what the event’s insurance provider requires. Florida, for example, allowed one of the first COVID-era mass participation races to come back with \u003ca href=\"https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a32869075/spartan-race-returns-jacksonville-florida/\">a 1,000-person Spartan Race in June 2020 \u003c/a>— at a time when most states and municipalities were still refraining from permitting events of that nature.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Beresini, author\"]‘Where everything in life has gotten so easy, there’s this primal need to be challenged physically that they’re not getting in their every day.’[/pullquote]Regulations from the insurance providers and industry itself have, historically, focused on the safety of cold-water obstacles and preventing medical risks like heart attacks or drownings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an expectation of controlled danger,” said Beresini — meaning that participants sign a waiver and typically understand they could be hurt or injured, but expect reasonable precautions to be taken and immediate medical attention to be provided if injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, as was the case in Sonoma, permits are granted by county and city officials who require certain standards and safety plans. However, while organizers of events like triathlons and open-water swims are often required to test water quality beforehand, doing so is not required for crawling through mud or simply jumping into water pits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t really test the mud,” said Young, “it’s not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Toughmudder/comments/1616j0y/update_re_group_email_response_from_ceo_of_tough/\">email\u003c/a>, Tough Mudder CEO Giles Chater told participants his company is working closely with local health officials and “completing our own thorough investigation, which includes extensive sampling, as we attempt to identify the cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/emails-show-health-problems-reported-after-2022-sonoma-tough-mudder-but-not/\">reports\u003c/a> of some similar illnesses after last year’s Sonoma Tough Mudder event — though nothing close to this scale. Spinosa said her friend, who raced with her, had a slight rash after participating last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s not clear what could necessarily be done to prevent this, said Young, other than moving the event (if it was caused by bacteria specific to that area or impacted by nearby cow pastures), and alerting participants of the risk of bacterial exposure (especially when conditions are warmer and more people have already gone through the course). Young’s main advice: Wash your hands, clean off and shower after the event. And during the race, try not to swallow any water or mud or get it in open wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “There’s only so much you can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Over 100 athletes have reported fevers, vomiting, muscle pain and a rash. Why do they do these races?\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1693078386,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1893},"headData":{"title":"What Happened at Tough Mudder Sonoma: Hundreds Get Sick With Possible Bacterial Infection | KQED","description":"Over 100 athletes have reported fevers, vomiting, muscle pain and a rash. Why do they do these races?\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11959242/what-happened-at-tough-mudder-sonoma-hundreds-get-sick-with-possible-bacterial-infection","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 100 athletes who participated last weekend in the Tough Mudder obstacle course race at Sonoma Raceway have since reported experiencing fevers, vomiting, muscle pain and a distinct rash that includes boils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County public health officials on Wednesday released \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/sonoma-county-issues-health-advisory-for-tough-mudder-race-participants\">a health advisory \u003c/a>— urging anyone with symptoms to see their doctor or go to a local emergency room, and notify the county \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health-services/divisions/public-health/environmental-health-and-safety/contact-us\">via a form on their website\u003c/a>. An email and text message from event organizers also went out to participants, with Tough Mudder noting it was working with local health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tough Mudder event involves hundreds of people climbing over and crawling through mud and muddy water, which is likely how participants picked up the infection, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most affected persons have pustular rash, fever, myalgias, and headache. These symptoms could be indicative of a minor illness called ‘swimmer’s itch,’ but they can also indicate a staph infection or other more serious bacterial infection such as Aeromonas,” reads the health advisory.\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>The total number of people with symptoms is likely greater than what’s been so far officially reported, as thousands of people participated in the event over the two days and reports have been accumulating on social media and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Toughmudder/comments/15xpoqu/sonoma_group_email_about_bumpsinfections/\">a Reddit thread\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday afternoon, a handful of people with symptoms reported tests from doctors indicating the presence of the bacteria Aeromonas, which is naturally occurring in mud and warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not surprised this would happen once in a while,” said Ian Young, an infectious disease expert and associate professor with Toronto Metropolitan University who specializes in recreational waterborne illnesses. If you’re crawling through mud and water, you’ll be exposed to bacteria in that dirt and water. But, he emphasized, given the number of events like this that happen every weekend, an outbreak of this kind is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confused about why people would subject themselves to crawling through mud and dirty water? Tough Mudder is actually a very popular race, held at dozens of venues around the country and attracting hundreds of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is Tough Mudder?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder is a type of obstacle course race (commonly called “OCR” among athletes who race them frequently). Over a distance of anywhere from 5 kilometers to 15 miles, depending on the event, participants complete a range of “obstacles” that can include anything from \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/kiss-of-mud/\">crawling through the mud under barbed wire\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/block-ness-monster/\">climbing over walls and logs\u003c/a> to traversing through \u003ca href=\"https://toughmudder.com/obstacles/mudderhorn/\">complicated rope courses\u003c/a> and monkey bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder, which was founded in 2010, is one of several companies that organize these kinds of obstacle course races. Spartan Race, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.spartan.com/blogs/unbreakable-race-stories/spartan-acquires-tough-mudder\">acquired\u003c/a> Tough Mudder in 2020, is the other major race organizer and specializes in more competitive events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are elite athletes who compete for prizes in some of these races, Tough Mudder is known more for its camaraderie and experiential vibe. Times are generally not recorded, and athletes are expected to help each other over walls and through obstacles. Tough Mudder is known more for \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/in-cold-mud\">pushing a person’s comfort boundaries\u003c/a> than for its physical challenges. For example, the final obstacle is always a field of lightly electrified dangling wires participants have to run through to reach the finish line. (In my experience, having completed a few of these, it’s best not to think too much about it and just go.)\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I knew that could happen … I don’t think this was any more gross than any other of these events.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Michelle Spinosa, Tough Mudder participant","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most of the people who did the Tough Mudder in Sonoma are recreational athletes, who do it with friends, and mix it in with marathons or CrossFit classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Spinosa said this year’s event was her second one. “I got two soccer moms to do this with me and we did the full 9-mile event,” she said, joking that they were over 10 years older than most of the men around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Spinosa works in public health, she said she had signed up for the first time-slot at the start of the day — thinking it would simply be less gross than going after the sun beat down on thousands of bodies crawling through mud. (A tactic I also adhere to.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that could happen,” Spinosa said of the infection risk, although she emphasized that despite the unintended outcome it still seemed like a well-run event. “I don’t think this was any more gross than any other of these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of the appeal, she said, is the camaraderie as you work with other people to overcome obstacles, some of which by design cannot be completed without help. “You’re working with strangers to accomplish something that’s gross and hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wait, what?! Why do people do Tough Mudder and obstacle course races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because jumping into mud pits is fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something really empowering, too,” about knowing you can do these challenging things, Spinosa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough Mudder, historically, has billed itself as a way to push people’s boundaries and help them find out what they’re capable of. There’s a whole shelf of \u003ca href=\"https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=cc_etds_theses\">research (CGI)\u003c/a> that’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/breaking-the-ennui-of-office-work-through-painful-exercise/520746/\">hotly\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/why-are-most-endurance-athletes-rich/\">discussed\u003c/a> about why this particular brand of what’s known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/24/what-is-type-2-fun/\">Type II fun\u003c/a> is especially popular among white-collar workers. But it doesn’t take much theorizing to realize there’s some innate appeal to getting muddy with your friends and climbing over a log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two main reasons people do these,” said Erin Beresini, author of the book \u003cem>Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing\u003c/em>. One is the physical challenge, she said. “Where everything in life has gotten so easy, there’s this primal need to be challenged physically that they’re not getting in their every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second reason is the camaraderie. Bonds formed in that challenge, she said, tend to be stronger and form faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, having done a half-dozen OCRs, I’ve always found the Spartan Races more interesting, because they’re less about inflicting pain and more about the actual physical obstacles. But, as the sport has developed, they’ve also become more challenging and require more training and skill, compared to Tough Mudder races. It doesn’t take too much training to crawl through mud — hence their appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I have an infection?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County health officials are urging anyone with symptoms to see a doctor or, if you don’t have a primary care provider, to go to your local emergency department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing and investigations are still being done to figure out whether the outbreak was caused by staph — which can be carried by other humans — or a bacteria, like Aeromonas, found in the mud and water. There are lots of different kinds of possible bacteria in muddy water, noted Young, the infectious disease expert, and runoff from nearby cow pastures in Sonoma could certainly contribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aeromonas, which has already been detected in a number of participants, is believed to be the main culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bacterial infections can develop when skin is exposed to soils and mud,” county health officials said in its letter to participants. “If untreated, serious illness and sepsis can develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is Aeromonas and how common is it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/pathogen-safety-data-sheets-risk-assessment/aeromonas-hydrophila.html\">Aeromonas hydrophila\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is a type of bacteria that’s found naturally in mud and warm fresh and brackish water — meaning it isn’t necessarily the result of contamination or human influence. It’s found in North America, as well as in other parts of the world, said Young — \u003ca href=\"https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/wellness/2022/07/12/aeromonas-hydrophilia-dangerous-bacteria-found-freshwater/10017340002/\">especially warmer areas\u003c/a>, like in Florida — and may be emerging as climate change warms waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01337/full\">ubiquitous\u003c/a> in fish, reptiles and mammals, and can lead to gastrointestinal distress. But an outbreak like this is pretty uncommon. “It’s just bad luck,” Young said, while noting there is always a risk, especially when people may have open cuts or have to submerge themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with almost all forms of bacteria, there are \u003ca href=\"https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13256-018-1854-1\">a few documented cases\u003c/a> of incredibly rare severe drug-resistant infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there any regulations on these kinds of races?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, and no. Largely, the extent of the regulations depend both on where the race is held and what the event’s insurance provider requires. Florida, for example, allowed one of the first COVID-era mass participation races to come back with \u003ca href=\"https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a32869075/spartan-race-returns-jacksonville-florida/\">a 1,000-person Spartan Race in June 2020 \u003c/a>— at a time when most states and municipalities were still refraining from permitting events of that nature.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Where everything in life has gotten so easy, there’s this primal need to be challenged physically that they’re not getting in their every day.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Erin Beresini, author","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Regulations from the insurance providers and industry itself have, historically, focused on the safety of cold-water obstacles and preventing medical risks like heart attacks or drownings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an expectation of controlled danger,” said Beresini — meaning that participants sign a waiver and typically understand they could be hurt or injured, but expect reasonable precautions to be taken and immediate medical attention to be provided if injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, as was the case in Sonoma, permits are granted by county and city officials who require certain standards and safety plans. However, while organizers of events like triathlons and open-water swims are often required to test water quality beforehand, doing so is not required for crawling through mud or simply jumping into water pits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t really test the mud,” said Young, “it’s not practical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Toughmudder/comments/1616j0y/update_re_group_email_response_from_ceo_of_tough/\">email\u003c/a>, Tough Mudder CEO Giles Chater told participants his company is working closely with local health officials and “completing our own thorough investigation, which includes extensive sampling, as we attempt to identify the cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/emails-show-health-problems-reported-after-2022-sonoma-tough-mudder-but-not/\">reports\u003c/a> of some similar illnesses after last year’s Sonoma Tough Mudder event — though nothing close to this scale. Spinosa said her friend, who raced with her, had a slight rash after participating last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s not clear what could necessarily be done to prevent this, said Young, other than moving the event (if it was caused by bacteria specific to that area or impacted by nearby cow pastures), and alerting participants of the risk of bacterial exposure (especially when conditions are warmer and more people have already gone through the course). Young’s main advice: Wash your hands, clean off and shower after the event. And during the race, try not to swallow any water or mud or get it in open wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “There’s only so much you can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed reporting to this story.\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/11959242/what-happened-at-tough-mudder-sonoma-hundreds-get-sick-with-possible-bacterial-infection","authors":["1459"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_19960","news_4981","news_22860"],"featImg":"news_11959245","label":"news"},"news_11956413":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956413","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956413","score":null,"sort":[1690282871000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-california-farmworkers-took-on-a-sonoma-winery-over-abuses-and-won","title":"How Workers Took on a Sonoma County Vineyard Company Over Abuses — and Won","publishDate":1690282871,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Workers Took on a Sonoma County Vineyard Company Over Abuses — and Won | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957505/campesinos-denunciaron-a-un-vinedo-por-abusos-laborales-y-ganaron\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]auritson Farms Inc. in Sonoma County will pay $328,077 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">21 of its former workers\u003c/a> as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885712/settlement-agreement-june-2023.pdf\">settlement\u003c/a> with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) — the largest monetary settlement the agency has reached at its Santa Rosa office. ALRB officials, along with dozens of labor advocates and farmworkers, announced the settlement at a press conference Monday evening in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc., which manages vineyards, is a separate and distinct business from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mauritsonwines.com/About-Us/Our-Team\">Mauritson Wines\u003c/a>. Both businesses are owned by the Mauritson family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following an investigation spurred by the farmworkers’ complaints, ALRB officials determined that Mauritson Farms retaliated against an entire crew of former employees because some of them organized at the end of the 2021 growing season to speak out against unsafe working conditions in Mauritson’s vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must recognize that this is a victory started by workers to defend not just their rights, but their dignity as well,” said organizer Davin Cárdenas at Monday’s conference. Cárdenas is the director of organizing at North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ), a labor rights group that supported the former Mauritson employees through the ALRB investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a case that sets a precedent for other workers in the region,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, one of the six laborers who spoke up about their treatment at Mauritson\"]‘After so much abuse, I think it’s fair that our rights are respected and we are respected for who we are.’[/pullquote]The workers involved were immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, and were in the country on an H-2A visa, which lets agricultural workers stay in the U.S. for limited periods of time. KQED first reported last year that despite promises from company leadership, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">none of the workers who spoke out were called back from Oaxaca for the 2022 season\u003c/a>. In its complaint filed against Mauritson this past March, the ALRB \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885711/alrb-complaint-march-2023.pdf\">determined that Mauritson not rehiring these laborers constituted an illegal labor practice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got the news, I thanked God it went this way, because this was not at all easy. We were very afraid to speak up. It was a complicated process but you have to let go of that fear,” said Martín Sandoval Rivera, one of the workers who spoke up against the conditions at Mauritson Farms. He’s currently in Oaxaca, working several jobs to support his wife who is expecting their first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval Rivera and his colleagues said they experienced verbal harassment from their supervisor, were denied shade while working in the fields on days hotter than 90 degrees and did not receive their break and lunch periods on a few occasions — all of which violates California labor regulations. Six of the workers, including Sandoval Rivera, sought the support of labor rights group North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ) to mediate the situation. NBJWJ arranged a meeting with the workers and company higher-ups in October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that meeting, vineyard manager Cameron Mauritson promised that conditions would improve and assured the workers that he would hire them again in 2022 — relieving the workers’ biggest worry: being denied future employment for speaking up. Then the company — which workers said had previously handled the recruitment process directly using social media — chose to contract with a third-party recruiter, CIERTO Global, to handle hiring for the 2022 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group from Oaxaca never had a real chance to come back. According to the ALRB complaint, CIERTO Global recruits exclusively from a completely different state in Mexico for grape-growing companies. On top of that, screengrabs from a Facebook group the Oaxacan workers shared with KQED showed that Mauritson management shared incorrect information on how workers should contact CIERTO for future employment. CIERTO representatives confirmed to KQED that Mauritson’s instructions to either submit a form at a specific location on CIERTO’s website or to email a given email address were false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These instructions do not reflect our practices involving any of the workers we serve,” a CIERTO representative said in an emailed response. “Mauritson’s instructions were not cleared or disseminated by CIERTO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11918317]When the workers realized what was happening, they alerted NBJWJ. In February 2022, organizers filed a claim with the ALRB on behalf of the six workers who attended the meeting with Mauritson. Six initially spoke up — but in its investigation, the ALRB found that Mauritson retaliated against the entire 21-person team the six workers belonged to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $328,077 settlement, which will benefit all 21 laborers, represents what the workers lost by missing the 2022 growing season, according to calculations from the ALRB. A hearing with an administrative law judge had been scheduled for later this summer, but the settlement concludes this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, Mauritson Farms declared that it “strongly believes that [it was] not in any violation of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). This settlement is strictly a business decision that allows us to resolve this issue without the need for further litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A group of people sit together holding signs reading \"La Unión Hace La Fuerza\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers Antonio Flores (left) and his son Mateo, Rosalba Gutierrez (center) and Valentina Sosa (right) sit at the NBJWJ press conference announcing the settlement with Mauritson at Healdsburg Plaza on Monday. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After so much abuse, I think it’s fair that our rights are respected and we are respected for who we are,” said Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, one of the six laborers who met with Mauritson. During the past year and a half, he’s hustled to work any job he can find in his rural Oaxacan community to support his wife and two children, and at the same time, kept in touch with ALRB officials who were investigating the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the ALRB worked to track down the 21 workers who were not rehired. After the 2021 season ended, many returned to remote villages in Oaxaca, where access to the internet and cell phone reception is extremely limited and for some, non-existent. Tracking folks down was one challenge, said ALRB regional director Jessica Arciniega. The other was establishing trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With many of our cases, there’s challenges in maintaining communication with workers,” she said. “They [could be] unfamiliar with our process, they [could be] unfamiliar with us, as a government agency. and what we actually do. So they may not always feel 100% ready or comfortable to share all of this information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ana Salgado, former farmworker and member of the NBJWJ board\"]‘So many [H-2A laborers] are afraid of losing the opportunity they have… They may be experiencing many abuses but they do not want to say anything because they are afraid of losing what they consider to be a privilege.’[/pullquote]Workers are not just afraid of experiencing further retaliation from the same employer, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">as KQED reported last year, many H-2A employers use a network of recruiters to block workers who speak up from finding a job\u003c/a> in other agricultural industries. In that same story, KQED shared the story of Kevin and Samuel, two former Mauritson employees who were among the six that initially spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin and Samuel were actually aliases for Sandoval Rivera and Bravo Silva, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, both men were very afraid of what the repercussions would be if they shared their identities publicly during the ALRB investigation. As weeks turned into months, Sandoval Rivera felt less and less confident that there would be an answer from officials, especially as his family’s economic situation worsened. “Necessity makes you think many things,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and Bravo Silva are glad they waited for the results of the investigation and the settlement. This won’t just benefit them, Bravo Silva says, “but also the immigrant workers who are now working at that company, so that they are respected more and they don’t feel alone. There are laws that protect agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrating a hard-won victory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With banners and signs — many of them emblazoned with Emiliano Zapata’s quote “La tierra es de quien la trabaja,” or “The land belongs to those who work it with their hands” — farmworkers and NBJWJ organizers filled up part of Healdsburg’s main plaza for Monday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You represent the farmworkers who are not able to be here today but whose courage has left us this legacy: that by fighting and finding allies, we, as workers, can achieve many things,” said Ana Salgado former farmworker, community organizer and member of the NBJWJ board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person wearing earrings speaks in front of others holding signs reading \"La Unión Hace la Fuerza\" and \"Farmworkers Deserve Disaster Pay\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBJWJ board member and former farmworker Ana Salgado (center) speaks at Monday’s press conference at Healdsburg Plaza. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only a few blocks away from that plaza is the community center where Salgado originally met several of the men then working for Mauritson. She remembers the first conversations she had with the laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at one of them and saw the worry in his face,” she said in Spanish, “I reached out to hold his hands and told him, ‘you can open up now, you’re in a safe space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many [H-2A laborers] are afraid of losing the opportunity they have because employers tell them that it is a privilege to be brought from Mexico with a visa,” she explained. “They may be experiencing many abuses but they do not want to say anything because they are afraid of losing what they consider to be a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Just law on paper’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The H-2A visa program is the successor of the Bracero Program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers\">which brought Mexican workers to American farms during the 1940s\u003c/a>. The current H-2A system now brings laborers from all over the world to work in the U.S. and as part of the program, employers must provide housing, transportation and meals — giving businesses an incredible amount of power over the personal lives of their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like the Bracero Program, \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2023/04/14/h2a-visa-wage-theft-exploitation/\">the H-2A system is rife with wage theft, physical and mental abuse of employees and retaliation from employers for workers who speak up\u003c/a>, according to an 18-month investigation by Prism, Futuro Investigates, and Latino USA published in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person with a shaved head speaks in front of others holding signs reading \"Farmworkers Deserve Disaster Pay\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBJWJ Director Davin Cárdenas speaks at Monday’s press conference at Healdsburg Plaza. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the federal government and California have beefed up their labor laws since the 1940s, so why does abuse of H-2A laborers persist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that regulatory agencies need more personnel and resources to enforce labor standards, says Josephine Weinberg, attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), a nonprofit law firm that represents farmworkers who have experienced retaliation and workplace abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have agencies in place. We have a lot of the rules in place. But the mechanisms to really enforce those rules and monitor are really lacking. So it really is just law on paper,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 3 positions remain vacant at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, one of the agencies tasked with investigating wage theft and retaliation across all industries in the state. Such understaffing leaves current staff overburdened with cases, which means workers who file a complaint often have to wait years for a result. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">Dozens of agency employees implored lawmakers to take action in a letter obtained by KQED earlier this month\u003c/a>, arguing that “we are failing in our mission if we cannot hire and retain the necessary staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11955920]Over at the ALRB, regional director Arciniega points out that her agency has five offices spread over several agricultural regions, “but California is a humongous state and there’s a lot of farmworkers throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have offices in all of the agricultural regions,” she said, “so we do our best in this large state to cover wherever workers are.” She adds that the department works closely with community and labor organizations, like NBJWJ, to connect with laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But labor advocates insist that more must be done to better enforce labor standards and improve the H-2A program as a whole. Weinberg with the CRLA adds that regulators need to monitor farms more closely, with randomized visits during the growing season. And on the flip side, employers must make it easier for agencies and labor groups to speak to farmworkers in an unrestricted manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the H-2A program was designed, where businesses have direct control over their employees’ housing, transportation, immigration status and even food, makes it incredibly difficult for laborers to speak freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have access to a place where they feel that they can speak confidentially or anonymously about what’s going on,” Weinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956315/some-migrant-farmworkers-to-get-free-legal-help-with-immigration\">announced a $4.5 million pilot program to provide free immigration legal services to farmworkers who are involved in state labor investigations\u003c/a>. This would include case review services, legal advice and representation by an attorney to laborers in California who have a pending case with either the ALRB, the Labor Commissioner’s Office or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11956315]The goal of this program, officials say, is to address one of the fears that prevents employees from speaking up — the fear of losing their visa or not being rehired — by connecting them to immigration experts who could help them find ways to stay in this country. And earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940316/fear-of-deportation-keeps-some-workers-from-reporting-labor-abuses-a-new-biden-program-aims-to-change-that\">the Biden administration unveiled a new, streamlined “deferred action” initiative\u003c/a> that allows workers to apply for a work permit and two years of protection from deportation, if they are cooperating with a labor rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But above all, what really helps folks feel safe enough to speak up, Salgado from NBJWJ says, is knowing that there are cases when the system works in favor of workers. “Without a doubt, the outcome from the Mauritson case, reaffirms the faith amongst ourselves, but also the credibility of the work we do when we go out to talk to the workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Editor’s note: The original version of this story mischaracterized Mauritson Farms, Inc. as a winery. The story has been updated to clarify the relationship between Mauritson Farms, Inc. and Mauritson Wines.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero and Tyche Hendricks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mauritson Farms Inc. will pay $328,077 to 21 former workers from Oaxaca after California regulators found the Healdsburg company retaliated against them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694536033,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2496},"headData":{"title":"How Workers Took on a Sonoma County Vineyard Company Over Abuses — and Won | KQED","description":"Mauritson Farms Inc. will pay $328,077 to 21 former workers from Oaxaca after California regulators found the Healdsburg company retaliated against them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956413/how-california-farmworkers-took-on-a-sonoma-winery-over-abuses-and-won","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957505/campesinos-denunciaron-a-un-vinedo-por-abusos-laborales-y-ganaron\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>auritson Farms Inc. in Sonoma County will pay $328,077 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">21 of its former workers\u003c/a> as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885712/settlement-agreement-june-2023.pdf\">settlement\u003c/a> with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) — the largest monetary settlement the agency has reached at its Santa Rosa office. ALRB officials, along with dozens of labor advocates and farmworkers, announced the settlement at a press conference Monday evening in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mauritson Farms Inc., which manages vineyards, is a separate and distinct business from \u003ca href=\"https://www.mauritsonwines.com/About-Us/Our-Team\">Mauritson Wines\u003c/a>. Both businesses are owned by the Mauritson family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following an investigation spurred by the farmworkers’ complaints, ALRB officials determined that Mauritson Farms retaliated against an entire crew of former employees because some of them organized at the end of the 2021 growing season to speak out against unsafe working conditions in Mauritson’s vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must recognize that this is a victory started by workers to defend not just their rights, but their dignity as well,” said organizer Davin Cárdenas at Monday’s conference. Cárdenas is the director of organizing at North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ), a labor rights group that supported the former Mauritson employees through the ALRB investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a case that sets a precedent for other workers in the region,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘After so much abuse, I think it’s fair that our rights are respected and we are respected for who we are.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, one of the six laborers who spoke up about their treatment at Mauritson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The workers involved were immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, and were in the country on an H-2A visa, which lets agricultural workers stay in the U.S. for limited periods of time. KQED first reported last year that despite promises from company leadership, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">none of the workers who spoke out were called back from Oaxaca for the 2022 season\u003c/a>. In its complaint filed against Mauritson this past March, the ALRB \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23885711/alrb-complaint-march-2023.pdf\">determined that Mauritson not rehiring these laborers constituted an illegal labor practice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got the news, I thanked God it went this way, because this was not at all easy. We were very afraid to speak up. It was a complicated process but you have to let go of that fear,” said Martín Sandoval Rivera, one of the workers who spoke up against the conditions at Mauritson Farms. He’s currently in Oaxaca, working several jobs to support his wife who is expecting their first child.\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>Sandoval Rivera and his colleagues said they experienced verbal harassment from their supervisor, were denied shade while working in the fields on days hotter than 90 degrees and did not receive their break and lunch periods on a few occasions — all of which violates California labor regulations. Six of the workers, including Sandoval Rivera, sought the support of labor rights group North Bay Jobs With Justice (NBJWJ) to mediate the situation. NBJWJ arranged a meeting with the workers and company higher-ups in October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that meeting, vineyard manager Cameron Mauritson promised that conditions would improve and assured the workers that he would hire them again in 2022 — relieving the workers’ biggest worry: being denied future employment for speaking up. Then the company — which workers said had previously handled the recruitment process directly using social media — chose to contract with a third-party recruiter, CIERTO Global, to handle hiring for the 2022 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group from Oaxaca never had a real chance to come back. According to the ALRB complaint, CIERTO Global recruits exclusively from a completely different state in Mexico for grape-growing companies. On top of that, screengrabs from a Facebook group the Oaxacan workers shared with KQED showed that Mauritson management shared incorrect information on how workers should contact CIERTO for future employment. CIERTO representatives confirmed to KQED that Mauritson’s instructions to either submit a form at a specific location on CIERTO’s website or to email a given email address were false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These instructions do not reflect our practices involving any of the workers we serve,” a CIERTO representative said in an emailed response. “Mauritson’s instructions were not cleared or disseminated by CIERTO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11918317","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When the workers realized what was happening, they alerted NBJWJ. In February 2022, organizers filed a claim with the ALRB on behalf of the six workers who attended the meeting with Mauritson. Six initially spoke up — but in its investigation, the ALRB found that Mauritson retaliated against the entire 21-person team the six workers belonged to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $328,077 settlement, which will benefit all 21 laborers, represents what the workers lost by missing the 2022 growing season, according to calculations from the ALRB. A hearing with an administrative law judge had been scheduled for later this summer, but the settlement concludes this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, Mauritson Farms declared that it “strongly believes that [it was] not in any violation of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). This settlement is strictly a business decision that allows us to resolve this issue without the need for further litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A group of people sit together holding signs reading \"La Unión Hace La Fuerza\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67230_20230724-NBJWJPresser-10-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers Antonio Flores (left) and his son Mateo, Rosalba Gutierrez (center) and Valentina Sosa (right) sit at the NBJWJ press conference announcing the settlement with Mauritson at Healdsburg Plaza on Monday. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After so much abuse, I think it’s fair that our rights are respected and we are respected for who we are,” said Miguel Ángel Bravo Silva, one of the six laborers who met with Mauritson. During the past year and a half, he’s hustled to work any job he can find in his rural Oaxacan community to support his wife and two children, and at the same time, kept in touch with ALRB officials who were investigating the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the ALRB worked to track down the 21 workers who were not rehired. After the 2021 season ended, many returned to remote villages in Oaxaca, where access to the internet and cell phone reception is extremely limited and for some, non-existent. Tracking folks down was one challenge, said ALRB regional director Jessica Arciniega. The other was establishing trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With many of our cases, there’s challenges in maintaining communication with workers,” she said. “They [could be] unfamiliar with our process, they [could be] unfamiliar with us, as a government agency. and what we actually do. So they may not always feel 100% ready or comfortable to share all of this information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘So many [H-2A laborers] are afraid of losing the opportunity they have… They may be experiencing many abuses but they do not want to say anything because they are afraid of losing what they consider to be a privilege.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ana Salgado, former farmworker and member of the NBJWJ board","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Workers are not just afraid of experiencing further retaliation from the same employer, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation\">as KQED reported last year, many H-2A employers use a network of recruiters to block workers who speak up from finding a job\u003c/a> in other agricultural industries. In that same story, KQED shared the story of Kevin and Samuel, two former Mauritson employees who were among the six that initially spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin and Samuel were actually aliases for Sandoval Rivera and Bravo Silva, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, both men were very afraid of what the repercussions would be if they shared their identities publicly during the ALRB investigation. As weeks turned into months, Sandoval Rivera felt less and less confident that there would be an answer from officials, especially as his family’s economic situation worsened. “Necessity makes you think many things,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and Bravo Silva are glad they waited for the results of the investigation and the settlement. This won’t just benefit them, Bravo Silva says, “but also the immigrant workers who are now working at that company, so that they are respected more and they don’t feel alone. There are laws that protect agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrating a hard-won victory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With banners and signs — many of them emblazoned with Emiliano Zapata’s quote “La tierra es de quien la trabaja,” or “The land belongs to those who work it with their hands” — farmworkers and NBJWJ organizers filled up part of Healdsburg’s main plaza for Monday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You represent the farmworkers who are not able to be here today but whose courage has left us this legacy: that by fighting and finding allies, we, as workers, can achieve many things,” said Ana Salgado former farmworker, community organizer and member of the NBJWJ board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person wearing earrings speaks in front of others holding signs reading \"La Unión Hace la Fuerza\" and \"Farmworkers Deserve Disaster Pay\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67238_20230724-NBJWJPresser-16-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBJWJ board member and former farmworker Ana Salgado (center) speaks at Monday’s press conference at Healdsburg Plaza. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only a few blocks away from that plaza is the community center where Salgado originally met several of the men then working for Mauritson. She remembers the first conversations she had with the laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at one of them and saw the worry in his face,” she said in Spanish, “I reached out to hold his hands and told him, ‘you can open up now, you’re in a safe space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many [H-2A laborers] are afraid of losing the opportunity they have because employers tell them that it is a privilege to be brought from Mexico with a visa,” she explained. “They may be experiencing many abuses but they do not want to say anything because they are afraid of losing what they consider to be a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Just law on paper’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The H-2A visa program is the successor of the Bracero Program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers\">which brought Mexican workers to American farms during the 1940s\u003c/a>. The current H-2A system now brings laborers from all over the world to work in the U.S. and as part of the program, employers must provide housing, transportation and meals — giving businesses an incredible amount of power over the personal lives of their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like the Bracero Program, \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2023/04/14/h2a-visa-wage-theft-exploitation/\">the H-2A system is rife with wage theft, physical and mental abuse of employees and retaliation from employers for workers who speak up\u003c/a>, according to an 18-month investigation by Prism, Futuro Investigates, and Latino USA published in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person with a shaved head speaks in front of others holding signs reading \"Farmworkers Deserve Disaster Pay\" in an outdoor setting.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67234_20230724-NBJWJPresser-13-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBJWJ Director Davin Cárdenas speaks at Monday’s press conference at Healdsburg Plaza. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the federal government and California have beefed up their labor laws since the 1940s, so why does abuse of H-2A laborers persist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that regulatory agencies need more personnel and resources to enforce labor standards, says Josephine Weinberg, attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), a nonprofit law firm that represents farmworkers who have experienced retaliation and workplace abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have agencies in place. We have a lot of the rules in place. But the mechanisms to really enforce those rules and monitor are really lacking. So it really is just law on paper,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 3 positions remain vacant at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, one of the agencies tasked with investigating wage theft and retaliation across all industries in the state. Such understaffing leaves current staff overburdened with cases, which means workers who file a complaint often have to wait years for a result. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">Dozens of agency employees implored lawmakers to take action in a letter obtained by KQED earlier this month\u003c/a>, arguing that “we are failing in our mission if we cannot hire and retain the necessary staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11955920","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over at the ALRB, regional director Arciniega points out that her agency has five offices spread over several agricultural regions, “but California is a humongous state and there’s a lot of farmworkers throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have offices in all of the agricultural regions,” she said, “so we do our best in this large state to cover wherever workers are.” She adds that the department works closely with community and labor organizations, like NBJWJ, to connect with laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But labor advocates insist that more must be done to better enforce labor standards and improve the H-2A program as a whole. Weinberg with the CRLA adds that regulators need to monitor farms more closely, with randomized visits during the growing season. And on the flip side, employers must make it easier for agencies and labor groups to speak to farmworkers in an unrestricted manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the H-2A program was designed, where businesses have direct control over their employees’ housing, transportation, immigration status and even food, makes it incredibly difficult for laborers to speak freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have access to a place where they feel that they can speak confidentially or anonymously about what’s going on,” Weinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956315/some-migrant-farmworkers-to-get-free-legal-help-with-immigration\">announced a $4.5 million pilot program to provide free immigration legal services to farmworkers who are involved in state labor investigations\u003c/a>. This would include case review services, legal advice and representation by an attorney to laborers in California who have a pending case with either the ALRB, the Labor Commissioner’s Office or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11956315","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The goal of this program, officials say, is to address one of the fears that prevents employees from speaking up — the fear of losing their visa or not being rehired — by connecting them to immigration experts who could help them find ways to stay in this country. And earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940316/fear-of-deportation-keeps-some-workers-from-reporting-labor-abuses-a-new-biden-program-aims-to-change-that\">the Biden administration unveiled a new, streamlined “deferred action” initiative\u003c/a> that allows workers to apply for a work permit and two years of protection from deportation, if they are cooperating with a labor rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But above all, what really helps folks feel safe enough to speak up, Salgado from NBJWJ says, is knowing that there are cases when the system works in favor of workers. “Without a doubt, the outcome from the Mauritson case, reaffirms the faith amongst ourselves, but also the credibility of the work we do when we go out to talk to the workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Editor’s note: The original version of this story mischaracterized Mauritson Farms, Inc. as a winery. The story has been updated to clarify the relationship between Mauritson Farms, Inc. and Mauritson Wines.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero and Tyche Hendricks.\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/11956413/how-california-farmworkers-took-on-a-sonoma-winery-over-abuses-and-won","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_31272","news_18269","news_27626","news_20202","news_19904","news_31268","news_31269","news_4981","news_244","news_31320","news_18208"],"featImg":"news_11956456","label":"news"},"news_11940706":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11940706","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11940706","score":null,"sort":[1676080102000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"labor-fight-intensifies-at-upscale-wine-country-resort-amid-allegations-of-worker-intimidation","title":"Labor Fight Intensifies at Upscale Wine Country Resort, Amid Allegations of Worker Intimidation","publishDate":1676080102,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Dozens of workers at a luxury resort in the heart of Northern California’s wine country held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening to protest their employer’s alleged illegal intimidation tactics to block unionization efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vigil, held outside the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa, in the city of Sonoma, comes weeks after the resort was accused of violating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/interfering-with-employee-rights-section-7-8a1\">federal law that protects the rights of most private-sector workers to organize without facing threats or coercion from their employers\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tony Arguello, bar captain, Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa\"]'There shouldn't be coercion. There shouldn't be harassment, intimidation. But right now, it feels like the company has a megaphone and we're standing behind the bleachers.'[/pullquote]Unite Here Local 2, which represents more than 15,000 hotel and hospitality workers in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-CA-310743\">filed the complaint with regulators on Jan. 20\u003c/a>, charging that the resort’s management threatened, surveilled and coercively questioned workers on their union activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we can shut down this illegal anti-union campaign that the Fairmont has been on,” said Sonya Karabel, an organizer with the union. “What the company has been trying to do is really unacceptable, it's unethical. And, they're trying to intimidate workers out of joining a union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at the large, upscale resort said they are seeking to boost wages and fix workplace issues that management has largely ignored for years. Chronic understaffing has resulted in unduly stressful work shifts for housekeepers, putting them at greater risk of physical injury, while supervisors have done little to address the concerns of spa attendants experiencing sexual harassment by clients, Karabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotel’s management did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma resort, which on its website “boasts geothermal fed mineral pools, farm to table dining and access to championship golf,” is operated by the French multinational hospitality group Accor, which also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people outside at night hold candles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 workers and community members demonstrate in front of the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Thursday evening. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The property’s ownership has changed several times in recent years, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/sonoma-valley-hotel-is-part-of-brookfields-3-8-billion-play-for-watermark/\">investing firm Brookfield Asset Management most recently acquiring it last year\u003c/a>, as part of a larger deal involving 25 hotels, the North Bay Business Journal reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=850230&rptForm=LM20Form\">Federal filings show\u003c/a> that the resort last November hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915111/how-socially-responsible-is-amys-kitchen-depends-on-who-you-ask\">Quest Consulting\u003c/a>, a company with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laborlab.us/unionbustingtracker\">union-busting reputation\u003c/a> among labor organizers, to “persuade” employees on issues related to the organizing effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Arguello, a bar captain in the resort’s banquet department, is one of about 30 workers who have been involved in union organizing efforts since last fall. He said managers and consultants have persistently approached workers on the job to tell them that unions are unhelpful and that they could lose wages or benefits if they join. At a recent meeting, Arguello said a manager suggested his own job could be on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The response was, ‘Well, if you're not happy, you have a choice not to be here.’ And that to me is quite frightening because this is obviously my livelihood,” Arguello, 38, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karabel, the union organizer, said other workers are also feeling vulnerable, particularly immigrant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are afraid to some degree seeing how many resources the company has put into this anti-union campaign,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is investigating the unfair labor practices complaint, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/investigate-charges\">generally takes seven to 14 weeks to issue a decision in most cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers have a right to express their opinion about unions and can encourage workers not to join them. Yet they are not legally allowed to issue threats imperiling workers’ jobs or benefits or, conversely, to offer workers incentives for rejecting a union, according to Bill Gould, professor emeritus at Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, those violations are often difficult to prove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl holds a candle outside in the dark.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayana Mendez is illuminated by candles during a community gathering on Thursday in support of Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa workers who are trying to unionize. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That's the difficulty of this particular law, the vagueness of it, the vagueness of the demarcation line between what's permissible and what's not,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even when NLRB regulators find that employers have broken labor laws, the agency does not have the power to issue fines. The NLRB may seek to reinstate any workers who have been unlawfully fired. But with most other violations, regulators often just send guilty employers a “cease and desist” letter, said Gould, who chaired the NLRB during the Clinton administration and wrote the book \u003cem>For Labor to Build Upon\u003c/em>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11940014,news_11940248,news_11928262\"]“It’s a slap on the wrist. A lot of people don’t take that too seriously,” he said. “It certainly works to the disadvantage of workers, particularly low-income workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill in the last session of Congress would have given the NLRB the ability to issue monetary penalties for employers who commit unfair labor practices — up to $50,000 for each violation, or up to $100,000 if an employee is unlawfully discharged. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842\">Protecting the Right to Organize Act\u003c/a> in 2021, but the measure died in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), who authored the bill, did not confirm whether he plans to reintroduce a similar measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations against Fairmont Sonoma are hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/\">employers were charged with violating labor law in more than 40% of union elections between 2016 and 2017\u003c/a> — with allegations ranging from retaliation to firing, according to a 2019 report by the left-leaning nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers want to avoid unions because they believe it’s costly,” said Margaret Poydock, policy analyst with the group, who co-authored the analysis. “Unions are essentially a vehicle to help increase wages, benefits and work conditions, but also a vehicle for workplace democracy, for employers and workers to talk to each other to improve all these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some companies are willing to invest significant resources to prevent workers from organizing and bargaining collectively. Poydock’s research shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/\">employers nationwide spend about $340 million per year to hire “union avoidance advisers,”\u003c/a> also known as “persuaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays guitar while standing outside among a crowd of demonstrators.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Saucedo, a member of the group Almas Libres, performs at Thursday's vigil in support of a union organizing effort among workers at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arguello, the bar captain at the resort, said it shouldn’t be that way. “If the employees want to organize a union, I feel that they should be able to do so,” said Arguello, who recently moved from Sonoma to Vallejo — about 40 minutes away — because on his salary he struggled to afford rent in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There shouldn't be coercion. There shouldn't be harassment, intimidation,” he said. “But right now, it feels like the company has a megaphone and we're standing behind the bleachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, Fairmont Sonoma increased wages for all nonmanagerial employees by $2 or $3 per hour, Arguello said, bumping up his hourly pay to $19.50. But, he added, that was the first significant pay hike the resort offered in the decade he’s been working there, and he believes it was intended to dissuade employees from joining the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the recent pay increases, workers at the resort earn lower wages than at Fairmont hotels in the Bay Area with a unionized workforce, organizers said, noting that housekeepers in the Sonoma location make $21 an hour, $7 less than their counterparts at Fairmont San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove a reference to a 2022 fact sheet about retaliatory firings during union campaigns issued by the Economic Policy Institute. The EPI has since retracted the fact sheet due to inaccuracies it says it found in the underlying data.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Workers at the iconic Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa held a vigil on Thursday evening, weeks after the resort was accused of violating a federal law that bars employers from threatening or coercing employees involved in organizing efforts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1677800813,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1397},"headData":{"title":"Labor Fight Intensifies at Upscale Wine Country Resort, Amid Allegations of Worker Intimidation | KQED","description":"Workers at the iconic Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa held a vigil on Thursday evening, weeks after the resort was accused of violating a federal law that bars employers from threatening or coercing employees involved in organizing efforts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11940706/labor-fight-intensifies-at-upscale-wine-country-resort-amid-allegations-of-worker-intimidation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dozens of workers at a luxury resort in the heart of Northern California’s wine country held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening to protest their employer’s alleged illegal intimidation tactics to block unionization efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vigil, held outside the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa, in the city of Sonoma, comes weeks after the resort was accused of violating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/interfering-with-employee-rights-section-7-8a1\">federal law that protects the rights of most private-sector workers to organize without facing threats or coercion from their employers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There shouldn't be coercion. There shouldn't be harassment, intimidation. But right now, it feels like the company has a megaphone and we're standing behind the bleachers.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tony Arguello, bar captain, Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2, which represents more than 15,000 hotel and hospitality workers in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-CA-310743\">filed the complaint with regulators on Jan. 20\u003c/a>, charging that the resort’s management threatened, surveilled and coercively questioned workers on their union activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we can shut down this illegal anti-union campaign that the Fairmont has been on,” said Sonya Karabel, an organizer with the union. “What the company has been trying to do is really unacceptable, it's unethical. And, they're trying to intimidate workers out of joining a union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at the large, upscale resort said they are seeking to boost wages and fix workplace issues that management has largely ignored for years. Chronic understaffing has resulted in unduly stressful work shifts for housekeepers, putting them at greater risk of physical injury, while supervisors have done little to address the concerns of spa attendants experiencing sexual harassment by clients, Karabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotel’s management did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma resort, which on its website “boasts geothermal fed mineral pools, farm to table dining and access to championship golf,” is operated by the French multinational hospitality group Accor, which also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people outside at night hold candles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62740__DSC2547-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 workers and community members demonstrate in front of the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa on Thursday evening. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The property’s ownership has changed several times in recent years, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/sonoma-valley-hotel-is-part-of-brookfields-3-8-billion-play-for-watermark/\">investing firm Brookfield Asset Management most recently acquiring it last year\u003c/a>, as part of a larger deal involving 25 hotels, the North Bay Business Journal reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://olmsapps.dol.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=850230&rptForm=LM20Form\">Federal filings show\u003c/a> that the resort last November hired \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915111/how-socially-responsible-is-amys-kitchen-depends-on-who-you-ask\">Quest Consulting\u003c/a>, a company with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laborlab.us/unionbustingtracker\">union-busting reputation\u003c/a> among labor organizers, to “persuade” employees on issues related to the organizing effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Arguello, a bar captain in the resort’s banquet department, is one of about 30 workers who have been involved in union organizing efforts since last fall. He said managers and consultants have persistently approached workers on the job to tell them that unions are unhelpful and that they could lose wages or benefits if they join. At a recent meeting, Arguello said a manager suggested his own job could be on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The response was, ‘Well, if you're not happy, you have a choice not to be here.’ And that to me is quite frightening because this is obviously my livelihood,” Arguello, 38, said.\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>Karabel, the union organizer, said other workers are also feeling vulnerable, particularly immigrant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are afraid to some degree seeing how many resources the company has put into this anti-union campaign,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is investigating the unfair labor practices complaint, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/investigate-charges\">generally takes seven to 14 weeks to issue a decision in most cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers have a right to express their opinion about unions and can encourage workers not to join them. Yet they are not legally allowed to issue threats imperiling workers’ jobs or benefits or, conversely, to offer workers incentives for rejecting a union, according to Bill Gould, professor emeritus at Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, those violations are often difficult to prove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl holds a candle outside in the dark.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2476-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayana Mendez is illuminated by candles during a community gathering on Thursday in support of Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa workers who are trying to unionize. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That's the difficulty of this particular law, the vagueness of it, the vagueness of the demarcation line between what's permissible and what's not,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even when NLRB regulators find that employers have broken labor laws, the agency does not have the power to issue fines. The NLRB may seek to reinstate any workers who have been unlawfully fired. But with most other violations, regulators often just send guilty employers a “cease and desist” letter, said Gould, who chaired the NLRB during the Clinton administration and wrote the book \u003cem>For Labor to Build Upon\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11940014,news_11940248,news_11928262"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s a slap on the wrist. A lot of people don’t take that too seriously,” he said. “It certainly works to the disadvantage of workers, particularly low-income workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill in the last session of Congress would have given the NLRB the ability to issue monetary penalties for employers who commit unfair labor practices — up to $50,000 for each violation, or up to $100,000 if an employee is unlawfully discharged. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842\">Protecting the Right to Organize Act\u003c/a> in 2021, but the measure died in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), who authored the bill, did not confirm whether he plans to reintroduce a similar measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations against Fairmont Sonoma are hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/\">employers were charged with violating labor law in more than 40% of union elections between 2016 and 2017\u003c/a> — with allegations ranging from retaliation to firing, according to a 2019 report by the left-leaning nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers want to avoid unions because they believe it’s costly,” said Margaret Poydock, policy analyst with the group, who co-authored the analysis. “Unions are essentially a vehicle to help increase wages, benefits and work conditions, but also a vehicle for workplace democracy, for employers and workers to talk to each other to improve all these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some companies are willing to invest significant resources to prevent workers from organizing and bargaining collectively. Poydock’s research shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/\">employers nationwide spend about $340 million per year to hire “union avoidance advisers,”\u003c/a> also known as “persuaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays guitar while standing outside among a crowd of demonstrators.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/DSC2273-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Saucedo, a member of the group Almas Libres, performs at Thursday's vigil in support of a union organizing effort among workers at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arguello, the bar captain at the resort, said it shouldn’t be that way. “If the employees want to organize a union, I feel that they should be able to do so,” said Arguello, who recently moved from Sonoma to Vallejo — about 40 minutes away — because on his salary he struggled to afford rent in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There shouldn't be coercion. There shouldn't be harassment, intimidation,” he said. “But right now, it feels like the company has a megaphone and we're standing behind the bleachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last year, Fairmont Sonoma increased wages for all nonmanagerial employees by $2 or $3 per hour, Arguello said, bumping up his hourly pay to $19.50. But, he added, that was the first significant pay hike the resort offered in the decade he’s been working there, and he believes it was intended to dissuade employees from joining the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the recent pay increases, workers at the resort earn lower wages than at Fairmont hotels in the Bay Area with a unionized workforce, organizers said, noting that housekeepers in the Sonoma location make $21 an hour, $7 less than their counterparts at Fairmont San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove a reference to a 2022 fact sheet about retaliatory firings during union campaigns issued by the Economic Policy Institute. The EPI has since retracted the fact sheet due to inaccuracies it says it found in the underlying data.\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/11940706/labor-fight-intensifies-at-upscale-wine-country-resort-amid-allegations-of-worker-intimidation","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32401","news_27626","news_32400","news_19904","news_32399","news_21766","news_4981","news_32358","news_32359"],"featImg":"news_11940732","label":"news"},"news_11921034":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11921034","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11921034","score":null,"sort":[1659386640000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"welcome-black-to-the-land-inside-sonoma-countys-first-afro-indigenous-permaculture-farm","title":"'Welcome Black to the Land': Inside Sonoma County’s First Afro-Indigenous Permaculture Farm","publishDate":1659386640,"format":"audio","headTitle":"‘Welcome Black to the Land’: Inside Sonoma County’s First Afro-Indigenous Permaculture Farm | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the first things you see when you approach the driveway of \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/\">EARTHseed Farm\u003c/a> in Sebastopol is a yellow, hand-painted sign that reads “Welcome Black to the Land.” It’s an intentional message that speaks to the vision held by EARTHseed’s founder Pandora Thomas: a farm that serves as a place of refuge and healing for the Afro-Indigenous community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything that’s happening in the world, there’s such a need for people of Afro-Indigenous ancestry to understand our stories and our legacy, stewarding ourselves and our earth,” Thomas said, of her inspiration for the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand-painted sign against greenery says 'Welcome Black to the land.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the entrance of EARTHseed Farm says ‘Welcome Black to the Land.’ The 14-acre organic farm and orchard in Sonoma County operates on Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only 2% of farmland in Sonoma County is Black-owned. That number is worse statewide — less than 1%, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pandorathomas.com/about\">an environmental educator and permaculture designer\u003c/a>, purchased the historic 14-acre farm known for its organic apple and Asian pear orchards last year. She and her team are now in the midst of a multi-year process that will turn the farm into the first Afro-Indigenous permaculture farm in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An ‘expansive’ vision rooted in ancestry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thomas’ vision for EARTHseed is part of a long lineage that “began as far back as life began,” she said. “Sounds crazy and expansive, but I truly believe that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two significant people in that lineage are Thomas’ parents. Her mother, Frances Louise Short Thomas, was raised a sharecropper in South Carolina until she was three years old. Her family moved to a small town in Pennsylvania, where Pandora herself would eventually be born and raised. Thomas is now a caregiver to her mother, who holds the title of “EARTHseed Elder” on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a carved sign denotes the 'Carver-Tubman Home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Carver Tubman home, dedicated in memory of Lawrence “Jelly” Thomas. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pandora’s father, Lawrence “Jelly” Thomas, was a mill worker who loved being outdoors and taught Pandora how to fish and to value all life forms, not just humans. The farm’s Carver Tubman home — named for Black historical figures George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist and inventor, and Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist — is dedicated to his memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to naming the farm, Thomas looked to another significant figure: acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, whose image graces a mural on one of the farm’s buildings. The name is a nod to Butler’s fictional “Earthseed” religion, in which one of the key tenets is educating and supporting oneself and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Octavia Butler wrote ‘Parable of the Sower,’ she was really drawing on her kind of ancestral wisdom and knowledge to tell this story, this dystopian future,” Thomas said. “So it feels like it’s been in the making. There’ll be several more EARTHseeds. I feel like part of my job is to support the next EARTHseed that’s even more impactful than this one. So it feels timeless, yet also timely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural in honor of Octavia E. Butler by Artist-in-Residence Radioactive sits on EARTHseed farm. The books of the Black science fiction writer inspired the name of the farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas, who first moved to Northern California 24 years ago, has worked and lived in more than 12 countries, including Venezuela, Senegal and Germany. She sees EARTHseed as a culmination of her lifelong work to honor the legacies of land stewards who are of African ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The making of an Afro-Indigenous permaculture farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/ourfamily\">EARTHseed’s team\u003c/a> of about 20 predominantly Black and Latinx people includes an array of interdisciplinary roles, including farm stewards, an herbalist, an artist-in-residence and a culinary artist, among others. Alongside them is a small group of animals, including two composting Kunekune pigs, Humphrey and Benny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a smiling Black woman kneels while feeding a large pig on a farm with greenery in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EARTHseed Farm founder Pandora Thomas feeds two Kunekune pigs, Humphrey and Benny, at the farm and orchard in Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, the farm continues to grow the crops it’s known for, while Thomas and others listen to and observe the land. For instance, they noticed mullein, a weed that is known to reduce inflammation and treat respiratory problems when smoked or made into a tea, growing naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, this is an organic farm where all the systems make it so that we can make a lot of fruit that basically leaves the site, which isn’t a bad thing,” Thomas said. “But the Afro-Indigenous permaculture goal is what will it look like when we are seeing the mullein that grows as a weed here, and learning about the legacy of mullein. Maybe the mullein has come into our lives because of all the respiratory issues and swelling happening in our communities right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a basket with freshly harvested mullein, a green plant, sits on a table with a green tablecloth\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A basket of mullein leaves at EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The term permaculture, a conjugation of the words permanent and culture — or agriculture, depending on who you’re talking to — was coined by \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/environmental-sociologist-explains-permaculture-offers-131910120.html\">Bill Mollison\u003c/a>, a white Australian researcher and scientist, in the 1970s. Permaculture is defined as the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient, an approach derived heavily from indigenous science and land practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “Afro-Indigenous permaculture” may sound redundant, then, given the practice’s roots. But it’s part of a greater \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-nature/the-indigenous-science-of-permaculture\">reclamation\u003c/a> and acknowledgement of the agricultural contributions of Indigenous people and people of African descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a Latino man in jeans and a pink sweatshirt walks through an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm manager Antonio Paniagua walks through the orchard at EARTHseed Farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas and her team acknowledge the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo ancestral land the farm sits on, and received blessings from the local Graton Rancheria Tribe to operate using Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles. Antonio Paniagua, the farm’s manager, who has worked the land for over 17 years, wears a hat that reads “YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND” as he reflects on the impact of the farm’s transfer of ownership thus far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barely a year has passed and the change is already being noticed. I’m looking at it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm steward Fernando Gonzalez, who’s skilled in carpentry and animal husbandry in addition to farming, echoed the ethos of Thomas’ vision, saying it’s important to “get to know how the land works and understand the trees” as they continue their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a Latino man in jeans and a green shirt poses by a tree in an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm steward Fernando Gonzalez works at the EARTHseed Farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grace Harris Johnson, the farm’s fiber arts fellow, says she’s working on making a natural dye using EARTHseed’s mullein, as well as exploring processes for other dyes using the farm’s fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to probably take the plums and some pears that end up becoming a little too old and I’ll probably turn it into a fructose fat for indigo,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas seeks to foster a spirit of exploration and creativity around EARTHseed’s resources among all who visit, particularly Black people, whether they work in environmental sciences or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want Black folks to be able to come here and tap into ‘what’s their role’,” Thomas said. “Maybe you’re a fashion designer. Maybe you do hair. Maybe you’re a doula. Maybe you’re a therapist. We want you to come here, be inspired, and learn what do you do and take back to your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman walks through an orchard with a dog, their backs to the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EARTHseed Farm founder Pandora Thomas walks with the farm’s dog, Jackson Black, through the organic orchard. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978994/punishing-bay-area-drought-prompts-calls-for-major-water-rethink\">severe drought\u003c/a> continues and the effects of the climate crisis worsen across the state and globe, practitioners of Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles, like Thomas and EARTHseed, can offer lessons on adapting to circumstances and building a relationship with the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on a farm that’s an orchard, but it’s like this is the classroom we’ve been given, the earth has given us,” Thomas said. “And the lessons are not just, ‘OK, tell everybody how to farm.’ It’s more, how can our communities learn how to be in alignment with the limitations, but also the bounty, that the Earth has to give us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcoming community members ‘Black to the Land’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EARTHseed’s regular “Black to the Land” gatherings offer opportunities to experience being on the land, with a mission to reconnect Black people to the roots of Afro-Indigenous wisdom. At EARTHseed’s most recent gathering, held on a warm Sunday afternoon in July, a DJ spun music while over 30 predominantly Black and Latinx guests from around the Bay Area munched on tacos and sipped farm-fresh apple, pear and persimmon juices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921074\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"two smiling Black women sit under a tree on an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Devin Ariel, left, and artist Féven Zewdi hang out under the trees at EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some guests took self-guided tours, while others wandered through the rows of organic raspberry bushes to pick and eat berries in an informal version of EARTHseed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/u-pick\">“U-Pick” program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doris Kiambati, an environmental educator and teacher-in-residence at \u003ca href=\"https://www.slideranch.org/\">Slide Ranch\u003c/a> in Muir Beach, said the gatherings are “a good opportunity to meet with other Black farmers and environmentalists in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"two Black women pick berries on an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Kiambati, an environmental educator, left, and Kenya Wright, a healer and doula, pick raspberries during EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Huff, an herbalist who resides in Santa Rosa and serves as EARTHseed’s Herb Diva, recalled her initial encounter with EARTHseed when she attended one of the first “Black to the Land” programs last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember walking down the driveway and walking up to the house and seeing all these beautiful Black people on the porch,” she said. “You know, my eyes welled up. Felt like something that’s been so needed here.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"EARTHseed seeks to serve as a place of refuge and healing for a community that has often been excluded from farming.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701974757,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1772},"headData":{"title":"'Welcome Black to the Land': Inside Sonoma County’s First Afro-Indigenous Permaculture Farm | KQED","description":"EARTHseed seeks to serve as a place of refuge and healing for a community that has often been excluded from farming.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/3e4fcf76-4e24-45c9-883f-aee100f6c084/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11921034/welcome-black-to-the-land-inside-sonoma-countys-first-afro-indigenous-permaculture-farm","audioDuration":285000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the first things you see when you approach the driveway of \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/\">EARTHseed Farm\u003c/a> in Sebastopol is a yellow, hand-painted sign that reads “Welcome Black to the Land.” It’s an intentional message that speaks to the vision held by EARTHseed’s founder Pandora Thomas: a farm that serves as a place of refuge and healing for the Afro-Indigenous community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything that’s happening in the world, there’s such a need for people of Afro-Indigenous ancestry to understand our stories and our legacy, stewarding ourselves and our earth,” Thomas said, of her inspiration for the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand-painted sign against greenery says 'Welcome Black to the land.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57219_041_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the entrance of EARTHseed Farm says ‘Welcome Black to the Land.’ The 14-acre organic farm and orchard in Sonoma County operates on Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only 2% of farmland in Sonoma County is Black-owned. That number is worse statewide — less than 1%, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pandorathomas.com/about\">an environmental educator and permaculture designer\u003c/a>, purchased the historic 14-acre farm known for its organic apple and Asian pear orchards last year. She and her team are now in the midst of a multi-year process that will turn the farm into the first Afro-Indigenous permaculture farm in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An ‘expansive’ vision rooted in ancestry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thomas’ vision for EARTHseed is part of a long lineage that “began as far back as life began,” she said. “Sounds crazy and expansive, but I truly believe that.”\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>Two significant people in that lineage are Thomas’ parents. Her mother, Frances Louise Short Thomas, was raised a sharecropper in South Carolina until she was three years old. Her family moved to a small town in Pennsylvania, where Pandora herself would eventually be born and raised. Thomas is now a caregiver to her mother, who holds the title of “EARTHseed Elder” on the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a carved sign denotes the 'Carver-Tubman Home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57179_002_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Carver Tubman home, dedicated in memory of Lawrence “Jelly” Thomas. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pandora’s father, Lawrence “Jelly” Thomas, was a mill worker who loved being outdoors and taught Pandora how to fish and to value all life forms, not just humans. The farm’s Carver Tubman home — named for Black historical figures George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist and inventor, and Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist — is dedicated to his memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to naming the farm, Thomas looked to another significant figure: acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, whose image graces a mural on one of the farm’s buildings. The name is a nod to Butler’s fictional “Earthseed” religion, in which one of the key tenets is educating and supporting oneself and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Octavia Butler wrote ‘Parable of the Sower,’ she was really drawing on her kind of ancestral wisdom and knowledge to tell this story, this dystopian future,” Thomas said. “So it feels like it’s been in the making. There’ll be several more EARTHseeds. I feel like part of my job is to support the next EARTHseed that’s even more impactful than this one. So it feels timeless, yet also timely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57189_011_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural in honor of Octavia E. Butler by Artist-in-Residence Radioactive sits on EARTHseed farm. The books of the Black science fiction writer inspired the name of the farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas, who first moved to Northern California 24 years ago, has worked and lived in more than 12 countries, including Venezuela, Senegal and Germany. She sees EARTHseed as a culmination of her lifelong work to honor the legacies of land stewards who are of African ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The making of an Afro-Indigenous permaculture farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/ourfamily\">EARTHseed’s team\u003c/a> of about 20 predominantly Black and Latinx people includes an array of interdisciplinary roles, including farm stewards, an herbalist, an artist-in-residence and a culinary artist, among others. Alongside them is a small group of animals, including two composting Kunekune pigs, Humphrey and Benny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a smiling Black woman kneels while feeding a large pig on a farm with greenery in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57209_032_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EARTHseed Farm founder Pandora Thomas feeds two Kunekune pigs, Humphrey and Benny, at the farm and orchard in Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, the farm continues to grow the crops it’s known for, while Thomas and others listen to and observe the land. For instance, they noticed mullein, a weed that is known to reduce inflammation and treat respiratory problems when smoked or made into a tea, growing naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, this is an organic farm where all the systems make it so that we can make a lot of fruit that basically leaves the site, which isn’t a bad thing,” Thomas said. “But the Afro-Indigenous permaculture goal is what will it look like when we are seeing the mullein that grows as a weed here, and learning about the legacy of mullein. Maybe the mullein has come into our lives because of all the respiratory issues and swelling happening in our communities right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a basket with freshly harvested mullein, a green plant, sits on a table with a green tablecloth\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57424_IMG_0098-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A basket of mullein leaves at EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The term permaculture, a conjugation of the words permanent and culture — or agriculture, depending on who you’re talking to — was coined by \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/environmental-sociologist-explains-permaculture-offers-131910120.html\">Bill Mollison\u003c/a>, a white Australian researcher and scientist, in the 1970s. Permaculture is defined as the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient, an approach derived heavily from indigenous science and land practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “Afro-Indigenous permaculture” may sound redundant, then, given the practice’s roots. But it’s part of a greater \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-nature/the-indigenous-science-of-permaculture\">reclamation\u003c/a> and acknowledgement of the agricultural contributions of Indigenous people and people of African descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a Latino man in jeans and a pink sweatshirt walks through an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57216_038_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm manager Antonio Paniagua walks through the orchard at EARTHseed Farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas and her team acknowledge the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo ancestral land the farm sits on, and received blessings from the local Graton Rancheria Tribe to operate using Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles. Antonio Paniagua, the farm’s manager, who has worked the land for over 17 years, wears a hat that reads “YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND” as he reflects on the impact of the farm’s transfer of ownership thus far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barely a year has passed and the change is already being noticed. I’m looking at it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm steward Fernando Gonzalez, who’s skilled in carpentry and animal husbandry in addition to farming, echoed the ethos of Thomas’ vision, saying it’s important to “get to know how the land works and understand the trees” as they continue their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a Latino man in jeans and a green shirt poses by a tree in an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57194_016_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm steward Fernando Gonzalez works at the EARTHseed Farm. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grace Harris Johnson, the farm’s fiber arts fellow, says she’s working on making a natural dye using EARTHseed’s mullein, as well as exploring processes for other dyes using the farm’s fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to probably take the plums and some pears that end up becoming a little too old and I’ll probably turn it into a fructose fat for indigo,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas seeks to foster a spirit of exploration and creativity around EARTHseed’s resources among all who visit, particularly Black people, whether they work in environmental sciences or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want Black folks to be able to come here and tap into ‘what’s their role’,” Thomas said. “Maybe you’re a fashion designer. Maybe you do hair. Maybe you’re a doula. Maybe you’re a therapist. We want you to come here, be inspired, and learn what do you do and take back to your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman walks through an orchard with a dog, their backs to the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57196_017_KQED_EARTHseedFarmSonoma_07082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EARTHseed Farm founder Pandora Thomas walks with the farm’s dog, Jackson Black, through the organic orchard. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978994/punishing-bay-area-drought-prompts-calls-for-major-water-rethink\">severe drought\u003c/a> continues and the effects of the climate crisis worsen across the state and globe, practitioners of Afro-Indigenous permaculture principles, like Thomas and EARTHseed, can offer lessons on adapting to circumstances and building a relationship with the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are on a farm that’s an orchard, but it’s like this is the classroom we’ve been given, the earth has given us,” Thomas said. “And the lessons are not just, ‘OK, tell everybody how to farm.’ It’s more, how can our communities learn how to be in alignment with the limitations, but also the bounty, that the Earth has to give us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcoming community members ‘Black to the Land’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>EARTHseed’s regular “Black to the Land” gatherings offer opportunities to experience being on the land, with a mission to reconnect Black people to the roots of Afro-Indigenous wisdom. At EARTHseed’s most recent gathering, held on a warm Sunday afternoon in July, a DJ spun music while over 30 predominantly Black and Latinx guests from around the Bay Area munched on tacos and sipped farm-fresh apple, pear and persimmon juices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921074\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"two smiling Black women sit under a tree on an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57425_IMG_0101-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer Devin Ariel, left, and artist Féven Zewdi hang out under the trees at EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some guests took self-guided tours, while others wandered through the rows of organic raspberry bushes to pick and eat berries in an informal version of EARTHseed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthseedfarm.org/u-pick\">“U-Pick” program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doris Kiambati, an environmental educator and teacher-in-residence at \u003ca href=\"https://www.slideranch.org/\">Slide Ranch\u003c/a> in Muir Beach, said the gatherings are “a good opportunity to meet with other Black farmers and environmentalists in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11921073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"two Black women pick berries on an orchard\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57426_IMG_0073-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Kiambati, an environmental educator, left, and Kenya Wright, a healer and doula, pick raspberries during EARTHseed’s “Black to the Land” gathering. \u003ccite>(Ariana Proehl/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Huff, an herbalist who resides in Santa Rosa and serves as EARTHseed’s Herb Diva, recalled her initial encounter with EARTHseed when she attended one of the first “Black to the Land” programs last summer.\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>“I remember walking down the driveway and walking up to the house and seeing all these beautiful Black people on the porch,” she said. “You know, my eyes welled up. 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