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Combatting poverty with entrepreneurship
The increasing need for food assistance is one piece of a bigger problem in California: increasing poverty. Nearly six million Californians are part of families living below the federal poverty level – that's an average of no more than 22,000 dollars a year for a family of four.
In the Bay Area, Oakland has the highest number of children living in poverty – nearly one in three kids according to the latest Census. Earlier this fall, a group called Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy brought local businesses, non-profits, and philanthropic leaders together to look for answers. KALW's Holly Kernan spoke with the chair of the organization, Cedric Brown.
HOLLY KERNAN: What do we do about this? We know what the problems are.…
Connecting the dots: top news stories for Wednesday, December 14
Occupy protesters contributed to a loss of $4-8 million for the Port of Oakland last Monday after attempting to shut down shipping activity. The port generates about $8.5 million per day, and the losses could cause a ripple effect in companies around the world…
PG&E is finally taking legal accountability for last year's San Bruno pipeline explosion, which claimed eight lives and resulted in 100 lawsuits. It's still unknown whether PG&E's act of contrition is genuine or a publicity stunt to recover the company's image…
Public services in California such as higher and K-12 education, public safety, and health and social services will be affected by a $1 billion cut in spending after the state came up short on the year's projected revenue. Governor Jerry Brown warned that both Californians and the state need to live within their means…
In attempts to alleviate the effects of budget cuts for college students, President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is proposing legislation to create a free digital library. The online library would consist of 50 core textbooks for lower-division college courses and offer textbooks for as cheap as $20…
Google, who also wants to help schools amidst state budget cuts, is in the spirit of giving after donating $40 million in a single day towards battling slavery, helping education, and promoting technology. About a fourth of the money will go to organizations around the Bay Area…
Katie Sharify of Pleasanton is one of five patients to be injected with stem cells by Menlo Park-based company Geron – and she could be the last. The company has backed out of the trial, leaving Sharify, who is paralyzed from the waist down, waiting for someone to take over the trial. She continues to be a spokesperson for stem cell research despite the ups and downs the project has put her through…
Meanwhile, the recently-adopted CleanPowerSF program could have San Francisco homes running on 100% certified green energy by July – though it isn't cheap being green. At least in the short term, participating residents could see their bills rise while the city begins buying green power on the open market.
Connecting the Dots brings together the day's news.
Financial expert Kevin Stein talks foreclosure
People losing their homes has been a national problem, ever since the housing bubble burst, leading the country into recession. A new federal report has revealed that real estate speculation was largely to blame.
Back in 2006 the economy wasn't bust. It was booming. Investors were snapping up multiple properties with help from the subprime credit market. Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that more than a third of all U.S. home mortgages handed out in 2006 went to people who already owned a home. In fact, people who owned three or more properties were the fastest growing part of the market. The frenzy drove real estate prices to unprecedented levels. In California, the average home price more than doubled from 2000 to 2006.
Today, we've come to know that the subprime credit market was corrupt. That blown up housing market burst. And while it cost speculators a lot of money, it cost first-time homeowners a lot more.
Kevin Stein studies foreclosures, and he's become very busy over the last few years. As associate director of the California Reinvestment Coalition, he fights predatory lending practices and negotiates with banks to keep people in their homes. Stein says that he thinks lax federal oversight helped create the economic mess we find ourselves in today – that's no surprise. But he also said, despite talk of reform, the Obama Administration still isn't doing right by the people. KALW's Ben Trefny asked him to lay out the problem and provide his solutions.
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KEVIN STEIN: The reasons why this is occurring – the banks' financial interest is against helping people. Or the banks are overwhelmed and never knew there would be millions of foreclosures. Or they've had to hire people so quickly that they have people who don't know what the banks want them to be doing, or the people making decisions. Whatever the reason, people are suffering as a result of the system being crazy.
BEN TREFNY: What would you do to make this right, if you could?
STEIN: Well, one is around principle reduction. So there are maybe a couple million people in California who are under water. Loan servicers can modify peoples' loans and reduce the principle so that what they owe is more in line with what the value of their house is. They are generally not doing that. We did a study of some of the areas in California under the Hamp Program. It seems like 5% of the loans include some form of principle reduction.
Interestingly, the banks, in the minority of cases, own the loans they are servicing. Usually they service loans on behalf of other investors or companies or entities. Banks seem more likely to reduce principle when they own the loan, which makes sense. As the owner of the loan, you'd rather have someone paying you a little less than not paying you at all. Which raises the question: What are they doing for the majority of loans that they don't own? Why are they reducing principle? So what I would do is enforce a mandatory loan modification that included.
Speaking of track, another big concern that we have is the issue known as the "dual track." The main path forward is to try to secure a loan modification so borrowers who are struggling will contact a loan service, or maybe they'll work with an advocate to help them do that. While they're submitting all their documents and being diligent and responsible, the banks will continue the foreclosure process. Sometimes we will hear stories of people who actually got a letter saying, "Congratulations, we are offering you a loan modification!" but it's after they've already lost their home.
It's like a race. The right hand is not knowing what the left hand is doing. So that's the duel track. Why should we have the dual track? We had a state bill we worked on with allies last year that just focused on the dual track. It got killed in the first committee, which is the Senate banking committee.
TREFNY: Was the reasoning because the banks still need to look out for their best interest, in that if this bank loan modification doesn't work out they still need to take action? If they slow down the process on one or the other, then they are going to end up losing money?
STEIN: I think that's a fair representation of their interest. They want to be able to continue the process. If they say that they know how the process is going makes the borrower more responsive or more worried, we're saying make a decision. Fully consider someone and decide. We're not saying you have to give the modification to everybody. Based on the existing programs, decide if someone qualifies for a modification and if they do not,then proceed with the foreclosure process.
If they do give them the modification, so we don't have people falling through the cracks, then they could have been saved. Their homes could have been saved. That's a preventable foreclosure. We shouldn't have that situation yet. So that's a big problem.
In terms of what, in the real world, what should happen? There should be a new – this is maybe more than you want to know – the regulator should be better at making sure the banks do something. They should make sure the banks are accountable for at least following existing laws and rules. We need modifications that are sustainable. It can't be voluntary. It has to be mandatory.
TREFNY: So to summarize your last point, basically: They should actually do something.
STEIN: (laughs) Yeah. Unfortunately, we have recalcitrant financial institutions that are affecting people day-to-day. Regulators that are not doing anything about it. And policy makers who seem to be afraid to change the dynamic.
Number of homeless families in San Francisco hits record high
Until 2002, Adrian Allen was working a good paying job in construction.
"I went to school for construction," she says. "Graduated at the top of my class. I was the only female on an all-men's crew."
But then she developed thoracic outlet syndrome, a rare condition that creates terrible pain in the neck and shoulder, and she was left unable to work. After cycling through four or five less physically-demanding positions, she was eventually forced to go on disability.
"Times got hard to where I couldn't afford the utilities anymore," Allen says. "It had gotten so bad that I couldn't live like that any longer." Allen had lived without power for several months and hot water for almost two years.
Allen, a native San Franciscan, is 43 years old. She mostly raised her four children in Modesto. These days, three of them are able to support themselves, but the other is only 11.
"If it was me by myself, I could do this by myself," she explains. "But I have somebody that I'm responsible for."
Allen and her son, who are staying with a friend for now, are one of over 250 families on the waiting list for shelter at Compass Connecting Point. It's a program of Compass Family Services that places families in temporary housing in San Francisco.
But it's getting more difficult. When you think of homelessness in San Francisco, your first mental image might be of what's visible: People huddled in blankets in the Tenderloin, panhandling in the Upper Haight, or making camp in Golden Gate Park. But those individuals don't paint the whole picture. Nationally, at least 35% of the homeless population is made up of families with children who can't very safely spend the night outdoors. It's not much different here. In fact, the number of families who've put their names on San Francisco's shelter waiting list is higher than ever – breaking almost every record now at 264 families. Five years ago, the waiting list was only a quarter as long.
It's no surprise, then, that Compass Connecting Point's waiting room is often filled with families not only seeking shelter, but also access to other resources like computers, food, clothing, and counseling.
Elizabeth Ancker, Assistant Program Director at Compass Connecting Point, says the number of families on the list has been shooting up – especially in the past few months. "We went up 22 families in a week and we're not sure exactly why that happened," she says. When Ancker started working at Connecting Point in 2006, there were only 76 families on the waiting list.
Furthermore, about 60% of the families on the list right now have never been homeless before. As Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, explains, "The huge piece is the recession of course. For very low income families who are spending most of their income on rent, when they lose hours, when they lose jobs, it's very destabilizing, because they have very little cushion, they have nothing to fall back on, they have no accumulated wealth, and that ends up leading to homelessness."
But San Francisco's shortage of affordable housing is also contributing to the crisis. Friedenbach says that very little housing has been developed over the last 10 years for homeless families, which means these families end up in a cycle of re-entering the shelter system. "And then we have all these new families becoming homeless," she adds.
The focus on eradicating homelessness in San Francisco has historically been on single adults, not families. "The reason for that is very political," Friedenbach says. "When you have the most visible population out on the streets, the politicians want to really focus on them. They have to reduce them. Homeless families are very invisible. That doesn't create a lot of political will to address the problem."
Not being able to rely on social services forces many families to seek their own solutions. Compass Connecting Point's Elizabeth Ancker sees families that are doubled up in the "projects," with up to 10 people staying in a single bedroom apartment.
Those situations can be unsustainable. But even when desperate families seek short-term emergency shelter, they're being turned away. Demand is just too high. According to Ancker, Providence Shelter had their first turnaway ever a couple weeks ago. And the Oshun Center, which is not actually a shelter but a drop-in center for women and families, filled up for the first time as well. "Families are reporting that they have to stay there during the day if they want to keep their spot during the night," she explains.
What's more, the wait time for long-term shelter placement is a least six months – sometimes as long as nine. Coalition on Homelessness Director Jennifer Friedenbach says the time spent in transition can be devastating.
"You have parents who are separated from their children," she says, "or moving around from place to place to place, staying with friends here and there. You have people living in their cars, living in garages, having to stay in very unsafe situations that they would not normally be a part of because they don't have another place to live."
Adrian Allen and her son are staying with a friend right now – which is at least something. But that has its challenges, too, like assimilating to a different home dynamic.
"I just need to get out and be in my own situation and raise my son the way he's supposed to be raised. He's ready to move on. He says it every day: 'I'm ready to go, mom. It's time to go.' So I'm doing what I have to do to try to make that possible."
That's probably the goal of every single family on the waiting list. But it might take months – or years – before it happens.
Jennifer Friedenbach of the Coalition on Homelessness is waiting for a meeting with the mayor to discuss the ways the city can act to help families waiting for shelter, such as local rental subsidy and opening government-owned housing. What are your suggestions? Let us know on our Facebook page.
Commentary: Hipsters and Latino culture in the Mission
Living in San Francisco, one becomes familiar with the variety in culture, each one seeming to have its own neighborhood. For Hispanics and Latinos, this neighborhood is the Mission.
If you haven't been to Mission Street in a while, there have been many changes. The biggest change is in the people – Latinos. It seems that the percentage of Latinos has decreased while a new culture has moved in. Most of these movers are the so called Hipsters. Hipsters are seen as a kind of people that set their own trends, instead of just following pop culture. But in the Mission, being a hipster is very trendy.
It's easy to spot hipsters on the Mission's streets. They're usually riding bikes, filling up coffee shops, or buying jewelry from the street vendors by the BART, to wear with something like a suit or a cocktail dress.
My friend Raquel Barajas's parents are Mexican, and she grew up in San Francisco. Like any other Mexican kid, she spent a lot of time in the Mission with her parents. But when I asked her what she thinks about hipster culture, I got an unexpected answer: she likes it.
I was surprised by her response because to me, hipster culture could easily be seen as a threat to the Latin population in the Mission. Many of the things I remember from growing up around Mission Street just aren't there anymore. Where I used to see Mexican bakeries; now there are expensive cafes that many people can't afford. There used to be a CD store called Ritmo Latino, where everyone would go and hang out – music was always blasting. Now it's a cell phone store.
When I go to the Mission now, it feels empty. People used to hang out on the street; now they're all inside dark music venues. The Mission I remember was loud, full of life, out on the street. And now all that feels like it's gone. What's worse, people don't even seem to notice – even some of the Hispanics who still live there. For example, my friend Raquel told me she didn't really notice any difference. She also said that the changes in the neighborhood didn't affect her identity. "Even if I did dress like a hipster, I'd still be Mexican," she says.
Hearing this made me sad. To me, the Mission was one of the only places where I could experience Hispanic culture in the United States. My parents are Mexican, but they don't follow a lot of cultural traditions. At school, no one really listens to Mexican music – it' all Top 40 hip hop. But when I went to the Mission, Latin music was all I heard. People were always out on the street speaking Spanish. It was full of life, different than most of the places I was in. Being there felt like walking outside at night and feeling the cold on your cheeks.
Hipster culture is different. To me, it seems like the people who live in the Mission now are quieter. They sit in cafes. They don't have kids, and they don't play loud music. I see a lot more people in suits, with office jobs. I don't have any problem with hipsters, but they've changed how the Mission looks, and sounds, and feels. It's almost a completely new area.
I know that cities are always changing, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter if a culture is isolated. Latin culture made the Mission what it is, and I hope that people who live there now don't forget that – whether they're Hispanic or not.
What to expect from the criminal justice system in 2012
It's been a significant year for criminal justice in the Bay Area, but many of the challenges have come late in the year.
In October, Oakland lost Police Chief Anthony Batts, who resigned saying he couldn't work in the current political climate. Days later, Oakland's police department plunged into scandal after a raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment turned violent. Meanwhile, the state had its own share of controversy, as it planned to shift responsibility for thousands of inmates to the local level, what's known as realignment. KALW's criminal justice editor Rina Palta joined Holly Kernan to discuss what we can expect over the next year from the local and state criminal justice system.
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HOLLY KERNAN: Alight Rina, let's start with the local. It was a tumultuous year for Oakland. We lost a police chief, and then we saw repeated clashes between police and protestors, and now we have a petition to recall the mayor based largely on public safety issues. So how is this going to work itself out in 2012?
RINA PALTA: The first thing they're going to have to deal with right off the bat is the federal district court. They're going to be called in in January to account for all the issues that the police departments had over the years. And Judge Thelton Henderson is really looking to see if Oakland is able to meet its requirements under its settlement agreement. And they haven't been able to do that so far. He's kind of given them January as a last deadline to make things work, and he'll undoubtedly be looking at what happened at the end of this year with Occupy Oakland, with crowd control. And I'm not sure he's going to like what he sees.
KERNAN: And the context of this is going back to the Riders' case?
PALTA: Right, exactly. There were some issues that were resolved between people who were bringing these accusations against the police department, and the police department itself. They agreed to basically change the way they handle crowd control, change the way they interview suspects, change the way they deal with firearms, and the district court basically said they don't have enough progress on this issue.
KERNAN: And so what happens?
PALTA: So if they can't display that they've come up to code basically by January, the judge has threatened to put them under federal supervision, direct federal supervision, which means having a receiver in charge of the department, not the police chief, not the city. And he's threatened to do this. It's unclear if he'll actually follow through on that. But that's what they'll be talking about in January.
KERNAN: And in 2012 Oakland will certainly choose a new police chief, since former Chief Anthony Batts left in October.
PALTA: Right, so we'll see who is mayor in 2012, if the current mayor Jean Quan can stave off this recall petition. It sounds like the people who are bringing this recall petition are people who did not like her from the beginning. I'm not sure how much support there is in her group of former supporters for recalling her. But undoubtedly, whoever is the mayor will pick whoever is police chief.
I just started talking to the mayor's office yesterday, and they're going to stick with Howard Jordan, who is the current interim chief indefinitely. They can do that indefinitely. They don't have to appoint a new police chief. It's not clear what his relationship is with Mayor Quan at this point. It's probably not great. But they will stick with him for the foreseeable future.
KERNAN: So let's talk about the situation at the state level where there are a lot of things going on right now. Primarily, obviously, a massive economic crisis that's resulting in cuts to education, mental health care, and a lot of social programs. How is the budgetary system going to play out in the criminal justice arena?
PALTA: Well, there's a lot of hope that this budgetary crisis will bring criminal justice reform in a state that's ramping up its criminal justice system in the past few decades.
KERNAN: You mean incarcerating more people, building more prisons?
PALTA: Incarcerating more people, building more prisons, tougher sentences, people in jail for longer. And so Sacramento insiders are really saying now this is a window for change. This budget crisis is a window for change.
I spoke with Sasha Abramsky, who has covered California politics for decades. And here's what he had to say about now being the time for reform:
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Well, there certainly is a window at the moment. People have talked about the moral inequity of a law like Three Strikes, and the arbitrary nature of these laws. A lot of people have looked at the racially disproportionate impact of many criminal justice policies. But it hasn't generally gained a lot of traction. But you know, there's been a willingness to give legislators the benefit of the doubt on criminal justice policies.
And now what's happening is people are no longer giving them the benefit of the doubt. Not because there's been a moral sea change – it's because there's been a financial sea change. There just isn't the money in the system anymore. So people are looking at a bankrupted, or near bankrupted California. They're looking at the cost of the prison system, which is about $10 billion a year.
KERNAN: Rina, how big is that window, so to speak?
PALTA: Well, one thing we talked about is the fact that this window will only involve things that involve money. So there's going to be a lot of ballot initiatives on the ballot in 2012, probably one to end the death penalty, probably one to reform three strikes. And he predicts these ballot initiatives will be successful only to the point that people can see them as fiscal issues, not moral issues. So with the death penalty, that's probably really tough. It's not a big money suck. It is expensive, but it's not on the $10 billion range that the whole prison system is.
You know, the other big issues that's going to have a lot of impact in 2012 is how we elect our legislators is going to change a lot. Some people call it an open primary – it's not really an open primary, but what will happen in 2012 is Proposition 14 will go into effect. That means that primaries will involve all kinds of people and the top two vote-getters from the primary will go on to compete in the general election for Assembly and for State Senate. So it could be two Democrats competing in the final election; it could be two Republicans. But the idea is probably we'll find more moderates at the state level. And so we'll see how that will play out in criminal justice, how it will play out in the budget, and how lobbyists will deal with this new situation at the state level.
KERNAN: The other big issue on a state level is what's called realignment, which is counties have more responsibility for inmates. They're not sending as many inmates to state prison. So what are people watching to see if realignment is successful?
PALTA: Sure, we'll obviously be looking at the crime levels and whether or not those go up post-realignment. We'll also be looking to see what each county does with the money it's been given from the state to deal with these inmates. So there's some problems already.
We're hearing about some counties not putting people in jail for violating their parole so there's no consequences for violating your parole. We're hearing about a lot of counties that are just going to take a lot of state money and build new jails instead of putting it into rehabilitation.
So there's all kinds of things happening all over the state, and we're going to be watching to see what the final consequence is, if recidivism rates go down. If incarceration rates go up at the local level, there's a lot of different things that could happen.
This is what Sasha Abramsky had to say about realignment.
ABRAMSKY: If it's done well, it will be an exercise in creative thinking at its best. It will shrink a bloated system. It will result in a more accountable system. It might result in a low recidivism rates. It might result in better drug treatments. If it's done badly, just as a cost-cutting maneuver, then we're going to a whole bunch of people essentially left out on the sidelines. And that comes with a host of problems. We saw that with the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill a generation ago. The money didn't accompany it, and it resulted in a series of rolling problems and disasters. So we have to look at where the money goes in the realignment process.
KERNAN: Looks like we will be hearing a lot more from Rina about criminal justice reform and realignment. So we'll check in with you again soon. Thanks, Rina.
PALTA: Thank you.
Connecting the Dots: Top stories for Monday, December 12
Today, Occupy L.A. will form a picket line at the Port of Long Beach. It's a decision influenced by the Occupy Oakland movement which managed to shut down the Port of Oakland in November. The day of action is not supported by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, though there are similar plans to shut down ports up and down the West Coast, including in Oakland…
The Occupy movement is taking on an additional form in Oakland with "Occupy Our Homes." Activists last Tuesday were determined to "reclaim" and "liberate" foreclosures on a national day of action…
Over the weekend in San Francisco, police cleared the last Occupy encampment, arresting 55 people for illegal lodging. This is in contrast to Berkeley, where the movement continues to thrive. The camp in Civic Center Park is now the largest Occupy protest in the Bay Area…
Ustream, created by Brad Hunstable, is an online video platform that was created to help troops communicate with friends and families overseas. But now, it's uses of user-generated live video have widened to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The website currently contains about 120 Occupy related channels, most of which are created and viewed by mobile phones. Now, almost anyone can broadcast live news…
Despite Democrats intentions to tax the wealthy, 16 companies in California have been put on the list of unpaid delinquent sales and use taxes by the California Board of Equalization. The 16 companies combined owe more than 21 million dollars…
In other financial news, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund has proven that the cost of health insurance is rising more rapidly than the incomes of families in California. In recent years, the average amount of healthcare premiums has risen to 52 percent while the incomes of families have only increased by a mere 4 percent…
In the world of art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is planning to add a new wing costing $325 million. That's about five times the amount it was to build the museum in 1995.
Connecting the Dots brings the day's news together
Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for Thursday, December 8
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Old school artform meets new school audience with Opera on Tap
Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor through the eyes of students
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close…
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over.
As the year comes to its end, it's a time to reflect on what America's involvement in Iraq has meant to this country and to the Middle East. And, today – December 7 – brings us an opportunity to consider another military milestone: the attack on Pearl Harbor.
You might think, after so many years, that we know everything there is to know about the events that unfolded after the Pearl Harbor bombing. But one group whose story has rarely been told is university students. For most of them, the biggest concern on December 6, 1941, was preparing for final exams. Two days later, the nation was at war. Many left school to join the fight. Others stayed on, working at wartime factories to pay their expense.
Sam Redman a cultural historian with UC Berkeley's Regional Oral History Office joins me to talk about how the attack on Pearl Harbor affected Bay Area colleges.
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HOLLY KERNAN: So tell me about some of these people you have spoken with?
SAM REDMAN: As part of our larger WWII Homefront oral history project we've had an opportunity to speak to a number of people who were university students at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor and for these young men and woman, it really was a major turning point in their lives. Do they stay in school? Do they continue their studies? Do they leave school and join the military? Some were eventually drafted and many found work at places like the shipyards in the Bay Area.
KERNAN: And you spoke to one woman, Marian Ross, who was studying at Mills College in Oakland on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And she remembered the news of the bombing and how the president of the college, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, talked with students about it. So let's hear from Marian Ross.
MARIAN ROSS: I first heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor when I was walking back to my hall after chapel. And there were these girls screaming down the corridors and we had a great many Hawaiian residents, and we also had a great number of Japanese Americans and a couple of Japanese students form Japan. So everyone was excited. It was a very tragic time. But we had a special college meeting on that Monday, and President Reinhardt gave a wonderful address and what I remember her saying to us is, "Japan is an enemy of the United States, but the Japanese people are not my enemy or yours."
KERNAN: Marian Ross was kind of paraphrasing President Roosevelt about, "All we have to fear is fear itself," but some students really did have to worry about prejudice.
REDMAN: That's right, certainly for Japanese American students. There were new concerns about what would happen to them following Pearl Harbor, and those fears were of course founded. Within a couple of days President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which ordered the interment of Japanese into war relocation camps.
KERNAN: And so how did campuses deal with that
REDMAN: Campuses dealt with that in a variety of different ways. At the University of California, people complied with the order, but there was also a lot of resistance, a lot of administrators were deeply upset by this and Marian Ross, for instance, who was a college student at the time, had grown up with many Japanese friends, and so she was deeply heartbroken by the turn of events.
KERNAN: And you also interviewed students from UC Berkeley, you interviewed one man, Jack Rosston, who remembered the morning after when you spoke with him about Pearl Harbor.
REDMAN: That's right, Jack's an interesting guy, he lives in San Francisco, but at the time he was living at a university co-op in Berkeley.
KERNAN: Let's hear form Jack:
JACK ROSSTON: Finals was just beginning and I had to get a paper in before finals and I stayed up all night the day before, on December 6th, because I was getting my paper in. And I woke up to people screaming, and that was the day we got the news of December 7th.
REDMAN: And this would have been in a co-op?
ROSSTON: I was in a co-op at the time, yeah.
REDMAN: And people were frightened?
ROSSTON: Well there were different things… but most of the kids were horrified.
KERNAN: So Sam, what I thought I heard Jack say was, there were students saying, "We are going to bomb the Japanese students club?"
REDMAN: That's right, Jack is indicating here that there was a really wide range of reaction to the announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There was a lot of fear, there was a lot of anger, and a lot of the fear stemmed from the location, being here in the Bay Area. There were already military units guarding the Golden Gate Bridge for example, so a lot of people had fears that the next attacks would be here in the Bay Area and a lot of students reacted to this in almost violent ways.
KERNAN: So Sam, we've heard about people calling for violence against Japanese origin students. Who was reaching out to Japanese American students, Japanese exchange students? How were they treated?
REDMAN: It's interesting, there's a really terrific story that we are really just learning more about now actually. There was an administrator at the International House at the University of California named Allen Blaisdell. And he had had in mind for some time that Japanese students were experiencing racism in California and not exactly getting a fair shake on the campus. And his announcement that students would be removed from school to be brought to internment camps, would be to try and do as much as he could to try and keep students enrolled or transfer them to schools where they could continue their education.
KERNAN: So it was only on the coast where folks were forced to be interned?
REDMAN: That's right, the evacuation order only impacted the coasts, but in particular in California, many students were told that they needed to be evacuated or moved to war relocation camps.
The Regional Oral History Office, located at UC Berkeley, is actively trying to record oral histories from a wide variety of individuals who worked in the war effort in this area. They would especially like to contact Japanese Americans who are willing to talk about their lives in those opening days of the war, or about life in the relocation camps. You can find contact information for the Oral History Office here.


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India's ambassador immediately made clear that he was not prepared to go along without it being made clear that there was responsibility of industrialised nations to supply developing countries with clean technologies, finance and support to deal with them problem "in a measurable manner."
The crucial part of the agreement for developing countries had been rewritten overnight in a way that G77 countries said made it unclear that the supply of finance and clean technology, such as clean coal plants, had to be measurable reportable and verifiable.
China piled in, then Pakistan, and it became clear that this was a full scale row.
The conference was stopped, then restarted by Mr Witoelar, leading to wild accusations by China that the UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, had allowed it to re-start while negotiations, chaired by the Indonesian foreign minister, were still continuing.
This Mr de Boer, in tears after two nights without sleep, later denied, to supportive applause.
Then Mr Witoelar called for another break in which he summoned the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and the Indonesian President Yudhoyono, to read the riot act to delegates and break the deadlock.
Mr Yudhoyono urged the conference not to allow "the planet to crumble because we can't find the right wording."
Mr Ban said he was "disappointed at the lack of progress" and pointed out the conference was already due to have ended five hours earlier. This was at 1.20 pm local time.
The conference reconvened. South Africa made an emotional appeal for the Americans to reconsider their statement – and was supported by delegation after delegation from the developing world while Miss Dobriansky and James Connaughton, President Bush's climate change adviser, talked increasingly animatedly off-microphone.
The killer blow came from the Harvard-educated representative of Papua New Guinea, Kevin Conrad, who used Mr Connaughton's diplomatic gaffe of earlier in the week to humiliate the Americans.
Mr Connaughton had said: "We will lead. We will continue to lead but leadership also requires others to fall in line and follow." Mr Conrad said, to applause: "If you are not willing to lead, then get out of the way."
Miss Dobriansky finally pressed her button to speak again and said: "We will go forward and join the consensus."
After cheers and diplomatic congratulations, the president of the conference assessed that "we are very, very close", then banged his gavel down on India's proposal to mark that a consensus had been achieved.


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According to Chicago-based accounting firm Baker Tilly, the budget shortfall of $50 million projected by the Rockford Public School District is "in the ballpark."
The firm made the announcement Monday, Feb. 28, at a special meeting of the quickly formed Budget Review Consultant Selection Committee.
For Rockford attorney Dan McGrail, some of Baker Tilly's findings raise a red flag.
Although Baker Tilly did not find that District 205 Chief Financial Officer Cedric Lewis failed to do his job, it did note that the district could receive an estimated $22 million in fiscal 2012.
John Rossi, an accountant with Baker Tilly, noted that Lewis projected the district would receive estimated $66 million in general state aid next year. However, according to Rossi, that entitlement could be more in the neighborhood of $78 million.
The firm said corporate property tax revenues could result in a cash flow of $7.5 million.
In addressing the district's benefit expenditures for next year, Baker Tilly estimated the administration could save between $3 million and about $4.8 million.
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Cedric Lewis also addressed the board Tuesday.
Lewis, standing by his projections, did not deny that District 205 may receive additional revenue from the state next year. The chance of that happening, however, is slim.
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Video: Bright Eyes: "Coyote Song"
By Ryan Dombal on September 30, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. EDT
"Coyote Song" is a country-tinged new track from Bright Eyes recorded for the Sound Strike, a coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the controversial SB 1070 bill, which gives the police broad power to detain people suspected to be in the country illegally.
You can watch the video-- which was filmed on the border in El Paso, TX-- below, and head to the Sound Strike site to buy the song for two dollars. Proceeds go to the Florence Project, a nonprofit providing free legal help to immigrants caught in the detention and deportation system in Arizona:
Conor Oberst Announces Short Tour
By Larry Fitzmaurice on August 12, 2010 at 4:40 p.m. EDT
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Do you live in California? Are you a fan of Conor Oberst? If you answered "yes" to both, then you're in luck. Consequence of Sound reports that Oberst will head out on a four-date tour in the Golden State; the outing will take place between the tail end of September and the beginning of October, concluding with a stop at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Rootsy rockers the Felice Brothers will open most dates (they'll serve as Oberst's backing band as well).
If you live in the rest of the U.S., well, maybe next time. If you're an Arizona resident, however, you could be waiting a really long time. Check the tour dates below.
Hear Bright Eyes' Arizona Protest Song
By Ryan Dombal on August 2, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. EDT
As previously reported, the Sound Strike is a coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the controversial SB 1070 bill, which gives the police broad power to detain people suspected to be in the country illegally. One of the most vocal Strikers is Conor Oberst, who led both Bright Eyes and a reunited Desaparecidos at Omaha, Nebraska's Concert for Equality over the weekend. The show was a benefit for ACLU's fight against the Fremont law, a SB 1070-esque bit of legislation in Oberst's home state.
Along with some classic emotionally and politically charged numbers, Bright Eyes played a new ballad called "Coyote Song" that was recorded for the Sound Strike website. An official video for the song is coming, but for now check out a fan-filmed video from the Concert for Equality (via Consequence of Sound). You can't see very well, but the sound is great. Also check out some spirited Desaparecidos clips after the jump, also via Consequence of Sound.
Reunited Desaparecidos, Bright Eyes Play Nebraska Immigration Benefit
By Ryan Dombal on July 6, 2010 at 5:25 p.m. EDT
In a recent online video, Conor Oberst talked about how boycotting Arizona because of its recent controversial immigration law was important because if left unchecked, similar legislation could make its way across the country.
And just a couple weeks ago, the small town of Fremont in the singer's home state of Nebraska passed a similarly strict ordinance that "aims to zero in on illegal aliens in the workplace and at their temporary homes," according to ABC News. Oberst isn't taking this news lightly: "I was outraged, saddened and embarrassed for their town and my state," wrote the singer in a letter last week. And he's doing something about it.
Bright Eyes Anti-Arizona Song Due
By Ryan Dombal on June 24, 2010 at 2:40 p.m. EDT
As previously reported, the Sound Strike is a coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the controversial SB 1070 bill, which gives the police broad power to detain people suspected to be in the country illegally. Rage Against the Machine's Zack De La Rocha helped organize the Sound Strike, and the acts signed up include Kanye West, Sonic Youth, and Conor Oberst. Now, as TwentyFourBit points out, Oberst has recorded a new track called "Coyote Song" specifically for Sound Strike. And we can confirm that it will indeed be credited to Bright Eyes.
New Bright Eyes: "Happy Accident"
By Ryan Dombal on March 10, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. EST
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Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova: Happy Accident
One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels is the name of a collaborative EP originally released by Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova back in 2004. And on March 23, Saddle Creek will reissue the six-track EP with four brand new songs recently recorded by members of the two groups, including two sung by Conor Oberst. "Happy Accident" is one of those two.
As a bonus, listen to the Neva Dinova-led track "Poison", which was featured on the original EP, below:
Bright Eyes Return With New Songs
By Ryan Dombal on February 9, 2010 at 2:20 p.m. EST
Front page photo by Autumn de Wilde
In 2004, Bright Eyes released a six-song collaborative EP with fellow Nebraskans Neva Dinova called One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (pictured above). On March 23, Saddle Creek will reissue that EP. And Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova recorded four brand new songs last fall to be included on the reissue. (Via TwentyFourBit.)
With Conor Oberst busy with the Mystic Valley Band and Monsters of Folk, this marks the first new Bright Eyes material in quite a long time.
Conor Oberst to Retire Bright Eyes?
By Ryan Dombal on July 22, 2009 at 12:10 p.m. EDT
Photo by Autumn de Wilde
"It does feel like it needs to stop at some point. I'd like to clean it up, lock the door, say goodbye." That's what Conor Oberst told Rolling Stone last month, talking about his musical moniker Bright Eyes.
Now, Oberst's hometown paper, The Omaha World-Herald, reports that Oberst plans to retire the Bright Eyes name after one more album.
Oberst/James/Ward Album Confirmed
By Ryan Dombal on June 12, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. EDT
Travel with me to the recent past-- yesterday, to be exact. Way back then, we published a story titled "Conor Oberst/Jim James/M. Ward Album Finally Coming Out?" Well, that question has been answered. And the answer is yes (thank god).
The Monsters of Folk supergroup-- which also features producer/Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis-- release their self-titled debut on September 22 via Shangri-La in North America, Rough Trade in Europe, Spunk in Australia, and P-Vine in Japan. A press release says so and everything.
According to the release, "all four members play every instrument on the album" and the music ranges from "road-worn" to "intimate" to "sun-soaked." The sometime tourmates recorded the LP in Malibu, California and Omaha, Nebraska over a two-year period between other projects. Track titles include "Whole Lotta Losin'" (Zeppelin tribute?), "Temazcal" (named after an ancient sauna), and "Losin Yo Head" ("Yo"!). The rest of the song names are below:
Conor Oberst/Jim James/M. Ward Album Finally Coming Out?
By Ryan Dombal on June 11, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. EDT
Conor Oberst and Jim James photos by Autumn de Wilde, M. Ward photo by Annie Musselman
They've toured together, played together, and covered each others' songs-- and now the tri-headed acoustic beast known as Monsters of Folk-- aka Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, and M. Ward-- are finally putting out their long-in-the-works album, it seems.
According to this mysterious, official-looking website and Relix, the self-titled album will be out September 22. The record was produced by Bright Eyes conspirator Mike Mogis and features "original material by all three songwriters," says Relix. Details are scarce at the moment, but rumors of another Monsters of Folk fall tour are already circling. More info as we get it; emails to representatives haven't been returned yet.
Thanks to reader Ethan Farr for the tip.
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Crap, it came with 4.3 so it was completely unavoidable. Anyone know which is the cheapest most reliable source of unlock codes? I found one on eBay for about $20 so far.
Try Cellunlocker.net. They should square you up for about $30. Worth it. They are reliable.
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text: I was playing through the game when I had credit card Max. When I went to straight and narrow he was lying on the floor, which was kinda weird. Later on I got him into a rain cloud form, got him to eat the corn dogs and came back to straight and narrow. He was in the jar as a brain but the credit card version of him was still lying on the floor XD


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Middle School Spanish Projects
In Spanish, the Middle School students developed projects in groups. They did research, exchanged ideas, divided roles and presented it orally in Spanish.
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Upper Elementary Spanish Projects
In Spanish the Upper Elementary students worked on an open topic project. They learned nouns, adjectives, verbs, colors and prepositions. They also presented it orally in Spanish.
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LE Spanish Projects
In Spanish, the Lower Elementary students worked on a project in groups. The topic was "Animals in different habitats." Through this project they learned the names of animals, nature elements, colors, adjectives and numbers. They also presented the project orally in Spanish.
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Spanish Projects in Children's House
In Spanish, the Children's House students prepared individual hands on projects. When they finished drawing, painting and pasting, they described it using simple Spanish words and colors, guided by me.
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It is with great sadness that the Hall Family (Uxbridge, Ontario) announces that Sam entered into peace in his 59th year. A graduate from Uxbridge Secondary School, he later earned a BA from Waterloo University and a MA from the University of Toronto. Sam is survived by his beloved father Douglas and his loved sisters and brothers Theresa (Amanda), Cathy (Martin, Maria, Ali), Margaret, Kathleen, Peter, Kevin and Michael. He is predeceased by his mom, Margaret Flavin (2002) and his youngest brother Lenold (Leo/2009). Thank you Theresa for your unfailing support and encouragement for our sweet brother. His memory will be cherished by all those who knew and loved him. Cremation followed by interment. Donations in Sam's memory, please consider The Salvation Army (www.salvationarmy.ca) or Canadian Mental Health Association (Toronto) (www.toronto.cmha.ca).
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