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Men and #MeToo This week, SN&R presents The Women’s Issue, which asks some hard questions about what lies ahead for the Women’s March and the #MeToo movement.

Here’s another difficult question: What’s the right role for men?

Actor Idris Elba was asked if it’s difficult to be a man in Hollywood in these days of reckoning. “It’s only difficult if you’re a man with something to hide,” he replied in December.

The fact this got so much attention tells you a lot.

When GQ and Glamour did a poll last year, a stunning 41 percent of men surveyed said they had never heard of the #MeToo movement, and only 31 percent said they had discussed it with a female friend.

Obviously, too many men are still clueless and need to get informed.

Mansplaining the #MeToo movement would be the worst.

Thank goodness that my parents brought me up to be a gentleman, and that I learned well before I became a supervisor—and well before Harvey Weinstein—that office relationships are almost always a bad idea.

I’m sticking to some simple rules: Treat women—everyone, actually— with respect. Support this movement and advocate for gender equality. Otherwise, do what too many women were told for far too long: Be seen and not heard.

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by Maxfield Morris (Feature, January 10): I was the tour supervisor for tours of the state Capitol during its physical restoration and then for a year after the building first opened to the public, so that gargoyle of a Christopher Columbus statue in the center of the stately rotunda has always been a poke in my eye with a sharp stick—not just for its obvious celebration of Columbus the mass murderer, but because its continuing presence absolutely destroys the intended flow of the full rotunda.

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Re: “Return of the Copperheads” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, January 10): The article was about a faction of Republicans parading a Confederate flag through Wilton. Applying the term “Copperheads” to them is, at best, a misunderstanding of history. The Copperheads were a faction of the Democratic Party opposed to the Civil War. SN&R wants to lead a conversation about history, and the editorial staff advocates making history more “accurate and socially conscious.” Applying the term “Copperheads” to a faction of modern-day Republicans may make history seem more socially conscious, but it does not make it more accurate.

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Fallen Davis police Officer Natalie Corona uploaded this photo in October 2016 to honor those working in law enforcement, including “those who have died in the line of duty protecting our liberties in this great country.”

Last week she became one of those people. This photo has been shared 8,000 times.

When officers are attacked The same week that Natalie Corona was killed in the line of duty, another police officer almost met a similar fate

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Four days before Davis police Officer Natalie Corona was gunned down during a routine traffic incident by someone who shouldn’t have had access to a firearm, a Sacramento police officer came within a clicking trigger of a potentially similar fate.

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or time on the force, but did provide video of the January 6 incident, which captured just how quickly a typical traffic stop can escalate into law enforcement’s worst fear—and conveyed how long 90 seconds can feel when you’re wrestling with someone who may be trying to kill you.

Photo courtesy of the remembering natalie corona facebook Page

A DreAm cut shOrt By many accounts, Corona was living her dream on January 10 when the 22-year-old responded to a three-car collision in the small college town where she had gone from an exuberant volunteer to a fully sworn officer.

Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, the man who authorities say ended that dream, reportedly rode up to the scene on a bicycle and shot Corona through the neck with a semiautomatic pistol. He then fired several more rounds, including at Corona, before disappearing into the chaos.

Firefighters already on scene for the accident aided the fallen officer not far from their bullet-struck engine, said department spokesman Lt. Paul Doroshov. Corona was rushed to UC Davis Medical Center, where she died.

“Despite the life-saving efforts of everyone involved, she didn’t make it,” Doroshov told reporters on Friday.

The unprovoked attack prompted calls for residents to shelter in place and a multiagency manhunt that ended when the suspect was found dead from an

apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In the days since, some troubling details have emerged about Limbaugh and the damage he wrought.

As The Sacramento Bee reported, the 48-year-old Limbaugh had been ordered to surrender an AR15 rifle following a misdemeanor conviction related to a fight he had last fall with a coworker at Cache Creek Casino. The Bee reported that Limbaugh agreed to surrender the rifle in November.

Online Yolo Superior Court records show a bench warrant was issued for Limbaugh on December 26, though it doesn’t specify for what or whether it was resolved. A previous bench warrant in the assault case was recalled in November.

Two semiautomatic handguns were recovered at the rental home where Limbaugh lived and where he was found dead after the shooting.

Inside the rental, authorities also found a brief note, signed by a “Citizen Kevin Limbaugh,” in which the suspect apparently blamed the Davis Police Department for afflicting him “with ultra sonic waves meant to keep dogs from barking.”

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Even though the shooting occurred in Davis, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department is conducting the investigation, Doroshov said.

Corona was one of approximately 60 sworn officers working at the department.

Doroshov described her as positive and well-liked within the small agency, and as someone everyone knew or wanted to know. That became even more apparent as heartfelt tributes poured in for the small-town girl who followed her father into law enforcement.

A memorial service was scheduled to take place January 18 in Davis, followed by a burial in Corona’s hometown of Arbuckle.

According to the FBI, 53 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed last year through December 18, all but four in shootings. Eleven of the victims were ambushed and 21 died from bullet wounds to the head.

There’s a clear, hollow click.

The suspect says, “Shoot your ass.

Gonna shoot you right now.”

The Tazer pops, there’s a crackle and the suspect moans, “Ahh.” The department said its officer then attempted to detain the suspect, and only then discovered a gun in the man’s hand.

The officer yells, “Gun, gun!”

The body camera picks up the sounds of a scuffle, with grunts and the officer groaning in pain. a clIckING trIGGer aNd The department stated that the suspect bit the hand that tried to get the gun a Near mIss away. The officer’s voice goes frantic.

The ambush on Corona happened just “You’re gonna get shot! You’re gonna four days after a Sacramento police get shot!” officer survived a harrowing encounter The suspect bargains. with an armed suspect on the grounds of “OK, OK.” a public housing complex.

But the thrashing sounds continue.

The incident started shortly after 2 They debate and wrestle all at once, for a.m. on January 6, when a patrol officer almost 90 long seconds, until a second attempted to pull over a car officer arrives and helps with an expired registraget the suspect under tion near Vallejo Way control and snaps the and Fifth Street. cuffs on.

In-car and bodyPolice worn camera identified the footage show attempted a meandering shooter as car that 33-year-old doesn’t Artavious stop right Deyoung away for Coleman, the flashing wanted in siren lights Dallas on a behind it, felony warrant Sgt. Vance Chandler cresting over for failing to spokesman, speed bumps on register as a sex Sacramento Police Department a residential street offender. The gun flanked by public allegedly taken off housing units.

Coleman was a .380-caliThe car suddenly jerks to ber pistol with several rounds a halt and the driver bursts into the in the clip, none racked in the chamber, dark. The officer shouts commands at the police said. fleeing suspect and descriptions into his “It’s fortunate there was no round in microphone. the chamber,” said police spokesman Sgt. There’s a brief, eerie lull when the Vance Chandler. “That’s not something officer loses sight of the man and his that’s easy to face, no matter how much body camera swivels over shadow-draped you prepare or how much you train for buildings and hedges. The officer spots this type of incident.” the suspect, who bolts again. The officer Online jail logs have Coleman listed catches up and the two go down. The as 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds. He was officer’s body camera is knocked loose and arraigned January 8 in Sacramento stares up at a bare tree as the two struggle.

Superior Court on five felonies, including According to the department, the attempted murder. suspect gets to his feet. Standing a short Chandler couldn’t say whether distance away, the officer pulls and Coleman had the pistol pointed when he points his Tazer. Audio from the fallen allegedly pulled the trigger, as the officer body cam captures the moment. who arrested him didn’t discover the gun “You’re gonna get tazed!” the officer until he felt it in Coleman’s hand. Ω says.

“That’s not something that’s easy to face, no matter how much you prepare or how much you train for this type of incident.”

Artavious Deyoung Coleman allegedly pulled the trigger of this .380-caliber pistol during a confrontation with a police officer attempting to arrest him.

Photos courtesy of the sacramento Police DePartment

A January 7 armed robbery at one of the busiest light-rail stops in downtown Sacramento has left police trying to solve their fifth gun-related robbery in a week.

The incident happened at the corner of Eighth and O streets, a connection hub for regional transit’s gold and blue lines, as well as smaller neighborhood trains. According to police and the victim, whom SN&R is not identifying because the perpetrators remain at large, he withdrew cash from an ATM on the north side of Eighth Street around 7:35 p.m. The victim was retrieving his card when a stranger put a gun to his temple and ordered him to his knees, he said. The assailant then commanded the victim to “give it over” as a second perpetrator appeared and said, “Give us everything.”

The victim handed over his cash, wallet and cellphone. A member at the nearby Capital Athletic Club walked outside. Noticing a potential witness, the assailants took off running west toward Seventh Street. The victim used a phone at Capital Athletic to call police. Officers arrived minutes later, but the suspects had vanished.

Some 784 robberies were reported in the city between January and September last year, according to the FBI; 129 happened in the downtown-central city area. Those incidents included both armed robberies and strong-arm robberies where no weapon was used. In the week leading up to the January 7 light rail incident, police responded to four other robberies involving firearms.

Each crime had reports of multiple suspects approaching people on foot. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

pod save West sacrameNto West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon recently discussed the intersection of technology and civil engagement while being interviewed for a national audience. Cabaldon’s message was direct: Local governments need to be more cutting-edge tackling quality of life issues.

Cabaldon shared his thoughts with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty on the honorable profession podcast. Part of the New Developing Exceptional American Leaders network, or NewDEAL, the podcast features deep-dive conversations with officials outside the Washington, D.C. beltway. Cabaldon was the guest for its January 10 episode.

While the mayor shared plenty of recollections from 22 years of leading West Sacramento, he spent much of the interview looking ahead. Cabaldon specifically emphasized a phone app that West sacramento is developing to allow residents to see renderings of potential development at their locations and express approval or disapproval.

“We have a very curious 20th century civil engagement mindset, which I think we mostly take as religion, and it’s all around public hearings and community workshops. … It’s a bit of government narcissism,” Cabaldon explained. “I think we need to do a better job of understanding and sensing the other signals that voters are sending.”

For Cabaldon, this was the inspiration to develop an in-city app.

Cabaldon stressed the app is still in beta-testing. He added that he’s also aware other cities are currently experimenting with wearable tech that use skin sensors to detect stress levels in residents.

“That data is then used by the city, anonymized—it’s not connected to the person—to look at safe routes to school issues, or to show where in the city do people not feel safe,” Cabaldon said.

“These are signals that residents are already sending, but that we’re just not seeing.” (STA)

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The Rise of Cannabis analyTiCs F

ive years ago, cannabis analytics firms didn’t exist. Now there are eight major analytics companies across the United States. By showing manufacturers and retailers what products are hot and who is buying them, analytics companies create a larger view of the cannabis-buying customer base. They pore over daily sales data to find trends that help businesses perform more efficiently.

“In our experience, cannabis businesses are just starting to realize the true power and value of their business data,” said Henry Finkelstein, CEO of Denver-based Cannabis Big Data. Too often, businesses only focus on their retail sales data, which Finkelstein says is just one piece of the puzzle.

“Younger businesses, or more inexperienced owners definitely need to ‘see-it-tobelieve-it’ that data can empower their teams to make the right business decisions that improve profitability,” said Finkelstein.

Colorado-based BDS Analytics literally tells manufacturers what to produce. In a 2018 whitepaper titled “What Should a Cannabis Business Create?” co-founder and CEO Roy Bingham cites concentrates as the fastest growing sales category, “far surpassing flower, topicals, and edibles in terms of sales expansion.”

“in our experience, cannabis businesses are just starting to realize the true power and value of their business data.” henry finkelstein, Ceo, Cannabis Big Data

The BDS report goes beyond recommendations to profile habits of the typical concentrate buyer in California, Oregon, Colorado and Arizona. “At 37 percent, less than half have college degrees; 67 percent are employed, and 78 percent use concentrates for recreational purposes,” says the report.

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“Those players are expecting the enterprise reports and analytics they were used to in their other jobs,” said Finkelstein. “Plus, the rapid acceleration of M&A [mergers and acquisitions] activity means that data is more important than ever.”

The black market remains one area where analytics firms cannot acquire reliable data, making it difficult for regulated businesses to assess their competition.

“While estimating the size and composition of sales within the illicit market remains challenging,” said Greg Shoenfeld, BDS Analytics’ VP of Operations, “one can be certain that as long as pricing in regulated dispensaries remains high, an illicit market will continue to challenge licensed operators and the state.”

But are dispensaries buying in? “We know about BDS, but our regular point-ofpurchase software already provides information on that,” said Tommy Pawlowski, manager at Sacramento’s All About Wellness dispensary. “We’ve had our own data for some time.” Pawlowski said that eventually everything sells. “If not, we can discount it to sell it, then not re-order.”

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Fifty-eight percent of survey participants said menstrual products are a financial burden, and 23 percent of students said they have trouble affording food. Wang and Chen argue that low-income students shouldn’t have to choose between buying a sanitary pad and eating a meal.

“It’s really about having the same ability to excel in [academic] spaces without having to worry about this natural part of our bodies, that it’s not strange, that it’s not weird—I mean it’s just a period,” Chen said.

In December, a bill eliminating the “tampon tax” was introduced at the California Legislature for a third time.

If passed, Assembly Bill 31 would IllustratIon by sarah hansel exempt tampons, menstrual sponges, sanitary napkins and menstrual cups from sales taxes starting in 2020.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown first vetoed a similar measure in 2016, after it had passed through the Legislature with A state bill to remove California’s “tampon tax” returns, and a bipartisan support. The proposal was met with a cost counter-argument; it student-led effort to make tampons more accessible shows promise was estimated that the bill, AB 1561, would have reduced the state’s 2016-17

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The bill’s supporters called it a tax As a movement to end “period poverty” bathrooms, even though it’s a basic students tend to respect that policy. on women. gains ground nationally, two UC Davis hygiene necessity like toilet paper,” More than 290 students responded Meanwhile, Wang and Chen say students are pushing to put menstrual Wang said. to a survey; half said they missed they plan to continue the products in bathrooms across campus. some or all of class or pilot program in the next Annie Wang and Wei-Wei Chen In May, the two undergrads started a work at least once academic year and to head the university’s chapter of local campaign under the larger during the 2017-18 present a final report “It’s really PERIOD, an international nonprofit “United For Access” movement, in school year due to the university this that supplies tampons and menstrual which they and volunteers install and to lack of access about having the fall. Eventually, hygiene supplies to those in need, and replenish supply containers filled to menstrual same ability to excel in they want to take that advocates against the cultural with 40 pads and 30 tampons in 10 products. their movement [academic] spaces without stigma surrounding the natural bodily bathrooms. Through their test program, “Once I across the UC function. UC Davis’ student population Wang and Chen track usage and get forgot to bring having to worry about this system. is about 60 percent female, according feedback from students, which they pads with me natural part of our bodies.”

“Having UC to campus statistics, which means plan to present to UC Davis adminisin my backpack.

Davis start this around 17,000 students or more likely trators to ask for funding.

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Two years after drawing fire from the NAACP AAELC representatives did not return for alleged discrimination, the city of calls or emails for further comment. However, Sacramento’s human resources department is their message to the city manager had in fact again being accused of having a human resources acknowledged that the incident might have problem. been unintentional, but stressed a broader The latest dust-up for city HR officials concern about how such a meme could appear came in September when the African American for any length of time on the director of human Employee Leadership Council, or AAELC, resources’ door. emailed City Manager Howard Chan. AALEC “Posting it shows a lack of judgment,” was formed to advocate for the fair treatment AAELC told Chan. of black employees at City Hall, who comprise The employee group then raised a only a small percentage of its managers and structural issue within the city’s human workforce. In an email obtained by SN&R, resources department, specifically that the AAELC representatives told Chan that some Office of Civil Rights (now called the Equal employees had been offended by “an inappropriEmployment Opportunity Division) has a ate and offensive sign” posted on the office door direct reporting relationship to the Office of of Shelley Banks-Robinson, the city’s human Labor Relations. The EEOD handles resources director. sensitive investigations, and Labor The sign featured a portrait Relations is an upper division of of 19th century showman P.T. human resources that handles Barnum, with a quote by him disciplinary issues. In this that read, “Wait a minute … case, the leadership of This IS my circus and those HR is directly involved ARE my monkeys!” in AAELC’s complaint.

AAELC’s message AAELC’s letter called this spelled out why its situation a clear conflict members were upset. of interest.

“Historically, AfricanChan’s response Quotation attributed Americans have been referred explained why that structure to P.T. Barnum to as monkeys. In this context won’t be changing. the term is viewed as a deroga“It has been determined that tory reference and ethnic slur,” [the Equal Employment Opportunity AAELC’s letter stated. “This comment Division]’s seamless coordination and is commonly used to disparage and intimidate alignment with the Labor Relations Department African-Americans. Furthermore, research has is needed to effectively address complaints in a shown P.T. Barnum was a racist and he bought timely and substantive manner,” he wrote. and sold Blacks much like he displayed animals This week, city communications manager Tim in his circus. P.T. Barnum also performed in Swanson emphasized that there are processes in black face.” places to make sure the HR department is policed In Chan’s response to AAELC, also obtained like any other department.

by SN&R, the city manager said that he’d deter“The city of Sacramento takes complaints mined the offense was unintentional. from its employees about discrimination, harass“After direct consultation with Director ment and other issues very seriously,” Swanson Shelley Banks-Robinson, we found that the sign said, adding that investigations are done “thorreferenced in your previous email was placed oughly, fairly and with integrity.” there by another HR employee whose intent was The P.T. Barnum incident wasn’t the first to communicate the level and amount of work time Sacramento’s HR department faced scrutiny. that Director Banks-Robinson is engaged in,” In 2016, an HR analyst filed a complaint against Chan wrote on September 17. “That person did her supervisors with the state Department of Fair not purposefully mean to be biased toward any Housing and Employment, alleging she’d been individual, group, or community of staff/personsingled out for unfair disciplinary actions based nel, although the sign could be viewed as such.” on her race. Ω

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by Edgar SanchEz After serving 18 years in prison for manslaughter with a gang enhancement, Henry Ortiz was determined to prove he was a new man.

But in November 2017, after only five days of freedom in Los Angeles County, Ortiz was arrested by Culver City police on what he called phony charges of associating with gang members.

He regained his freedom a week later, after an investigation by External Affairs.

“I concluded I was not going to make it in L.A. County,” Ortiz, 37, said recently.

He immediately moved to Sacramento — a city he didn’t know, but where a network of friends that he met in prison awaited him, some of whom belonged to the Sacramento Community Reinvestment Coalition, or SCRC. Besides campaigning for criminal justice reform, SCRC ensures that newly released parolees arriving here receive emotional support, plus help in finding jobs, affordable housing and other services.

Parolees “have paid their debt to society.

They deserve an opportunity to become a thriving part of the community,” said Ryan McClinton, a community organizer for Sacramento ACT and an SCRC leader. An advocacy group, the broad-based SCRC works with nonprofits including the AntiRecidivism Coalition to Self-Awareness and

Recovery (SAR) to develop assistance for ex-inmates.

SCRC heard concerns about the criminal justice system by hosting four public forums in 2017/2018, with the support of The California Endowment. More than 500 people attended attended the forums, which identified the need for Sacramento County to create more mental health/therapy services for parolees and their families, and more liveable-wage jobs/job training in disadvantaged communities.

“SacramEnto haS bEEn a blESSIng to mE.” henry ortiz co-Founder/curriculum developer for Self-awareness and recovery

SCRC is sending a letter to Sacramento County officials, asking that extra funds generated by prison reform measures, such as Propositions 47 and 57, be invested in community-based organizations that help parolees.

SCRC collected letters of support for its proposal, which it hopes will be discussed by the County Board of Supervisors.

Ortiz, meanwhile, has done well.

Henry Ortiz is grateful for the help of Sacramento Community Reinvestment Coalition since regaining his freedom after 18 years in prison. The coalition advocates for more supports for former inmates transitioning back into the community.

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He became a program coordinator/ curriculum developer for SAR at its Sacramento office. The rehabilitation program was founded by Ortiz and fellow inmate Daniel Silva in 2005 at Mule Creek State Prison to help offenders overcome destructive behavior. Silva opened SAR’s local office upon his release in 2015; it has since expanded to serve at-risk youth and parolees.

“Sacramento has been a blessing to me,” Ortiz said gratefully.

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The kids need our support by jeff vonkaenel

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Schenirer all spoke about the need to Everybody loves kids, especially those have more youth programs every day, kids who share our DNA. We make not just one weekend. many sacrifices for our children: Some money for youth programs sleepless nights, trips to the doctor, could come from Measure U, which thousands of dollars spent on food, voters approved in November to shelter and clothes. increase the city sales tax by a half But other people’s kids? Well, cent, enough to bring in an additional that’s a different story. $50 million a year.

Youth have plenty of needs. They But we’ve already set many goals need education. They need health for Measure U revenues, including care. And they need things to do housing, jobs programs and more. For when they’re not in school—parks, this to work, Measure U will need to gyms, music programs and sports, for be like Jesus feeding the multitudes example. But these needs have to be with just a few loaves of bread. considered in the context of all the And before the city can fund community’s needs—housing, police additional youth programs, it first and fire, transportation—and how must figure out how to pay for higher much we’re willing to pay in taxes.

CalPERS pension obligations, While there are about 120,000 which are estimated to rise by people younger than 18 in $62 million by 2022-23.

Sacramento, they can’t There really are only vote, and they don’t two choices. The city contribute to political Youth have could ask voters for campaigns. So they plenty of needs. another tax hike to can be ignored. fund youth programs.

Otherwise, there They need education.

Or it can become would be no need to They need health more efficient. have a petition drive care.

Most of the city’s for the Sacramento general fund budget Children’s Fund Act, a goes to police and fire. proposed initiative for the Replacing one firefighter March 2020 ballot requiring with a civilian paramedic in that 2.5 percent of the city’s unreambulances, and switching from four stricted funds, or about $12.5 million a firefighters to three on most engines year, go to youth programs. would save more than $6 million a What cannot be ignored is several year, according to a recent city study. hundred teenagers showing up on But here’s the problem. Unlike repeated nights at Arden Fair mall youth, firefighters vote and their causing chaos—a wake-up call for union contributes mightily to political Sacramento, pointing to the lack of campaigns. This makes this common low-cost youth programs. sense proposal a political nonstarter.

At a January 3 press conference at We need to come up with a plan. Our the Urban League in Del Paso Heights, kids need us to lobby and vote for them.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg Then they can gather for sports and and City Council members praised music, not have brawls at a mall. Ω Sierra Health Foundation for funding 14 youth “pop-up” events the following weekend. Sierra Health Foundation Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority CEO Chet Hewitt and council members owner of the News & Review.

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t’s difficult for Charis Hill to tap into how she felt on election night 2016. She’d walked around Sacramento in a suffragette-white pantsuit all day, expecting to witness the election of the first woman president.

But that wasn’t the case.

It wasn’t just Hillary Clinton’s loss that devastated her and so many other people, particularly women. Countless were stunned over the election of a man who made racist and sexist remarks with reckless abandon. The businessman who’d once bragged in an interview that his power gave him the go-ahead to sexually assault women, who had called Mexican immigrants rapists and mocked a disabled reporter.

As election results rolled in, people worried about the implications his administration would have for the Affordable Care Act, immigration, Supreme Court nominations and Roe v. Wade.

“I think there’s a lot of trauma there that I blocked and that says something,” Hill said.

She was 29 at the time, and in the process of applying for disability benefits. In 2013, she’d been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, an incurable disease that causes inflammation throughout the body, especially in the spine. The chronic pain and fatigue Hill lives with affects her mobility, mental health and ability to work.

Already struggling to make ends meet, she saw a future where the health care and public assistance she relied on were threatened.

“It was already hard enough and then it was going to get worse,” she said. “And not just for me, but for everyone.”

Many decided to put those worries into action. In the days and weeks after Donald Trump’s election, people were driven by fear, anger and disappointment to resist the incoming administration, forming grassroots responses around the country.

“I was looking for any reason to be around like-minded people,” she said.

Millions of others around the country felt the same.

The inaugural Women’s March, held on January 21, 2017, made history as the largest day of protest in the United States, with an estimated 4.1 million participants. In Sacramento, turnout surpassed organizers’ expectations with more than 20,000 attendees.

Since then, Women’s March Sacramento has been one of many chapters that has struggled to address complaints the event is not intersectional enough. Intersectionality—the focus on the ways identities such as ability, gender, class and ethnicity are impacted and interrelated in an oppressive society—has become a major topic of consideration and the source of some contention among feminists.

The national brand has also recently faced scrutiny amid claims of anti-Semitism and financial mismanagement within the leadership of Women’s March Inc., the organization

2018 Black Women’s March Photo by adrian sims

behind the flagship march in Washington, D.C. Ironically, this widespread response to President Trump—intended to promote diversity, tolerance and decency—is now under attack for its own lack of diversity, tolerance and integrity.

On the eve of the march’s third anniversary, chapters from Chicago to Eureka have canceled planned events. Locally, Women’s March Sacramento’s newest president resigned just weeks before the scheduled 10 a.m. kickoff from Southside Park on January 19.

While it’s unclear whether the Women’s March can overcome its damaged image and ongoing criticisms, some original organizers still see its value and encourage people to march this weekend.

Even so, some think this could be the march’s final year.

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approximately 20,000 women participated in Women’s March Sacramento’s inaugural 2017 event. facing leadership troubles, among other issues, organizers say that number could be much lower this year.

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MoBilizing afTer The elecTion It wasn’t feasible for Annie Adams to travel from her Bay Area home to Washington, D.C., in January 2017. She’d received an email invite to the Women’s March, but busy with two young children and the holidays, she instead looked to get involved locally.

“I feel like we had a collective political hangover that was very widespread,” she said. Her concern over Supreme Court nominations and the potential threat to Roe v. Wade motivated her to mobilize. “I thought, ‘There is nothing else to do but hit the streets as a first order of business.’”

Initially, Adams couldn’t find a march close to home, but eventually found a Facebook event page for an event at the state Capitol in Sacramento with about 100 responses. A social worker professionally, Adams had organized past political campaigns. She submitted a volunteer form to the event’s administrator, Jessica Browning. They quickly teamed up as event co-leaders, gathered volunteers and were up and running by mid-November. Around Thanksgiving, they saw other sister marches cropping up in major cities.

“Then it was just like dominoes,” she remembered. “It kind of organically rose … all over the country and all over the world.”

Adams and Browning didn’t know how many to expect at the march, held a day after Trump’s inauguration. As Adams maneuvered around Southside Park the morning of the march, texting with police officers and preparing to live-stream the kickoff, the crowd grew dense.

“We thought maybe 5,000 people would show up,” she said. As she marched alongside a drum line, however, and finally reached the stage on the Capitol steps, she was amazed by the approaching slow, heavy stream of marchers.

The turnout: more than 20,000, according to police.

“It was tons of people, yet the most peaceful feeling,” Adams remembered.

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But the march’s signature pink pussy caps were hardly hung before organizers faced backlash. Local chapters, including Sacramento’s, felt the ripple effects of any missteps on the part of national organizers.

In its early iteration, the event had been called Million Woman March on Facebook, a title criticized for appropriating the 1990s Million Man March and Million Woman March, which centered on black Americans.

Some of the imagery of the march, including the knit pink pussy hats, was called out for focusing on anatomy and excluding transgender and non-binary people.

Chapters nationwide shared some Women’s March branding—including the red, off-white and blue silhouettes of three women—although Sacramento used its own graphics the first year.

They all posted the Unity Principles established by the national organizing body to their individual websites, which in part announces, “We believe that Women’s Rights are Human Rights … We believe Gender Justice is Racial Justice is Economic Justice.”

But that brand has been tainted in the past year by unfolding claims of anti-Semitism, starting in February when national co-chair Tamika Mallory attended an event where Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has been widely criticized over the years for making antiSemitic and homophobic statements during his sermons, made more anti-Semitic remarks.

The issue was exacerbated after accusations that Mallory, a black woman, and her Women’s March Inc. co-chair Carmen Perez, a Latina, had made anti-Semitic remarks to Vanessa Wruble, a founder who is Jewish. Since leaving the organization, Wruble has launched March On to continue her women’s liberation activism.

Some organizers have called for Mallory and Perez to resign for the sake of the movement.

“If they actually cared about the movement, right here and now … they would step down,” said Angie Beem, a Washington state-based march organizer.

Her organization, Women+s March Washington State, which supports marches throughout the state, will disband after this year. Similarly, Women’s March Los Angeles has been one of several cities to condemn Charis hill

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Farrakhan’s remarks and acknowledge participants’ concerns over anti-Semitism.

At the local level, however, individual chapters organized with little if any direction from the national New York-based organization, especially that first year. Organizers pointed out that chapters had no say or vote on the leadership in Women’s March Inc. and do not receive any of its funds. But critics and some marchers alike question whether Women’s March is living up to its own ideals.

Adams, the Bay Area organizer, says she realizes the effort it takes to run a successful and inclusive march. Nonetheless, she’s disappointed with the outcomes so far.

“This has been damaging across the board, which really just breaks my heart,” Adams said.

‘I never really lIke havIng to beg’ Women’s March Sacramento, which formed after the inaugural march, faced its own specific challenges. Some complained that the co-chairs were both from the Bay Area, and that the march wasn’t representative enough.

“The original local leadership didn’t even live in Sacramento and that’s an issue,” Emiliana Guereca said. She’s the founder of the Women’s March Los Angeles Foundation, the nonprofit behind the L.A. march and president of Women’s March California, a volunteer-run umbrella organization comprising member marches statewide. She grew up in Chicago, where as a Latina-Jewish woman she advocated for herself and other marginalized groups.

“You can’t really organize a community without living in it and knowing the deep-seated issues that are there,” Guereca said.

Adams says she was receptive to some of the criticism, but stands behind her decision to form a march in Sacramento.

“Our goal was to do it on our capital, and for folks in California it would be a more accessible and easily attainable march to attend,” she said.

As for representation, she admits that in the rush to organize a march in a matter of weeks, organizers missed important aspects.

“Everyone was, including national, organizing at a very fast clip,” she said. “There was a lot of blind spots.”

To address that, Women’s March Sacramento hosted a community listening session in early January 2018, two weeks before the second annual march, to address intersectionality gaps.

Hill, a writer and disabilities advocate who attended the first Sacramento march in a clunky wheelchair borrowed from her church, showed up to ask how organizers planned to make the march more accessible. She pointed out there was no accessibility information on the website, and suggested having people with disabilities in front to make getting through in the crowd easier.

Hill said organizers listened—but didn’t take up all her ideas, possibly due to a lack of time.

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Imani mitchell at the 2018 black Women’s march Photo by adrian sims

They did, however, invite Hill to speak at the march.

“What I’ve learned in the world of advocacy is telling my story is the most powerful thing,” she said. So instead of marching, she saved her energy that day to speak.

“We don’t get a lot of visibility at all, as disabled people,” she said.

Other groups said they also felt marginalized.

Imani Mitchell, for example, never believed black women were going to be spotlighted at the Women’s March, so she didn’t share others’ widespread enthusiasm, before or after the inaugural event.

“There were women of color, trans women, people with disabilities who were coming out saying this did not feel inclusive,” the Sacramento-based filmmaker said. “I never really like having to beg to be included in spaces.”

Instead, Mitchell and others decided to try something else.

She teamed up with a few other women to launch a nonprofit, Black Women United, which hosted its flagship event, the inaugural Black Women’s March on July 15, 2017. About 1,700 people marched from Crocker Park to the Capitol, and Mitchell remembers the joy of black children and teens.

“Being in this space where they can be themselves [and] celebrated … For me, always, to see the youth there is why we do this,” she said.

Since then, Black Women United has hosted movie screenings, Thanksgiving breakfasts and other events, often partnering with local organizations.

Last December, Mitchell left her position as BWU’s executive director to work on an independent film. The third annual Black Women’s March is scheduled for June 22 at a yet-to-be determined location.

Meanwhile, despite Women’s March Sacramento’s move to be more inclusive, for many it’s clear that the organizers’ efforts haven’t been enough.

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Black Women’s March and Women’s March Sacramento. The company worked on more political efforts after the 2016 election, and last year helped run Women’s March Sacramento’s listening session.

James, a black activist, was recruited to become Women’s March Sacramento’s president after Browning and Adams stepped back as co-chairs. Adams stepped down when she moved out of state in August. Browning did not respond to interview requests.

In a mid-December phone interview, James looked forward to some of the changes happening at Women’s March Sacramento. Organizers were trying to be more responsive through a new volunteer program, and had aligned with Women’s March Global, a group that shares branding and Unity Principles with Women’s March Inc. but has no affiliation and connects chapters internationally to one another.

“We’re really excited ... to go out into the community and start to build bridges,” James said.

But then on December 31, James resigned from Women’s March Sacramento and Scarlette Bustos was appointed the event’s lead coordinator. Neither gave a reason for the resignation.

The march is still scheduled, and as of press time, the event’s Facebook page shows 4,100 people going and 14,000 interested.

“This #WomensWave has a lot of work to do, and we’re … excited to be in solidarity with women all over the world,” Bustos said in an email.

But across the nation, organizers say Women’s March turnout will likely decline this year as individual chapters have canceled events, distanced themselves from Women’s March Inc. and announced plans to disband after this year’s march.

Still, some think that perhaps the marches have served their purpose.

Adams, for example, said she’s proud of the impact the Women’s March movement had on the 2018 elections, where Democrats took back the House of Representatives and a record number of women were elected. Women’s March Sacramento hosted candidate nights in Old Sac, trained California students how to lobby at the Capitol and participated at a die-in at Rep. Tom McClintock’s office to lobby for gun regulations.

“We really had a lot of very difficult times, and a lot of really wonderful times,” she said.

“I’m most proud of the joy and excitement that we brought to so many people.”

Guereca, the L.A. march founder, said she understands others’ disappointment, but hopes people come out. There’s strength in numbers and, she says, the march remains important.

“More people are asking, ‘Should I march this year or not march?’ I would say, yes,” Guereca said. “We cannot afford to sit out.” Ω

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fter the year of women being elected in 2018, 2019 is the year they make an impact.

Certainly, we’re making gains, whether it’s taking direct action against sexual assault, (thanks in part to 2017’s viral #MeToo movement) or sweeping the 2018 midterm election with a record increase of 36 new female faces in Congress.

Yet, there’s still more work to be done. Recall the Republican-driven Affordable Care Act debacle in 2017, when President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence thought it was a great idea to bring together two dozen men to discuss whether the government should strip requirements for insurance companies to cover maternity leave, newborn and pregnancy care.

That’s right, zero XX chromosomes were invited to the table.

Now more progress must be made. For starters, with 2020 presidential election campaign announcements already starting, some media figures still question whether a woman can lead the country (we’re looking at you, Tucker Carlson).

If there’s one thing that leaves us hopeful, it’s that women are here: We’re in the House, we’re marching in the streets and, once again, we’re eyeing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sacramento is also full of powerful, inspiring women. Here, SN&R highlights five in particular who are leaders, advocates and allies for the next generation of badasses—those who aim to burn binders and aren’t afraid to speak up.

ebony hArper, communIty ActIvIst While some women are born leaders, teachers or speakers, Ebony Harper says she was born an activist, someone with no qualms championing herself and others.

“I’ve always stood up against bullies.

I’ve always stood for folks that didn’t have. I always stood against the police taking advantage of marginalized communities,” said Harper, whose day job is a program associate at the California Endowment.

“But, I wouldn’t have called myself an activist. My other argument is, trans people have no choice. We’re born into activism.”

Harper’s accomplishments include organizing the Unity Ball in April 2018 with more than 500 attendees that paid homage to LGBTQ elders in the community as well as local allies. She also co-organized the Black Women’s March the past two years. And she’s also worked to find a home for a mural dedicated to Chyna Gibson, a Sacramento transgender woman and dancer (who performed under the name Chyna Doll

Dupree), who was murdered in New Orleans two years ago. The mural, which now permanently adorns the wall behind the Lavender Library on 21st Street, serves as an altar to Gibson’s life.

“The mural is a safe space. It’s a black mom affirming her black daughter and it says, ‘Protect our trans daughters,’” Harper said.

One goal Harper’s set for herself this year is to organize a “day of healing” for trans women of color, and to create more safe spaces for those who’ve experienced sexual trauma. Harper says she relates to the struggles many in the trans community experience on a daily basis and wants to help them heal.

“I’ve weathered many storms and fires and still came out and was able to articulate the needs for my community,” Harper said. “I go through a lot, but I’m proud of the work I’ve produced. And I’ve got much more to go, I’m still a young queen, honey.”

On a cold Friday afternoon, volunteers at the Lavender Library in Midtown opened its doors and within minutes welcomed five homeless men inside so they could warm up from the winter chill. One spoke about his day, another rested in an old armchair and a few others tried on longsleeved shirts and bulky coats from the library’s winter closet.

As the youngest president in the Lavender Library’s 20-year existence, Elena Carrillo says it’s not only a learning center dedicated to the queer community, but a place for everyone.

“I have always seen libraries as community spaces,” she said. “I used to work in a very Latino-centered library for people who were undocumented or for parents who didn’t have computer literacy or technology. I see a lot of connections with libraries as social justice spaces and sanctuary spaces for people to seek refuge.”

Carrillo, 26, moved to Sacramento in 2014 and started searching for a safe space where she could meet others in the LGBTQ community.

She found that place at the library, first as a frequent visitor and then as a volunteer. Besides her duties as the library’s president, Carrillo is also the co-founder and co-organizer of Sacramento’s Latinx LGBTQ group and a project manager at Sacramento Covered, a nonprofit that helps undocumented adults and other residents gain access to medical coverage.

Along with the library’s board members and volunteers, Carrillo organized programs such as clothing swaps, drag queen story time, career workshops and the Other Mic, a popular sober comedy event.

In 2019, she says she hopes more people will use the library to create groups for activism and community support.

“To me, it means community. I’ve been able to develop so many friendships,” Carrillo said. “I just see it as a respite, as a true space for anyone to access and to get connected to the larger queer community and the larger activist scene.” elena carrillo, 26, is the youngest president to hold the position at the lavender library in its 20-year existence.

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Kimberly Cargile, mediCal Cannabis advoCate Kimberly Cargile is no stranger to advocating and lobbying for medical cannabis patients’ rights to safe access. She has been on the front lines of protests. She’s a regular consultant on cannabis regulation and legislation. She’s also one of few women with a chief executive title in the local dispensary industry.

Kimberly Cargile not only advocates for medical cannabis patients’ rights, she also helps her colleagues open their own dispensaries.

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estella sanChez, Community arts organizer Sol Collective is a community-driven space dedicated to multicultural arts and activism.

Located on 21st Street near Broadway in Sacramento, some nights it’s an all-ages music venue with an open-mic. On others, it’s a place where local healers teach about food as medicine and natural remedies. The building boasts a newly renovated classroom, where printmaking, silk-screening and painting are taught. It’s also a rotating art gallery featuring artwork by people of color that is used as a tool for education and liberation.

At its core, Sol Collective is a center for cultural representation, and Estella Sanchez

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Now she’s changing that. Last year, Cargile, executive director of A Therapeutic Alternative, launched a mentorship program and helped four colleagues open their own dispensaries. She’s particularly focused on helping women and gay men.

Cargile says she wants to see her friends who’ve worked through the ups and downs of the industry succeed. “It’s the most amazing feeling ever to know that your friends are coming up,” she said. “They’re rising up with you.”

In 2019, Cargile plans to continue to help others open their own dispensaries. She also aims to fund and get Khemia started, a business that will help small manufacturers transition into the regulated market.

A Therapeutic Alternative provides charitable donations each month to a long list of groups including Amnesty International, the ACLU and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition.

Volunteers at the dispensary also clothe and feed the homeless, pick up trash at Cesar Chavez and McKinley parks and host government tours every week to show that dispensaries can be an integral part of any neighborhood.

With legislative changes during year one of recreational cannabis legalization, many dispensaries didn’t successfully make the transition due to the expensive compliance costs, in addition to the lengthy application process.

Cargile said she’s hopeful that 2019 will bring some much needed respite to the industry.

“Governments and advocacy groups are calling this the year of stabilization because in 2018 we had the regulations change so many times,” Cargile said. “We think the legislature amendments are going to calm down. I think everyone, including the government and regulatory bodies, are exhausted at this point and everybody just needs to settle down.”

is why it exists. Fourteen years ago, Sanchez, the collective’s founder and executive director, traveled on a cultural exchange tour through the Caribbean and was inspired to create something similar back home.

“We really needed a space that provided a landing spot, a location, a hub for multicultural arts and activism and the way that that intersected,” Sanchez said.

So in 2016, with help from community donations, the collective purchased its current building. Since then, its reach—and Sanchez’s impact—has been vast. During Hispanic Heritage Month last October, for example, the Sacramento Kings honored Sanchez at the Golden 1 Center for her community work.

Kimberly ChurCh, youth advoCate On Christmas Day, when a pregnant teen walked barefoot into St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Sacramento, Kimberly Church and her volunteers were ready.

Church, along with volunteers, hosts Sacramento Safe Space inside St. Paul’s as a part of E.N.G.A.G.E Inc., a volunteer grassroots, donation-funded organization that assists homeless youth with supplies needed for life on the streets. Together, they’ve raised thousands of tents, shoes, hygiene products and warm blankets.

“I think [what we do is] short-term. It’s immediate, emergency, humanitarian relief,” Church said. “They can sleep. They can eat.

They can relax without fear of confiscation and arrest and harassment. They can have healthy conversations with people who genuinely care about their well-being, knowing full well that we’ve tried to contact all social service agencies in this town to coordinate navigation for them.”

Every Tuesday morning since 2015, Sac Safe Space welcomes about 25 homeless

Kimberly Church gathers community-driven donations to assist homeless youth with survival gear every tuesday at st. Paul’s episcopal Church in downtown sacramento.

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people ages 18 to 30 for a home-cooked breakfast and to pick up clothes and gear.

“We help people who’ve fallen through the cracks. We have people coming in regularly with no shoes on in the middle of winter,” Church said.

Five nonprofits have partnered with Safe Space: Harm Reduction Services, which helps with clean needle exchange and HIV testing; C.A.F.F.E, which feeds as many as 300 people every Sunday; Youth Rising Above, which provides marginalized youth with the tools to lead successful lives; For Our Friends, which helps the pets of homeless people; and Creation District, which brings music and art to homeless youth.

In the future, Church hopes volunteers will follow her lead and host their own Safe Space to help, even just a little, with today’s shelter crisis.

“I’m helping my community,” Church said.“I’m showing people that something can be done.”

estella sanchez founded sol Collective 14 years ago, a hub dedicated to multicultural arts and activism.

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Moving forward, she said she looks forward to accepting a community service award at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, and curating an art exhibit at Art Basel in Miami, an international art fair that hosts more than 250 galleries.

Sanchez says she also plans to dedicate this year to growing her activism family and hopes to connect with other collectives across the country and globally as one working network.

“I think we’ve intentionally created a space for us by us.” Ω

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In a world where we’re more cognizant of what female independence can and should look like, these kinds of jokes don’t really work anymore.

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ast year, former NFL player Jay Feely posted a photo on Twitter of himself with his teenage daughter and her prom date. In the image, Feely grips his daughter’s shoulder with his left hand, and flashes a pistol in his right.

The caption: “Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys.”

Cue the laugh track. It’s the old “If you hurt my daughter, I’ll kill you in a testosterone-fueled outburst of gun violence” joke. A classic gag.

Feely’s hashtag refers to a scene in Bad Boys II in which Will Smith and Martin Lawrence verbally intimidate a soft-spoken 15-yearold boy who is taking Lawrence’s

daughter to the prom. Smith carelessly waves a loaded gun in the young man’s face, unconcerned with the possibility that it might actually fire. Comedy ensues.

The gag is a typical joke in movies featuring father-daughter relationships, and considering Smith and Lawrence really sell themselves as ridiculously over-the-top paternal figures, perhaps it’s unsurprising that some real-life dads might see that movie and think: “I, too, can be funny with a gun.”

Feely’s Twitter version of this joke fell flat, however, partly because it was posted only two months after the February 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, and partly because people are tired of this “overprotective dad” trope.

In a world where we’re more cognizant of what female independence can and should look like,

these kinds of jokes don’t really work anymore.

The “overprotective dad” is a stereotype in which a father’s recognition of his daughter’s growing sexuality triggers the instinct to restrict her dating choices—and direct hostility toward potential boyfriends. It’s a form of parenting that forgoes real-life discussions about sex and consent, and it isn’t very helpful to anyone involved.

While it’s natural for dads to want to protect their daughters, when it becomes essentially a watered-down reenactment of Bruce Willis’ shotgun rampage in Armageddon, that’s when “overprotective dad” culture needs to be re-examined.

Let’s recognize these kinds of jokes for what they are: embarrassing examples of “virtue signaling,” where a father plays up how protective he is

of his daughter without doing any of the heavy lifting required to actually prevent gender discrimination and sexual violence.

Instead, these jokes perpetuate beliefs that prop up rape culture—and while they’re intended to target men who might harm women, they also undermine her own ability to make informed decisions about sex and dating.

To be fair, overprotective dads are almost there when it comes to understanding how women move differently through the world. At the very least, they recognize that some men can be utterly atrocious.

But “cleaning the old shotgun in front of the boyfriend” jokes don’t help. Listening to women’s experiences can. Learning how sexist attitudes and gender stereotypes contribute to a world that’s largely unsafe for women can. Talking with other men about toxic masculinity can. Talking to your kids can.

Instead of repeating Liam Neeson’s monologue from Taken, try using a different set of skills— skills that impart knowledge of consent, build daughters up and teach sons to respect their partners.

Dads have the unique opportunity to change the way future generations approach sex and relationships. It’s not an easy task. It requires difficult conversations, self-reflection, empathy, watching better movies and, sometimes, developing a better sense of humor. Ω

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ueled by grooves of funk and soul music flowing from the deejay booth, men and women crowd onto a small dance floor to sweat the night away. The Sunday ritual known as Church happens weekly at The Press Club in Midtown Sacramento and has been a late-night destination for nearly a decade.

Yet, there’s one specific difference that sets it apart from other local dance nights: small signs posted throughout the bar informing customers that sexual harassment of any kind is not tolerated.

It’s a simple directive, encouraging women to seek a bartender or security guard immediately if they ever, at any time, feel uncomfortable. It’s also troubling that we live in a world where signs must reaffirm a place as a safe space.

But the ugly reality is that sexual assault happens: Every. Damn. Day. In fact, the most horrific form, rape, is highly under-reported, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, which estimates that 63 percent of sexual assaults are never filed with police.

But with the viral nature of the #MeToo movement, which exploded in 2017, many women now feel emboldened to say, “Enough.”

Many are also finding myriad ways to support, educate and protect each other. Whether it’s an ally watching your drink from behind the bar, an artist sharing stories through an exhibit or an underground internet forum to warn women of predators, Sacramento boasts a strong sisterhood of protection.

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reputation as a haven for date rapists, where men “i think our use alcohol for predatory One way women whispers are behavior, and to also protect each other caution others when getting louder.” is through so-called known predators are out “whisper networks,” and about. mikhala taylor lazetich a term coined at the The Sacramento bartender peak of the #MeToo networks may be a tightmovement. kept secret for now, but Often, these networks exist elsewhere women are talking. as private Facebook communities, Mikhala Taylor Lazetich, for via word of mouth, in chat forums, or example, has plenty to say. For the past even as crowdsourced spreadsheets. six years she has worked as a bartender The purpose: to warn others about at various dive bars, restaurants and predatory men—whether they’re in breweries. Now, she’s often behind the positions of power, or the regular Joe taps at The Press Club. at the bar—and to share these chains of Lazetich, who says she’s a sexual information as a preventative tool. assault survivor, says bartenders and For example, there’s the Google security guards are often the first line spreadsheet released in October 2017 of defense in keeping women safe. by an anonymous New York-based “I talk to other female bartenders journalist. The list, titled “Shitty Media and ... there’s a lot of people rising Men,” named approximately 70 men up and getting frustrated when you who have worked at prominent media see the same person, who is a known organizations such as The New York predator, or you hear the same name Times, BuzzFeed and The Atlantic. keep getting mentioned over and over Accusations ranged from harassment again,” she says. to rape and after the list went public, With a recent uptick of new bars some of the named men were fired or opening in Midtown, Lazetich says resigned. the area has become a weekend Still, as Vox reported earlier this warrior Disneyland. Women in the month: “… none of the men who industry regularly discuss the problem, appear on the Shitty Media Men especially because alcohol exacerbates list, even those who were accused of existing risk factors. multiple counts of rape, have faced “There’s a larger discussion that criminal charges.” we’ve had about inherent sexism Locally, such whisper networks within the industry itself and how a lot exist in a handful of invitation-only of female bartenders put up with a lot, Facebook groups. One is 30 members even behind the bar. It’s kind of like, strong; its members say they prefer to ‘Suck it up, buttercup’,” she says. remain anonymous due to the sensitive Instead of acceptance, though, nature of information.

Lazetich says she and others focus on Such groups share information such prevention. as which bar to avoid because of its shady “There’s so much potential to have that network of, ‘Hey, so-and-so just left the bar. We clearly know he’s problematic … be on the lookout,” she says.

There isn’t set training on what bartenders should do when they suspect someone was roofied, but Lazetich whisper networks exist says those behind the bar can take simple steps such as watching drinks as private facebook when a customer turns her back. communities, via word of Such preventative measures don’t have to be drastic. At The Press Club, mouth, in chat forums, it’s a simple sign and bartenders talkor even as crowdsourced ing to each other and looking out for one another. spreadsheets.

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For some, the statistics are still shockingly raw. Jesa David’s husband died in September 2015. Just one month later, the Sacramento resident says she was raped on Halloween.

She didn’t talk about it until November 2018, when she posted her ‘i See you, i believe you’ story on social media where it was Three years ago, the pop-up shared multiple times and drew more art exhibit ArtStreet captivated than 100 comments of support.

Sacramento. As part of the installaDavid says she went public with tion, artist and sexual assault survivor her friends because she wanted to Sarah Marie Hawkins created an stand up to her attacker. She wanted interactive, social art exhibit titled to take back her power and dispel Faceless. For the group project, 20 myths about assault. women agreed to share their stories “It’s not what you’re wearing,” of sexual assault, posted next to an David says, recalling her Halloween intimate photograph of their hands or costume. “I was dressed like a ’20s another part of their body. The stories paperboy.” and pictures were real, but the women Initially after the attack, David remained anonymous. says she was depressed and unsure For Hawkins, giving women a platwhat to do. form to tell their stories and witness “Then the #MeToo movement community support is how she uplifts started that fall 2017,” she says. “I fellow survivors. As someone who kept reading all these stories online, has always said, “I hear you. I see and friends were talking about their you. I believe you,” she says she experiences.” wanted to show the women who With her friends’ encourparticipated in Faceless agement, David says she that Sacramento also felt heard and finally had their backs. decided to file a “They were police report. being intimate “This happens and vulnerable to so many similar to their people and assault, but it nothing ever was by choice,” happens to those Hawkins says. men, except they “I wanted them have to live their to see that you miserable life as a are taking a part rapist,” David says. of yourself back.

“Now, I’m strong Visual is really Jesa david enough. I’m not afraid powerful.” survivor of him.”

ArtStreet attendees Her case is still an active were also given red dot stickinvestigation, she says. Regardless ers to place near each remembrance of the outcome, David says it was of sexual assault that reminded them her responsibility to share her story of their own experiences or that of a so that it doesn’t happen to another family member or friend. On opening woman. She says she also leans on night, Hawkins ran out of dots. By the support of her sisterhood, whether the end of its run, the exhibit had that’s her immediate group of friends been showered with more than 60,000 or her participation in a local whisper stickers. network.

“I think the most powerful thing David thinks it’s “sad” but neceswas when we were tearing down, and sary and telling that such networks I took the portraits down and there remain anonymous. were these black spaces in between “There has to be a place where that were people,” Hawkins says. women can have that privacy and that “Seeing those black images made me trust where they can be believed,” she think this is so small … This is so says. Ω little compared to what the reality of the statistics are.” so many strong people in so many different facets in the community that are standing up it’s inspiring others to get louder and louder,” Lazetich says.

“this happens to so many people and nothing ever happens to those men, except they have to live their miserable life as a rapist.”

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If you ever find yourself way out on Highway 50 past Folsom, but before the forest takes over, and you just so happen to have a wad of cash to wine and dine, indulge yourself at C. Knight’s Steakhouse.

The concept is classy comfort: aka enjoy yourself, but don’t take yourself too seriously. With charming wood-paneled walls adorned by various sized goldplated mirrors, black-tufted booths, a full oak bar and an inviting dining area, this steakhouse is quaint, all the same.

Although C. Knight’s Steakhouse does offer nonbeef menu options such as scampi, halibut and even a mysterious “Vegetarian Selection,” it’s a steakhouse.

You should be here for the steak.

And C. Knight’s is serious about its steak with its simple selection of cuts from New York sirloin to porterhouse, all brought to the table on sizzling plates that are heated to 500 F and browns a generous scoop of butter that keeps the steak piping hot. It did not disappoint. The filet mignon, cooked medium rare, melted in my mouth instantly while the wagyu played opposites and put its meaty textures and bold, robust flavors front and center. At 6 ounces, the wagyu could add a few ounces for diners to truly luxuriate.

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table with its perfectly seasoned tenderness and little pockets of broiled fat, which made the cut a choice treat.

Unlike some other steakhouses, C. Knight’s sides are not an afterthought. Served family-style, small but shareable plates were so savory that they outshone their boring menu names. Au Gratin delighted all with whole new potatoes covered in béchamel and cheese.

The modestly named Seasoned Mushrooms were quite the showstopper, salted perfectly and sautéed with wine, scallion and garlic. The Green Phunque?

Actually, it’s a great name for a creamy spinach concoction topped with gooey broiled cheese.

The appetizers, however, struck me as fussy, such as the Beignets de Fromage, a couple of overpowering fried blue cheese balls plated next to some fig jam, almonds and green apple slices. Luckily, C. Knight’s recently added a tapas menu with small plates including Tomato Saffron Egg, Kofta with mint gremolata, Beef Raviolo and House Chorizo & Tostones (nicely seasoned chorizo with fried plantain “chips”). Each were delicious and fun to taste test; no fussiness needed.

Most people know that good steak costs money and if they’re forking over mega cash, they expect a superior dining service. The waitstaff at C. Knight’s delivers on all fronts. Attentive and full of information about the menu, wine pairings and cocktails, the waiters, runners, bussers and hosts all exuded professionalism. I neither felt adrift in a sea of other patrons nor bothered with constant check-ins and refills. Like Goldilocks, the attention ratio was just right. Ω

Normally, I would never recommend a barbecue chain restaurant. In Midtown Sacramento, there’s just so much more to choose from as far as comfort food is concerned. But for Buckhorn Grill, I make an exception because its happy hour drink menu is worth the visit. Take a seat a the well-stocked bar and try the tasty Huckleberry Martini ($6) from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. It’s sweet, yet not overpowering and fruity enough to disguise the heavy pours that I’ve come to know and enjoy about this bar. 1801 L Street, buckhorngrill.com.

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THE V WoRD

A new pasture for plant eaters Roseville just got another vegan restaurant. The Vegan Plate at 1821 Douglas Boulevard opened in December 2018, and I spoke with one of its three owners, Jean Gonzalez, back in September as they were renovating the space.

“I have a lot of [vegan and vegetarian] friends who have a hard time eating out,” she said, and added that she wanted Vegan Plate to be a solution. Gonzalez said she went vegetarian herself and was transitioning to vegan at her doctor’s recommendation to better manage her polycystic ovary syndrome. Proportionately, Vegan Plate’s menu is mostly Asian-influenced—Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Filipino—but it’s all over the place, globally with American, British, Italian, Mexican. We’re talking bibimbap, stir fries, drunken noodles, wontons, ramen, fried rice, buffalo cauliflower tacos, lumpia, soy fish and chips, pasta, pizza, burgers, cheesecake, gelato. And smoothies and boba tea.

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The art of the comeback

by Daniel Barnes

Due to ongoing demolition and construction at the Sacramento Convention Center, the next California Craft Beer Summit will be held in Long Beach instead of Sacramento in September. That means that the title of “Best Local Beer Fest” is up for grabs.

There are strong contenders for the title, most notably the Capitol Beer Fest, the Track 7 IPA Invitational and the ever-expanding Coffee Beer Fest. But after a year’s absence, The Art of Beer festival is engineering a comeback that may propel it to the top.

“I never miss this one,” says Brian McGillivray, brewmaster at Truckee-based FiftyFifty Brewing, which won the Brewery Group of the Year award at last year’s Great American Beer Festival. As one of the more than 30 breweries and cideries scheduled to attend The Art of Beer on January 25 at the McClellan Conference Center, FiftyFifty will pour Eclipse, its famed barrel-aged Imperial Stout, as well as its awardwinning, oatmeal cookie-inspired I Did It All For the Cookie.

McGillivray has attended this hybrid beer festival and gallery show since 2012, back when he was still working as a brewer for Sierra Nevada.

“I had never really seen or heard of an event that paired the beer with the art, and then some good food as well,” he says. “I knew at that point that I wanted to keep going back.”

The first festival was held in 2012 in downtown Sacramento, originally as a way for co-founder Rawi Nanakul to showcase his art. A former fight photographer who shot Muy Thai fighters in Thailand, Nanakul

began shooting breweries after returning to the States to attend grad school.

“I thought I should put on a cool gallery show to show off the progress, and then that kind of became a beer festival,” he says.

About 200 people attended the first The Art of Beer, and only two other artists besides Nanakul showcased their work.

“Every year we started adding in more artists because I didn’t have any additional work,” Nanakul says. “It evolved into this idea of bringing the community closer to the people that make the beer.”

By 2017, the festival had grown to 3,300 attendees. But a flurry of negative feedback such as long lines and large crowds persuaded Nanakul and the other festival founders to take a year off, scale back and refocus on the festival’s original mission.

The $40 to $80 tickets for this year’s event are capped at 1,200. Nanakul promises a more intimate experience with greater food options and fewer corporate sponsors, as well as pop-up pours from two “secret” breweries and an art auction to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

“It’s kind of terrifying to put yourself out there again after taking your first little bump,” Nanakul says. “I’m excited, but at the same time, I feel like I’m putting more of myself out there this time because we don’t have the corporate sponsorship and it’s more about what the four of us really want to do for ourselves.” Ω

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8pm, Sun 2pm; Through 1/27; $16-$18; Jean Henderson

Sat 8pm & 2pm, Sun 2pm & 7pm; Through 2/10; $20-$38;

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Closer to the Hugo novel than the recent lighthearted Disney movie, this may not be for small children, but the excellent cast make this a wonderful production. Gannon Styles, as the hunchback Quasimodo, is particularly good, and his final scene will tear your heart out. Fri 8pm, Sat

Performing Arts Center, 608 Pena St. in Davis; (530) 7563682; dmtc.org. B.S.

The turtleneck may keep your neck warm—but it doesn’t help your odds of surviving a horror play. not a spoiler—just an educated guess.

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From a campy, 1959 film worthy of a farce comes an equally ludicrous performance of House on Haunted Hill, adapted for stage by B Street Theatre.

The story follows an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren (played by Greg Alexander) and his wife Annabelle (Elisabeth Nunziato), who have invited a group of five strangers to a “haunted house” party with the promise of $10,000. But with whispers of ghosts, murders and other unknown terrors, some may not make it out alive.

The play does well to highlight some of the more ridiculous schemes in the movie, including a steaming vat of acid in the basement, a Marilyn Monroe-type Nora Manning (played by the brilliant Tara Sissom) finding severed heads in her suitcase and a dangerous party favor given to all the guests.

Many of the lines put forth by the cast of mostly melodramatic actors are word-for-word from the film, which may reflect a strong desire from adapter Dave Pierini to stick closely to the original intentions of the film.

For a comedy, there seemed to be too many straight-man characters, which allowed Sissom (playing a ditzy damsel in distress) and Jason Kuykendall (a gallant yet dim test pilot) to completely steal the show with their hilarious character choices.

Although it is not necessary to have seen the movie to find the slapstick and physical humor comical, it may bump up this show from entertaining to amusing. Ω

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Murder for Two Featuring a small cast of two, minimal story lines, sets and costumes, this madcap musical mystery works when you accept the fact that the show is campy, the story quirky, the musical numbers corny, and the ending comes before the whole thing becomes tiresome. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm,

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5 Donne with life Margaret Edson’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit, is a virtual one-woman show about a patient during her final hours dying from ovarian cancer.

Luckily for Big Idea Theatre, it has just the woman to play renowned metaphysical poetry scholar Vivian Bearing: Beth Edwards.

Edwards is totally committed to portraying her character—from flashbacks of her receiving the initial diagnosis of stage IV cancer, through a harrowing eight rounds of an experimental chemotherapeutic treatment to her final breath.

She moves in a way that makes her pain and exhaustion palpable. She even shaved her head to convey the full ravaging of the disease on a once-vibrant body.

The medical profession takes some welldeserved knocks. Her attending physician, Jason Posner (played by Zane Boyer), who had been a student of the professor in college, almost has a heart—until it threatens his research. Boyer is eerily believable.

Director Karen Bombardier moves the action ahead smartly, except for one unusual element—the introduction of “rhythmical movement” by the ensemble of attendants.

Twirling caretakers moving the staging about seemed as strange as doctors who begin each interaction with a dying patient by asking, “How do you feel?”

—Jim Carnes

Wit: thu 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm; through 2/9; $12-$22; Big Idea theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036, bigideatheatre.org.

everything you know about jazz is wrong—unless you know accurate things about it.

Some of that jazz

Do you want all the best songs from 1920s Broadway without all the filler ones? Of course you do—you’re a discerning connoisseur of cultural touchstones. All That Jazz is a musical theater medley from director Nicole Sterling, featuring the best of Broadway since the Jazz Ages. If you can’t get through your morning without some syncopation, then get on down to some ragtimey, jazzy, bluesy song and dance. Featuring music from Ain’t Misbehavin’, City of Angels, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and more, it’s time to get your fix of roarin’ show tunes. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm & 7pm. Through 1/20; $20$30; Sacramento Theatre Company Cabaret Stage, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722, sactheatre.org.

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subvert your gaze Pop some corn for female representation, in front of and behind the camera

by Rachel Mayfield

It’s no secret that directing movies has been a male-dominated profession since the dawn of cinema. It’s the reason Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman was so groundbreaking in 2017. Before then, a woman directing a major superhero blockbuster was unheard of, but as a result, the titular hero’s portrayal was empowering rather than exploitative, subverting our expectations. It could be argued that the mere act of a woman directing in a medium that has been shaped by the male gaze is subversive in and of itself—but enough film theory.

Here’s a list of great movies—directed by and about women—that deserve a screening, or two or three.

The ConsequenCes of femInIsm Previously overlooked by film historians, Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneer of cinema right up there with the Lumière brothers and Thomas Edison. Starting out

Makhmalbaf set out to meet the family and portray each member’s perspective, particularly the two sisters as they explore the realm beyond their house for the first time. Part documentary, part fictitious re-imagining of the “The Fall of Man,” Makhmalbaf merges multiple realities to reveal deeper truths about the necessity of human connection.

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as a secretary at a camera manufacturing company in 1894, Guy-Blaché eventually began writing, directing and producing, leaving behind a catalog of some 1,000 films that pushed the boundaries of the medium. Her 1906 silent comedy The Consequences of Feminism is a winking, satirical rebuttal to male criticism of first-wave feminism. In it, we’re given an outlandish prediction of the future, where men are delicate caregivers and women are uncouth drunks—truly a victory for feminists everywhere.

The Apple Samira Makhmalbaf’s 1998 directorial debut is the kind of film that knocks the wind out of you. In 1998 Iran, it was reported that a man had, out of religious devotion, isolated his two 12-year-old daughters from birth to protect them from the evils of the outside world. Drawn to this story,

What would we do without our Lord and Savior, Sandra Oh? Before her iconic role as Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy, there was Double Happiness in 1994. Written and directed by Mina Shum, the story follows aspiring actor Jade Li (Oh) as she struggles to live up to the expectations held by her traditional Chinese family when all she really wants is to win an Oscar. Shum’s first feature-length film is as dynamic as its lead, with fourth wallbreaking monologues, dynamic camera movements and colorful backdrops.

Watching it today, it’s clear: not only does Oh deserve an Oscar, she deserves to host the damn show.

grace and poise, while Lori Petty plays her scrappy kid sister. Oh yeah, Tom Hanks is also there to tell the women, “There’s no crying in baseball.”

skATe kITChen In 2018, there were some great films directed by women, including a little skateboarding indie by Crystal Moselle.

With a story based on the real-life all-girl skate collective Skate Kitchen and starring the group’s actual members, Skate Kitchen is a coming-of-age tale that doesn’t feel inauthentic or forced. We just see girls being girls—smoking weed, falling in love, falling out of love, landing tricks, failing tricks and getting “credit-carded.”

I’m not going to explain it, just know that it hurts. A lot.

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Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary explores 1980s New York City ballroom culture and the lives of drag queens, gay men and transgender women who directly impacted pop culture and the world as we know it. More than that, it highlights the extremes of America’s class system, where queer people of color—obstructed pArIAh from the avenues of success In writer-director Dee Rees’ typically reserved for a lushly photographed 2011 straighter, whiter upper semi-autobiographical class—are pushed to the Not only does film, Brooklyn teen margins. Within those Sandra Oh deserve Alike (Adepero Oduye) margins are women like an Oscar, she has one foot in the Venus Xtravaganza, closet and one foot out. who had dreams of her deserves to host Breaking away from own, but was murdered the damn show. typical coming-out narrabefore Livingston finished tives, Pariah is less about shooting. Her legacy lives self-discovery and more about on, immortalized in celluloid someone who already knows who for generations to come. they are, but clashes with the rigid gender roles thrust upon her. Too masculine by TorTIllA soup her church-going mother’s standards, but The only thing objectified in María not butch enough to fit into the gay scene, Ripoll’s 2001 adaptation of Ang Lee’s Alike is forced to carve out her own path Eat Drink Man Woman is the lavish in order to express who she really is. abundance of Mexican cuisine, and even

A leAgue of TheIr own Yes, you are correct: The greatest baseball movie of all time is the late Penny Marshall’s 1992 heartfelt comedy about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, established in 1943 after concern that World War II would shut down Major League Baseball indefinitely. We root for the Rockford Peaches, sharing in their trials and triumphs as they seek to not only win the World Series, but to be taken seriously as ballplayers. Geena Davis embodies the role of Dottie Hinson with

then it’s lovingly depicted. A retired chef (Hector Elizondo) faces the changing of the times when his three daughters (Elizabeth Peña, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello) start to leave the nest.

Each daughter is a force to be reckoned with, but they’re also given moments of vulnerability that make them fully realized, flesh-and-blood characters. A heartwarming story about family, Ripoll’s stellar direction brings it all together to make a cinematic feast for the soul. Ω

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The SAMMIeS 2019 Hall of fame This year, it’s lonely at the top. The only 2019 inductee in the Sacramento Area Music Awards’ hall of Fame is the band Island of Black and White.

Congratulations!

The rules for qualifying for the hall of Fame have changed over time. In 2019, artists were chosen if they won a SAMMIe, in any category, in three different years. Inductees were previously barred from being nominated in future SAMMIeS, but in 2017, in celebration of the award show’s 25th anniversary, that restriction was lifted.

That means that new artists will join the hall of Fame next year. If you haven’t voted already, visit sammies.com. Voting ends March 12.

Photo courtesy of Island of Black and WhIte

Island of Black and White blend rock, reggae and blues.

Island of Black and White 2016 Readers’ Choice: Reggae/Jam 2017 Readers’ Choice: Reggae/Jam 2018 Readers’ Choice: Reggae/Jam

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SianVaR: Featuring canoodling guitars, distorted sounds and emotional vocals, Sianvar will be performing Stay Lost in its entirety, and bands Ghost Atlas, Wolf & Bear and Self Continuum will also perform. 7pm, $15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

Don FeLDeR: The storied guitarist, formerly of the Eagles and the second-most famous Don from the group, will be wailing on the six-string, or 12-string. Possibly even more strings than that. 7:30pm, $47. 95$175. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

ZUHG: It’s a compact-disc release show for Zuhg. Expect performances from Mookatite and Wild Montane. And Zuhg. 9pm, $10$12. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

niGHT BeaTS: The psychedelic rockers are playing with Warbly Jets and Pets—so awkward when your band accidentally rhymes with another one on the lineup. 9pm, $12-$15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

sunday, 1/20 JoHnnY “GUiTaR” knoX PRo MeMoRiaL JaM: The blues live on in Sacramento with the memory of Knox, and this jam in his memory benefits the Sacramento Blues Hall of Fame. 3pm, $10 donation. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

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Women’s March Sacramento SouthSide Park, 10am, no cover On Saturday, fighters for women’s rights will rally to end violence against women.

Considering the current Take acTion state of affairs in this country, including the circumstances surrounding the most recent appointee to the U. S. Supreme Court and our president’s attitude toward women, right now continues to be the time to take

TickeT WinDoW Keith LoweLL Jensen

Sacramento’s very own comedian of rank performs in Folsom with Not for Rehire, his latest hour of laugh-induction. 2/9, 8pm, $18-$39, on sale now. Harris Center, harriscenter. net.

Rhapsody in BLue The Sacramento Philharmonic will bring Gershwin’s masterpiece to life, along with “American in Paris” and works by Loren Loiacono and Steven Stucky. 2/23, 8pm, $18-$52, on sale now. Sacramento Community Center Theater, purchase. tickets. com.

Jimmy Buffett Calling all Parrotheads (which is a term for a Buffett fan) and Parakeets (which is a term for younger Buffet fans, apparently): Catch Jimmy while you can. 3/16, 8pm, $34-$750, on sale now.

Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster. com.

andRew mcmahon in the wiLdeRness Alternative rocker

action for better representation in all aspects of life, to fight for racial justice and LGBTQ rights, to protect reproductive health and more. Meet at Southside Park to march on the state Capitol to hear speakers discuss the fight for women, to hear live performances and to meet other people involved in the women’s movement.

2115 6th Street, womensmarchsac. com.

Live music is great, but have you tried spotify? whoa.

McMahon is no match for the wilderness— or is he? Find out here, and also hear Flor and Grizfolk. 3/19, 6pm, $32-$125, on sale now.

Ace of Spades, eventbrite. com.

cats Hurry! If you think a musical

about cats won’t sell out, you may be underestimating Lord Webber.

4/2-4/7, various times, $26-$95, on sale now. Community Center Theatre, my. broadwaysacramento. com.

John Leguizamo The actor,

comedian and all-around creative firebrand will take the stage by storm and give a performance based on his one-man shows and his experiences. 4/3, 7pm, $20$95, on sale now. Mondavi Center in Davis, tickets. mondaviarts. org.

weezeR Beverly Hills may be where they

want to be, but for one night, Weezer will be stuck in Sacramento with Pixies. 4/9, 7pm, $21. 44-$230, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster. com.

staR waRs The Philharmonic is at it

again, bringing incredible sounds to the stage, this time paired with the galaxytraversin’ music of John Williams. 4/27, 8pm, $18-$60, on sale now. Community Center Theater, purchase. tickets. com.

Jeff Lynne’s eLo One of the few living Traveling Wilburys is coming to a center near you—do ya, do ya want to hear him?

6/22, 8pm, $45. 94$666, on sale now.

Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster. com.

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genres—seriously, way too many. Ozomatli also makes this claim, citing a disparate selection of genres as their own, but they are the closest to actually accomplishing this feat. They’re high energy, fun and they also gave a TED talk about their use of music to tell stories of real people. 7:30pm, $33$48. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

LaST in Line: The band comprised of former members of metal band Dio—which wrote the song “Holy Diver”—will be performing at Ace of Spades. Holy Diver, the venue, will not be hosting Last in Line, which feels like a missed opportunity. 6:30pm, $20-$30. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

PaPa RoacH: They’ve sold out two nights of shows at Ace of Spades, but you may be able to catch them at Dimple Records on Arden Way instead. Check out Dimple’s Facebook for updated information. 7pm, sold out. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

MicHaeL neSMiTH: The former Monkee and current country musician is also a future performer in Sacramento. 7pm, $55. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

SonG oF SacRaMenTo: Come hear a Sacramento song from musicians Carrie Hennessey and Jennifer Reason and more. It’s a benefit for the Sacramento Children’s Chorus, with wine, music and bites. What could be more fun than an evening celebrating the choir? 7pm, by donation. Uptown Studios, 2415 23rd St.

monday, 1/21 JacQUeeS: The R&B singer was nominated for the iHeartRadio Music Awards R&B Song of the Year. 7pm, $29. 50. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

kaT eDMonSon: The vintage pop singersongwriter famous for producing a retro sound will be performing. 7pm, $40. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

satuRday, 1/19 aBeL & THe PRoPHeTS: The ’60s-era San Francisco house band is playing, along with Rumjunkies. 9pm, $15-$20. Opera House Saloon Roseville, 411 Lincoln St. in Roseville.

wednesday, 1/23 SaGe THe GeMini: The rapper. The member of

BeeTHoVen FeSTiVaL PaRT one: The Sacramento

The HBK Gang. He’s known for the song “Gas Pedal,” which probably holds the record for most instances of the phrase “gas pedal” in a top 100 hit. 7pm, $25-$30. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

Philharmonic & Opera brings you the best of Beethoven, featuring his Piano Concerto No. 4, “Ah, Perfido” and Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral. ” If Beethoven is the bae, is you’re loony for Ludwig, if you’re bananas for Baroque (that last one is a bit of a stretch, as the Baroque period was largely over by Ludwig’s time), then don’t miss the Phil’s performance. Look forward to part two of the Beethoven Festival next week. 8pm, $18$75. Sacramento Community Center Theatre, 1400 J St.

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THe cHeeSeBaLLS: Their website requires you to click a button with the message: “Enter site to dance all night. ” A bold move. The party music atmosphere will be thick like cheese, so come out and dance. 9pm, $10. Strikes Unlimited, 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

LaVaY SMiTH & HeR ReD HoT SkiLLeT LickeRS: Red hot skillet licking may be the latest fad with kids these days, but it’s also the name of this jazz band that never fails to bring the swing and the prohibition-era sounds. 7pm, $35. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

DoRoTHY: With a sound that’s a mix between the Black Keys and Florence + the Machine, Dorothy makes enjoyable music. 7pm, $20-

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72nD annUaL WeST SacRaMenTo cHaMBeR inSTaLLaTion & aWaRDS DinneR: Join the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce in celebrating its 72nd year of commerce.

There’s a dinner, awards will be given out and the new board chairwoman, Jacyln Powell, will be introduced. 5:30pm, $85-$100. West Sacramento Civic Hall Galleria, 1110 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento.

inTeRnaTionaL SPoRTSMen’S eXPo: All sportspeople are welcome at this celebration of all things outdoorsy and neat. There’s enough gear to outfit a transatlantic kayak expedition, with plenty of vendors, demos and more. If you like things that you can use outside, this is your place. It’s a four-day

$120. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

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composed by Ennio Morriconne, natch, it’s a can’t-miss. 7pm, $7.50-$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

reclaim mlK march alhambra bouleVard, 9:30am

wednesday, 1/23 call Her ganda: Sac Activist School presents

This Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and with it comes taKe action the reminder that this country is still deeply divided on race and prejudiced against people of color. March to PhoTo courTesy oF nPs the state Capitol with Black Lives Matter Sacramento in memory of King and in protest of other MLK marches that are sponsored by local law enforcement agencies.

Celebrate MLK by continuing his legacy of activism. 1025 Alhambra Boulevard and J Street, facebook.com/blacklivesmattersac/events.

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saTurday, 1/19 Sac city breWS 1 year anniverSary party: Sac City Brews has been around for an entire year—so come celebrate. There are activities for the entire family, live music for the entire family, beer for the entire family (of drinking age) and lots of food. There will also be dance, a bounce house and more. 11am, no cover. Sac City Brews, 3940 60th St.

celebration, running through Sunday. 11am, $16. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

saTurday, 1/19 cFa cat SHoW: How many cats would it take to get out of your habit of not attending cat shows? One hundred? One hundred and two?

Well, you’re going to go gaga over the more than 175 cats on show here. With more than 40 breeds, competition the likes of which you rarely get on Saturdays—and if you’re at all a cat enthusiast, it’s time to put that to the test. 10am, $5-$8. Gold Country Fairgrounds and Event Center, 1273 High St. in Auburn.

FilM Thursday, 1/17 KuSama inFinity: Movies on the Verge presents this documentary featuring Yayoi Kusama, who is apparently the “top-selling female artist in the world.” Learn about her history, growing up in Japan during World War II and the response of peers in the art world to her presence. Free popcorn will be served. Come have some kernels and appreciate Kusama’s colorful, intricate art. 7pm, $7-$9. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

sunday, 1/20 perFect Wedding guide bridal SHoW: Time to get married! If you’re reading this, it’s time to pop the question, to anyone. With more than 160 vendors showing the very best they have in stock, as well as prizes, photo booths, demos, live music and more, it’s the perfect place to spend a lot of money and make some commitments. 11am, $12.25. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

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film festival event description to the right. 4:30pm, $15-$500. Various locations in Grass Valley and Nevada City.

saTurday, 1/19 Coen brothers film will almost certainly tie the room together. Spend some time with The Dude, Donny and Walter in this movie about a rug, a bowling alley and some other inexplicable happenings. 7:30pm, $7.50$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

dine doWntoWn reStaurant WeeK: The downtown dining experience continues, featuring 35 restaurants sharing threecourse meals for just $35. Try out a new eatery or an old favorite—including Iron Horse Tavern, Cafeteria 15L, Skool Japanese Gastropub and more. $35. Various locations, Downtown Sacramento.

reel rocK 13 WitH cragS and tHe boulder Field: In what’s surely one of the most prolific genres for film festivals, rock climbing documentaries hit the screen at The Boulder Field for Reel Rock 13. Have some drinks, eat some pizza and celebrate climbing. 8pm, $15. The Boulder Field, 8425 Belvedere Ave.

Friday, 1/18 cHampagne pong!: Beer pong is great—if you haven’t tried champagne pong, that is.

Get a little wild and test out your handeye coordination while imbibing unlimited champagne. It’s a contest, and if you’re the best, you’ll win a prize. 6:30pm, $35. Lenise’s Cafe, 3150 Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento.

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tim collom gallery: Winter Garden. Emily Swinsick and Randy Won show their work in this exhibition. Won’s work features sculptures of nature and industry, and Swinsick uses found materials to craft fine art with patterns. through 1/31. no cover. 915 20th St.

Wal public marKet: Artist Talk with John

coMedy puncH line: Arnez J. Known for The Stuff, Racially Motivated and more, Arnez J is funny—which is a high compliment around these parts. through 1/20. $25. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

Stab! comedy tHeater: Imaginary PeopleLong Form Improv. Christiana Dominguez, Court Hamsem, Jesse Jones, Jessica Deprez, Kevin Scott Brown and Nick Magavern bring you long-form improv. Saturday 1/19, 8pm. $5. 1710 Broadway.

on sTaGe Sacramento tHeatre: All That Jazz Broadway Swings. Indulge in some wonderful jazz with STC—featured on page 26. through 1/20. $30. 1419 H St.

Sierra 2 center: 4th Annual Unity Talent Show Fundraiser. Take in the talents of the local community for a good cause: the Feed Sacramento Homeless program. Consider donating clothing, blankets or hygiene items. Saturday 1/19, 4pm. $10. 2791 24th St.

arT Kennedy gallery: Naked Nights Exhibit.

Metalwork from Sally Shapiro and watercolor and acrylic from Gabriel Garbow are featured in this exhibit. through 2/2. no cover. 1931 L St.1.

marKet SQuare: Futurescape 2045. Hella Good Company brings you this one-of-a-kind

Muheim. Muheim will talk about his work in the medium of film and will discuss the Sacramento punk scene in the 1980s.

Afterward, you can participate in a Q&A with Muheim. tuesday 1/22, 6pm. no cover. 1104 R St., Suite 110.

MuseuMs caliFornia State arcHiveS: California State Archives Speaker Series with Bruce Marwick. Bruce Marwick will explore state architect Alfred Eichler’s life and work, comparing his watercolor artwork with his architectural work and exploring how the two interacted. thursday 1/17, 5pm. no cover. 1020 O St.

FolSom HiStory muSeum: 39th Annual Quilt & Vintage Fashion Show. Celebrate the art of quilting with this annual fashion show. The theme is “Memories Matter,” and it features works from southeastern Pennsylvanian German communities. through 4/21. $4-$10. 823 Sutter St. in Folsom.

Sutter’S Fort State HiStoric parK: Hands on History Catch Gold Fever, The Year of 1849 .

Travel back in time to the Gold Rush era and learn all about gold in California. Saturday 1/19, 10am. $5-$7. 2701 L St.

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respectively. 6pm, no cover. PocketGreenhaven Public Library, 7335 Gloria Drive.

sPorTs & ouTdoors Thursday, 1/17 doWntoWn Sacramento ice rinK: It’s the final week of the ice rink, so grab a partner and hop onto the ice (hopefully on a day when it’s not raining.) 2pm, $13-$15. St. Rose of Lima Park, 701 K St.

Friday, 1/18 monSter Jam triple tHreat SerieS: For three days only, Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center will be full of dirt—but that’s not all! There will also be monster trucks driving on the dirt.

But that’s not all! There will be other vehicles doing tricks indoors. Bring earplugs and get ready to see trucks! 7pm, $20-$95. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J. Stern Walk.

sunday, 1/20 norcal roborumble: See the robotic event

highlight on page 31. 10am, no cover. Occam Athletics, 1809 23rd St.

TaKe acTion Friday, 1/18 SeXual HaraSSment oF Women climate, culture, and conSeQuenceS in academic ScienceS, engineering, and medicine: Marcia McNutt gives a talk about sexual harassment women face in academic sciences, and a panel discussion will take place after the presentation. 10:30am, no cover. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

saTurday, 1/19 Women’S marcH Sacramento 2019: See the

event highlight on page 30. 10am. Southside

park, 2115 6th St.

local autHor panel: Tim Brown, Andy Furillo and Bob Sylva all share stories about their experiences in writing and their novels, Squatter’s Gold, The First Year and The King of Karaoke and Other Stories,

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this documentary about the murder of a Filipina sex worker, exploring issues of gender, sex, violence and more. There will be a discussion after the film is shown. 6pm, by donation. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

evening in the former Urban Outfitters at the mall. It’s an invitation-only installation exploring the place of art in the city in the future. Saturday 1/19, 6pm. invitation only. 1715 Arden Way.

sunday, 1/20 once upon a time in tHe WeSt: Sergio Leone’s

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Thursday, 1/17Monday, 1/21

Wild and Scenic Film Festival Various locations and times, $15-$500

A long weekend of film and activism awaits you at this festival. Featuring more than 150 films that deal with subjects ranging from sustainable agriculture to extreme sports, it’s a can’t-miss. You’ll hear from rock climbing superstar Tommy Caldwell Film as he introduces his film about scaling an impossible face of El Capitan in Yosemite, The Dawn Wall, or CEO of Sierra Nevada Brewing Jeff White as he introduces The Death Ride, a film about cycling.

There’s too much to do and see, so come do your best. Throughout Nevada City and Grass Valley, wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.

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NorCal RoboRumble Occam athletics, 10am, nO cOver

WoMEN’S MARCH SIGN MAKING BREAKFASt: If you’re planning on going to the Women’s March but don’t have a sign, join Verge for some sign-making. There will be breakfast snacks and drinks, as well as sign-making materials and even button-making materials. 8am, by donation. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

Sunday, 1/20 ARt FoR LItERACY pAINt ANd SIp: Paint a little and sip a little for a good cause—literacy.

Escape Velocity Resources Foundation’s Boys in the Hood Book Club is the beneficiary of the evening, and eats, drinks and paint are on the menu. 4pm, $35. 2251 Florin Road.

BRING tHE BAtS HoME: Give bats a place to live by building a bat box. Ed Perry will be leading this class that walks you through the process of crafting a home for the flying mammals. Call for information. 10am, $10$15. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

MOnday, 1/21 4tH ANNuAL RECLAIM MLK tHIS WAS Not tHE dREAM!: See the event highlight on page

30. 9:30am. Safeway, 1025 Alhambra Blvd.

50 BIKES FoR 50 KIdS: Join bicycle mechanics in constructing 50 bicycles for kids in North Natomas. 7:30am, no cover. Natomas Middle School, 3200 N. Park Drive.

BECoME A CLIMAtE AdVoCAtE: If you’re sick and tired of the climate changing, considered attending this training seminar held by Citizens’ Climate Lobby. 2:30pm, no cover. Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way in Nevada City.

MARCH FoR tHE dREAM: Join MLK365 for a march to the Sacramento Convention Center.

You’ll start at Sacramento City College and end up at the Diversity Expo. There, you’ll be able to participate in a number of activities, see live performances of poetry and music and interact with people in the community. 10am, no cover. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

WEdnESday, 1/23 FAFSA & dREAM ACt WoRKSHopS: Stop by for a workshop on FAFSA and the Dream Act. 5:30pm, no cover. Sierra College, 5100 Sierra College Blvd. in Rocklin.

CLaSSES THuRSday, 1/17 tHE VEGAN tABLE: This demonstration-style class shares a vegan menu. Chef Alex will help turn neophytes into adept chefs and adept chefs into quite adept chefs. You’ll witness the creation of vegan cheese, vegan pot roast and delicious chocolate mousse. 6pm, $40-$49. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

FRIday, 1/18 ELECtRIC GREEtING CARdS: SMUD leads this workshop for children, teaching concepts about circuits and electricity in the form of light-up greeting cards. You need to register in advance, and kids must be accompanied by adults. 3:30pm, no cover. McKinley Public Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

SaTuRday, 1/19 tAYLoR’S MARKEt ButCHERING 201: Time to get a little bit more handy with the knife. You’ll learn about butchering poultry and seafood, as well as some knife skills. There’s even a light lunch included. 10am, $40. Taylor’s Kitchen, 2924 Freeport Blvd.

Sunday, 1/20 tHE GREAt WAR IN AMERICA WoRLd WAR I ANd ItS AFtERMAtH: Garrett Peck shares insights from his new book, detailing how World War I affected America and the waves it sent echoing through history. 1pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library-Central Library, 828 “I” St.

MOnday, 1/21 SCHooL’S out MARtIN LutHER KING JR. dAY: The Verge opens its doors to kids that have the day off while you, their parent or guardian, do not. Here, they’ll learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and make artwork.

The day also has a togetherness mural in store as well as writing options. Runs until 3 p.m. 11am, $10. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

WEdnESday, 1/23 WRItE NIGHt WItH 916 INK: Hey, adults! Do you like writing? Do you want to have some wine and cheese? Do you know anyone who would be interested in buying a used twin mattress? If you said yes to the first two questions, join 916 Ink for a night of written word. If you said yes to the third question, send me an email. 5:30pm, no cover. The Imaginarium, 3301 37th Ave.

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But what precedent is there for a state bank in California? How would it work? Here are five things to know:

1) north dakota has been doing it since 1919

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once an idea batted around mostly in Occupy Wall Street circles, public banking is attracting a surge of interest among policymakers in several states, including California.

“We must break Wall Street’s chokehold on state finance and develop our own state bank,” Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom said on the campaign trail.

If California had a bank controlled by the government rather than profit-hungry shareholders, public banking advocates argue, the state could fund social goods that often get the cold shoulder from commercial institutions: infrastructure projects, low-interest student loans and affordable housing. California’s treasurer and attorney general just published two

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studies that look at whether a state bank could help the newly legal weed industry by providing a safe repository for cash that major banks won’t accept. Both reports gave the idea a hard “no”.

“No state-backed financial institution designed to support the cannabis industry is feasible. All alternatives fail on both risk and financial grounds,” said the report commissioned and then released by the Treasurer’s office on December 27.

Banking industry representatives, also voice skepticism. “Banking is complex,” said Beth Mills, a spokesperson for the California Bankers Association.

“It’s not something you can just set up overnight.”

Riding a populist wave a century ago, farmers who organized into the Nonpartisan League decided they’d had enough with big-city banks raising interest on agricultural loans. They took control of state government and started the Bank of North Dakota.

“We were formed at a very special time in history, when 95 percent of the state was farmers, and the other five percent made their living off of farmers,” said bank spokesperson Janel Schmitz.

Today, the Bank of North Dakota offers student loans at interest rates lower than those available on the private market—but higher than the federal government—and subsidizes lending to farmers and small businesses. All state tax revenue flows into the bank, which earned a 17 percent return on its investments last year. When the state suffered a drought in 2017, the bank developed a disaster relief loan program to help ranchers rebuild their herds and buy feed.

Schmitz said the bank gets hundreds of calls a month from reporters and activists wondering if its model can be replicated elsewhere. Key to its success, she said, is that most of its loans are offered in collaboration with private community banks, with Bank of North Dakota funds serving as collateral, allowing the smaller bank to offer a better interest rate.

“We work with banks, we don’t work against banks,” she said. “That has been, in this day and age, critical.”

Like the Bank of North Dakota, Newsom has argued, a California state bank could invest in areas the private market eschews, such as low-interest student loans and affordable housing. But some question the scale of the benefits.

2) other states are pondering public banking Lawmakers in New Jersey, Washington and Michigan are all considering creation of a state bank.

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And American Samoa established its own bank in 2016 after commercial banks shut down lending to the island, a U.S. territory that subsists mostly on income from the fishing industry. Residents looking for small loans were going to a local car dealership, payday lenders or traveling to neighboring islands.

It took the bank 18 months to get a Federal Reserve account, which it needed to clear checks and electronic payments, said the Territorial Bank of Samoa’s president, Drew Roberts.

“It’s an onerous process,” he said.

“There’s no question California is going to have an uphill battle, but that’s what they told us, and we did it.”

No U.S. state or territory, however, has tried public banking at the scale California likely would. The entire population of American Samoa—about 60,000—would fit into a small California city; North Dakota’s GDP, while bolstered by the state’s oil industry, is about 1/100th of the Golden State’s.

3) Banking for cannabis easier said than done Most federally regulated banks don’t want to touch cannabis-sourced cash as long as the drug is still classified as a Schedule I controlled substance. That means the entire marijuana supply chain—from growers to dispensaries to tax collectors—is swimming in loose dollar bills.

Managing all of that is a sizeable business cost, and a public safety liability.

A state-run bank serving the cannabis industry would face far too many financial and legal risks and do relatively little good, said the study, which was written by a consultant. As a facilitator of a drug trade that California regards as legal but the federal government still considers criminal, the report argues that a bank’s employees could be prosecuted and its assets could be seized. And because the bank’s financial fortunes would be tied to the booms and busts of a single, nascent industry, such a bank would likely have a hard time getting its deposits insured and getting access to the federal money transfer system.

And in the years it would take a state bank to get up and running, cannabis

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could be legalized nationwide, making a state weed bank unnecessary.

Meanwhile Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Los Angeles Democrat, introduced legislation earlier this month to allow the state to approve private “limited charter banks,” which would be disconnected from the rest of the financial system. Growers and other cannabis businesses could deposit cash into these quasi-banks, which would be permitted to issue checks. These checks couldn’t be deposited at non-cannabis banks, but businesses could use them to pay state taxes, buy state bonds and pay business expenses (though not wages and salaries, which are subject to federal taxes).

But there’s a hitch: If someone who receives one of those checks actually wanted to use it for anything else, they would have to go to the cannabis bank and physically haul the cash to their own branch.

“It’s not a perfect solution, it’s a partial solution,” said Hertzberg.

4) California already has a public bank … sort of The state’s Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank loans money to local governments, nonprofits and businesses to build roads, hospitals, parks, cultural centers and other projects. The I-Bank can issue its own bonds, and in 2015 started funding renewable energy projects to help reduce the state’s carbon footprint. But with just over $1 billion in financing last fiscal year, its impact has been limited.

Allowing local governments to deposit their tax revenue in the I-Bank, some public banking advocates say, would create a bigger piggy bank to fund the state’s priorities.

The bank could use the extra reserves to make more loans, at lower interest rates, they argue—and would likely choose wisely because it would be dealing with clients it already knows.

It’s an idea that shows up in the California Democratic Party’s 2018 platform, and Newsom has said he wants to direct some of the state’s $15 billion surplus towards rebuilding the I-Bank. That plan could address one of the main critiques of public banks—that new ones are costly and complicated to create.

Still, allowing the I-Bank to accept deposits “would be a pretty dramatic change,” said Nancee Trombley, the bank’s chief deputy executive director. It would likely raise a host of questions: Who would insure the deposits, the federal government or the state of California? How would taxpayers’ investments be protected?

5) Some cities are considering pint-sized banks If a publicly owned bank spanning the world’s fifth largest economy seems ambitious, many advocates are pushing for a more modest alternative: municipal and regional banking.

Local banking would allow cities to save on the fees they currently send to Wall Street while also ensuring that taxpayer dollars are spent in a way that reflects local values, said Sylvia Chi, a representative with the California Public Banking Alliance.

Advocates like Chi point to Germany, where a network of city-owned savings banks has offered small loans and other banking services across the country since the 18th century. But even in the most progressive enclaves of California, the idea has been a hard sell. When Los Angeles voters were asked to amend their city’s charter to make way for a public bank last month, they turned down the offer 56 to 44 percent.

Other cities across the country, including Santa Fe and Seattle, have explored the possibility. The pattern: a wave of enthusiasm spurs lawmakers to call for a study, which later pours cold water on the idea.

Why all the concern?

First, there are legal issues. California law requires banks to be insured and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation does not provide insurance to the nation’s two existing public banks. State regulations also require banks to be extra careful with public money; for every infusion of taxpayer dollars an asset of at least equal value has to be set aside.

That would make it difficult for an institution serving as a city’s banker to actually do very much with its deposits.

The California Public Banking Alliance plans to sponsor legislation this year that would exempt public banks from these collateral requirements. But even if the state gives local banks the go-ahead, there’s the price tag.

A preliminary estimate put the upfront capital cost of getting a San Francisco public bank operational at $75 to $170 million—about a quarter of the city’s rainy day fund. That’s on top of any ongoing losses that may arise if the bank’s social mission gets in the way of its ability to stay out of the red.

Assemblywoman Monique Limón hopes to answer some of these questions at a joint committee hearing she will be organizing in the coming months.

“This is the fifth largest economy in the world,” she said. “We can’t afford to get this wrong.” Ω This is an abridged version of the full story, which is available at CALmatters.org–a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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A peaceful drug Hey, I hear the feds are working on a new cannabis legalization bill. Any updates?

—Khan Gress-ennall

There’s one in the books, but I wouldn’t hold my bong hit waiting for it to happen.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) has sponsored bill HR 420 (get it?), which would remove cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of prohibited drugs and allow states to regulate cannabis like alcohol. This is a great idea, but when was the last time a great idea made it through Congress?

Obamacare, maybe? Listen: The feds can’t even keep their government open.

How can we expect them to do something as simple as legalize cannabis?

I applaud Blumenauer and all of the members of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus for continuing to press for federal legalization, but I expect the usual voices of prohibition to keep this bill from gaining traction (Big Pharma, the for-profit prison industry, etc.). It is nice to see politicians on the national stage take a stand for cannabis legalization. Senator Kamala Harris of California has come out for legalization, which is nice. When she was the state’s attorney general, she wasn’t exactly a stalwart proponent of ending cannabis prohibition. I’m glad she has changed her mind.

However, although federal legalization is still a ways away, legalization and decriminalization efforts at the state and local levels are accelerating. The city of St. Louis recently announced that it will no longer prosecute cases involving 100 grams of cannabis or less, as long as the cannabis is for personal use. One hundred grams is just under 4 ounces, so that’s a pretty big deal, and a reminder to keep all your cannabis in one big bag: 100 grams of cannabis in one bag—personal use; 100 grams of cannabis in 100 onegram bags—that’s intent to sell. Also,

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo just announced that she will call for cannabis legalization in her next budget proposal.

It makes sense, because Rhode Island is surrounded by states with legal weed.

The dominoes are falling, and weed stays winning.

What do you think about that new book that says that cannabis leads to psychosis and violence?

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For THe Week oF JAnuAry 17, 2019 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1917, leaders of

the Christian sect, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prophesied that all earthly governments would soon disappear and Christianity would perish.

In 1924, they predicted that the ancient Hebrew prophet Moses would be resurrected and speak to people everywhere over the radio.

In 1938, they advised their followers not to get married or have children because the end of civilization was nigh. In 1974, they said there was only a “short time remaining before the wicked world’s end.” I bring these failed predictions to your attention, Aries, so as to get you in the mood for my prediction, which is: All prophecies that have been made about your life up until now are as wrong as the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ visions. In 2019, your life will be bracingly free of old ideas about who you are and who you’re supposed to be. You will have unprecedented opportunities to prove that your future is wide open.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Movie critic Roger

Ebert defined “idiot plot” as “any film plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots.” I bring this to your attention because I suspect there has been a storyline affecting you that in some ways fits that description. Fortunately, any temptation you might have had to go along with the delusions of other people will soon fade.

I expect that as a result, you will catalyze a surge of creative problem-solving. The idiot plot will transform into a much smarter plot.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1865, Prussia’s

political leader, Otto von Bismarck, got angry when an adversary, Rudolf Virchow, suggested cuts to the proposed military budget. Bismarck challenged Virchow to a duel. Virchow didn’t want to fight, so he came up with a clever plan.

As the challenged party, he was authorized to choose the weapons for the duel. He decided upon two sausages. His sausage would be cooked; Bismarck’s sausage would be crammed with parasitic roundworms. It was a brilliant stratagy. The proposition spooked Bismarck, who backed down from the duel.

Keep this story in mind if you’re challenged to an argument, dispute or conflict in the coming days. It’s best to figure out a tricky or amusing way to avoid it altogether.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An imaginative 27-year-

old man with the pseudonym thewildandcrazyoli decided he was getting too old to keep his imaginary friend in his life. So he took out an ad on eBay, offering to sell that long-time invisible ally, whose name was John Malipieman. Soon his old buddy was dispatched to the highest bidder for $3,000. Please don’t attempt anything like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

You need more friends, not fewer—both of the imaginary and non-imaginary variety.

Now is a ripe time to expand your network of compatriots.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In December 1981, novice

Leo filmmaker James Cameron got sick, fell asleep and had a disturbing dream. He saw a truncated robot armed with kitchen knives crawling away from an explosion. This nightmare ultimately turned out to be a godsend for Cameron. It inspired him to write the script for the 1984 film The Terminator, a successful creation that launched him to fame and fortune.

I’m expecting a comparable development in your near future, Leo. An initially weird or difficult event will actually be a stroke of luck.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychologists define

the Spotlight Effect as our tendency to imagine that other people are acutely attuned to every little nuance of our behavior and appearance.

The truth is that they’re not, of course. Most everyone is primarily occupied with the welter of thoughts buzzing around inside his or her own head. The good news, Virgo, is that you are well set up to capitalize on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. I’m betting you will achieve a dramatic new liberation: You’ll be freer than ever before from the power of other people’s opinions to inhibit your behavior or make you self-conscious.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What North America

community is farthest north? It’s an Alaskan city that used to be called Barrow, named after a British admiral. But in 2016, local residents voted to reinstate the name that the indigenous

Iñupiat people had once used: Utqiagvik. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that in the coming weeks, you take inspiration from their decision, Libra. Return to your roots. Pay homage to your sources. Restore and revive the spirit of your original influences.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Alaskan town of

Talkeetna has a population of 900, so it doesn’t require a complicated political structure to manage its needs. Still, it made a bold statement by electing a cat as its mayor for 15 years. Stubbs, a part-Manx, won his first campaign as a write-in candidate, and his policies were so benign—no new taxes, no repressive laws—that he kept getting re-elected. What might be the equivalent of having a cat as your supreme leader for a while, Scorpio? From an astrological perspective, now would be a favorable time to implement that arrangement.

This phase of your cycle calls for relaxed fun and amused mellowness and laissez-faire jauntiness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Trees need to be

buffeted by the wind. It makes them strong. As they respond to breezes and gusts, they generate a hardier kind of wood called reaction wood. Without the wind’s stress, trees’ internal structure would be weak and they might topple over as they grew larger. I’m pleased to report that you’re due to receive the benefits of a phenomenon that’s metaphorically equivalent to a brisk wind. Exult in this brisk but low-stress opportunity to toughen yourself up!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing at The

Pudding, an online outlet for virtual essays, pop culture commentator Colin Morris reveals the conclusions he drew after analyzing 15,000 pop songs. First, the lyrics of today’s tunes have significantly more repetitiveness than the lyrics of 1960s songs. Second, the most popular songs, both then and now, have more repetitive lyrics than the average song. Why? Morris speculates that repetitive songs are catchier.

But in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you Capricorns to be as non-repetitive as possible in the songs you sing, the messages you communicate, the moves you make and the ideas you articulate.

In the coming weeks, put a premium on originality, unpredictability, complexity and novelty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In May 1927,

Aquarian aviator Charles Lindbergh made a pioneering flight in his single-engine plane from New York to Paris. He became instantly famous. Years later, Lindbergh testified that partway through his epic journey he was visited by a host of odd, vaporous beings who suddenly appeared in his small cockpit. They spoke with him, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of navigation and airplane technology. Lindbergh’s spirits were buoyed.

His concentration, which had been flagging, revived. He was grateful for their unexpected support. I foresee a comparable kind of assistance becoming available to you sometime soon, Aquarius. Don’t waste any time being skeptical about it; just welcome it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): More than four

centuries ago, a Piscean samurai named Honda Tadakatsu became a leading general in the Japanese army. In the course of his military career, he fought in more than a hundred battles. Yet he never endured a major wound and was never beaten by another samurai. I propose we make him your inspirational role model for the coming weeks. As you navigate your way through interesting challenges, I believe that like him, you’ll lead a charmed life.

No wounds. No traumas. Just a whole lot of educational adventures.

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Them Fem Dems Denise Tugade and Linda Tenerowicz are the president and vice president of Fem Dems Sacramento, an organization of more than 350 members that champions female inclusivity and diversity in politics, equity in the workforce and more. Since forming in 2009, some Fem Dems leaders have journeyed into local politics.

They include Kelly Fong Rivas, a former president of the club who is now chief of staff for Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Amber Maltbie, a lawyer who specializes in election law and who has worked to protect the voting rights of North Dakota tribes.

As leaders of one of the oldest and largest Democratic clubs in Sacramento County, Tugade and Tenerowicz, who are both legislative aides, aim to show that women of different ethnicities and backgrounds can get involved in politics and advocate for issues that directly affect their lives.

SN&R checked in with Tugade and Tenerowicz outside the state Capitol to discuss impacts of the new wave of female leaders in Congress, Fem Dems’ plans for 2019 and what being a feminist means to them.

How have Fem Dems impacted local politics?

Tugade: People have been talking about the women’s wave and how many women we got elected to Congress, but it’s not just those women who are at the podium.

It’s also about the women who are behind the scenes. We did a lot of phone-banking, walking for candidates and we had a lot of local candidates that we pushed for this year—like Zima Creason, who is on the San Juan school board; Lisa Murawski, who is on the Sacramento City school board; Rosanna Herber and Heidi Sanborn, who are both on the SMUD board of directors. A lot of folks we helped get elected for the first time.

What’s the biggest issue women face in 2019?

Tenerowicz: Where do I begin? I think that given the current federal administration, women are continually having to play defense, and this means reproductive justice and immigration is also a feminist issue. We’ve seen on our border, children are separated from their parents. ...

Women are continuing to be burdened with attacks not only from the government, but then also with a lack of support. ... I think going into 2019, just ensuring that we’re protecting the rights that we do have and making sure that we’re not backing down

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and continuing to remain vocal against the policies that are problematic.

Are young women engaged in politics?

Tugade: I think they have to be. Our existence is political. By being out in the world we are public commodities. Every choice that we make—from our hair or whether or not you’re on birth control, what industry you’re in—all of those become public choices all of a sudden, whether you want them to or not. In this administration, it’s also political to choose not to be political.

It’s something I’ve been explaining to folks who are new to Fem Dems … this is about your continued existence, your ability to move through the world, so you should care.

What are some major projects Fem Dems are involved in this year?

Tugade: We’re taking a leadership role in organizing the Women’s March this year, which is a first. This is really the first year that the march has been community-driven here in Sacramento. There has been a lot of controversy around the Women’s March, and it’s a big tent. It’s true of the Democratic Party as well. There has been a lot of conversation around “What are the core values?” We stepped in to assist with the march because we wanted to make sure that we saw an inclusive march that was really responsive to the community.

Tenerowicz: We’re also helping curate some of the speakers. I think that’s also been a critique of the Women’s March, because the first year, there was an overwhelming amount of men who were

speaking. I mean, anyone can be [a feminist], but in a space such as the Women’s March, it’s so imperative to make sure that we’re elevating voices who generally don’t have the chance to have that platform.

What does feminism mean to you?

Tenerowicz: For me, being a feminist means being someone who is very intersectional and looks at feminism as an equity issue and a human rights issue. So, be it their sexual orientation, their ethnic background, even their class and income, I think all of those issues come into play when you talk about feminism. As we continue to grow as an organization, we’re continuing to put pressure on the traditional ideas of what feminism is. It’s not just angry, bra-burning ladies. It’s not just one type of person, but men can be feminists, too. We’re continuing to break down those barriers of what people think of as feminism.

Tugade: My particular brand of feminism is intersectional and that means, where you were born, the color of your skin, your body type, whatever; all of those factors should not shape the outcomes of your life to the degree that they do in our current world. I think the women’s movement has historically left behind a lot of women, and so how do we make sure that we are being inclusive, that we are uplifting all of these voices? Because if we’re not uplifting all of them, then what do we stand for? Ω Visit femdems.org to learn how to get involved with the Fem Dems and attend one of the group’s meet-ups.

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