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THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 2017 Summer 2017 Issue 10
Pioneers optimistic about upcoming season Pioneer updates on America's president
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What Happened? On Monday, President Donald Trump delivered an urgent presidential address to the nation from Fort Myer military base in Arlington, Va., where he outlined a new strategy for the United States’ relationship with Afghanistan and South Asia.
BECOMING VEGAN NOT EASY FOR CSUEB STUDENT
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STUDENTS SHARE BLOGS FROM CUBA TRIP
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A Cal State East Bay women's soccer player dribbles past her opponent during a home win over the University of Mary Marauders on Tuesday at Pioneer Stadium on the Hayward campus. It was their first scrimmage of the season.
By Marissa Marshall STAFF WRITER
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SOCCER SEASON BEGINS FOR MEN AND WOMEN
It’s a new season for the California State East Bay women’s soccer team and the team is in the midst of their preseason training with long double days and fitness tests. Last season the Pioneers finished 4-11-3 overall and 3-9 in conference, which put them 10th in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Going into the season this year, the Pioneers are ranked 11th out of the 12 teams in the CCAA. East Bay will go into this season with the loss of eight seniors, including standout midfielder Tia Sidtikun who was a All-CCAA honorable mention, forward Megan Ravenscroft, and midfielder Andrea Hernandez. Despite the loss of players and the low preseason ranking, the Pioneers are very optimistic about this season. “We have a lot of incoming freshman and new transfers,” junior defender Savannah Schultz said.
“We added a lot of diversity up top who will help us score, but we also added players to help us defend. I’m excited to see what they can do an add to the team.” East Bay brought in a total of 12 newcomers this season, which can be a good and bad thing. It’s good to get a new unit and start with a fresh roster, but it’s also hard to get every player on board quickly and adjust to the system. Soccer is about chemistry and how well players mesh with each other on and off field. Shultz is a key returner for the Pioneers with her strength on defense along with senior defender Janelle Herrera. The team has some key midfielders returning as well; junior midfielder Aulani Fernandez and sophomore Jamie McPherson add a veteran boost to the squad. “Training has been great so far,” Schultz said. “We have been staying fit through agility ladders, sprints, weight lifting on our own, and double day practices. The team chemistry is building each day and our first scrimmage
will show us what we can improve on.” On Tuesday night they played their first exhibition game against the University of Mary on the Hayward campus and they won 2-0. East Bay showed confidence in the game, worked well together on the defensive end and were able to capitalize on opportunities, which is a good sign for their team chemistry going forward. The biggest challenge for the Pioneers this year will be to finish and make goals close to the net. They struggled last year getting the ball past the goalkeeper, scoring just 1 goal or less in 15 games of their games. Despite the efficient defense, you have to score goals to win in soccer. Last year in all 20 games, the Pioneers held opposing teams to 2 goals or less in each of those contests. If they can continue to play strong defense and finish around the net, they could surprise the conference. On Saturday, East Bay will play the Academy of Art in their final exhibition game at Pioneer Stadium on the Hayward campus at 1 p.m.
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According to Trump, after months of meetings that involved studying “Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle,” a final meeting occurred on Friday at Camp David in Maryland, the rural retreat for every president since Franklin Roosevelt. The meeting’s 21 attendees included generals and members of his cabinet. Trump explained that military strategy will shift from a timetable approach to a conditional one. Details regarding military operations in Afghanistan and South Asia, including start and end dates, the number of troops deployed and plans for future activities, will no longer be publicly announced. “I will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will,” said Trump. The U.S. war with Afghanistan began in 2001 and has become the longest war in American history, according to the Guardian. In 2014, Obama announced a plan to withdraw the majority of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2016. According the Guardian, U.S. troops in Afghanistan numbered around 100,000 before Obama proposed a cap of 8,400 last year. In June, an official within the Trump administration revealed that 4,000 additional troops will be deployed to Afghanistan, according to the Guardian. Trump, who was critical of Obama’s inability to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, explained on Monday that when he first took office his original instinct was to follow through with this. However on Monday, he said this strategy changed, because the consequences of a rapid exit are “predictable and unacceptable.” Trump stated that a hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorist organizations like al Qaeda and ISIS could fill. The U.S. will also change how it works with with Pakistan, a historically “valued partner” of America, which has become a safe haven for criminals and terrorist organizations like the Taliban, according to Trump. “In Afghanistan and Pakistan, America’s interests are clear,” stated Trump on Monday. “We must stop the resurgence of safe havens that enable terrorists to threaten america and we must prevent nuclear weapons and materials from coming into the hands of terrorists and being used against us-—or anywhere in the world—for that matter.” The president insisted that the country take a more active role in supporting the U.S. effort to disarm terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. He implied that if Pakistan doesn’t cooperate, it could lose American financial support, according to a CNN article. “It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order and peace,” he said. According to the new strategy, the U.S. will also strengthen its partnership with India, which offers finan-
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Protesters clash in Berkeley on April 15 at the Liberty Revival Alliance organized “Patriot’s Day Free Speech Rally." On Saturday, several counter-protests will take place in Berkeley including the Bay Area Rally Against Hate by Unite for Freedom and Resist Racist Violence & Hate in Berkeley with SURJ Bay Area.
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Pushing through temptations as a new vegan
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A newly converted vegan experiences temptations that distract from required daily tasks. Three weeks ago, I became a vegan and it feels great. My successful transformation is owed in part to with familiarizing myself with veganism and exploring the various food options. I did not expect to be drawn to plant based products so easily, but the more accustomed I became to different types of vegan dishes, the easier it is to avoid non-vegan temptations. Portion control has also been a huge help in this transition. This trains my body not to consume more than it should. Changes to my diet resulted in a more active lifestyle and energetic feeling. With the help of being strong minded and sticking to the main reason of converting this process hasn’t been easier. Having a routine is what makes this process very easy. My lifestyle as a vegan is rewarding but complex. On Sundays after work, I go to the market and buy all the products that I will need to prepare for the following week’s meal prep. Meal prepping disciplines your body to eat what you have prepared for the week without wanting to eat out. For this weeks shopping list, some of the items include of oatmeal, almond milk, powdered peanut butter, plantbased protein, arugula leaves, kale, spinach, blueberries, green tea, pineapple, watermelon, lemons, asparagus, chickpeas, zucchini, squash, quinoa, tofu, olive oil and Ziplock bags. All these items will cost you about fifty dollars but it allows you to prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the whole week. In the kitchen, I begin with measuring a 1 ⁄2 cup of oatmeal in a ziplock bag seven times for the week. With that, I put 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, a scoop of powdered peanut butter, and half a scoop of plant-based protein with a hint of salt in every bag. This method helps to pre-measure my breakfast so it can be ready to eat after I leave the gym. Then when I’m ready to eat I’ll cook it over the stove with 1 ⁄2 a cup of almond milk and some water. For lunch, I’ll be preparing a salad for the week. This consist of arugula leaves, kale, blueberries, spinach, chickpeas and lemon. This allows you to get your protein in while disciplining your body to eat the right at the same time. If wanting to snack in between
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meals you can snack on the pineapple and watermelon that was purchased. Finally, for dinner, I’ll be preparing a zucchini pasta that incorporates many other vegetables. Make sure before preparing that you clean all vegetables. After, you start with peeling eat zucchinis until you reach the seeds. Once that is done you cook all zucchini in a frying pan with a tablespoon of olive oil and a hint of salt and pepper, let it cook for a minute then add a cup of water and allow zucchini to soak until cooked. In another pan, you begin to cook the asparagus with light oil and seasoning. When that begins to cook you can begin to add the squash, quinoa and tofu which will end up being your final product.
Hamilton’s final curtain call in the Bay Area By Maximino Cisneros CONTRIBUTOR On Aug. 5, the Bay Area said farewell to their production of Hamilton, a Broadway play about the life of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton, which enjoyed five months at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. On July 22, I decided to attend a showing of the musical. A ticket cost $200, which for a theatre neophyte like myself seemed expensive. However, the majority of tickets ranged from $400 to $1,000. My friends and family were not supportive or understanding when I disclosed how much I spent on a ticket. As a result, in the days leading up to the show, I feared I was wasting time and a massive amount of money. Upon arrival, the long lines with fans did not ease my fears or build my excitement. It only left me in a constant influx of enthusiasm and doubt.
However as soon as the opening act commenced, I was thoroughly convinced I had made the right decision. As soon as the musical opened with the song “Alexander Hamilton,” I have never found myself so interested in a historical figure in my life because of its inspiration from today’s Hip Hop and Rap music genres. I then soon realized that I was not only interested in Alexander Hamilton but I was enjoying most of if not all of the songs being performed because I found them relatable to the music I listen to. As the Hamilton musical came to a close, the entire crowd cheered as it bursted into applause. Hamilton caused me to find a new found appreciation for theater and the arts as a person who has never attended any sort of play or musical whatsoever. It caused me to wonder if individuals around my age had a similar or different experience than I did. I was also wondering if they grew to appreciate it as much as I did.
Lastly portioning it evenly into seven dishes is your ultimate goal along with the zucchini pasta. Throughout the day making sure you consume a gallon of water a day is important. At 5:30 a.m., I head to the gym for two hours where I weight lift, run, squat, attend yoga classes and work on abs. This helps me become more productive which ensures me of enjoyment of working out versus not enjoying my work out. After the gym, I head home and eat my breakfast that I have prepared for the week. Along with my oatmeal, I consume a protein shake after every workout until it’s time to eat lunch in about three to four hours. Then I’ll consume the salad I’ve made for lunch.
When it’s dinner time there’s not much you have to worry about because your dinner is already made. Disciplining yourself and having a strong mind is what allows your body not to give up. I encourage anyone who hasn’t tried it to give it a try because it’s not as hard as people make it seem; it’s more about motivation and discipline. With a few weeks in, I wouldn’t change this process for anything because the results that have occurred to my body and mentality motivate me to continue with the road to a healthier lifestyle. I don’t ever see myself heading back to my unhealthy eating habits and my old ways anytime soon.
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THE PIONEER Trump From Page 1 cial support to Afghanistan, according to Trump. “We appreciate India's important contributions to stability in Afghanistan, but India makes billions of dollars in trade with the United States, and we want them to help us more with Afghanistan, especially in the area of economic assistance and development,” he said. During his first trip abroad as president in May, Trump met with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Vatican City, Brussels, and Italy, to reaffirm their country's’ commitments to dismantling terrorism in the Middle East, according to a White House transcript of the speech. “They are nothing but thugs and criminals and predators and—that’s right—losers,” he said about terrorist organizations on Monday. According to the new strategy, the U.S. will integrate all “instruments of American power: diplomatic, economic and military” to implement the new strategy, Trump said on Monday. This includes lifting restrictions on the military that prohibit commanders from initiating immediate action as well as maximizing sanctions and law enforcement actions against terrorist organizations. The U.S. will ask its North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, partners to increase funding to America for these efforts. Allies and partners will be expected to contribute more money to “our collective defense.” “No one denies that we have inherited a challenging and troubling situation in Afghanistan and South Asia, but we do not have the luxury of going back in time and making different or better decisions,” said Trump.
Coming back to my home, Madrid By Daisy Ortiz SPANISH EDITOR About six months ago, my cousins, my younger sister and I decided to buy tickets to Europe. A round trip cost us around $400—a surprisingly good deal—so we took the plunge. This isn’t my first time in Europe; in fact, it’s my fourth time coming back and my third time coming to Madrid. The school year of 2015-2016 I studied abroad for a year in Madrid, Spain at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It was a year of personal growth and expansion of knowledge. I grew to love the city because of its relaxed vibes, hospitality and beautiful architecture. It’s very different from the United States. About a week ago, my cousins and I arrived in the Barcelona airport after a five-hour plane ride from San Francisco to Montreal, Canada, a five-hour layover and then another six-hour flight to Barcelona. It was exhausting, to say the least. When we first arrived at the airport I already felt butterflies building up. Even though I wasn’t in Madrid yet, I was still on Spanish soil. The very next morning I left for Madrid alone. The 50-minute flight from Barcelona felt like eternity. I stepped off the plane and immediately felt a sense of belonging. I didn’t cry because there were people around, otherwise there would’ve most likely been waterworks. I made my way to the metro and everything felt familiar: the food areas I had stopped to eat at, the gates I used to
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Just some of the souvenirs available for people to purchase on the streets of Madrid, Spain last week.
wait at for my flights, the accent of the Spanish people. It all felt normal. As I rushed down the escalators to catch the metro—which I still missed—I laughed because I remembered the struggle of trying to get into the metro car before it warned the doors were closing with a loud ring. The hostel my sister and I stayed was right in the center, Gran Via. It’s a stretch that’s filled with shops and
nightlife right down the street. I went to the sandwich shop I used to always go to, Rodilla, and got my 3,50€ deal—the equivalent of around $4.13— which included two slices of a sandwich of your choice and a drink. Going out was a breeze. We would just walk down the street or take the metro to the club and unlike in the U.S., there were no worries about having someone to drive us home or driving an hour to
San Francisco to go out. It’s honestly so easy to fall in love with this city, with its beautiful streets, numerous plazas, and peaceful parks you can relax at. These are the prices I remember, this is the air I used to breathe, these are the streets I used to roam, these are the people I interacted with. This is my home. Madrid will always have a huge chunk of my little corazón.
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Ronca’s Kitchen gains following in Oakland By Jamie DaSilva CONTRIBUTOR On a sunny afternoon at Lake Merritt in Oakland, you will find people jogging, walking, relaxing, and enjoying the day off. However, you will see Julia Ibarra, sitting on a bench, writing her weekly pop- up restaurant menu. Ibarra, 32, is often at Lake Merritt. With her brown curly hair thrown up in a messy bun, wearing thick black muse glasses, a Ramone’s band t-shirt, sitting on a bench with a cup of coffee. While most people relax over the weekend and prepare for work, Ibarra creates her menu, shops at local markets for chicken and produce, all the while preparing for her full-time job as a Montessori Preschool teacher. The dedication to food created a following and according to Ibarra, has now lead to a possible opportunity to make Ronca’s a permanent fixture in the Oakland food scene. Ibarra is one of three owners of a chicken and waffles pop-up restaurant called Ronca’s Kitchen, which has become so popular they usually sell out just three hours into their day. Ibarra’s passion and love for cooking was passed down from her Guatemalan mother, who is a private chef in Napa, and also who the popup is named after. Ronca is term in spanish, meaning roar. Ibarra, earliest memories are of her mother is of her, cooking in the kitchen, pots and pans clanking, ingredients flying everywhere and the sound of her mother’s deep voice. Ronca’s Kitchen was born out of Ibarra’s necessity to make extra money to supplement her meager preschool teacher salary. Ibarra and her fellow owners work on weekends as well as Mondays in addition to their forty-plushour work week at their other jobs. Ibarra, has put in the time to make her pop-up successful, but more im-
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portantly, the love she has for cooking translates to each plate of food that leaves the kitchen. Ibarra’s dedication to perfecting her chicken a waffle recipe that has evolved into a product that Ibarra says she’s really proud of to send out of her kitchen. Ibarra tries her best to only buy only locally organic, sustainably sourced produce and chicken from Oakland, as well as supporting local businesses. Ibarra states, “that the quality of her food versus the quantity is
highly important to her.”Ibarra credits the pop-up and restuarant culture with helping her start Ronca’s Kitchen, Ibarra, rents out the kitchen of her friends Rolling Sloans Bagel Shop. Although Ibarra likes the extra cash her pop-up offers, a part-time job on top of a full-time job, because of the cost of rent has lead Bay Area residents with full-time jobs, including Ibarra, to look for extra work such as driving for Uber or Doordash, or renting out their own
apartments on Airbnb, or working extra shifts at a restaurant. Some residents even started their own business such as an Etsy shop, selling Essential Oils or even a pop-up restaurant to help pay the bills. The Bay Area is a well known for its culture, tech industry, music scene and food scene. It is also known for its astronomical rent prices. As of July 1, 2017, the minimum wage has been raised to fourteen dollars an hour. Ibarra has
a degree and a Montessori Credential from Saint Mary’s College and earns on average $26,000 a year. That breaks down to $10.41 an hour. Ibarra is emblematic of the daily hustle to handle the cycle of the overworked and underpaid lifestyle found in the Bay Area. Ibarra’s change in her career, in her words “has proven what my true passion in life is, where I couldn’t imagine my life now without Ronca’s Kitchen.”
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Dance, dance, and viva la revolution By Mitchell Scorza CONTRIBUTOR On the weekends, we are set loose and cut free to explore the city as liberated tourists. We put our school material on hold for a couple of days as we have worked so hard throughout the week. It’s time to celebrate as far as we were concerned. There was only one place to go and that place is called Fabrica de Arte Cubano. The vibe at this colossus of the Cuban nightlife is electric. There is not a better place to go in this hemisphere. F.A.C. has several bars scattered throughout the entire building with mixes of flashing lights and beautiful color. Music and art are the common theme and just when one thinks they have seen it all, the place evolves further to please both eyes and ears. This place is the revolution of dance and good times. The way the drinks are made provide a great experience as well. The bartenders hand one bottle to the patron and they boat race to pour the fullest drink while they pour from a separate bottle simultaneously. This was a brilliant way to stimulate a comradery and participation from both guest and barkeep. The drinks flow as strong at night as Cuban coffee does in the day time. What better way to get up on the dance floor than having a cold and tall libation to get the party started. Beats of the music echo throughout the long hallways and large performance venues in side F.A.C. Silence is not an option on the menu, yet there is a tailored sense of life and pulse for everyone who arrives. Having a nice relaxed sit-down and enjoying a lounge atmosphere may be for some, or simply wandering around until the mood strikes to engage in the music de jour might be for others. At any rate, it is impossible not to tap toes and get on your feet dancing at some point in the night. The city-style art adorning the walls winks back at the viewer as if to say their secrets are safe here and the stories they would tell could dazzle and awe all who visit those halls. Live bands and DJs mixed all throughout this temple of art, but they play for the artwork itself considering that even the art is alive. There are thousands of pictures of musicians and old nostalgic gear. This place feels like heaven for those in love with both music and art. Fabrica de Arte Cubano is the best
“It is impossible to not have a great time, and if one lets the music flow through them, they can also use this place more like a gym rather than a club. The dance scene will make you not want to leave even if it is hotter than the surface of the sun.” gem and joy I have had the privilege to drink and dance at. Smiles are as equal to the abundance of booze and tunes. It is impossible to not have a great time, and if one lets the music flow through them, they can also use this place more like a gym rather than a club. The dance scene will make you not want to leave even if it is hotter than the surface of the sun. Sweating is imminent, but no one seems to be self-conscious. Everyone will sweat and it is all in the name of fun. It was even worth every penny that I got pickpocketed on the way out down the street. I not only would return, but now I want to live there.
Communism, bad for whom? By Stephanie Maniche CONTRIBUTOR Growing up, I always associated communism with being a bad thing and capitalism as being great. Sometimes in life we just accept what we’re told, if enough people are saying the same thing, until we dig a bit deeper to find out for ourselves why we believe it. Today I question if the definitions are mixed up, not my thinking. I spoke to a few Cuban natives who helped put things in perspective for me when I asked them if they had the opportunity to come to the U.S. tomorrow, would they. The response was the same amongst all; an emphatic “NO!” One lady explained to me that her health condition is one main reason why she wouldn’t go. She went on to say that n Cuba, the government provides free healthcare and free education. She even spoke about how once her roof was leaking, the rain was coming in, and the government stepped in to take care of it. She told me how freedom for her was having her family and friends around her; this was all
she needed in life. I spoke to a gentleman who was sipping on his rum and enjoying a cigarette when we walked up. I asked him the same questions about feeling free in Cuba and whether he would want to come to the states. He chuckled and said they have their problems in Cuba but he is content and he loves his life. He stated that he’s fine with following the path that life has taken him. I equated this statement to one of my favorite poets, Mark Nepo, who speaks about not swimming upstream but to go with the current. These people may not be able to pull their BMW’s or Teslas into the nearest Shell or Chevron to fill up but instead have to trek for kilometers to get the gas and bring it back in what feels like triple-digit weather. The richness they seem to have that we lack is peace. The only question I have for today is the little boy in I took a photo of with his arms crossed. I wonder if he will grow up to be Tesla or the guy trekking to get gas. Perhaps while they’re looking through a 1950s television screen, they are seeing a much bigger picture than the latest and future inventions Silicon Valley has to offer.
Above: A band performs at Fabrica de Arte Cubano in Havana, Cuba during a study abroad trip to the country by Cal State East Bay Students last month. Left: Visitors look at some of the artwork that hangs on a wall in Fabrica de Arte Cubano in Havana, Cuba last month. PHOTOS BY KALI PERSALL/THE PIONEER
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Prisons trying to help fathers re-establish relationships San Quentin News stories are published courtesy of a content-sharing collaboration between The Pioneer and The San Quentin News, the prison’s official inmate-run newspaper. The collaboration began in July 2016 after faculty and staff of The Pioneer visited the journalism guild in the prison. By Harry C. Goodall Jr. JOURNALISM GUILD WRITER There are 24 million children in America, and one out of three lives without their biological father in the home, the U.S. Census Bureau calculated. When the father is absent it can lead to the following: behavioral problems, abuse and neglect, infant mortality, substance abuse, dropping out of high school, obesity and increased likelihood of going to prison, according to a study by the National Fatherhood Initiative. To help remedy the problem, some prisoners at California State Prison-Solano have joined a parenting class called Parenting Inside Out. In class, the men found that to be a good father starts with digging deep into one’s own relationship with one’s parents, according to a Justine Lee article, “Being a father, from Inside Prison,” written for KALW. When asked about their own experiences of being disciplined as children, the men said they believed discipline was necessary but so was explaining “why” to the child, the article stated. “Because parenting doesn’t come with a handbook,” stated inmate Abraham Glasper. “And a lot of times our parents only gave us what their parents gave them, and so this is an opportunity to
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An inmate reads in his cell at San Quentin Prison last year. learn things that we didn’t necessary receive from our parents.” Dameion “Nation” Brown, a former Solano inmate, added, “The things that I could not give my children, I gave to the young people in prison.” He was convicted of physically abusing his children and was sentenced to 23 years-to-life. He learned in parenting class of the harmful effects of corporal punishment.
Brown was granted parole after Dr. Mary Jo Bauen, who works for Community Works West and directed the parenting classes at Solano, advocated for him. Since being paroled, Brown has been hired as a case manager by Community Works West, an organization that helps formerly incarcerated adults from 18 to 25. He appeared last summer in Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of “Othello.”
At San Quentin State Prison, L. Harrison was interviewed concerning the effect of incarcerated separation from his children. “I believe due to the fact that my father was not in my life,” Harrison said, “I didn’t have that role model to emulate what a good man is supposed to be. An important aspect of being in a child’s life is to help him to identify with who he is and his importance to his family.”
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JOURNALISM GUILD WRITER Drug offenders are having trouble getting services to help with their addictions once they get out of prison, a report by three newspapers concludes. “The state has not yet invested enough money in treatment programs,” according to a seven-month study conducted by the Ventura County Star, the Redding Record Searchlight, and the Salinas Californian. The report concluded that thousands of addicts and mentally ill people have gone from incarceration to the streets, without a safety net to help them deal with substance abuse. Since 2014, at least 13,500 inmates left California jails and prisons under Proposition 47, which reclassified simple drug possession as a misdemeanor rather than a felony. “Proposition 47 was not a cure-all,” said Michael Romano, a Stanford law expert who helped draft the proposition. It succeeded in getting drug offenders out of overcrowded prisons and jails, but that’s just “one piece in an extraordinarily complicated puzzle.” According to Mother Jones magazine, “It costs about $20,000 to send someone through inpatient drug treatment, which typically lasts six months to a year. It costs three times more to keep him in jail or prison for a year. Under Proposition 47, the millions of dollars saved in prison costs were supposed to be earmarked for rehabilitation programs to help inmates restart their lives.” The study conducted by the journalists revealed that none of the earmarked money was spent on rehabilitation. “People die waiting to get treatment,” said David Ramage, an administrator at Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena. The lack of a suitable drug program has resulted in people choosing probation versus rehab – because the consequences for a misdemeanor offense may be a shorter ordeal and less restrictive. The longest-running drug court program in Los Angeles has seen enrollment drop from 80 people to just four, according to the reporters.
STAFF WRITER Inmates at dozens of prisons across the county were on strike calling for reform to end the practice of slavery in prison, The Intercept reported. “There are probably 20,000 prisoners on strike right now, at least, which is the biggest prison strike in history, but the information is really sketchy and spotty,” said Ben Turk, in September 2016. Turk represents the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, who helped coordinate the inmate-led strikes on the outside. The incarcerated strikers are hoping that their strikes will repeal the exception in the 13th Amendment that authorizes the “involuntary servitude” of incarcerated people, The Intercept said. According to The Intercept, the issue that unified the protesters is a $2 billion a year prison labor industry. The industry employs about 900,000 incarcerated people, paying inmates from nothing to pennies on the hour in some states. Inmates across 11 states and 20 prisons joined the protest. Across 24 states, 40 to 50 more prisons pledged to join in the strikes, said Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, a former inmate and supporter of the strike demonstration. According to the Wall Street Journal, some 400 inmates staged a peaceful protest in a Michigan prison, and 150 inmates suspected of being the “ringleaders” of the protest were transferred to other prisons. The details of the prison strikes are obscured due to prison security, which makes it difficult to obtain information. “What people have to realize is that these men and women inside prison — they expected to be retaliated against, but they sacrificed,” Glasgow explained. While outside supporters in many U.S. cities coordinated demonstrations in support of the inmate-led strikes, the strikes gained little attention from mainstream media, The Intercept said. “A nation that imprisons one percent of its population has an obligation to know what’s happening to those 2.4 million people,” Ethan Zuckerman, the director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT said. “And right now, we don’t know.”
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THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 2017
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Right-wing ‘Freedom Rally’ planned for Saturday in San Francisco
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Protesters clash in Berkeley on April 15 at the Liberty Revival Alliance organized “Patriot’s Day Free Speech Rally." On Saturday, several counter-protests will take place in Berkeley and San Francisco, including the Bay Area Rally Against Hate by Unite for Freedom and Resist Racist Violence & Hate in Berkeley with SURJ Bay Area.
By Justin Mutch CONTRIBUTOR
Patriot Prayer, a Portland-based political and self-professed free speech organization has received approval from the National Park Service to hold a “Freedom Rally” at Chrissy Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Aug. 26. Oath Keepers, a Las Vegas-based militia that the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the US,” plans to attend, as well to offer extra security to local law enforcement. City officials have decried the decision, claiming such rallies tend to attract violence from fringe extremist groups.“You are not welcome here,” San Francisco Board of Supervisors president London Breed warned. “Don’t come to San Francisco, we are going to do everything we can to stop you.” City officials are concerned about potential violence from both protesters and counter protesters. Anti-fascist group Antifa established itself as
a political force in the Bay Area in February when the group rioted at UC Berkeley to protest Breitbart columnist and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’s scheduled speech at the university. UC Berkeley decided to cancel the event over concerns for safety. Several other local politicians have publicly denounced the National Parks Service’s decision to allow the protest, including San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, State Sen. Scott Wiener, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The event will be held just two weeks after a white supremacist rally turned deadly in Charlottesville, Va., where several extremist Alt-Right groups, neo-Nazis, and non hooded Klansmen gathered to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, a general who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. Patriot Prayer did not attend the rally in Charlottesville, but held a rally in Seattle the following day, which was also planned before the attacks occurred. No injuries were reported in Seattle, and the event was described as mostly peaceful - though
there were some harsh vocal exchanges, and a few counter-protesters were pepper sprayed by police. The group is run by political activist Joey Gibson and routinely holds rallies and marches in Northwestern cities. “The message of Patriot Prayer is to promote freedom, love, unity, and respect,” Gibson told the Pioneer. “We invite everyone to come out and voice their beliefs. I just believe everyone has to come together and unite and be respectful.” During the recent rally in Seattle, Gibson surprised many counter-protesters when he actively denounced white supremacists and neo-Nazis, reminding the crowd that he himself is a person of color. Gibson has contradicted many of his claims of love and respect. For example, he has preached at rallies that Islam is not a religion, but an ideology. In the Facebook event description for the Patriot Prayer rally in Seattle, he claimed that “the West Coast has slowly been infected with communist ideologies,” and described major cities here as “liberal strongholds” that “run off of hate and negativity.” In an interview with SF Examiner,
Gibson even went as far as calling downtown San Francisco “disgusting,” citing “the hate and the drugs” as the cause. On whether he considers his group part of the Alt-Right, he told the Pioneer, “Absolutely not - no way. I’m not even a conservative,” he replied. “If you look at the people speaking at the rally, only one of them is a white male. But Nancy Pelosi went on social media and called me a white supremacist. She could stop [people from thinking that] if she just did a little research, and went back on [social media] and told everyone ‘sorry, I was wrong.’” The day after the rally in San Francisco, there will be an Anti-Marxism rally in Berkeley. Gibson told us that he is not hosting that event, but will appear as a guest speaker. Berkeley’s chapter of Antifa did not respond to a request for comment in regards to the upcoming rallies. Oath Keepers also did not respond to a request for comment. When asked if he was concerned about the possible Antifa presence, Gibson replied: “Their intent is to scare. They just make threats, then run away and hide.”
New Hayward library to be zero net energy Patrons can expect upgrade from old library By Daniel McGuire CONTRIBUTOR Hayward is on the road to its first Zero Net Energy (ZNE) building with the construction of a new public library. A ZNE building produces an equal amount of energy that it uses annually from the city’s grid, according to the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. The Hayward public library on Mission Blvd and C Street is slated to be demolished and replaced with a new library across the street that is prospected to be finished by early 2018. Measure C, which passed in 2014, increased sales tax in Hayward by .5 percent for twenty years with the revenue aimed at improving the city and the public library, according to the City of Hayward’s website, and raised a majority of the 59.9 million dollars required for the total cost of the project. With the construction of the library consisting of about 39 million of the budget.
Measure C will also fund a parking garage adjacent to the library. Both the parking structure and the library will be ZNE buildings because they will have rooftop solar panels. According to Reinhart, the panels will only allow them to necessitate Hayward’s electrical grid during seasons with less sunshine. “It’s going to be the best public library in the Bay Area, hands down,” according to Reinhart. He is also expecting it to be one of, if not the largest ZNE library in the country. “We base that statement on our research of certified Net Zero Energy libraries. It is difficult to confirm with 100% certainty that Hayward’s will be the largest because not every project seeks national certification,” according to Reinhart. The current approved project, 21st Century Library and Heritage Plaza, consisting of the library and plaza named the “Heritage Plaza,” according to Reinhart,will be used for events such as festivals, cultural events and the expansion of the Hayward farmers market. While some were petitioning to have the old library turned into a landmark, the library’s expansions in 1959 and 1980 eliminated its status as a historical building, and demolition is still in the old library’s future.
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Construction crews work on the new Hayward Main Public Library on C Street and Mission Boulevard last year. The building is set to be a zero net energy facility.
8 SPORTS
THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 2017
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Soccer season begins at East Bay
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Cal State East Bay senior midfielder Evan Sanchez jumps over the goalkeeper to chase down a loose ball on Monday at Pioneer Stadium on the Hayward campus. The CSUEB men's soccer team began the 2017 season on Monday when they played a scrimmage game against Skyline College. The Pioneers have one more scrimmage game in Belmont against Notre Dame De Namur on Saturday before the regular season begins on Sept. 1 against Holy Names at Pioneer Stadium. East Bay has a new head coach, Mike Bielski, and will be looking to improve on their 6-10-2 record from last season.
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