East Bay Community Research Articles

On Love and Lawyering: A Celebration of the East Bay Community Law Center Festschrift in Honor of EBCLC

On Love and Lawyering: A Celebration of the East Bay Community Law Center Festschrift in Honor of EBCLC

A Rare Case of Babesia microti in San Francisco East Bay

Abstract Introduction/Objective Babesia microti, a zoonotic intraerythrocytic parasite, is the primary etiological agent of human Babesiosis in the United States. Human infections range from subclinical illness to severe disease resulting in death, with symptoms being related to host immune status. Despite advances in our understanding and management of B. microti, the incidence of infection in the United States has increased. Therefore, research focused on eradicating disease and optimizing clinical management is essential. Here we review this remarkable organism, with emphasis on the clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of human disease. Methods A 71-year-old Asian man presented to the emergency department in our San Francisco East Bay community hospital in July 2019 with complaints of high fever and chills for the last five days. The patient is a resident of Taiwan. He was visiting his daughter in New Jersey where he worked in her garden. He came to California to visit his son when he noted feelings of excessive tiredness, muscle aches, and headache. He also described a decrease in appetite and nausea with vomiting and diarrhea. Results His chest x-ray showed increased diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltrate. He has a history of coronary artery disease post stent placement in 2011 and history of benign prostatic hypertrophy post transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) On physical exam, He was febrile (103.1°F) and scleral icterus was identified. Laboratory workup revealed findings suggestive of hemolysis including increased LDH (401 U/L) and increased unconjugated bilirubin (1.7 mg/dL), critically low platelets and white blood cells of (32 and 2.9), while hemoglobin & hematocrit values in the normal range (13. g/dL & 36.8%, respectively). Elevated liver enzymes were also noted; AST 72 U/L and ALT 59 U/L. Upon examination of the blood smear, Malaria -like organisms were detected, and Maltese cross forms were also visible in the red blood cells. Those findings were also seen using Giemsa stain and were confirmed at the Alameda county lab. PCR was also positive for Babesia microti. Investigation for concurrent infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi was negative. Conclusion This case highlights the importance of timely and effective collaboration between the laboratory staff and clinicians.

On Love and Lawyering: A Celebration of the East Bay Community Law Center

On Love and Lawyering: A Celebration of the East Bay Community Law Center

Discover Our Model: The Critical Need for School-Based Immigration Legal Services

This piece seeks to chronicle the development of school-based immigration legal services at the East Bay Community Law Center, evaluate the successes and challenges of our model, and provide guidance to other organizations across the country that may wish to emulate the model.

Discover Our Model: The Critical Need for School-Based Immigration Legal Services

This piece seeks to chronicle the development of school-based immigration legal services at the East Bay Community Law Center, evaluate the successes and challenges of our model, and provide guidance to other organizations across the country that may wish to emulate the model.

Unprotected: Condoms, Bareback Porn, and the First Amendment

In November 2012, Los Angeles County voters passed Measure B, or the Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act. Measure B mandated condom use by all porn performers in adult films produced within county borders and created a complex regulatory process for adult film producers that included permitting, mandatory public health trainings, and warrantless administrative searches. Shortly after its passage, Vivid Entertainment filed a lawsuit to enjoin the enforcement of Measure B, arguing that the Measure violated their First Amendment right to portray condomless sex in porn. In December 2014, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of Measure B. Notably, the mainstream discourse surrounding the Measure B campaign, as well as the legal arguments put forth in the lawsuit, focused exclusively on straight pornography while purporting to represent all porn. As a result, an entire genre of condomless pornography went unrepresented in the discussion: bareback porn, which portrays intentional unprotected anal sex between men. Excluding bareback porn from the lawsuit represented a missed opportunity for Vivid in its challenge of Measure B. There are several political messages underlying bareback porn unique to that genre that might have resulted in the † The author received a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2015. As a law student, the author worked as a Teaching Assistant in the First Year Legal Writing Program and served as a Senior Board Member of the Boalt Hall Women’s Association. The author also co-founded the Health Law Initiative, a student organization that partners with the East Bay Community Law Center and Bay Area hospitals to serve low-income populations related to their health, housing, and public benefit needs. She is grateful to Professor Melissa Murray, whose Regulating Sex & Sexuality course provided the impetus for this Comment. She would also like to thank Courtney Fraser for excellent editorial assistance. LANGNER_TO PRODUCTION (EJD EIC EDITS) 199 EDITED (DO NOT DELETE) 7/25/2015 11:29 AM 200 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF GENDER, LAW & JUSTICE Ninth Circuit applying strict scrutiny instead of intermediate scrutiny, and might have ultimately helped Vivid successfully defeat the Measure. Now, if the condom mandate is extended statewide, as the Aids Healthcare Foundation hopes it will, producers of bareback may unfortunately be without recourse—it seems unlikely that a court would extend First Amendment protection to bareback pornography after declining to extend protection to straight condomless pornography. ABSTRACT 199 INTRODUCTION 200 I. MEASURE B 203 A. Measure B Supporters 204 B. Measure B Opponents 205 II. THE LAWSUIT 207 A. The District Court Decision 208 B. The Appeal 208 III. THE STATE-WIDE INITIATIVE 210 IV. GAY BAREBACK PORN 211 A. Background 212 B. Arguments Missed by the Straight-Focused First Amendment Framework 213 1. Liberating the gay community from the politics of respectability 213 2. Liberating the gay community from the stigma of HIV 217 V. GAY BAREBACK PORN & MEASURE B 220 CONCLUSION 223 199 INTRODUCTION 200 I. MEASURE B 203 A. Measure B Supporters 204 B. Measure B Opponents 205 II. THE LAWSUIT 207 A. The District Court Decision 208 B. The Appeal 208 III. THE STATE-WIDE INITIATIVE 210 IV. GAY BAREBACK PORN 211 A. Background 212 B. Arguments Missed by the Straight-Focused First Amendment Framework 213 1. Liberating the gay community from the politics of respectability 213 2. Liberating the gay community from the stigma of HIV 217 V. GAY BAREBACK PORN & MEASURE B 220 CONCLUSION 223

Feeding Revolution: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Food

This chapter examines the role of food in the symbolic politics and practical agenda of the Black Panther Party (BPP), founded in the late 1960s in Oakland, California. Situating hunger and the politics of food at the center of drives for racial justice, it argues that the BPP’s anti-hunger efforts and food-centered campaigns were driven by an implicit understanding of the power of food in battles over racialized definitions of personhood, a forum for both enforcing and resisting hegemonic authority. From this vantage, the Panthers and their allies in the East Bay community utilized the Party’s popular food programs, specifically its Free Breakfast for School Children Program, as staging grounds to prepare for a revolutionary overthrow of the socio-economic order. In addition to strengthening the physical bodies of African Americans to ensure their “survival pending revolution,” the food programs served a deeper organizing function by encouraging community members to come together to meet an immediate, practical need and, in doing so, to visualize themselves as part of a larger movement for change. The Panthers’ subsequent demands for consumer rights and calls for conscientious consumption (both as purchasers and eaters of food) highlighted the role of food politics in perpetuating racial injustice while demonstrating the capacity for food-related protest to challenge structures of hunger and patterns of widespread malnourishment.

Gretchen Lemke Santangelo. <italic>Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community</italic>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 217. Cloth $29.95, paper $14.95

Gretchen Lemke Santangelo. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 217. Cloth $29.95, paper $14.95 Santangelo Gretchen Lemke. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 217. Cloth $29.95, paper $14.95. Amy Kesselman Amy Kesselman State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 103, Issue 5, December 1998, Page 1717, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/103.5.1717 Published: 01 December 1998

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community.

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community.

Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo's, Abiding Courage: African American Migration Women and the East Bay Community. Intersecting Histories of the Great Migration. 1996

Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo's, Abiding Courage: African American Migration Women and the East Bay Community. Intersecting Histories of the Great Migration. 1996

Book Reviews : Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo's, Abiding Courage: African American Migration Women and the East Bay Community. Intersecting Histories of the Great Migration. 1996

Book Reviews : Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo's, Abiding Courage: African American Migration Women and the East Bay Community. Intersecting Histories of the Great Migration. 1996

Review: Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community, by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo

Review: <i>Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community</i>, by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo

Abiding courage: African American migrant women and the East Bay community

Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with migrants as well as on archival and other written records, Abiding Courage examines the experiences of the African American women who migrated west and built communities there. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo vividly shows how women made the transition from southern domestic and field work to jobs in an industrial, wartime economy. At the same time, they were struggling to keep their families together, establishing new households, and creating community-sustaining networks and institutions. While white women shouldered the double burden of wage labor and housework, black women faced even greater challenges: finding houses and schools, locating churches and medical services, and contending with racism. By focusing on women, Lemke-Santangelo provides new perspectives on where and how social change takes place and how community is established and maintained. |Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo vividly shows how women made the transition from southern domestic and field work to jobs in an industrial, wartime economy. At the same time, they were struggling to keep their families together, establishing new households, and creating community-sustaining networks and institutions. By focusing on women, Lemke-Santangelo provides new perspectives on where and how social change takes place and how community is established and maintained.

Early evaluation results of a collaborative partnership.

Early evaluation results of a collaborative partnership.