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Fresh sand controversy
Sand dredgers moored off the Chroy Changvar peninsula in Phnom Penh. Hong Menea
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
Publication date 02 January 2017 | 00:00 ICT
Cambodia exported more than 108,000 tonnes of sand to India in 36 separate shipments between 2013 and 2015, according to Indian customs data obtained yesterday, contradicting Cambodian customs data that show no sand being sent there at all.
The latest data discrepancy come as the Ministry of Mines has struggled to explain why Singapore recorded sand imports of almost 70 million tonnes from Cambodia between 2007 and 2015 for which Cambodia has no record.
The large-scale disparities have led to concerns from environmentalists that some people are growing wealthy by illegally exporting Cambodian sand, while destroying aquatic habitats and causing severe erosion of land that has already led to houses collapsing.
The new Indian customs data, which were obtained by environmental group Mother Nature, records 36 shipments of sand from Cambodia from 2013 to 2015, along with dates of arrival. A total of 108,658 tonnes of sand worth $2.6 million arrived, it says.
In contrast, customs data from Cambodia's Commerce Ministry record exports of sand going to just five countries: Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea. A total of 455,000 tonnes – worth $2.47 million – was exported to those places, it says.
Commerce Ministry spokeswoman Seung Sophari said yesterday that her ministry only compiled the import and export data provided by customs officials and could not comment on why there were discrepancies with what the Indian customs data shows.
"We take the data from customs, and study what goods export and import into the country," Sophari said, referring questions to the customs department, which falls under the Ministry of Economics and Finance.
"It is customs who are in charge of import and export of the goods . . . while for the sand, the one who issues licences to sell domestically and to export to other countries is the Ministry of Mines and Energy."
Bou Bunnara, head of public relations at the customs department, declined to comment yesterday.
Mines Ministry spokesman Dith Tina, who has spearheaded his ministry's defense against claims it was turning a blind eye to sand smuggling, said he believed some of the sand being exported to Singapore might have later been moved to other countries like India.
"Companies can ask to export to one country and then re-export to another," Tina said via email yesterday. "In the case of India import[s], does the document prove a direct import from Cambodia or any re-export?"
"We thank the NGO for trying to help finding Cambodian sand but make sure that the data given is accurate and in the right context," he added, dismissing the idea the data suggested smuggling.
"Give the proof rather than the accusation and assumption just to fool public opinion."
Sand dredging is banned in many states in India due to its impacts on waterways and the potential to cause land erosion. Even in the Indian states where it is legal, demand tends to outstrip supply and imports are needed, according to Indian news reports.
A November 2012 article in The Hindu, for example, noted that soaring local demand for sand being used in concrete in the eastern port city of Chennai had "forced construction companies to import sand mined from the Mekong River in Cambodia".
However, much of the sand that leaves Cambodia comes from along the coast of Koh Kong province, and in April 2013, some $1.5 million worth of sand dredged there was quarantined in the southern Indian city of Cochin for six months.
Prime Minister Hun Sen banned exports of river sand in May 2009 – with the exception of where the sand was blocking a waterway – but the status of the ban has since been unclear, with six companies presently holding licences to dredge sand for export.
The Mines Ministry also records 14 firms – with names like International Rainbow Co Ltd and Diamond Sun Co Ltd – as exporting coastal sand between 2007 and 2015, and 14 companies as having exported river sand in that period, despite the ban.
Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, a founder of the Mother Nature group who was deported from Cambodia in 2015 because of his activism, said yesterday that he believed the discrepancies in Singaporean and Indian data suggested only one thing.
"To me these figures reveal a shocking truth: people in positions of power in the government have been for years involved in the smuggling of Cambodian sand to countries like India, through the forgery of documents, corruption, and abuse of power," he said.
"They might have the power and influence to make all of this sand magically 'disappear' from official Cambodian government accounts, but not from the records of the countries that import Cambodian sand."
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\section{Introduction}
Mathematical modelling is nowadays commonly used in applied sciences, such as in biology, to predict the temporal evolution of populations.
This is obtained in general via a dynamical system, where a particular solution is completely determined by its initial conditions.
The possible steady states of the system are determined by its parameters,
but more steady states can originate from different initial conditions \cite{Arrowsmith90,Murray02}.

Here, focusing on a particular competition model presenting tristability, we approximate the basins of attraction
of its stable equilibria. To do that, we propose an efficient and stable kernel-based interpolation method to reconstruct (unknown) multiple surfaces partitioning the three-dimensional space or the phase space into disjoint regions. Since in many situations the standard basis interpolant may suffer from instability due to ill-conditioning of the kernel matrices, we consider a change of basis that makes the related interpolant more stable than the standard one. This computational approach extends our recent research in this field (see \cite{Cavoretto14,Cavoretto15a,Cavoretto15b,Demarchi13,Demarchi15}).

Denoting now the three populations by $x$, $y$ and $z$, we consider the competition model
\begin{align} \label{model3d}
\begin{array}{ll}
\frac{ \displaystyle  dx}{ \displaystyle  dt}=p \big(1- \frac{ \displaystyle  x}{ \displaystyle  u} \big)x-axy-bxz,  & \textrm{} \\
\vspace{.01cm}\\
\frac{ \displaystyle  dy}{ \displaystyle  dt}=q \big(1- \frac{ \displaystyle  y}{ \displaystyle  v} \big)y-cxy-eyz, & \textrm{} \\
\vspace{.01cm}\\
\frac{ \displaystyle  dz}{ \displaystyle  dt}=r \big(1- \frac{ \displaystyle  z}{ \displaystyle  w} \big)z-fxz-gyz,  & \textrm{}
\end{array}
\end{align}
where all the parameters characterizing the system are positive and defined as follows:
\begin{itemize}
	\item $p$, $q$ and $r$ are the growth rates of $x$, $y$ and $z$, respectively;
	\item $a$, $b$, $c$, $e$, $f$ and $g$ are the competition rates;
	\item   $u$, $v$ and $w$ are the carrying capacities of the three populations.
\end{itemize}
The model \eqref{model3d} has eight equilibria. The origin $E_0 = (0, 0, 0)$ and the points associated with the survival of
only one population $E_1 = (u, 0, 0)$, $E_2 = (0, v, 0)$ and $E_3 = (0, 0, w)$. Then we have three equilibrim points with two coexisting populations, i.e.,
$$
E_4 =  \bigg( \frac{\displaystyle uq(av-p)}{\displaystyle cuva-pq},\frac{\displaystyle pv(cu-q)}{\displaystyle cuva-pq},0\bigg),
$$
$$
E_5 = \bigg( \frac{\displaystyle ur(bw-p)}{\displaystyle fuwb-rp},0, \frac{\displaystyle wp(fu-r)}{\displaystyle fuwb-rp}\bigg),
 $$
 $$
E_6 = \bigg( 0, \frac{\displaystyle vr(we-q)}{\displaystyle gvwe-qr}, \frac{\displaystyle wq(vg-r)}{\displaystyle gvwe-qr}\bigg).
$$
Finally, we have the coexistence equilibrium $E_7=(x_7,y_7,z_7)$, which can be assessed only via numerical simulations.

For example, taking as parameters $p = 1$, $q = 2$, $r =2$, $a = 5$, $b=4$, $c =3$, $e=7$, $f=7$, $g=10$, $u=3$, $v=2$, $w=1$, the  points associated with the survival of only one population, i.e. $E_1 = (3, 0, 0)$, $E_2 = (0, 2, 0)$ and $E_3 = (0, 0, 1)$, are stable, the origin $E_0 = (0, 0, 0)$ is an unstable equilibrium and the coexistence equilibrium $E_7 \approx (0.1899,    0.0270,    0.2005)$ is a saddle point.
The remaining equilibria $E_4 \approx (0.6163,0.1591,0)$, $E_5 \approx (0.2195,0,0.5317)$ and $E_6 \approx (0,0.1714,0.2647)$ are other saddle points. The manifolds joining these saddles
partition the phase space into the different domains of attraction, but intersect only at the coexistence saddle point $E_7$.

\section{Implicit partition of unity method via stable bases} \label{wsvdpu}
In this section we present the method used to reconstruct the basins of attraction. Since they are often described by implicit surfaces,
we consider the implicit partition of unity method using locally stable bases. Such surfaces are defined by point cloud data sets of the form $ {\cal X}_N= \{ \boldsymbol{x}_i \in \mathbb{R}^{3},$ $ i=1, \ldots, N \}$, belonging to a surface in $ \mathbb{R}^{3}$.

\subsection{Stable bases} \label{stbases}
Our goal is to recover a function $f: \Omega\to \RR$ on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \RR^3$, sampling $f$ on $N$ pairwise
distinct points ${\cal X}_N\subset\Omega$, namely $\boldsymbol{f} =[f_1, \ldots , f_N]^T$, $f_i = f(x_i)$, $x_i\in {\cal X}_N$.
To do that, we consider a positive definite and symmetric kernel $\Phi : \Omega \times \Omega \rightarrow \RR$ and construct the interpolant as
\begin{equation}\label{ansatz}
R(\boldsymbol{x}) = \sum_{j = 1}^N c_j \Phi(\boldsymbol{x}, \boldsymbol{x}_j), \qquad \boldsymbol{x}\in\Omega,
\end{equation}
where $\Phi$ is a radial kernel depending on a \textit{shape parameter} $\epsilon > 0$,
i.e. $\Phi(\boldsymbol{x},\boldsymbol{y})=\phi_{\epsilon}(||\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{y}||_2)=\phi(\epsilon ||\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{y}||_2)$ and $\phi: \RR_{\geq 0}\to \RR$
for all $\boldsymbol{x},\boldsymbol{y} \in \Omega$.
The coefficients $\boldsymbol{c}= [c_1, \ldots, c_N]^T$ in \eqref{ansatz} are determined
by solving the linear system $A \boldsymbol{c}= \boldsymbol{f}$, where the interpolation
matrix $A= [\Phi (\boldsymbol{x}_i , \boldsymbol{x}_j)]_{i,j=1}^N$.
So the obtained solution $R$ is a function of the \textit{native Hilbert space} ${\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$
uniquely associated with the kernel, and, if $f\in {\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$, it is in particular
the ${\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$-projection of $f$ into the subspace ${\cal N}_{\Phi}({\cal X}_N)$
spanned by the standard basis of translates ${\cal T}_{{\cal X}_N}= \{\Phi(\boldsymbol{x},\boldsymbol{x}_j), 1\leq j\leq N\}$ (cf. e.g. \cite{Fasshauer07}).

Since in most cases the matrix $A$ can be severely ill-conditioned and therefore the
interpolant \eqref{ansatz} unstable, many efforts have recently been made to construct
stable bases (see e.g. \cite{Fasshauer12,Fornberg07,Pazouki11}).
In particular, here we focus on a change of basis, known as the \textit{WSVD basis},
described in \cite{Demarchi13, Demarchi15}. To construct this basis
$\mathcal U = \{u_j\}_j$ of ${\cal N}_{\Phi}({\cal X}_N)$, we can assign
an invertible coefficient matrix $D_{\mathcal U} = [d_{ij}]_{i,j=1}^N$ such that
\begin{align*}
u_j = \sum_{i=1}^N d_{ij} \Phi(\cdot, \boldsymbol{x}_i),
\end{align*}
or, equivalently, an invertible value matrix $V_{\mathcal U} = [u_{j}(x_i)]_{i,j=1}^N$ so that
$A = V_{\mathcal U} \cdot D_{\mathcal U}^{-1}$ \cite{Pazouki11}.
To define the WSVD basis ${\cal U}$ for ${\cal N}_\Phi( {\cal X}_N)$, the matrices are given by
\begin{align*}
D_{\cal U} = \sqrt{W} \cdot Q \cdot\Sigma^{-1/2}\; \mbox{ and }\; V_{\cal U} = \sqrt{W^{-1}} \cdot Q \cdot \Sigma^{1/2},
\end{align*}
where $\sqrt{W} \cdot A \cdot \sqrt{W} =  Q \cdot \Sigma \cdot Q^{T}$ is a SVD of the weighted kernel matrix
$A_{W}=\sqrt{W} \cdot A \cdot \sqrt{W}$, $W_{ij} = \delta_{ij} w_i$ is a diagonal matrix of positive weights,
and $\Sigma = {\rm diag}(\sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_N)$ the corresponding singular values.
This basis has been constructed to mimic in a discrete sense the \textsl{eigenbasis} defined through Mercer's Theorem (see e.g. \cite{Fasshauer07}), where the inner product of $L_2(\Omega)$ is replaced with its discrete version $\ell_2({\cal X}_N)$. Moreover, as shown in \cite{Demarchi13}, the WSVD basis $\{u_j\}_{j=1}^N$ enjoys the following properties, i.e.,
\begin{enumerate}
	\item[i)]  it is ${\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$-orthonormal,
	\item[ii)]  it is $\ell_2({\cal X}_N)$-orthogonal with norm $\sigma_k$,
	\item[iii)] \label{double} $(u_k, f)_{\ell_2({\cal X}_N)} = \sigma_k(u_k, f)_{{\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)}$, $\forall f \in {\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$,
	\item[iv)] $\sigma_N\geq\dots\geq \sigma_1>0$,
	\item[v)] $\sum_k\sigma_k = \phi(0)\ \mathrm{meas}(\Omega)$.
\end{enumerate}
Since the interpolation is a ${\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$-projection and thanks to property iii), we can rewrite the interpolant
\eqref{ansatz} in terms of the ${\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)$-orthonormal WSVD basis as
\begin{align*}
R= \sum_{k=1}^{N} (f, u_k)_{{\cal N}_{\Phi}(\Omega)} u_k =\sum_{k=1}^{N} \sigma^{-1}_k (f, u_k)_{\ell_2({\cal X}_N)} u_k.
\end{align*}

\subsection{Implicit surface reconstruction via partition of unity interpolation}\label{PUMi}
To find the implicit interpolant, we need to use additional interpolation conditions considering an extra set of off-surface points.
We construct the extra off-surface points by taking a small step away along the surface normals $\boldsymbol{n}_i$, thus obtaining
for each data point $\boldsymbol{x}_i$ two additional off-surface points. One point lies outside the surface and is denoted by
$\boldsymbol{x}_{N+i}=\boldsymbol{x}_i+ \delta \boldsymbol{n}_i$, whereas the other point lies inside and is denoted by
$\boldsymbol{x}_{2N+i}= \boldsymbol{x}_i- \delta \boldsymbol{n}_i$, where $\delta$ is the stepsize \cite[Ch. 30]{Fasshauer07}.
Now, after creating the data set, we can compute the partition of unity interpolant, whose zero contour or iso-surface interpolates
the point cloud data ${\cal X}_N$, as well as the sets  $\cal{X}_{ \delta}^{+}=$ $  \{ \boldsymbol{x}_{N+1},\ldots, \boldsymbol{x}_{2N} \}$ and $\cal{X}_{ \delta}^{-}=$ $ \{ \boldsymbol{x}_{2N+1},\ldots,$ $\boldsymbol{x}_{3N} \}$. Some techniques to estimate the normals can be found in \cite{Hoppe94}.

The idea of the partition of unity method is to decompose a large problem or domain $\Omega \subseteq \RR^3$ into $d$
small problems or subdomains $\Omega_j$ such that $\Omega \subseteq \bigcup_{j=1}^{d} \Omega_j$ with some mild overlap among the subdomains.
Associated with these subdomains we construct a partition of unity, i.e. a family of compactly supported, non-negative, continuous
functions $W_j$ with $\text{supp}(W_j) \subseteq \Omega_j$ such that
$\sum_{j=1}^{d} W_j(\boldsymbol{x}) = 1$, $\boldsymbol{x} \in \Omega$. The global approximant thus assumes the following form
\begin{align}
\label{pui}
{\cal I}(\boldsymbol{x})= \sum_{j=1}^{d} R_j(\boldsymbol{x}) W_j(\boldsymbol{x}), \hspace{1cm} \boldsymbol{x} \in \Omega.
\end{align}
For each subdomain $\Omega_j$ we may define a {\it Shepard weight} function $W_j:\Omega_j \rightarrow \RR$ as
\begin{align*}
W_j = \frac{\varphi_j}{\sum_{k=1}^d \varphi_k},
\end{align*}
$\varphi_j$ being the compactly supported Wendland $C^{2k}, \; k\ge 1$ functions \cite{Wendland05}, and a local WSVD interpolant $R_j:\Omega_j \rightarrow \RR$ of the form
\begin{align*}
R_j = \sum_{k=1}^{N_j} \sigma^{-1}_{jk} (f, u_k^{(j)})_{\ell_2({\cal X}_j)} u_k^{(j)},
\end{align*}
where $N_j$ indicates the number of data points in $\Omega_j$, i.e. the points $\boldsymbol{x}_i^{(j)} \in {\cal X}_j = {\cal X}_N \cap \Omega_j$.

The partition of unity approach is therefore a simple and effective computational technique because it allows us to decompose a large problem into many small subproblems, ensuring that the accuracy obtained for the local fits is carried over to the global one (for further details see \cite{Cavoretto14, Cavoretto15a, Wendland05}).

\section{Determining the basins of attraction via stable bases} \label{applicazione}
In this section we show how the method previously introduced can be used to approximate the basins of attraction of systems presenting three stable equilibria.

In this situation we can use the routine outlined in \cite{Cavoretto15b} to approximate the basins of attraction of the system \eqref{model3d}. More precisely, we start considering $n$ equispaced points on each edge of the cube $[0,\gamma]^3$, where $\gamma \in \mathbb{R}^+$, and we define a set of initial conditions as follows
\begin{align*}
\begin{array}{llll}
P_{i_1,i_2}^{1}=(x_{i_1},y_{i_2},0) & \quad \textrm{and} & \quad P_{i_1,i_2}^{2}=(x_{i_1},y_{i_2},\gamma), & \quad i_1, i_2=1, \ldots, n, \\
P_{i_1,i_2}^{3}=(x_{i_1},0,z_{i_2}) & \quad \textrm{and} & \quad P_{i_1,i_2}^{4}=(x_{i_1},\gamma,z_{i_2}), & \quad i_1, i_2=1, \ldots, n, \\
P_{i_1,i_2}^{5}=(0,y_{i_1},z_{i_2}) & \quad \textrm{and} & \quad P_{i_1,i_2}^{6}=(\gamma,y_{i_1},z_{i_2}), & \quad i_1, i_2=1, \ldots, n.
\end{array}
\end{align*}
Then, by taking points in pairs and by performing a bisection algorithm, a certain number of separatrix points lying on the basins of attraction is found. As an example, the points lying on the separatrix manifolds shown in Figure \ref{fig1} have been found considering $n=15$ and $\gamma=6$.

In Figure \ref{fig1} we report the plot of the three surfaces describing the domains of attraction. They have been reconstructed with the stable method \eqref{pui} presented in Section \ref{wsvdpu}. Such approximate surfaces have been obtained by taking a number $d = 4$ of partition of unity subdomains and the Wendland $C^6$ function
\begin{align*}
\phi_{\epsilon}(r) = \left(1-\epsilon r\right)_+^8(32\epsilon^3r^3+25\epsilon^2r^2+8\epsilon r+1),
\end{align*}
with shape parameter $\epsilon = 0.001$.

\begin{figure}[ht!]

	\includegraphics[height=.25\textheight]{Punti}
	\includegraphics[height=.25\textheight]{TreBaciniInsieme1}
	\caption{Set of points lying on the surfaces determining the domains of attraction (left) and the reconstruction of the basins of attraction of $E_1$, $E_2$ and $E_3$ (right) with parameters $p = 1$, $q = 2$, $r =2$, $a = 5$, $b=4$, $c =3$, $e=7$, $f=7$, $g=10$, $u=3$, $v=2$, $w=1$. The stable equilibria are marked with the blue dot, while the unstable saddle points are represented with the black dot.}
	\label{fig1}

\end{figure}

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In honor of #SuicidePreventionDay I'll share some of my personal truth. I had someone once ask me 'How could Chester (Bennington) do that when he had it all?' It's a question that comes up a lot. I'll try to explain my experience. See this pic? It was around this time I was having some of the most depression I'd experienced as a person in recovery. I finally had it- I'd achieved rockstar getting the gig as guitarist for the legendary #Korn, and still so many days I'd wake up feel so dark, melancholy. Addiction centers in the mind. It's much deeper than the things we get loaded on. And when you have all the *outside* things that are supposed to make you happy and you still aren't, well then what? Then you really feel screwed. At least I did. I felt a shame attached to it saying 'What's wrong with you? How dare you feel this way with the life you have.' bringing on extra layers of feeling shame and guilt. But why? For me, the opposite of addiction and depression is connection. But it takes courage. It takes contrary action. It takes being honest about how you feel when everything in your body tells you to isolate, you're not worth it, don't bother people. It took me being honest with the people around me, being open vulnerable. It took me getting a #therapist. Doing deeper dives into old traumas, looking at subtle behavioral patterns that resulted in hurt that cause #SuicidalIdeation. It took me learning to love myself more than the a bad relationship I thought would fix me, validate me. For those challenged with metal health issues, no amount of #success, money, property, prestige is going to fill that emptiness we feel. I heard somewhere 'It's not about searching for happiness, it's about finding fulFILLment, that generates happiness from within.' And this seems to be true. When I make my motives about what I can bring into the world, what I can do to serve others, making it about what I'm offering the world rather than what the world needs to give me, I find this fulfillment. This is where I came up with the phrase the @VortexOfRadness. On this path we meet people who cultivate energy in the same way. There's nothing like it. #MentalHealth
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See this pic? It was around this time I was having some of the most depression I'd experienced as a person in recovery.
I finally had it- I'd achieved rockstar (status) getting the gig as guitarist for the legendary #Korn, and still so many days I'd wake up feel so dark, melancholy.
Addiction centers in the mind. It's much deeper than the things we get loaded on. And when you have all the *outside* things that are supposed to make you happy and you still aren't, well then what? Then you really feel screwed. At least I did. I felt a shame attached to it saying 'What's wrong with you? How dare you feel this way with the life you have.' bringing on extra layers of feeling shame and guilt. But why?
For me, the opposite of addiction and depression is connection. But it takes courage. It takes contrary action. It takes being honest about how you feel when everything in your body tells you to isolate, you're not worth it, don't bother people.
It took me being honest with the people around me, being open vulnerable. It took me getting a #therapist. Doing deeper dives into old traumas, looking at subtle behavioral patterns that resulted in hurt that cause #SuicidalIdeation. It took me learning to love myself more than the a bad relationship I thought would fix me, validate me.
For those challenged with metal health issues, no amount of #success, money, property, prestige is going to fill that emptiness we feel.
I heard somewhere 'It's not about searching for happiness, it's about finding fulFILLment, that generates happiness from within.' And this seems to be true.
When I make my motives about what I can bring into the world, what I can do to serve others, making it about what I'm offering the world rather than what the world needs to give me, I find this fulfillment.
This is where I came up with the phrase the @VortexOfRadness. On this path we meet people who cultivate energy in the same way. There's nothing like it."
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SF Forum: The Arnautoff Murals, Identity Politics, Privatization & Public Education
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518 Valencia St.
10/5 SF Forum:
The Arnautoff Murals, Identity Politics, Privatization & Public Education
518 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA
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Tamaka Bailey - Native American elder & storyteller
Lope Yap Jr. - VP George Washington High Alumni Association
Jack Heyman - ILWU Local 10 Retired
Rex Ridgeway - Grandparent of a student at MLK and full-time school volunteer
Carol Denney - Artist and activist
Jack Gerson - Retired OEA union activist & educator
The battle over the proposed destruction of the now world-famous Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washington High has raised critical issues not only about art and the Communist artist Victor Arnautoff but also about public education in San Francisco and the country.
For over eighty-three years these historic murals have been at George Washington High without signage and many students have been unaware about the background and history of labor, the San Francisco 1934 General Strike and the connection with these murals.
The plan by the school district board and Eli Broad trained Superintendent Vincent Matthews to spend $850,000 to cover them over, after previously proposing to destroy them has been met with a torrent of opposition in San Francisco and around the world.
At the very same time, Matthews and the school board were proposing to cut $300,000 to the Martin Luther King MLK Middle School budget.
The school in South East San Francisco has a large proportion of African American and other minority students. At the last school board meetings, dozens of students, parents, and teachers strongly spoke out against these attacks that would destroy their school and continue the long history of racist attacks on the staff and students at the school.
While San Francisco has one of the highest numbers of billionaires in the world, the school board and superintendent have continued the attack on minority and working-class public school students, teachers, and staff including with the PAR program.
This forum will look at the history of murals and the continuing privatization of education and the crisis in the school district.
United Public Workers For Action
http://www.upwa.info, (415) 533-5642
SFUSD Board & Superintendent Matthews Cutting $300,000 From MLK Middle School While Spending $850,000 To Censor GWHS Arnautoff Murals
https://youtu.be/Y5_NooOFegk
The San Francisco Unified School District Board and superintendent Vincent Matthews are seeking to cut $300,000 from the large minority and poor student population of Martin Luther King Middle School.
This is not the first attack on this school. In March, the MLK school had to make additional cuts and in 2012 the principal at that time gave away the band instruments and the music and art classes were shut down while the STEM program was instituted.
The principal Natalie Eberhard with the backing of the district also bullied and removed 17 teachers and staff of the school and engaged in a criminal cover-up of the principal trying to improperly restrain an African American special education student.
The security aid who was also a UESF member and union activist was injured as a result of the principal's action. The district management covered it up and went after a security aid Toby Caine who was a whistleblower and union activist.
This action today by Superintendent Vincent Matthews and his rubber stamp board is also taking place one month after the board on 8/13/18 voted to spend $850,000 to cover-up and censor the George Washington High Victor Arnautoff murals.
The UESF leadership were also silent during the testimony by the teachers, students and parents at the meeting to stop the $300,000 in proposed cuts.
Vincent Matthews was previously a Brown appointed trustee of the Oakland Unified School District and during this period he shut down Black and Latino schools while pushing more privatization, charters, and consultants.
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Stop retaliation, racism, and bullying by the principal of Martin Luther King Middle School
https://sfbayview.com/2012/12/stop-retaliation-racism-and-bullying-by-principal-of-martin-luther-king-middle-school/
SF Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School Administration Accused Of Violence, Bullying
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parents-teachers-protest_n_1877799
SF Martin Luther King UESF School Teachers & Parents Protest Reign Of Bullying And Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zVuIU2dMmY&t=2s
Stop The Bullying/Retaliation At SF MLK School By Principal & Carranza Criminal Cover-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nap7Y-KBUeo
SF MLK Middle School Teachers/Staff Call For DA Gascón To Investigate & Prosecute Physical Abuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_a0TGIIOk&t=4s
Censorship, Not Destruction? SFUSD Votes To Censor Arnautoff Murals
https://youtu.be/_UmLd091oFU
"Paint It Down" Rightists Disrupt Victor Arnautoff Mural Meeting In San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CRDg4nBCg&feature=youtu.be
Destroying Arnautoff Murals As Payment For "Reparations"? SFUSD Bd Votes To Paint Over Historic Murals
https://youtu.be/fPpm8FUPC2c
SF Debates Removal Of Victor Arnautoff Murals At GWH
https://youtu.be/rG6x4JS76j0
"Erasing History" SF Washington High & The Victor Arnautoff Murals
https://youtu.be/sxHijlewzoQ
Victor Arnautoff: San Francisco's Master Muralist of the 1930s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aYXYqcDNg&t=7s
When conservatives went to war over SF post office murals
https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-conservatives-went-to-war-over-SF-post-13912445.php
These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/arts/design/george-washington-murals-ugly-history-debated.html
Murals at Washington High School Stoke Debate: Board to Decide Their Fate
https://sfrichmondreview.com/2019/04/30/murals-at-washington-high-school-stoke-debate-board-to-decide-their-fate/
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SF SMART 1741 Bus Drivers Protest Attacks On Bus Safety, Union Busting & ZUM Outsourcing At SFUSD
https://youtu.be/avN9Ru5NgLo
San Francisco school bus drivers who are members of SMART 1741 attended the San Francisco Unified School District board meeting on August 13, 2019, to protest the attack on health and safety and by outsourcing and contracting out proposals including ZUM which is similar to UBER for special education students.
First Student UTU 1741 SF School Bus Drivers Protest Union Busting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdNA7fKMmVY
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§Students At SF MLK Protested $300,000 Budget Cut At School
by UPWA Friday Sep 27th, 2019 5:50 PM
Students at MLK spoke up against a $300,000 budget cut at their school and how it would severely threaten their school and education.
§The Arnautoff Murals Show The Real History Of Geoge Washington
The George Washington Arnautoff murals show the real history of George Washington and they are national treasures yet the SF Board of Education and the superintendent Vincent Matthews voted to spend $850,000 to destroy them.
Alice Walker & Danny Glover On GWHS Arnautoff Murals repost Saturday Sep 28th, 2019 9:09 AM
SF.Forum: The Arnautoff Murals, Identity Politics, Privatization & Public Education UPWA Friday Sep 27th, 2019 6:50 PM