Liz and I have been in the Moabit Berlin neighborhood over a week.
Our first trip out of America 🇺🇸 to Berlin in over five years.
A preferred mode of transit is the bicycle.
We are just hanging out as if we are locals leading a regular life. Taking public transit. Shopping. Going to cafés and restaurants. Chatting up the merchants and citizens of Berlin.
A Police boat on the Spree River which winds its way through Berlin
Moabit is a heavily Turkish neighborhood and we have eaten several meals at the Turm Bistro.
Twice we have dined at a nearby Italian restaurant Osteria dell’ Arte where the staff offered us expensive drinks on the house.
Earlier Liz and I spent an afternoon at the ✡️ Jewish history museum. The current special exhibition is a deep look into the lives of Jewish people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Formerly East Germany.
There is so much history in Berlin.
Germany. Land of bicycles 🚲 At the Jewish ✡️ Museum..Kristallnacht November 9, 1938..when the Nazis rampaged and destroyed Jewish businesses and houses of worship
Top photo: the Bellevue train station in Berlin..a train for Potsdam approaching
Liz Heidhues next to DA candidate Chesa Boudin campaigning in 2019
Sometimes I feel like despairing.
I still feel emotional pain and anger at the political lynching of Chesa Boudin on June 7, 2022, when the scheming ultra-wealthy Machiavellian toadstools, funding the recall campaign, when the POA, in retaliation for being held accountable for abuses of power, fomented lies about Chesa, when the pitchfork mob seeking a scapegoat raised public strife against Chesa, succeeded in taking Chesa away from me. I had campaigned for Chesa for DA and for the “No On H” anti-recall campaign.
Chesa on the campaign trail in San Francisco’s Castro district in 2019
I became friends with Chesa Boudin after I was falsely arrested and falsely imprisoned by two Citizen’s Arrests in my old age. The brutality I experienced at the hands of SFPD and the degradation and indignities I suffered in jail will live within me until my grave, due to my having endured these injustices towards the end of my life.
Chesa visits Mommy and Daddy in Jail
Chesa was the only person before whom I would break down and weep when he came to talk with me in a visitor’s room behind a thickly walled, soundproof partition. As the warden took me from my jail cell, she said to me “Your attorney is here to see you”. In astonishment, I asked myself “What attorney? I don’t have an attorney”.
I didn’t know what rights I had, since I had never experienced an arrest nor had ever been confined to a human cage, which is exactly what a jail cell is. Because I was desperate to find out whether my husband was ok, I decided to talk to this stranger with eyes that gripped mine with intensity. But as soon as I began speaking, Chesa stopped me, shook his head, and then pointed to the wall over on my side of the room where a phone receiver dangled without moorings.
A young and studious Chesa Boudin. “I would call him weekly for twenty minutes.” Chesa referring to his father David GIlbert with whom he had a weekly phone call
When the sheer horror that I was now imprisoned in a soundproof room where I could not be heard by another human being, that I was now wearing lurid, fluorescent orange prison attire from head to foot instead of my own clothing, that my freedom and my identity had been stripped from me for having done nothing wrong, tore into my brain, I broke down and wept in front of Chesa. Chesa’s eyes had been the first compassionate eyes I had seen during the nightmarish ordeal of my first False Citizen’s Arrest.
Chesa was the friend I turned to for inspiration when struggling with the cruel attacks on my character during our lawsuit against the people who carried out my two False Citizen’s Arrests. Their defense attorneys, wanting to win the case at any cost, waged a war against my husband and I, who are elderly and could never match their fat War Chest funded by 30-billion-dollar insurance companies. Chesa reminded me “You survived jail, you can survive this”. And so I continued our costly and draining fight for justice until we finally prevailed.
“I I could only replay that day I wouldn’t be there.” Kathy Boudin speaking of the October 22, 1981 Nyack, New York bank robbery which led to the death of two Nyack police officers and a security guard which resulted in her over 20 years incarceration. Kathy Boudin and Chesa’s dad, David Gilbert were unarmed and driving the getaway car. David Gilbert spent over 40 years in prison. His sentenced was commuted by Governor Andrew Cuomo in August 2021
‘Beyond Bars’ is Chesa’s story of the children of incarcerated parents yet it is also a story about the inhumane world waiting for those who are incarcerated and stripped of their dignity and basic human rights.
Chesa’s documentary shows the importance of family bonds and how families are broken and destroyed by the incarceration of parents. My own family did not escape the fallout from my two False Citizen’s Arrests. ‘Beyond Bars’ is a strong statement that justice must be defined, not by punishment, but by alternatives to incarceration.
Note: Liz Heidhues, 73, is a native of San Francisco. Mother. Grandparent. Educator. Athlete. Prior to April 12, 2018 Liz had never encountered law enforcement or the judicial system. On that day she was the subject of the first of two false citizen’s arrests. The second took place less than two years later. Both false citizens arrests were discharged by the Superior Court. Liz filed a lawsuit against the perpetrators and prevailed. But, the emotional and financial price to fight for her rights was devastating. Chesa Boudin was one person who felt Liz’ pain and was there for her in her moments of need.
Beyond Bars trailer
Lee Heidhues contributed to this blog post.
Top photo: Liz Heidhues at left wearing sunglasses with Chesa in front of the San Francisco Hall of Justice – April 30, 2019
Germany is well aware of the dangers of antisemitism. A country whose name will forever be stained by the Nazi reign and the resultant Holocaust from 1933-1945.
This is the reason the current Socialist government, which includes the Green Party in its ranks, has been so strident and sensitive in protecting the rights of its Jewish population.
It’s a real dilemma. Protecting the rights of its refugee population, which includes many people from the Middle East diaspora, while simultaneously cracking down on antisemitism.
The strong feelings bordering on virulent antisemitism are not limited to its refugee population. This abhorrent behavior is also exhibited by German citizens across the political spectrum.
NeoNazis on the march in Germany
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 11.3.2023
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has spoken out emphatically about antisemitism in Germany — and, in particular, an uptick in hate crimes since the Israel-Hamas war began.
“Jewish communities warn their members to avoid certain places for their own safety. And this is the reality here today, in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust,” said Habeck.
In a video posted online, the Green Party politician also warned that there would be consequences for those who exhibit antisemitic hatred.
Habeck defended Israel’s security as an integral part of Germany’s existence as a nation and sharply criticized antisemitic tendencies among some Muslims, right-wing extremists and left-wing activists.
Local media reported that protest march in Essen Germany was separated by gender, with women marching together behind men
He said Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust meant it was essential that Jews should be able to live “freely and safely in Germany, that they never again have to be afraid to openly show their religion and their culture. But it is precisely this fear that is back.”
He spoke of “painful” conversations with Frankfurt’s Jewish community, in which he learned that children were now afraid to go to school and sports clubs or to display their religious affiliation by, for example, wearing the Star of David necklace.
Habeck, who in addition to being vice chancellor is also minister for economic affairs and climate action, said there should be severe consequences for antisemitic acts, particularly for supporters of the radical Islamist militant group Hamas in Germany.
Later on Thursday, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced a ban on activities by or supporting Hamas and another pro-Palestinian organization accused of antisemitism.
Habeck said the burning of Israeli flags during demonstrations and “praising Hamas terror” were criminal offenses.
Memorial in Germany for Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass) when Nazi mobs destroyed Jewish businesses throughout the country – November 9, 1938
“Any German citizen who does this will have to answer for such offenses in court. Those who are not German cititzens will also risk their residency status,” said Habeck. “Anyone who does not yet have a residence permit will have provided a reason to be deported.”
In my wildest Pacifist dreams I never imagined a Republican, from Alabama no less, would single handedly apply the brakes to the humongous American military machine. I can still be surprised.
Former football coach now Senator Tommy Tuberville has succeeded in pissing off the Pentagon, his fellow Republican senators and millions of women who want the right to control their bodies.
Military families heap scorn on Senator Tuberville
What’s his problem? He doesn’t believe the Pentagon should pay for women to travel to states where abortion is legal to terminate their pregnancy. The past nine months he has placed a “Hold” on Senate confirmation for approximately 350 nominees who require a Senate vote.
Just imagine the uproar if Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren were engaging in a similar stunt.
Excerpted from The New York Times 11.2.2023
In a clear sign that pressure is building, a handful of Republicans took to the Senate floor on Wednesday night to excoriate Senator Tommy Tuberville (R- AL) for his tactics, which have held up more than 350 senior military positions. They attempted to call up scores of pending promotions for military officers one by one, insisting he quit blocking them — which he refused repeatedly to do.
On Wednesday night, Mr. Tuberville shot down 61 separate requests to let nominees be confirmed.
Tommy Tuberville at confirmation hearing for Chairperson Joint Chiefs of Staff
“No matter whether you believe it or not, Senator Tuberville, this is doing great damage to our military,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, in one such floor speech on Wednesday night. “If this gets to be normal, God help the military, because every one of us could find some reason to object to policy.”
The policy Mr. Tuberville is targeting, announced in February, allows service members to take leave and be reimbursed for transportation expenses if they must travel to obtain an abortion or certain fertility treatments because such procedures are not available where they are based.
It came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade, which prompted many states to move to ban or severely restrict abortion. Some doctors and legal experts fear the ruling could also eventually lead to new curbs on in vitro fertilization.
The spectacle on the floor marked the breakdown of months of behind-the-scenes negotiations in which Republicans publicly defending Mr. Tuberville’s actions and blaming Democrats and the Pentagon for failing to accommodate him have privately pleaded with the Alabama senator to relent.
“I will keep my hold in place until the Pentagon follows the law or the Democrats change the law,” he declared.
Tommy Tuberville on the gridiron as Auburn football coach
Despite their palpable frustration, none of the five Republicans challenging Mr. Tuberville on Wednesday night pledged to sign onto the Democrats’ proposal.
“I’m hoping we can find an alternative to that, but something needs to give here,” Mr. Graham said.
Still, Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, said he had not ruled it out, and other Republicans refrained from doing so as well.
“I don’t like Mr. Tuberville’s technique of making his point, and I think it’s getting to a breaking point, quite frankly,” said Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia. “So we’ll see if the resolution comes up.”
Bernie Sanders is in a tough spot. Yes. Bernie is Jewish. Bernie has also been one of the most fervent supporters, at least rhetorically, speaking up on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Now Bernie is stuck between the hard rocks of his Judaism and his support for the Palestinians.
His is the dilemma ripping apart for the Progressive movement in the United States.
Palestinian children fear Israeli death from the sky
Excerpted from Aljazeera 10.30.2030
Senator Bernie Sanders is now drawing ire from many of his supporters who feel let down by his current stance towards the Israel-Hamas war.
The senator’s current unwillingness to call for a ceasefire has left many of his Palestinian, Arab and Muslim supporters with a sense of disappointment if not betrayal.
As the Israeli military offensive in Gaza intensifies, killing thousands of children and levelling entire neighbourhoods, Sanders has not called for a ceasefire. Because of his reputation as an anti-war voice, critics say he is uniquely positioned to amplify demands for ending the hostilities in Gaza.
“At a time when Washington is lining up behind those, including the president, who are beating the drums of war, we need leaders with the courage and the legacy of anti-war activism to break that consensus and say all human life is precious by demanding a ceasefire,” said Eva Borgwardt, political director at IfNotNow, a progressive Jewish group.
“If anyone can do that in the Senate, it is Senator Sanders.”
The victims of Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people
Omar Baddar, a Palestinian American analyst who supported Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, said it is “hard to convey the depth of the disappointment” he feels over the senator’s failure to back a ceasefire.
“I know the political climate in the US at the moment is scary, anti-Palestinian and intolerant of dissent, but that’s precisely why Sanders’s voice would be so valuable,” Baddar told Al Jazeera. If Sanders speaks out, Baddar believes his actions will “create the political space” for others to do the same.
In a stunning moment during the 2016 United States presidential race, Senator Bernie Sanders called out his then-rival Hillary Clinton for failing to mention Palestinian rights in a speech she delivered to a pro-Israel lobby group.
Standing on stage in a nationally televised 2016 primary debate, Sanders highlighted the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and criticized the unconditional support that the Israeli government — under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — receives from Washington.
“There comes a time when, if we pursue justice and peace, we are going to have to say that Netanyahu is not right all of the time,” he said.
Israeli destruction of Palestinian land
It was a rare statement to come from a Washington politician. Few, even among left-leaning Democrats, have questioned whether the United States should reconsider its “unwavering” support for Israel.
But flash forward seven years, and Sanders is now drawing ire from many of his supporters who feel let down by his current stance towards the Israel-Hamas war.
Top photo: “Progressive” Bernie Sanders in front of the White House. Now joined at the hip with Israel’s war of destruction against the Palestinian people?
The unbridled passions unleashed by the Hamas terror attack inside Israel and the relentless response by Israel has turned the world upside down.
The ferocious anger being displayed by people in the Arab world has now reached Russia’s Dagestan region. A predominantly Muslim region.
Excerpted from Arab News 10.29.2023
MOSCOW: Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.
The crowd looking for Israelis at Dagestan airport
Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which belonged to Russian carrier Red Wings. The website Flightradar indicated that a Red Wings flight out of Tel Aviv had landed at Makhachkala at 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT).
Red Wings Airlines is owned by Ilyushin Finance, itself a subsidiary of the Russian government’s UAC United Aircraft Corporation holdings. It is one of the 10 largest airlines in Russia.
The independent Russian media outlet Sota said it was a transiting flight that had been due to take off again for Moscow two hours later.
People in the crowd walk shouting antisemitic slogans at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Russian news agencies and social media say hundreds of people have stormed into the main airport in the Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo)
Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.
Russia’s civilian aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, later reported that the airfield had been cleared, but that the airport would remain closed to incoming aircraft until Nov. 6.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd waving Palestinian flags and others trying to overturn a police car. Antisemitic slogans can be heard being shouted and some in the crowd examined the passports of arriving passengers, apparently in an attempt to identify those who were Israeli.
Other videos showed a crowd inside an airport terminal trying to break down doors as staff members tried to deter them.
Dagestan and Chechnya are both mainly Muslim areas — known in Russia as “republics” — in a region that has witnessed years of violent tension with the central Russian authorities.
People in predominantly Russian Dagestan surround an airplane carrying Israelis enroute to Moscow
Earlier on Sunday, the RIA Novosti news agency reported that a Jewish center in another North Caucasus republic — Kabardino-Balkaria — had been set on fire in the city of Nalchik.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, expressing concern at the “appalling” videos posted on social media, said on X, formerly Twitter, that it was not an isolated incident. It was, he said, “part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which is propagated by state television, pundits and authorities.”
In a statement released Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.” Netanyahu’s office added that the Israeli ambassador to Russia was working with Russia to keep Israelis and Jews safe.
Dagestan is Russia’s southernmost territory and one of its poorest regions. It has taken an active part in the Ukraine offensive — with independent reports showing it has sent proportionally more men to Ukraine than many more ethnically Russian regions.
I have no faith in the trust worthiness of the American mainstream media as it reports the State of Israel point of view.
Fortunately, neither do tens of thousands of Americans who have taken to the streets to protest the murderous Israel assault on Palestine.
Aljazeera is certainly no dispassionate observer. At least I can read and view a different perspective analyzing the Israeli ongoing assault on Gaza, the West Bank and the people of Palestine in general.
The wellspring of sympathy Israel engendered after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack which killed 1400 mostly Israelis on October 7 has been squandered and lost in The Fog of War.
Israeli soldiers mourn following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack
A brutal assault on the People of Palestine which has cost nearly 10,000 lives, injuries too great to tabulate and the wanton destruction of property.
The condoning and encouragement of this Israeli assault on Palestine by the Biden administration is an abomination.
Excerpted from Aljazeera 10.28.2023
The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground attacks on Wednesday and Thursday night, releasing videos to exploit them for propaganda. On both occasions, they pulled back to Israel before dawn.
The still-ongoing attack seems not to be the “‘Big One”. But as an obvious extension of the previous two incursions into Gaza, it may be a precursor to an all-out offensive.
The scene of devastation in Gaza by Israel. There are no innocent bystanders, including the dogs
Saturday’s reports from Gaza may be the last made over mobile networks and land-based internet. Israeli forces hit public telecom infrastructure and Gaza is now under an almost total communications blackout. The only means to get information out to the world are the few remaining satellite telephones, but those could be targeted at any time.
Israeli Air Force dedicated electronic warfare aircraft can pinpoint every device exchanging data with low-orbit communication satellites and direct deadly air-to-ground missiles against it.
Israelis have a long record of targeted killings using phones to identify and locate the target. One of the first victims of the technique was Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash in 1996.
However, the destruction of communication nodes and the use of electronic countermeasures to block any remaining public lines that survived will not harm Hamas fighters who, knowing Israeli tactics and capabilities, appear to have prepared for this course of action.
Palestinian sources claim that Hamas installed “Israel-proof” communications infrastructure in its extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip. It allegedly laid tens of kilometres of cables with strong electromagnetic shielding to prevent the detection and interception of signals.
A bombed out bakery in Gaza
Installed in the most modern tunnels, set in much deeper, they are almost fully secure from prying Israelis. The cables emit a minimum amount of electromagnetic radiation, and the great depth practically prevents detection and signal interception. These new, secure, means of communications may explain how Hamas managed to keep its plans for the October 7 attack secret.
The American military is using the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the cataclysmic response by the Jewish State against the people of occupied Palestine as a casus belli to wage war against Iran.
It is all smoke and mirrors pushed by American media cheerleaders like the New York Post and Wall Street Journal linking Iran to the Hamas terror attacks which killed 1400 Israelis in early October. This is historical American media behavior which has beaten the drums of war to justify action.
The latest action is the military action against Iranians and their proxies based in Syria.
The New York Post war mongering graphic 10.25.2023
Excerpted from Aljazeera 10.26.2023
On Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at the United Nations that the US would “not be spared from this fire” if Israel’s bombardment of Gaza did not end.
“I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine, that we do not welcome [an] expansion of the war in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian said. “But if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire.”
The United States has attacked two facilities in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed groups, the Pentagon has said, following a series of attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria.
The view from Tehran
The strikes came after President Joe Biden’s administration pledged to respond to attacks on US personnel that Washington has blamed on armed groups backed by Iran.
“The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against US forces are unacceptable and must stop,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement on Thursday.
“Iran wants to hide its hand and deny its role in these attacks against our forces. We will not let them. If attacks by Iran’s proxies against US forces continue, we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect our people.”
Austin said the “narrowly-tailored strikes” were in self-defense and were not connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
AmbitiousCalifornia GovernorGavin Newsom has come a long way from the Parking and Traffic Commission in San Francisco in 1996 as he swiftly moves up the political ladder.
Supervisor. Mayor. Lieutenant Governor. Governor.
Now global hopping politician as he seeks to burnish his credentials worldwide.
What’s next after his gubernatorial term expires in January 2027?
There’s a presidential election year in 2028? Perhaps, earlier if Joe Biden decides not to seek reelection next year.
Excerpted from The New York Times 10.25.2023
Gavin Newsom sitting down with Chinese leaders in Beijing 10.25.2023
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, met with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Wednesday, as part of an ambitious weeklong mission to negotiate climate partnerships.
He also discussed the Chinese imprisonment of a California pastor, David Lin, and “a variety of human rights issues including Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan,” the summary said.
Mr. Xi met with Mr. Newsom in the Great Hall of the People, a grand building on the west side of Tiananmen Square where the Chinese leader often receives dignitaries. In an official summary of the meeting published by Chinese state media, Mr. Xi was quoted as saying he hoped Mr. Newsom’s visit would help promote ties between their countries.
The two-term Democratic governor wants California to set an aggressive pace for the United States — and the world — to cut carbon emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Mr. Newsom’s moves to tackle the climate crisis have elevated his national profile, just as he is widely believed to be preparing for a White House run in 2028.
Mr. Newsom stressed in his meetings that China and California needed to work together to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and address the climate crisis, according to a summary provided by his office.
Is Governor Newsom’s meeting with Xi Jinping a prelude to the Chinese leader upcoming trip to the APEC in San Francisco?
The governor raised issues beyond climate, his office said. He pressed Chinese leaders to stop the flow of chemicals that are used to make the fentanyl that is sold on the street in California, where fatal overdoses of the drug have soared in recent years. He spoke with Chinese officials about ways to increase the number of Chinese visitors to California, the summary added; the number of direct flights between the state and China is now about 15 percent of the number that were operating before the Covid-19 pandemic began.
Nicholas Burns, the American ambassador to China, joined in the day’s meetings, and said it was “a very positive and consequential day for the United States.”
As if San Francisco doesn’t have enough to deal with, already.
Continuing street protests in support of the Palestinian people decrying Israeli aggression in The Gaza Strip and West Bank which has killed nearly 5000 men, women and children. In response to the Hamas terrorist incursion into Israel in early October which took the lives, thus far, of 1400 Israelis.
In three weeks the mammoth Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) will see The City taken over by the Feds and a swath of downtown turned into a high security garrison State.
What will The City do with its unhoused population? Having guests from 21 countries witness San Francisco’s systemic insoluble problem first hand. Unhoused sleeping and often drugged out on the streets isn’t good for the image. Nor is it good optics for this international city.
The APEC may be some kind of payoff to San Francisco’s political leadership; VP Kamala Harris, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom, the late Dianne Feinstein, and Mayor London Breed. These movers and shakers, alive and in the sweet hereafter, may love all the attention. The same may not be true for the average citizen.
San Francisco’s ruling class may love APEC. The same can’t be said for everyone
Excerpted from The Standard 10.18.2023
“An impact to the normal daily lives of San Franciscans and visitors is unavoidable,” U.S. Secret Service Special Agent-in-Charge Jeremy Brown said at the press conference. “We have absolute confidence in this plan.”
San Francisco will be under tight security in mid-November akin to safety measures at the White House when dignitaries and world leaders come to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, federal officials said at a press conference Wednesday.
APEC Security Zone – Colored area taken over by the U.S. Secret Service
Details of the security for the event were announced Wednesday by the U.S. Secret Service and will include a locked-down, four-square-block section of Downtown around the Moscone Center; closed streets; and shutdown transit lines—including the Central Subway—as well as limited air traffic over San Francisco.
Nob Hill will also be a restricted zone, and part of the Embarcadero will be closed Nov. 15.
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