Zack Haber
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oakland based freelance journalist. labor/housing/schools/arts/city hall/etc. also a poet. @Oaklandside @thevallejosun dms open af Zack.Haber @gmail they/them
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And here's a video from Balboa High School students in San Francisco...
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According to
@AROCBayArea
, about 1,500 Bay Area students participated in a walkout today demanding a cease fire and in protest of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Some of these were Fremont High School students in Oakland. Here's a video via AROC from earlier today...
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Berkeley High School students walked out too…
About 150 Berkeley High students walked out of class Wednesday calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine. They chanted “Stop bombing Gaza” while marching from Civic Center to the Cal campus through downtown Berkeley.
📷:
@allymarkovich
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I just counted 145 tents at the UC Berkeley occupation but the total number might be a bit higher than that. It’s hard to see them all…
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1/ The march to support Palestine in San Francisco today is so large that it’s very difficult to measure. It’s much bigger than the first one. I’ll tie some videos of the march together in this thread to give an idea…
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Jewish East Bay residents with Jewish Voice for Peace are occupying the Federal Building in Oakland right now…
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Noticed this today: hand sanitizer attached to a pillar holding up a freeway in Oakland near Wood Street, where some unhoused people live. I briefly thought the city of Oakland provided it. Nope! There was a phone number on it. When I called it I got the Berkeley Free Clinic.
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Massive support for Palestine and against genocide in the streets of San Francisco right now...
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@hyphy_republic
@lesuperburp
Can’t confirm for sure but the staff and admin here seem very supportive of Palestine. 99% sure it was official.
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Bay Area people if you get mail from Fastrak asking for late fees or claiming "toll evasion violation" don't pay it.
They're waving all the fees if you call them up and talk to them.
Press "1" for making a payment then speak to a representative. This just saved me 210 bucks.
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@Duhlency
@alastairboone
i talk with loads of homeless people for the work i do with The Oakland Post. about half of them have jobs. about 75% grew up in Oakland.
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1/ The city of San Pablo is set to build a regional police training center it estimates will cost $43.6 million
It's a large investment for the small city, population about 30K, which spent about $66 on all its budget expenditures last year. My report:
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1/ Mario Gonzalez’s brother, Jerry, speaking at a press conference outside the Alameda Police Station about his brothers death, and small section of the police body cam footage his and his family have been allowed to see. “They took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”
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Massive crowd in support of Palestine and against the genocide outside of the San Francisco Ferry Building right now. This is the biggest crowd I’ve seen yet…
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reading Diane Di Prima Revolutionary Letters right now. this little bit wow :)
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Very large crowd outside the SF Federal Building supporting Palestine, calling for an end to the US supported Israel genocide of Palestinians. Protestors have shut down the building
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Two different teachers at Oakland High told me over 80% of students didn't show up to school yesterday likely due to the student strike for better COVID safety measures.
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I finally got a higher vantage point; truly massive crowd. This action to support Palestine and to call for an end to the genocide was called last night. More people filing in…
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@scmaestra
@Mrbankstips
ya i don’t understand this take. is “he may be rich but he’s also really boring” a compliment lol
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Spotted in the wild outside of Berkeley Bowl today. What this Tesla driver lacks in aesthetic taste they more than make up for in parking skills…
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Richmond’s Mayor Eduardo Martinez just announced the mayor’s office will be closed tomorrow “in solidarity with this week’s global strike for Palestine.”
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As a substitute teacher for OUSD I find myself cleaning a lot of air filters, because no one else seems to do it.
This was what I removed from one today.
Some policy and instruction for teachers about how and when to do this from OUSD would help! It’s not that complicated!
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Protestors are outside the APEC summit in San Francisco, which President Biden just arrived at, calling for a ceasefire. Keep an eye on Rene's tweets to learn more--
NOW in San Francisco to disrupt while APEC is hosted,
@POTUS
just arrived today. Hear SF yell
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNOW
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Oakland’s Rockridge Trader Joe’s is the first in California to be unionized…
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SFPD killed a man yesterday but the biggest San Francisco story right now seems to be people looting the Louis Vuitton store.
SFPD killed a man named Ajmal Amani Friday morning. there’s not much info from the news outlets reporting on it so far and police aren’t saying how many time they shot or how many of them shot him yet
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1/ i really hope all tenants in Oakland and Alameda County know that despite the national eviction moratorium ending they're still covered under the city and county moratoriums. no one in those locations can legally be evicted for none payment of rent right now.
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Richmond City Council passed a resolution to divest from Israel last night.
Via AROC, Mayor Eduardo Martinez, JVP Bay Area and CAIR-SFBA on Instagram today…
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1/ Westlake Middle School's Moses Omolade and Maurice Andre San-Chez at the rally/walkout today outside of OUSD's central offices in downtown Oakland. The duo started a hunger strike at midnight last night. They say they won't eat till OUSD and the cancels plans to close schools.
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I wrote about tenants in 8 buildings unionizing and engaging in 13 month rent strike for The Oaklandside. It ended with some pretty significant concessions from their landlord and property management company including 30% back rent cancellation...
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1/ Last Saturday there was a punk show with bands from LA that played in a large homeless community west of Wood Street in Oakland. I interviewed 4 residents there today who said that audience members set 3 large fires and put graffiti all over a resident's trailer...
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Speaker just now: "Condemning Hamas without condemning Israeli apartheid is basically encouraging the genocide."
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imagine the vehicle you sleep in got stolen and you seek shelter in a clearly abandoned stripped vehicle, like this one, and then cops arrest you for “possession of a stolen vehicle.” that’s what an unhoused person in West Oakland told me happened to him about 2 weeks ago.
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Thousands of people supporting Palestine by the SF Ferry Building right now…
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Richmond and Oakland's resolutions relating to Israel / Palestine are quite different and it's interesting to view them side by side. Here they are, Richmond first (passed October 24), Oakland second (passed yesterday)
Richmond's calls for an "end to Israeli apartheid"...
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What's up with The San Francisco Standard having an Asian American communities reporter, but no Black communities reporter, no Latinx and/or Indigenous communities reporter?
And even the Asian American communities reporter seems to just focus on East Asian communities...
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Landlord Neill Sullivan has served over 350 eviction notices. Now his tenants are organizing. My report for The Oakland Post on the newly formed SMC Tenants Council...
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I find it hard to take a reporter seriously if they party with one of the most powerful people in the town that they live in.
I find it hard to take a reporter seriously if they decide to shamelessly amplify the fact that their co-worker is doing this.
I’m a firm believer in the power of the rally shot. Apparently so is Mayor Breed. With
@sfstandard
’s own
@leahygarrett
.
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The city/county handed out about 6,500 smoke masks in the last month. Mask Oakland in collaboration w other grassroots groups handed out over 30,000 masks and are set to hand out about 54k after this weekend. Why are grassroots groups doing much more...
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sure “zoning laws” have a racist history. and so does market rate housing.
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If a publication reports on Calavara’s closing and quotes its instagram account saying “the state of Oakland hasn’t been kind to small business,” I think it’s also important to point out that restaurant reached a settlement w over 260 of its workers related to wage theft in 2022.
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I am at the Stop Cop Campus rally in San Pablo. There are 150 to 175 people here. Very diverse crowd in terms of age and race. Unlikely I will get permission for video or photos; makes sense given what’s happened to Stop Cop City activists
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Disabled people and people with autoimmune disorders told me they are worried that dropping this mask mandate would force them to ration their access to care, putting them in a dangerous situation...
Mask mandate for Alameda County hospitals could end next week
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Here’s the scene at the anti-APEC pro-Palestinian protest now in San Francisco. I saw calls to show up at 11, 12 and 1. The crowd is growing and growing…
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3/The center has recently faced protests. The city delayed a groundbreaking ceremony after the Stop Cop Campus Coalition announced they planned to protest. City Manager Matt Rodriguez attributed the delay to “operational concerns and logistics.”
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Housed people from LA organized a massive punk show in the biggest homeless community in Oakland on June 26. Most homeless residents I talked to weren't happy about about how it went down, the fire dangers it posed, and the harm it caused...
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@Jacob_Labendz
i like the sentiment but let’s go for president and highly paid admin salary cuts first.
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It's depressing to me how when most people talk about crime in Oakland, they don't talk much about youth services--both programs to get basic needs met and fun things to do. I think those kinds of services would help a lot.
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This project is set to cost about half as much as Cop City. People are protesting in San Pablo today at 3 starting at Kennedy Plaza. I’ll be there and might and might send out some tweets about it. More background info here…
1/ The city of San Pablo is set to build a regional police training center it estimates will cost $43.6 million
It's a large investment for the small city, population about 30K, which spent about $66 on all its budget expenditures last year. My report:
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Looks like Seneca Scott just blocked me. Over the last few days I've been pointing out hateful things he's been saying about queer and trans people. He hasn't interacted with any of those tweets.
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"Vallejo police failed to disclose military equipment as required by state law"
My report on how, for about the last two years, VPD has been using their military equipment in violation of state law...
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60+ people are at Oscar Grant Plaza for a “Stop Cop City” rally right now to point out the connections between Cop City and actors in Oakland. Some flyers…
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Tenants and supporters living at 2342 Valley St with the Valley St Tenant Council of the
@TANC_Bay
tenant union, are protesting at KP Market, calling for their landlord, Byong Yu, to fix habitability issues. Yu owns KP Market as well—and tenants are threatening a boycott if…
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The march to shut down APEC is nearing the Moscone Center—where the summit is taking place…
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The City of Oakland evicted about 25 unhoused Black men who lived in tents in a park by 34th and Peralta on March 10. A few of them told me police handed them this map, instructing them to stay outside of the boxed area—a no encampment zone, they say the cops said.
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A rainbow shines over the border wall at People’s Park…
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Big crowd, i’d say over a couple of hundred, outside of the OUSD central offices at 1000 Broadway in Downtown Oakland protesting against school closures. Students and staff from Westlake, Dewey, La Escuelita, Met West did a walk out and came here. Students and staff are speaking.
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Large diverse crowd outside of Gate 14 of Chrevron Richmond Refinery protesting the company’s support and collaboration with Israel
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Not trying to blow up a place so maybe don’t go but Knowland Park has got to be one of the most underrated parks in Oakland. Nice views, mushrooms, beautiful Coast Oaks…
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SFPD killed a man named Ajmal Amani Friday morning. there’s not much info from the news outlets reporting on it so far and police aren’t saying how many time they shot or how many of them shot him yet
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workers at Peet's Coffee in Berkeley and Oakland are telling me that multiple co-workers have tested positive for COVID, then management has shifted employees around from and to locations that have had positive cases.
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These flyers are all over Oakland High School right now. Oakland High School is the site where the biggest documented OUSD COVID outbreak so far this school year occurred a few weeks ago.
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This morning Democracy Now! reported on the “Stop Cop Campus” rally that happened last weekend in San Pablo against the city constructing a new regional police training facility. They used some video I took…
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Lots of people have been pushing for citywide free wifi in Oakland. I was talking to some people who are experiencing homelessness and told me they could no longer attend NA meetings because they don't have wifi. It's a public health issue.
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Just got this press release in my inbox.
Looks like Planned Parenthood workers in Northern California are unionizing with SEIU 1021.
Some pretty wild details in here too...
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OUSD leadership has criticized how some of its teachers plan to teach about Israel / Palestine and has suggested they uses lessons from The Institute for Curriculum Services instead.
Here are two things I've found out about that institute. A thread:
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People knocked down the fence for the site and wrote / drew on its sign…
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It’s unfortunate Community Foods is closing down. But I wish news outlets would stop inaccurately reporting it’s the “only full scale grocery store in West Oakland.” Mandela Grocery Co-op is still open. They offer 50% off California grown fruits and vegetables for EBT/Snap users.
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workers are uniting at the port of oakland to block the ZIM boat with
@AROCBayArea
. truck drivers honking horns at the pickets—
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I found a shit ton of oyster mushrooms today in the East Bay. Easily several pounds. More than I’ve ever found before… :)
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2/ The city plans for the center to have as 20 lane gun range, drone work space, and virtual reality space.
Not only, San Pablo, but other agencies in the area could use the space...
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Oakland Council President Nikki Fortunado Bas has written an open letter to Biden and Congress members urging a ceasefire.
In it she called the 14+ billion proposed US aid to Israel “unconscionable.”
Community – I am urging
@POTUS
President Biden and our members of
#Congress
to call for an immediate
#ceasefire
. I thank
@RepBarbaraLee
and others who are already following the will of the majority to end the violence in
#Gaza
.
See my letter here:
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I really enjoyed this book about how modern conservatism in the USA is largely influenced by reactions of big agricultural business owners to worker organizing in the 1930s in California. I’d highly recommend to those interested in California and/or US history…
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Via the National Labor Relations Board website, 100 employees at Grindr filed to form a union today...
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@jservantez
well. looks like you got some good info to start a tenants union! your landlord is such a dumbass!!!
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Requirements to wear masks in health facilities and high risk settings (including hospitals) could end next week in Alameda County.
Some Oakland residents are saying it'd be a dangerous move, and are asking the county to keep requiring masks.
My report:
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i’m impressed with how Cob on Wood has progressed over the last few months, a project that has put a kitchen, clinic, bathroom and free store in the massive Wood Street homeless community. after talking with people i’m hearing people use the facilities and they’ve been helpful.
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Members and supporters of
@sdaction1
gathered in Downtown Oakland today to call on Alameda County Health Department to keep a mask mandate in healthcare facilities such as hospitals.
The mandate could legally stop on April 3, unless the county decides otherwise…
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The group plans to protest again next Saturday...
@zuliemann
Here is some more info from instagram. There are two good instagram accounts to keep up with this stuff:
@weelauneedefense_oakland
and
@stopcopcampus
.bayarea
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I’m at 16th and Valencia where AROC and lots of other groups are protesting Israeli killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 74 years of occupation and violence, and USA support of occupation. Feels like at least a few hundred here so far.
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ex-workers at The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse who were laid off when covid hit but not rehired protested the depot’s reopening today. 20 people came, supporters included, and some customers left after they talked to the protestors
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hella people here at the Parker Elementary school occupation in Oakland rn, btw…
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thing i hope that people understand: if we ended single family zoning in oakland and opened areas zoned that way up to new types of construction, due to costa-hawkins, those newly constructed housing units would not be subject to rent control.
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Margo, of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, speaking to a massive crowd outside the San Fransisco Federal Building
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I’m hearing there’s a student walkout planned for tomorrow and starting at 10 am at Oakland Tech to protest school closures.
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I wrote about Palestinians and supporters blocking an Israeli ship from delivering cargo last Friday, how it's another chapter in The Port of Oakland's radical history, and the ILWU Local 10's pattern of supporting international solidarity since the 1930s
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i’m outside of san quentin state prison right now with a crowd of several hundred. getting word 800 inmates have tested positive for covid, that’s more than 1 in 4. it was around 500 on thursday.
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It looks like students at Oakland Tech led a walk out / protest related to sexual assault / harassment on campus today
"how many of you actually know how to report a sexual assault or sexual harrassment?"
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reminder that teachers, and substitute teachers, have to pay every year to keep their jobs in California.
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Moe’s Books workers are accusing ownership of union busting. Here are some Moe’s workers, IWW members, and community supporters who are picketing outside of the store and talking with community members about the situation.
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“this is scary and i’m covered in soot” says a man experiencing homelessness that i talk to sometimes as i wait by a traffic light to enter the highway. how many vacant units are there in Oakland again?
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5/ ...residents also said that rave organizers also handed out money to residents after the show, sharing some of the funds the event had generated in exchange for using space near where they lived.
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Illegal dumping also looks like this, btw.
(14th and Union streets)
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1/ Shortly after San Pablo faced protests and national attention for their decision to build a $43+ million dollar regional policing facility, the city decided to suspend public comment through Zoom and telephone until April 2024...
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