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Today on KPBS Investigates, Aaron Harvey’s journey from wrongful gang charges to UC Berkeley graduation. In the summer of 2014, a swarm of police arrested Aaron Harvey near where he was living outside Las Vegas. Harvey is from San Diego, and was charged as a test case by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis using a law that had never been used before. It said someone could be charged for conspiracy for gang shootings, even if that person had nothing to do with the shootings at all. That was the case for Harvey. He was charged because he was in social media pictures wearing gang colors and making gang signs. A judge dismissed the charges against him, but not before he spent seven months in jail. Now, Harvey has done something that when he was in jail seemed like an impossible dream: graduating from UC Berkeley. This KPBS Investigates episode was reported and written by Claire Trageser. Emily Jankowski is the director of sound design. Kinsee Morlan is Podcast Coordinator. This episode was edited by Megan Burke. Lisa Morissette is operations manager and John Decker is the interim associate general manager of content. Stay tuned for more episodes of KPBS Investigates right here in your podcast feed.

The Tijuana River Valley spanning the US-Mexico border is frequently swamped with sewage-tainted water, but the cross-border flows also carry trash into an ecologically sensitive region. Meanwhile, restrictions for travel across the US Mexico border have been extended through May 21st. Plus, San Diego City Councilwoman Monica Montgomery Steppe talks police reform following the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial.

Nov. 13 through Dec. 18, 2021 Opening reception on Saturday, November 13th, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. From the gallery: BEST PRACTICE is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of a new body of work by Cog•nate Collective (Misael Diaz + Amy Sanchez Arteaga). The exhibition gathers works rendered in hand-poured beeswax, drawings on cloth, and radio broadcasts to meditate on territory, borders, and what we’ve inherited from our ancestors’ labor.[1] [(see footnote poem, below)] "Como Soles: Despidiendo Luz" borrows its title from a speech by Ricardo Flores Magon, one of the leaders of the 1911 rebellion which took control of Mexicali and Tijuana for 6 months and established a short-lived radical autonomous territory along the U.S./Mexico border. The works on view place such moments in the historical evolution of the border into dialogue with the artists’ family histories of working and living binationally – drawing for example on the history of Sanchez Arteaga’s great-grandfather as an agricultural worker and UFW organizer in the Imperial Valley/Mexicali. Ultimately, reflecting on residues of resistance we inherit, hold on to and pass on; gestures of solidarity that stand in defiance of the increasingly injurious geopolitical boundaries dividing us. About the artists: Cog•nate Collective develops interdisciplinary research projects and public interventions that explore how culture mediates social, economic and political relationships across borders. Cog•nate Collective was established in 2010 by Amy Sanchez Arteaga, lecturer of Art History at SDSU, and Misael Diaz, an assistant professor in the department of Art, Media, and Design at CSUSM. They currently work between Tijuana, B.C. and Los Angeles, CA and are based in National City, CA. They have shown and presented their work at various venues nationally and internationally, including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Armory Center for the Art, 18th Street Art Center the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, the Getty Center, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, the Arizona State University Art Museum, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Arte Actual FLACSO in Quito, Maison Folie Wazemmes in Lille and the Organ Kritischer Kunst in Berlin. --- 1. A Footnote Poem: She was a fire human. A mutable but focused and singular Sagittarius flame, not a conflagration. Steady, bright, white hot in the center, touchable at the borders, only for a second. A light in the darkness. Warmth in the cold. Trickster. Who singes the tlacuaches’ tails. Promethean harbinger of sustenance, legibility, peace. A hand to hold, a love to know, a legacy to cultivate from. I was a child hanging clothes to dry on the clothesline in the summer dusk. By her side I swatted at a bee afraid it would sting me, and she said, “They won’t hurt you. They’re your ancestors. They worked with your Pepe in the fields, they’ve been with us forever and they won’t hurt you, they remember.” Bees remember. Wax remembers. For more on Cognate Collective’s work please visit www.cognatecollective.com/

The Corvette E-Ray is a mid-engine sportscar with a powerful V8 ... and a small electric motor up front. Meet the latest version of the venerable sports car model.

As the public continues to focus a critical eye on police departments across the nation, there are at least 10 related bills currently working their way through the California legislature to affect change in policing. Plus, local unions have lobbied lawmakers to grant eligibility to their members, secured separate supplies of vaccines and launched outreach campaigns. And after a year of pandemic lockdown, the Oscars will go ahead this Sunday - this time with a much different format.

This weekend in the arts, there's a new dance film that highlights the stories of Southeast San Diego, it’s our last chance to see an exhibition of works from 30 artists living in the border region. Also work from some of the finest emerging contemporary artists studying art today.

A case of the coronavirus variant that led to a major outbreak in India has been detected in San Diego. Plus, a growing group of vaccine skeptics, appear to be changing their minds and getting the shot. Also, President Biden announced his administration would raise the nation’s refugee cap to 62,500 individuals after facing a blowback for his delay in lifting Trump’s 15,000 limit. And, as the first class of female Marines is set to graduate boot camp, they and their instructors say the time has come for continued co-ed training on the West Coast. In addition, we talk to one of the three educators within San Diego Unified who were honored for their excellence in teaching throughout a year of unprecedented change. Finally, it’s tough for kids with learning disabilities to get the help they need at school, and that the pandemic has made things even harder for them.

The pandemic’s impact on education had a profound effect not just on students and their parents, but on educators as well. Tuesday, three educators within the San Diego Unified School District were honored for their excellence in teaching throughout a year of unprecedented change.

Saturday, computer access to patient records, scheduling and critical electronic systems such as vital sign monitoring have been unavailable. The software malfunction is believed to be part of a cyberattack affecting Scripps Health system in San Diego as well as the system’s backup servers in Arizona.

The City Council on Tuesday voted to go ahead with Measure C, a March 2020 ballot measure that seeks to fund an expansion through increased hotel taxes, even though it garnered approval from slightly less than two-thirds of city voters.