VP Harris lays out stakes of election at SF campaign event amid pro-Palestinian protest

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News June 5, 2024June 5, 2024

About 150 pro-Palestinian protesters greeted people as they entered a fundraising event for United States President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign featuring Vice President Kamala Harris in San Francisco, Calif., on June 5, 2024. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

While over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters chanted outside The Chapel, a venue in San Francisco’s Mission District, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted by an equal number of supporters inside for a reelection campaign event on Wednesday.

Introducing Harris at the funeral parlor-turned concert venue was Manny Yekutiel, who owns a local restaurant that hosts political talks and events. He rallied the crowd by asking if they were going to stand by the vice president in the face of negativity and darkness and hatred and division. The crowd replied with a shout, “Yes!”

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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