The first time Pedro Ayón and Serafín Andrade played soccer together, they were in an ICE detention facility in McFarland, California. For a few hours a day, during designated ‘yard times,’ they were allowed to be outside — as long as there was an officer to escort them through the hallway and another to watch […]
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In Defense of Ethnic Studies: Teaching Anti-Racist Courses Despite Backlash
Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community. In the fall of 2018, Capuchino High School—one of seven in the San Mateo Union High School District—piloted an Ethnic Studies course. The entire freshman class was enrolled, and they were all taught […]
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PODCAST: A COVID Update
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced that the federal state of emergency—the thing that has been keeping COVID tests, vaccinations, and Paxlovid free— will end on May 11. But as much as we wish it would, declaring the pandemic over won’t make that true. On this episode of Radio Teco News, El Tecolote reporter, […]
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PODCAST: Remembering Pelé
On this episode of Radio Teco News, we talk about the Brazilian icon, Pelé, who passed away in December of 2022. El Tecolote reporter Mara Cavallaro joins us to talk about her fellow Brazilian and what Pelé meant to her.
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Community leaders urge people to get tested, vaccinated before federal emergency expires
Mara Cavallaro reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community for El Tecolote via Report for America. Photos by Benjamin Fanjoy. When the COVID vaccine arrived at the Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Capp, Susana Rojas brought her whole family to get vaccinated. “You name it, I brought them,” […]
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The Mission Food Hub’s Uncertain Future
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; photos by Benjamin Fanjoy] On Wednesdays, Maria Milagros Hernández arrives at the Mission Food Hub line before sunrise. She sits at the corner of 19th and Harrison in a foldable chair, hand sanitizer […]
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PODCAST: A look back at 2022
Happy New Year!! Before 2023 gets in full swing, El Tecolote revisits a few of 2022’s biggest stories with our very own writer Mara Cavallaro. With Mara’s focus being mental health, we talked about the three biggest stories she wrote for El Tecolote discussing this important topic during an action packed 2022. Sources mentioned in […]
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El Tecolote’s 2022 news stories: reporting on the San Francisco Bay Area, California, the nation, and globe
El Tecolote has served the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970. In our 52nd year, El Tecolote’s core mission is as it was upon launching our first edition decades ago — to bring news to people powered by, and in the interests of, the pueblo. Through 25 issues per year, El Tecolote covered topics important […]
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The international fight to make abortion legal, safe, and free
[Photos by Mara Cavallaro; Lead photo: Verónica Cruz, founder of Las Libres, the Mexican feminist organization guaranteeing free abortion pills for people in the U.S., poses for a portrait during a fundraising event at Acción Latina on Dec. 10. The group raised $2,220 to fund Las Libres’ abortion kits.] Spike Kahn had been fundraising for […]
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The Mexican network guaranteeing free, safe abortions in the U.S: Q & A with Las Libres’ Verónica Cruz
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; lead photo: Verónica Cruz, founder of Las Libres, a central Mexico-based reproductive justice organization, speaks in Guanajuato, México, 2014. Photo: Niktehabrc/wikimedia commons] This June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there […]