Flying hipiles I woke up on Jan. 2 in the winter warmth and humidity of Merida, Yucatan. Stiffened by the air travel of the previous day, I stretched and exercised because in less 24 hours I would start the trip back to San Francisco. We were in a race against time and distance to comply […]
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Letter to the Editor: In Response to Unsettled in the Mission
In the early ‘80s I wandered into San Francisco, eventually migrating into the Mission District. First living in an SRO on 16th Street, I later settled in a relatively decent SRO on Valencia. I now have lived some 17 years in a small apartment in the southeast corner of the district. When I first arrived in […]
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Unsettled in the Mission: Coded World
Joel Uicab is a 22-year-old coder living in the tech-gentrified Mission. He is also a Mayan-Mexican immigrant and an award-winning Latino student, who has been labeled a “gang-affiliate” by the criminal justice system. He scaled the wall at the border when he was 11. Now, he is trying to life-hack his way out of the […]
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Unsettled in the Mission: Renegade
[su_carousel source=”media: 38371,38372,38373,38374,38375,38376,38377,38378,38379″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Family Separation “At 13 years old I went on the run….” she recounts. Gaby was born in Portland Oregon in 1988. She is a Spokane-Kalispel Native American. “It was rocky at first. When I was 2 years old, my mom got into drugs and my dad […]
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Unsettled in the Mission: Redlined
In the piercing cold days of late February, I walked the length of Mission Street, up the east side and down the west side, from south to north, from Cesar Chavez Street to Duboce Street. I stopped at the “That’s It” bodega at Mission and 23rd streets, where the sign says “The Center of The […]
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Teco wins big at SF Press Club awards, takes home 20 honors
At the 43rd annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards hosted by the San Francisco Press Club, El Tecolote—the Bay Area’s premier Latino bilingual community newspaper—took home an impressive 20 awards. Judges from the press clubs of Milwaukee, New Orleans, San Diego and Cleveland evaluated this year’s entries from journalists in TV, print, radio, digital media […]
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Masked Heroes and Masked Memories of Epidemics in the Mission
As we live with the surprising consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, this article remembers the catastrophic epidemics suffered by the original inhabitants of this place during the Spanish colonial era. Today’s indigenous migrants, often working as day laborers, nannies and restaurant staff, echo those first convert arrivals to the Mission Dolores. The pandemic affects them […]
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Red, white and blue: A Cuban in the Land of the Free
Street theatre SRO hotel neighbors have left the cramped domains of their single occupancy rooms to sit in the warm sun, on the steps and benches surrounding the 16 Street BART plaza. Nearest to us the radio of a homeless Afro-Cuban man plays conga tunes. Further off another radio spills out pop songs and a […]
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The Girl Who Tamed the Beast: A True Faerie Tale
This is the journey of Barbie Niño. At the age of 11, she struck out alone from Honduras to board the train route known as “The Beast” that crosses the length of Mexico from the southern border with Guatemala to the U.S. border in the north. Niño was steely in her desire to reach the […]
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Warriors in the Cove of Weepers
Trail of Tears The Ohlone—the original peoples of this bay—were known to ritually and demonstratively grieve sorrows. When suffering a great sadness, they would singe their hair short and smear handfuls of ashes, earth and ground stone on their heads, faces and bodies. Women were known to draw blood from their cheeks and breasts when […]