The temperature was hitting 88 degrees in Oakland, California on the morning of August 15. On the corner of East 15th Street and Fruitvale Avenue, a long line of volunteers was waiting to receive supplies for the day. Street Level Health Project—a free clinic in Oakland that provides services for recent immigrants, Indigenous communities, day […]
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Teco Celebrates 50 Years of empowering Community bilingual Journalism
San Francisco in the 1970s was a time of student strikes on college and high school campuses, as well as neighborhood organizations in the Mission District banding together to form a coalition that could effectively challenge City Hall against social, political and economic injustices. “The times dictated that people needed to be involved and help […]
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Bay Area Women raise funds to provide COVID-19 tests for stranded Nicaraguans in Costa Rica
In late July at la Frontera de Peñas Blancas—Nicaragua’s southern border with Costa Rica—approximately 500 to 600 Nicaraguan refugees were barred from reentering their country until they showed proof of a negative COVID-19 test. The Nicaraguan Ortega-Murillo regime did not provide these citizens access to the $150 test, a cost too great for the average […]
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Bay Area demands Newsom release ICE detainees, stop prison transfers
Joining a statewide day of action demanding the immediate release of detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, hundreds of protesters filled San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza Aug. 8, then marched to San Francisco’s ICE headquarters at 630 Sansome Street. Various activists including doctors, artists and politicians addressed the crowd, calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom […]
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Mini documentary highlights the dangers of COVID-19 for those in ICE detention
As if opening a visual letter addressed to immigration officials, the detainees at Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield raise concern for their health and share how they are connected to the outside world in the opening scene of the short documentary. “We are fathers, sons, brothers, husbands, and even grandfathers of American Citizens,” the […]
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With 2020 Election, it’s time to reevaluate our (White) Democracy
Given the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement and escalation of the climate crisis, the time has come to reevaluate whether or not democracy is functioning to serve all Americans, and whether or not it was created to. The urgency of this question becomes especially apparent as both presidential candidates hold histories of complicity, […]
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The answer is blowing in the summer breeze
After five months away from the San Francisco Bay Area, we are back in what we call “The Country of Clouds,” aka Daly City. Azucena and I live on the border between San Francisco and Daly City. That side of the street is “The City.” This side is “The Other City,” our perennially foggy DC. […]
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Matter is the Minimum: What “Black Lives Matter” Means Now and Why That’s Important
Much ado has been made about the methods of civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers back in May. Even now, as demonstrations continue in cities like Portland, criticism also continues. Many use the destruction of property to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement while touting the words of Dr. […]
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A Statement from the family of Luis Góngora Pat: Board of Supervisors, Defund the Police, significantly
We, the family of Luis Góngora Pat, Mayan indigenous people living in San Francisco; survivors of lethal SFPD brutality; a family of essential workers and Dreamers, publish this statement to honor the life of Luis and ensure that his unjustifiable killing by Sgt. Nate Steger and Ofc. Michael Mellone on April 7, 2016 is remedied […]
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Photo Essay: Napa Fire
Napa, CA – California firefighters battle a fire in Napa County after lightning strikes and a heat wave have caused mass wildfires statewide. Aug. 19, 2020.