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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Our Veracruz quarantine
The virus caught us in Mexico, in the Port of Veracruz. Our intentions of getting back to San Francisco at the beginning of April changed, doomed by the reality of this global phenomenon. Nevertheless, our quarantine has not caused us panic or some other similar malady. At least until now, as I write these lines. […]
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Bay Area Muslims redefine tradition as fasting begins under lockdown
*Editor’s note: Noor Baig is a journalism students in SF State’s Journalism 575 Community Media this spring. Taught by professor Jon Funabiki, the class is a collaboration with El Tecolote. On April 23, a first for many, Muslim families began a month of fasting and praying late into the night without ever stepping foot in […]
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Mask making for a cause: How two Bay Area women rose to meet the demand
*Editor’s note: Carly Wipf is a journalism students in SF State’s Journalism 575 Community Media this spring. Taught by professor Jon Funabiki, the class is a collaboration with El Tecolote. While UCSF just started offering free COVID-19 testing to people living in the Mission District, not everyone who tests positive will be able to get […]
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Do Not Disturb: Hotel Workers Face an Uncertain Future amid COVID-19
*Editor’s note: Patrick Tamayo is a journalism student in SF State’s Journalism 575 Community Media this spring. Taught by professor Jon Funabiki, the class is a collaboration with El Tecolote. The hospitality industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and San Francisco hotels were some of this first to feel the consequences of […]
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As mayor continues to resist commandeering hotel rooms for homeless, activists, homeless grow angry, desperate
Even as San Francisco has been praised in the national press as a model for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, dissenting voices within the city have continued to raise the alarm on what they see as a slow moving catastrophe taking place within the city’s most vulnerable communities. “The City That Flattened the Coronavirus […]
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The 2020 Census deadline extension and what that means for hard-to-count communities
Nearly a month after the city’s shelter-in-place order was established, the San Francisco Latino Equity and Parity Coalition hosted a virtual press conference with city Supervisors to discuss the deadline extension for the 2020 Census in light of the global halt caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. San Francisco’s Latino residents are being disproportionately impacted by […]
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Nayib Bukele and COVID-19: The velvet glove hiding the iron fist
I have avoided writing anything in regard to Nayib Bukele, the selfie taking 37-year-old president of El Salvador. I have to admit, early on I was seduced by Bukele. Especially when he was still part of the leftist party, as were many others who were supporters of the FMLN. My parents, who were never ardent […]
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Day 1 of COVID-19 testing in the Mission District
*Editor’s note: Catherine Stites is a journalism student in SF State’s Journalism 575 Community Media this spring. Taught by professor Jon Funabiki, the class is a collaboration with El Tecolote. With San Francisco’s Mission District having the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases, free testing for the coronavirus began on the morning of April 25 […]
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Getting Tested for COVID-19/Tomando la Prueba de COVID-19
*Editor’s note: Mallory Shingle, a resident of San Francisco’s Mission District and regular contributor to El Tecolote, shares her experience of being tested for COVID-19 on April 25. Here’s here story. Hi everyone! My neighborhood here in the Mission is offering free testing to everyone in a particular area. This is an effort meant to […]