*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 […]
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With SF’s Latino community hit the hardest by COVID-19, testing in the Mission is set to get underway
*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. Volunteers have been knocking on doors and flyers have been up this past week to alert people that they should get tested for COVID-19 if […]
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Virtual classes highlight the very real struggle for parents, teachers and students
*Editor’s note: Joseph High 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. Since San Francisco public schools closed on March 16 in response to the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, Lourdes Alarcon has been in quarantine taking […]
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Native American Communities disproportionately at risk amid COVID-19
During this coronavirus pandemic, the most vulnerable communities are oftentimes the most overlooked. And one group that has historically been oppressed, persecuted and neglected in the United States is Alaskan and Native American populations. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) and other health experts and community advocates participated in a video press […]
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UCSF health expert examines the latest DATA on COVID-19
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb, UCSF Health’s Dr. Tung Nguyen shared important information and the latest scientific findings and data compiled to date in regards to COVID-19, which is also known as the coronavirus. The overall impact of COVID-19 pandemic is changing daily. During a video conference call on April 17, […]
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Already exploited, migrant farmworkers now overlooked as well during pandemic
At the Ethnic Media Services’s COVID-19 video conference on April 17, experts called for action to support and protect vulnerable minorities, including the farmworkers of the San Joaquin Valley, one of the country’s key sources of food. One of the speakers Genoveva Islas, director of Cultiva la Salud, said not enough is being done […]
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Simmering racism against Asian community boils over as hate crimes rise
*Editor’s note: Wilson Gomez and Sahar Swaleh are 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. Hate crimes towards Asian-Americans are nothing new. In the early days of Chinese immigration to the U.S., Chinese immigrants were put into ghettos […]
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Communities of color, homeless stand to lose the most with Census undercount
Imagine a huge national party that occurs only once every 10 years, where the party favors amount to trillions of dollars. They’re distributed according only to the needs of the partygoers. But in this case, the party is the census, your attendance is completing the Census online, by phone, or by mail, and the party […]
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Passover during a pandemic: How Jews continue to maintain our sense of community
*Editor’s note: Lea Loeb 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. Although I’ve never considered myself to be particularly religious, Passover has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I grew up in […]
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Nicaragua’s First Daughter shares #MeToo Story in New Documentary
Despite the obvious distance imposed by the current pandemic, the words that resonated on the lips of everyone present in the March 13 Zoom meeting with Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo were those of agradecimento. Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, sociologist, former member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly, and First Daughter of Nicaragua, is the subject of a new […]