Rolling up to The Chapel, google maps says I’ve arrived at 777 Valencia. I can feel it, I’m at Accion Latina’s 38th Annual Encuentro del Canto Popular. From the low-lit entrance, the smell of pan dulce, sounds of carcajadas, and sights of countless abrazos among entre-conocidos de San Francisco. I walk through the corridors, and […]
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SFPD’s own video contradicts its narrative, shows they shot a man who was trying to escape
Before an anxious and angry town hall crowd gathered at Cesar Chavez Elementary School on Dec. 17, SFPD played video of the moment Jamaica Hampton was shot three times by police. “That’s my friend,” cried Eve Greenberg as she watched body camera footage of Hampton being shot. “That’s my fucking friend.” The officer involved shooting […]
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Meet Louda y Los Bad Hombres
Before Louda and before Los Bad Hombres, Laura “Louda” Camacho’s passion for music began to blossom in Chicago where she grew up. As a high school student at Jones College Prep, Camacho’s musical education and interest in singing grew as she became involved with the school’s choir as well as their after school jazz vocal […]
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After lengthy legal battle, Mission Language & Vocational School will remain in its building
After a lengthy legal battle that placed Mission Language and Vocational School (MLVS) in jeopardy of losing its building, its board members, students, local politicians and community members gathered on Nov. 20 to celebrate the return of the MLVS building to the community. MLVS was able to keep the building, located at 2020 19th St., […]
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Annual exhibition honors Teco’s cómplices, highlights visual contributors of 2019
Acción Latina’s 6th annual exhibition, the multidisciplinary “Cómplices en la Resistencia,” reflects the power of photojournalism, emphasizing the importance of thoughtful and compassionate reporting, particularly in a field that tends to elevate some voices and subjugate others. Curated by El Tecolote Photo Editor Natasha Kohli, the show’s title is a nod to the Indigenous Action’s […]
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Novelist Tommy Orange on the writing process of Native Truth
How do we hold space for our ideas? How do we transcribe our ideas into latches for our communities to grab on to? “There There,” a novel by Tommy Orange, offers up these questions through the lens of a Bay Area Native. “There There” asks the reader to rely on their own interpretation of hope, […]
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Indigenous organizer to challenge former SF Sup for State Senate seat
Political campaigns—whether local, statewide or nationwide—are categorized by a calculated, wonkish style of promotion. One that often leaves out or overlooks the desires of working people as being too uninformed to be trusted. Jackie Fielder’s state senate challenge to Scott Wiener is flipping this notion on it’s head. Fielder is a Mexican-Indigenous organizer who works […]
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A few years ago, when I taught a class at San Francisco State University called “La Raza Teatro Workshop,” one of the students was a very engaging young Chicano. I will call him Agustín (not his real name). He was a few years older than the rest of the students, perhaps in his late 20s […]
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Mother of SFPD shooting victim speaks out
After news reports began to circulate of SFPD shooting a man at 23rd and Mission streets on the morning of Dec. 7, a peaceful protest was held at the Mission Police Station on the evening of, Dec. 9, where the shooting victim’s mother—alongside members of the community who have been impacted by police violence—revealed previously […]