Supporters of San Francisco’s District Attorney elect Chesa Boudin who hoped to celebrate a win on election night, instead had to wait four days for enough votes to be counted to be assured of a win. But the mood at El Rio on Saturday, Nov. 9 was electric, marking the end of a hard-fought race […]
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Pilgrimage to former internment camp reveals untold story of Japanese Latin American incarceration
It was only a few years ago that I heard the term “Japanese Latin American” (JLA). This is perhaps only surprising because I am one. But until that moment, I didn’t understand how our histories intersected across the Americas because of Japanese immigration and U.S. policy. I certainly never thought that a shared legacy would […]
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Looking to close the inequality gap, Sausalito Marin City School District names new superintendent
Following a desegregation order handed down by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Sausalito Marin City School District has appointed Itoco Garcia superintendent to lead the charge for diversity and to close the inequality gap within the education system. A Marin County native, Garcia has spent 10 years in the classroom, a principal for six years […]
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El Tecolote wins big at San Francisco Press Club awards dinner
At the 42th annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards hosted by the San Francisco Press Club on Nov.7, El Tecolote—the Bay Area’s premier Latino bilingual community newspaper—took home an impressive 15 awards. Judges from the press clubs of Milwaukee, New Orleans, San Diego and Cleveland evaluated the work of more than 100 journalists in digital […]
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Meet Barrio Manouche: A Band of Constant Change and Diversity
Imagine picking up a guitar and finding out that you would rather have your fingers bleeding than stop practicing your chords. This is the case for Javier Jiménez, a native of Madrid, Spain, and the founder of Barrio Manouche, a Gypsy flamenco band composed of artists from different parts of the world. Barrio Manouche ended […]
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A letter from Chile
*A note from Devil’s Advocate columnist Carlos Barón: I asked my friend René Castro how he viewed what was going on in Chile in the past month. René became a respected member of the Artistic community of the Mission (and of San Francisco) in the few years he spent in the United States. He now […]
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Letter: Again, They want to shut us up with guns and ‘The Word of God’
What’s happening in Bolivia is not isolated, it is a global phenomenon. It is the same colonialism, which feels weakened against the resistance and defense of our ancestral territories and rights. Colonialism wants to overwhelm us again, taking away our collective identity and eliminating our rights. Just as the invaders in the 15th and 16th […]
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Latina therapist volunteers time at detention camps, turns experiences with migrants into art
It’s been two months since Alicia Cruz last stood at the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio, Texas, offering therapeutic help to migrant families recently confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. She has limited time with some families—the majority of whom fled political turmoil and rampant violence in Central America—before a bus […]
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Indigenous poet raises awareness to protect Mayan homeland from multinational corporations
Born in the Mayan lands of Buctzotz, Yucatán, the poet and professor Pedro Uc Be has dedicated his life to the promotion and conservation of the indigenous Mayan culture. Uc Be’s family were farmers; his first activities consisted of working the land, the cornfields and raising animals. This helped him to appreciate the value of […]
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Farmworkers faced with daunting health risks, financial hardships as a result of wildfires
HEALDSBURG, CA. — Farm laborers in yellow safety vests walked through neatly arranged rows of grapes on Oct. 25, harvesting the last of the deep purple bundles that hung from the vines, even as the sky behind them was dark with soot. Over the hill just behind them, firetrucks and first responders raced back and […]