[su_carousel source=”media: 38539,38540,38541,38542,38543,38544,38545,38546″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Family and friends gathered to celebrate the life of labor rights and housing activist Carlos Gutierrez on July 20. The Mission native, who had tirelessly dedicated himself to helping improve the lives of others in his community, died Sunday, July 15, in his Bernal Heights home […]
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A MI$$ION $TORY: Rent hike at 25th and Mission threatens tenants
Residential and commercial tenants at 2884-2892 Mission Street and 3412-3424 25th Street are facing steep rent increases, which have put many at risk of being displaced. After purchasing the building in April, Jeries Azar gave its 20 SRO tenants and 11 small businesses new leases, pricing at least two SRO tenants out. He also tripled […]
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A Deaf Chicanoâs journey to love, LGBT activism
[su_carousel source=”media: 38510,38511,38512,38513,38515″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Looking at the life and achievements of Drago RenterĂa, it is nearly impossible to pinpoint a single professional path he has taken, or list only one thing he âdoes.â The 50-year-old Chicano, who has lived in the Mission since 1999, can list among other things, professional […]
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Immigration expert talks family separation, âzero toleranceâ policies
Alex Mensing is program assistant at the University of San Franciscoâs Immigration Clinic and a project coordinator for Pueblo sin Fronterasâa group whose mission is to provide shelter and safety to migrants and refugees in transit. El Tecolote sat down with Mensing to talk about the issue of Central American families being separated at the […]
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Shaping the Mission District: This month in neighborhood history
Starting this month, Shaping San Francisco brings you histories collected in our digital archive, Foundsf.org. Co-directors Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott present short pieces highlighting events chronicled in the archive that have shaped the Mission District over the past decades. [su_carousel source=”media: 38476,38477,38481,38480″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Fires at 22nd and Mission streets […]
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My friend VĂctor Jara
ââŠyes, my guitar is a worker shining and smelling of spring my guitar is not for killers greedy for money and power but for the people who labor so that future may flower! Excerpts from âManifiestoâ, by VĂctor Jara On July 3, 2018â45 years after the deedâeight of the soldiers who murdered Chilean musician and […]
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Dispatches From the Rio Grande Valley
The following is a first person account by San Francisco revolutionary and poet, Tongo Eisen-Martin, who spent three days at the U.S.-Mexico border in late June, showing solidarity with the incarcerated Central American children who have been separated from their families by the Trump Administration. [su_carousel source=”media: 38441,38442,38443,38444″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] My first day […]
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Bay Area resists, denounces Trump’s anti-immigrant policy of separating children
[su_carousel source=”media: 38424,38425,38426,38427,38428,38429,38430,38431,38432,38398,38399,38400,38401,38402,38403,38404,38405,38406,38407,38408,38409,38410,38411,38412,38413,38414,38415,38416,38417,38418,38419,38420,38421,38422,38423,38433,38434,38435″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] For the past month, immigrant rights advocates nationally and in the Bay Area have been predominantly focused on one thing: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents separating refugee children from their parents. The separations are a result of changes in immigration policy under the Trump […]
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Unsettled in the Mission: Renegade
[su_carousel source=”media: 38371,38372,38373,38374,38375,38376,38377,38378,38379″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Family Separation âAt 13 years old I went on the run….â she recounts. Gaby was born in Portland Oregon in 1988. She is a Spokane-Kalispel Native American. âIt was rocky at first. When I was 2 years old, my mom got into drugs and my dad […]
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Letâs not make America hate again
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Emma Lazarus (Printed on the Statue of Liberty) A righteous indignation has risen in reaction to the imprisonment of immigrant […]