[su_carousel source=”media: 38155,38157,38158,38159″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The death of an undocumented transgender womanâwho died in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 25âillustrates the cruel and often forgotten journey that many trans people endure while seeking asylum in the United States. On June 6, human rights activists, community leaders […]
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At Border Tent Camp, Tensions Rise Over ‘Unaccompanied’ Boys
[su_carousel source=”media: 38147,38141,38140,38139,38138,38137,38136,38135,38134″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The boys live in white tents in the North Chihuahuan desert. At least once a day, they are allowed to play soccer in a dry dirt clearing thatâs flanked by a large metal storage container, and in spots, portable toilets. In the air, the hum of […]
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Editorial: Separating families is a new low for the Trump administration
Anyone familiar with El Tecolote knows how we feel about Donald Trump and his administration. Weâve weighed in many times on the president, his dangerous rhetoric and his disastrous policies. But the presidentâs policy of forcibly separating families seeking asylum in the United States went beyond the merely deplorable and into the realm of human […]
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Life in a mixed-status family
When I was 10 years old, I didnât know what âundocumentedâ was. All I knew was that it was a word that existed. âUndocumentedâ and âillegalâ were words that I never heard until my parents told me and my sister that we were moving to Mexico. My mom explained that her dad, who I had […]
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Rare archival Mexican-American music to be featured at special listening event in the Mission District
[su_carousel source=”media: 38119,38121,38120,38122″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Each record in the Arhoolie Foundationâs vast âFrontera Collection,â holds a piece of early Mexican or Mexican-American culture. And for the last 15 years, record by record, that history is being immortalized. The Arhoolie Foundationâa Bay Area nonprofit that preserves and documents regional roots music and […]
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Acclaimed local poet takes international stage with prestigious award
Becoming a poet was the last thing Tongo Eisen-Martin would have imagined heâd strive for. The 38-year-old San Francisco native tried hard to separate himself from that part of him throughout his life, a struggle that continued for almost 20 years. âThe journey has been coming to terms with being an artist,â Eisen-Martin said. âMoving […]
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Planting our future and hoping for a good harvest
[su_label type=”info”]Column: The Devil’s Advocate [/su_label] ââAnyone else watch the international news with a sick feeling of dread at the pit of your stomach? The other night, I had a conversation with my 11-year-old that went something like this: âYou will learn to garden. You will learn to sew. You need to know how to […]
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The tragedies at the border will continue until we address the root causes of migration
[su_label type=”info”]Column: Centrospective[/su_label] When I first heard of Claudia Gomez Gonzalezâs murder at the hands of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent in Rio Bravo, Texas, I asked myself, âwhy?â Claudia had left her indigenous Mam community of San Juan Ostuncalco in western Guatemala, three weeks prior to her death, with the hope […]
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Bay Area filmmaker launches new project to showcase âunconventionally trainedâ artists
The financial difficulty of living in the Bay Area has been an issue facing artists for a number of years, and many under the thumb of economic constraints have had to put their artistic passions on hold. For aspiring artists, this includes not being able to pursue formal training for their art and having to […]
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The Colombian Election: Petro v. Duque
Many progressive Colombians had hope for positive change in the 2018 presidential election, with national unity resulting from a moderate candidate who could mount an effective campaign against the right wing neoliberal frontrunner. However, the first round of elections could not have gone more differently. Sunday, May 27, marked the first of two rounds of […]