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Outrage at SFO over deportation and alleged torture of human rights activist

by El Tecolote Staff

[su_carousel source=”media: 37608,37609,37610,37611,37612,37613,37616,37615″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Hundreds gathered at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on April 23 to protest the deportation and alleged torture of Filipino human rights activist Jerome Aba. Aba, 25, who has covered human rights abuses in the Philippine city of Marawi (which endured a several month-long bombing campaign […]

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New photo exhibit pays visual tribute to 40 years of Carnaval

by El Tecolote Staff

The Mission District’s annual Carnaval celebration will commemorate its 40th anniversary with a retrospective photo exhibition on Cinco de Mayo hosted by the neighborhood nonprofit AcciĂłn Latina. Those interested in the history of one of the neighborhood’s most vibrant celebrations, will be able to see it on full display at “Roots of Carnaval.” San Francisco’s […]

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Local nonprofit provides job opportunities to former prisoners

by El Tecolote Staff

[su_carousel source=”media: 37572,37573″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The Oakland branch of a national nonprofit that specializes in helping people with criminal records to find and maintain employment has been awarded a $200,000 grant. The Center For Employment Opportunities (CEO) Oakland branch received the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Grant, which was meant to “deploy […]

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Grrrl Power: Female youth dance brigade celebrates 15th anniversary

by El Tecolote Staff

[su_carousel source=”media: 37546,37547,37548,37549,37550,37551″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Grrrl Brigade, the female youth dance and leadership development program run by Dance Mission, is celebrating its 15th anniversary April 28 with “Dancing on the Edge of the World,” a performance based on the book “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn. The […]

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Six months after Sacramento march against police violence, search for justice continues

by El Tecolote Staff

Long before the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark and long before California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that the California’s Department of Justice would review the policies and practices of Sacramento’s Police Department, a group of San Francisco activists marched from the city to Becerra’s Sacramento office to demand that he prosecute San Francisco […]

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Unsettled in the Mission: Redlined

by El Tecolote Staff

In the piercing cold days of late February, I walked the length of Mission Street, up the east side and down the west side, from south to north, from Cesar Chavez Street to Duboce Street. I stopped at the “That’s It” bodega at Mission and 23rd streets, where the sign says “The Center of The […]

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Local, ‘participatory reporting’ to serve Oakland’s Latino immigrants

by El Tecolote Staff

Journalist and human rights documentarian Madeleine Bair is teaming up with El Tecolote for a new “participatory reporting” project called El TĂ­mpano. As founder director of El TĂ­mpano, Bair describes the project, which is made possible by support from California Humanities. When Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in […]