[su_carousel source=”media: 33478,33479,33480,33481,33482″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] As the one year anniversary of Luis Góngora Pat’s death approached, El Tecolote reached out to Góngora Pat’s cousins—Luis and Carlos Poot—and his younger brother Jose in hopes of learning more about the 45-year-old Yucatec Mayan man who was killed by SFPD officers on April 7, […]
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Mission Accomplished: Mission High first SF public school to win state championship
[su_carousel source=”media: 33500,33501,33502,33503,33504,33508,33506,33507″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] With the high school bands playing, the spotlight focused on center court for the finale of San Francisco’s basketball “Cinderella” story, as the Mission High School Bears (35-1) faced off against the Villa Park Spartans (27-7) for the state championship in Sacramento. Niamey Harris, the heart […]
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New initiative seeks to provide sanctuary to restaurant employees
[su_carousel source=”media: 33423,33425,33426,33427,33429,33430″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] More than 20 San Francisco restaurants have now joined the national Sanctuary Restaurants movement—a joint project between Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United and Presente.org created to help resist the Trump administration’s’ aggressive posturing on immigration. “You have to make sure your employees feel that they aren’t […]
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Editorial: VOICE program exaggerates immigrant crimes to spread fear
From the very moment he announced his candidacy, the president has demonized immigrants—particularly those from Latin America and the Middle East. Any hope that candidate Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric was a campaign strategy was dashed when in his second week of office he issued an executive order temporarily banning all refugees and immigrants from seven majority […]
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We are like the clouds: When the voices of immigrant children turn into song
[su_label type=”info”]Book Review [/su_label] [su_carousel source=”media: 33410,33411,33412,33413″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The phenomenon of migration—a social topic that has acquired new relevance given the current global political and economic climate—has been approached from multiple points of view and different disciplines, including literature. Many literary works have tackled this issue from the perspective of […]
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San Francisco joins Native Nations March
[su_carousel source=”media: 33403,33404,33405,33406″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Indigenous tribes across the nation continue to resist the now nearly completed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project, despite a U.S. federal judge denying the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe’s request for emergency injunction on March 14. Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District […]
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Mission High basketball team headed to state finals for first time
This story was originally published at SFBay.ca on March 19. FAIRFIELD, March 18— With 16.7 seconds left on the clock Saturday night, Mission High senior guard Niamey Harris stepped to the line and sunk the biggest two free throws of his standout career. The two-time Academic Athletic Association’s “Boys Basketball Player of the Year” finished […]
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Board takes first step toward breaking ties with Bank of America over DAPL
[su_carousel source=”media: 33393,33394,33395″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on March 14 in favor of a resolution urging the city treasurer to update the city’s investment policy, with the goal of eventually divesting funds from Bank of America, because of its investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). […]
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Black Lives Matter means solidarity, not division
“All lives matter.” That was my initial gut reaction to the media traction gained by the Black Lives Matter movement. I was empathetic to the high-profile killings of black Americans, but upset that Pedro Villanueva, Melissa Ventura, Anthony Nuñez, Raul Saavedra-Vargas, Vinson Ramos and Alex Nieto—all brown victims of police brutality—were not given the same […]
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Long road ahead: New SFPD Chief seeks to restore public’s trust
[su_carousel source=”media: 33382,33383″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Hoping to improve strained relations between police and the Bayview community, SFPD chief William “Bill” Scott addressed a town hall crowd of about 75 on March 9. It was the first time the new chief, who was handpicked by Mayor Ed Lee, had made such an […]