Serving as Acción Latina’s executive director for the past five years, Georgiana Hernandez revitalized the flagging organization, but now she is stepping away from her post to be succeeded by artist and educator Josué Rojas. “I honestly couldn’t be prouder of what our staff has accomplished in the past few years,” said Hernandez, who plans […]
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Editorial: Our new deporter-in-chief has no solutions only threats
Back in November of 2015 (a lifetime ago it seems now) many of us scoffed at or dismissed Donald Trump’s proposal to create a massive “deportation force” that would humanely remove the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants who currently reside in the United States. There were those who did take his words as a […]
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Exhibition highlights importance of art in tumultuous times
[su_carousel source=”media: 33139,33140,33141″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Given the events of the not so distant past, and current present, some might call these “dark times.” Juan R. Fuentes and Art Hazelwood are certainly doing that. The artist-activist duo, known for their works primarily in the realm of printmaking and political poster art, have […]
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Trump’s drastic immigration policy begins to take shape
The Trump administration has announced it will take aggressive action to fulfill one of the president’s first campaign promises: stopping the flow of immigrants into the United States and removing the approximately 11 million undocumented people currently residing here. In a pair of memos from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly released on […]
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What is a sanctuary city?
[su_label type=”info”]The Devil’s Advocate[/su_label] [su_carousel source=”media: 33129,33130″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] A few days after the election of our Pussygrabber in Chief, there was a rather compelling gathering of San Francisco officials, including some members of the Board of Supervisors, the sheriff, some clergy, plus various “commoners.” Under the awesome City Hall rotunda, […]
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A day without immigrants in the Mission
[su_carousel source=”media: 33111,33112,33113,33114,33115,33116,33117,33118,33119,33120,33121,33122,33123,33124,33125,33126″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The silence that nearly completely engulfed 24th Street on Thursday, Feb. 16 was glorious. Doors and curtains were closed, sidewalks remained empty, and the amount of empty parking spaces along the main street in the Mission was a sight unlike anything I had ever seen. It […]
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Q&A with director of new Gael Garía Bernal film
Based on the 1982 book “Deserted Cities” by José Agustín, renowned author of the “La Onda” literary movement, Roberto Sneider’s “You’re Killing Me Susana” (“Me estás matando Susana”) follows the charismatic and amusing character played by Gael García Bernal (a sort of Mexican Woody Allen) in his eagerness to recover beautiful Susana played by Verónica […]
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Tijuana’s Haitian refugee crisis
[su_label type=”info”]Reporting from Tijuana, Mexico [/su_label] [su_carousel source=”media: 33100,33101″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] It was a rainy day in January when I drove from San Francisco to Tijuana, with the intention of helping our new neighbors from Haiti who are currently stuck just south of the Mexico-U.S. border. Since May 2016, Haitian refugees—seeking […]
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Identity Revealed: Bay Area neo-Nazi hid in plain sight
Parker Anthony Wilson was open about his white supremacist views long before the ascension of Donald Trump, at least to those who knew him personally. But the neo-Nazi from Dublin, CA, who was once arrested for assault and possession of bomb-making materials, has been much more guarded about his identity as of late, even as […]
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Opinion: With free college we lead way to brighter future
After months of undermining democracy and the will of the majority of San Francisco voters who approved Proposition W, Mayor Ed Lee has finally agreed to disburse $5.4 million to make City College of San Francisco (CCSF) accessible to local residents. His decision comes after the Board of Supervisors twice approved the initiative, after mounting […]