Do you ever think about why you do certain actions, or about the true meaning behind what you believe or stand for? We live in a world where lots of people do things or listen to things without thinking about the true message behind it. As individuals have we become robotic, consumed by our daily […]
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Youth program empowers girls through music
[su_label type=”info”]Kids of the Mission[/su_label] Editor’s note: The following story is part of San Francisco State University’s Journalism 575 Community Media class. Students under the guidance of journalism professor Jon Funabiki embarked on the “Kids of the Mission” project, where numerous organizations, businesses and programs were profiled. [su_slider source=”media: 31687,31688,31689,31690″ limit=”40″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ […]
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Let’s elect our elected officials – Vote ‘yes’ on Proposition D
[su_label type=”info”]Letter to the Editor [/su_label] Editor: Proposition D is really very simple: if a supervisor position became vacant, then you, the district voters, would get to elect your substitute Supervisor right away to fill out the term. “Wait,” you say, “Don’t we do that now?” Well, actually, no. Right now the mayor appoints the substitute supervisor, who serves until […]
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U.C. Berkeley bows to pressure, reinstates Palestinian course
Following outcry from students, faculty members and free speech and academic freedom advocates, U.C. Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course on Palestinian history. The administration had suspended the course, part of the DeCal Program of student-facilitated classes, on Sept. 13, due to pressure from Israel advocacy groups. The pro-Israel groups claimed that the course, “Palestine: […]
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El Tecolote wins 8 awards at annual San Francisco Peninsula Press Club contest
At the 39th Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards hosted by the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club on Oct. 1, El Tecolote—the Bay Area’s premier Latino bilingual community newspaper—won eight awards. More than 100 journalists representing 29 media organizations throughout the greater Bay Area’s 11 counties participated in the contest. El Tecolote’s photo editor Mabel Jiménez […]
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¡GENTROMANCER!
Gentrification, and its effects are hard to articulate –– for many reasons. It’s challenging to see a place you love change, to witness pieces of it being abruptly removed day by day. The experiences of erasure, displacement and homelessness are complex. If gentrification were personified, it would be a monster. Towering. Mutilating. Poets are in […]
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Latin American News Briefs: Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2016
Mexico: Protesters demand Peña Nieto resignation The day before Mexico’s Independence Day, thousands of protestors took to the streets in Mexico City demanding President Enrique Peña Nieto resign from office. Nieto’s handling of homicides, drug wars, education, the economy and corruption among other things has made him the most unpopular president in a quarter-century, according […]
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News Briefs: Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2016
Lennar project halted amid fraud allegations Federal and state regulators are investigating reports that Tetra Tech, a Southern-California-based engineering and consulting firm contracted to oversee cleanup of Hunters Point Shipyard, misrepresented data about its work in decontaminating the toxic site. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: “When tasked with obtaining soil samples to ascertain […]
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New exhibition breaks piñata wall, brings people together
[su_slider source=”media: 31560,31572,31570,31563,31571,31568,31566,31567,31558,31559″ limit=”40″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_slider source=”media: 29856,29857″ limit=”30″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] As the Republican presidential candidate has loudly and repeatedly vowed—among other things—to build a wall along the United States’ southern border to keep Mexican immigrants out, a Bay Area-based artist hired two Mexican immigrants to likewise […]
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Garfield pool: The Mission District’s fountain of youth
[su_label type=”info”]COLUMN: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE[/su_label] [su_slider source=”media: 31538,31539,31540,31541,31542,31543,31544″ limit=”40″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_slider source=”media: 29856,29857″ limit=”30″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] Almost two years ago, I decided to follow the recommendation of a friend and started taking better care of “number one.” “There is a great aqua-aerobics (or water aerobics) class at Garfield […]