[su_slider source=”media: 30924,30934,30932,30925,30926,30927,30928,30929,30930,30931,30933″ 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] Peter RodrĂguezâpioneering artist and founder of the West Coastâs premier museum dedicated to Latino, Chicano and Mexican artâdied on July 1, just five days after blowing out the candles for his 90th birthday. âWe all loved […]
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Supreme Court split ends Obama immigration reform
On June 23, the eight Supreme Court Justices issued a 4-4 split decision, effectively upholding a lower courtâs ruling, which blocked President Barack Obamaâs executive actions on Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The courtâs ruling, or ânon-ruling,â affects millions of undocumented immigrants who wouldâve been […]
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Community raises over $100K for families displaced by latest Mission fire
[su_slider source=”media: 30863,30864,30865,30866,30867,30874,30869,30872,30875″ 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] Community members and organizations have raised over $100,000 for the tenants displaced by the latest blaze in the Mission. The June 18 five-alarm fire at 29th and Mission streets displaced 58 people from their residential units, […]
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Homeless street artist brushes pain away one stroke at a time
[su_slider source=”media: 30737,30738,30739,30740,30741,30744,30742″ 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] San Franciscoâs Mission District is historically home to numerous murals and creative spaces, and artistsâmany of whom, like Javier Antonio Chab Dzul, live at the margins of society. Dzulâa Mexican-born homeless man of Mayan ancestryâuses the […]
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Once homeless youth talks life on the street
At 16 years old, Andreas traveled 7,000 milesâaloneâfrom the Philippines back to the United States, searching for something he had long since lost: happiness. âI wasnât getting what I needed from home,â Andreas, now 25, said. His mother died when he was 8 years old, leaving him angry and in the care of his âoppressiveâ […]
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Homelessness solution must address health as well as housing
California has the unfortunate distinction of having the largest homeless population of any state in our country. On any given night, 20 percent of our nationâs homeless are on Californiaâs streets or in our shelters. Anyone who strolls down our cityâs streets can witness San Franciscoâs homelessness crisis. Despite years of effort and billions of […]
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New app designed specifically to aid homeless people
[su_heading size=”30″ align=”left”]Profile: homeless entrepreneur [/su_heading] [su_slider source=”media:30750,30751″ 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] It was 2014 and Darcel Jackson, who was homeless at the time, was laying in one of the 334 beds at Next Door Shelter, when he thought of something that shelters […]
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El Tecolote joins SF Homeless Project
[su_slider source=”media: 30725,30726,30727,30728,30729,30730,30731,30732″ 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] [su_box title=”Editor’s note:”]This issue of El Tecolote is dedicated to the nearly 7,000 San Franciscans who are currently living on the street, in shelters, in cars, or anywhere else other than a house. As a participant […]
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Pilot program for homeless sees some success
[su_slider source=”media: 30703,30704,30705,30706,30718,30708,30709,30710,30719,30712,30713,30714,30715,30720,30717″ 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] The white perpendicular columns line both sides of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, holding up the roof to what has become a sanctuary for San Franciscoâs homeless citizens. Beneath the resplendent stain-glass windows, orange mats […]