[su_slider source=”media: 29856,29863,29862,29861,29860,29859,29857″ limit=”30″ 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] Two San Francisco police officers fatally shot a Latino homeless man just after 10 a.m. on April 7 on Shotwell Street between 18th and 19th streets in the Mission. The 45-year-old man, identified as Luis Gongora, […]
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Renowned printmaker’s solo show pays homage to his farmworker roots
[su_slider source=”media: 29847,29853,29852,29851,29850,29849,29848″ limit=”30″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] San Francisco-based printmaker Juan Fuentes, whose body of work spans more than four decades, will have a solo exhibition depicting the struggle of farm workers beginning later this month. “Visual Tribute: A Dialogue with Cesar,” which opens on April 23, will coincide with the annual […]
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Remembering Alex Nieto, two years later
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Transgender students struggle for restroom access continues
For Rexy Amaral, the moment she was crowned Mission High School’s prom queen was a powerful statement from the school community in validating her identity. “That was the ultimate way of being told, ‘We support you and we are not going to push you to be someone who you’re not,’” said the Mission High alum, […]
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For SFPD excessive force has become the standard
[su_label]Staff Editorial[/su_label] In the hours following the verdict, the one where the four officers who fatally shot Alejandro “Alex” Nieto 59 times were found not to have used excessive force, an angry and heartbroken Refugio Nieto—like many in our community—tried to make sense of it all. “I’m still thinking about that image,” Refugio said, referring […]
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UC Berkeley decision to host Pinoche-connected economist appalling
Dear Editor, I found [it] appalling to see the U.C. Berkeley Campus extending an invitation to Felipe Kast from Chile. Mr. Kast, a former member of Pinochet’s political party UDI, and his family, were and are well known supporters and collaborators of the Pinochet dictatorship. Felipe Kast is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. on […]
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News Briefs: March 24-April 6
[su_label type=”info”]Bay Area[/su_label] Condemned building at 22nd and Mission hit by second blaze Nearly 14 months after the blaze at 22nd and Mission streets that left one person dead and dozens of Mission residents and businesses displaced, a three-alarm fire broke out at that same building just after 11:30 p.m. on March 13. According to […]
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Coalitions unite behind Nieto family in wake of verdict
The three coalitions representing Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez-Lopez and Mario Woods held a news conference Friday, March 18 on the front steps of City Hall to call for an end to San Francisco Police brutality. The news conference came just eight days after an eight-person federal jury—without a single black or Latino juror—exonerated Lt. Jason […]
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Ethnic Studies granted temporary funding, but students continue fight
In continuing efforts toward a solid future for the College of Ethnic Studies at SF State, students rallied on campus on March 16 to obtain signatures from University leaders for their previously established demands. “I as a student take back the right to my own narrative,” shouted students in a collective voice at the quad […]
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Concern grows as Trump moves closer to Republican nomination
[su_slider source=”media: 29692,29693,29694″ limit=”30″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] On March 18, a small group of protesters gathered outside of the former world headquarters of Bank of America—the skyscraper at 555 California St., which is now 30 percent owned by The Trump Organization—to object to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy The demonstration took place on […]