[su_slider source=”media: 28975,28976,28977,28978,28979,28980,28981,28982″ limit=”25″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] More than 50 people gathered outside the San Francisco headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Jan. 6 to protest recent heightened threats of deportation. Undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States spoke of the dangers of being sent back home. One undocumented […]
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Adiós, Francisco X. Alarcón: 1954-2016
*On the morning of Jan. 15, 2016, beloved Chicano poet Francisco X. Alarcón died of cancer. He was 61. Below are photos from the event ¡Viva la Vida! on Jan. 10 at Cafe La Boheme in San Francisco’s Mission District, celebrating Francisco’s life. Please see our next issue on Jan. 28 for a special tribute […]
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Photo Essay: Brave women
Authentic and honest portrayals of Chicana and Latina women are hard to come by. Doing a simple Google search will tell you this. As I was doing research for a photo project, I was disheartened to find that the majority of images of Chicanas and Latinas on social media are pornographic, racist and not at […]
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Photo Essay: Gateway to Europe
Greece has become Europe’s entry point for the influx of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean and Aegean seas by boat—the majority coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria. Migrants from Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh also embark on the journey but in smaller numbers. The Greek island of Kos became a popular destination for migrants and […]
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Photo Essay: Mission Invasion
As a Chicano and long-time resident of La Misión, it’s been painful and heart-wrenching to watch my Latin gente being displaced and priced out of their homes and the very neighborhood that they built. The Latin community is the heart and soul of the Mission. Documenting, in visual form, the hyper-gentrification we’ve been experiencing has […]
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Photo Essay: Police brutality
In recent years, activists have flooded the streets of San Francisco and nearby cities to bring awareness to police brutality and the repeated killings of people of color at the hands of law enforcement. The deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner—among many others—rattled the nation. In San Francisco, local communities protested the […]
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Photo Essay: The Butterflies of Syria
With the world experiencing arguably the worst refugee crisis since World War II, the plight of the Syrian people stands out among the many nationalities that make up the estimated more than 60 million refugees worldwide. With 4.5 million externally displaced refugees, and 350,000 civilian deaths occurring during a brutal civil war, the Syrian people […]
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Curator talks about upcoming exhibition on Cuban art
Acción Latina’s new exhibition—¡Cuba Libre! – An Exhibition of Cuban and American Ceramics, Prints & Photographs—will feature the work of eight of Cuba’s most renowned artists including: Alberto Lescay, Antonio Lewis, Israel Tamayo, Jose Luis Berenguer, Jose Vasquez Xene, Nelson Dominguez, Xiomara Gutierrez and Raul Miranda, as well as work by artists Catherine Merrill, Ana […]
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Tapped out: private companies wrong to profit off global water crisis
In the midst of California’s worst drought in recorded history, the biggest ocean desalination plant in the western hemisphere opened in Southern California on Dec. 14, costing nearly $1 billion. And the state is set to invest millions more in desalination technology. That technology, however, was developed by U.S. taxpayer-funded support of Israeli policies, which […]
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Mission native announces run for District 9 Supervisor seat
Among those vying for San Francisco’s District 9 Supervisor seat, which David Campos will vacate next year, is Mission native Edwin Lindo, who has vowed to serve the community that helped raise him. “When someone has that vantage point in creating policy, all the sudden the policy is inherently community driven,” Lindo said, who will […]