This year’s Indigenous Sunrise Ceremony at Alcatraz island drew hundreds of people from all over the state of California.
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News Briefs December 3-16, 2015
News in brief from the December 3–17, 2015 issue of El Tecolote.
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Acción Latina presents the Juan R. Fuentes Gallery
Q&A with Executive Director Georgiana Hernandez Acción Latina’s new gallery, The Juan R. Fuentes Gallery, is nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s Latino Cultural District at 2958 24th Street. The gallery is named after local artist, Juan R. Fuentes, in honor of his enormous and sustained artistic contributions to Acción Latina over the past […]
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Editorial: An attack on Planned Parenthood is an attack on women
Robert Dear, the 57-year-old man whose recent shooting spree outside of a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic killed three and wounded nine, is deranged; that much is clear. Since being apprehended by police, he’s made garbled and angry references to “Planned Parenthood” and “baby parts.” While it’s true that Dear’s despicable actions do not represent […]
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Celebrating ‘Un-Thanksgiving’
[su_slider source=”media: 28614,28613,28612,28611,28610,28609,28608,28607″ limit=”25″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][/su_slider] On the afternoon of Nov. 25, the American Indian Movement West honored the diversity of Indigenous Peoples with the “Feast of the Eagle and the Condor,” a celebration meant to serve as a contrast to the popular Thanksgiving story where the Pilgrims shared a meal […]
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“La Posarela” musical: a Christmas celebration made in the Mission
Now in its ninth year, community members are invited to a very special Christmas musical, “La Posarela,” that will be performed at the Brava Theater Center in the Mission District on Dec. 4 and 5. The show, set in both English and Spanish, is an annual production of the San Francisco Community Music Center, the […]
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SF General belongs to all of us, not just the wealthy and banks
In November of 2008 San Francisco voted on an $887.4 million bond measure to build a new San Francisco General Hospital. Despite the recession, the measure was enacted with more than 83 percent of the vote. On Nov. 21, Mayor Edwin Lee presided over the ribbon-cutting of “Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital” with the new […]
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Why Don’t More Latinos Contribute To Wikipedia?
This year Latinos officially became the largest ethnic group in California at 39 percent, and according to U.S. Census projections, Latinos will make up 31 percent of the national population by 2043. The past and present achievements of Latinos in America are various and far-reaching. But it’s now time for the Latino community to address […]
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Deferred Action plan blocked, will likely head to Supreme Court
Luis Avalos was 19, undocumented and a freshman at City College of San Francisco when President Barack Obama’s administration enacted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012—a program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before their 16th birthday or arrived before June 2007 to apply for a two-year temporary […]
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News Briefs Nov. 19 – Dec. 12
Bay Area news in brief from the November 19, 2015 issue of El Tecolote.