Frank Espada, the renowned Puerto Rican activist and photojournalist, will be honored on Aug. 9 at 2 p.m. in the San Francisco Jazz Center’s Miner Auditorium.
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New production chronicles the fall of Ciudad Juárez
Inspired by his childhood growing up in a middle-class family in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Ruben Polendo conceived and developed “Juárez: A Documentary Mythology” as part of a personal quest to find out what happened to the city he knew
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New bill provides tenant protections to domestic violence survivors
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 418, the Safe Housing for Domestic Violence Survivors Act.
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Mission bashes back; activists beat Trump piñata
Across the nation demonstrations against Donald Trump’s racist, verbal assault on Mexicans, Latinos and immigrants have been steadily gaining steam, but activists in the Mission have found a creative way to issue their own beat down: by way of a Donald Trump piñata.
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Proposed ordinance would temporarily halt storefront mergers on 24th Street
Calle 24 and several community members are calling for more protections amid skyrocketing rents that are threatening the existence of small, mom-and-pop businesses.
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News in brief, July 16-29
Former supervisor to represent Lopez-Sanchez Matt Gonzalez, who ran for mayor in 2003 and led the Board of Supervisors’ progressive faction at that time, has agreed to represent undocumented Mexican national Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who is charged with the first degree murder of Kathryn “Kate” Steinle. Gonzalez is chief attorney for the city’s Public Defender’s […]
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Community rallies amid sanctuary city backlash
[su_slider source=”media: 27233,27234,27232,27235,27238,27239″ limit=”25″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″] The crowd that gathered on the steps of City Hall on July 14 was there to pray for Kathryn “Kate” Steinle—the 32-year-old woman killed by an undocumented Mexican national and convicted felon—and to hopefully begin a rational dialogue with those blaming San Francisco’s immigration policies […]
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Local musician, activist to run for mayor
“This is more than a political campaign, it’s a movement,” said Francisco Herrera, waving a check and a handful of documents as he officially registered last month for his mayoral candidacy. The well-known troubadour and Mission District activist paid $5,568.50 to run in the November election, the sum equivalent to about two percent (according to […]
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The astronomical persistence of José Hernández
Sitting in his office in downtown Stockton, CA, 52-year-old José Hernández remembered the dream he had when he was 10: to be an astronaut.
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Letter to the editor: Undocumented immigrants not the problem
The killing by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is an aberration. It does not typify the 18,000 undocumented Mexican immigrants, among San Francisco’s 809,000 residents, who are here to seek work and a better life.