Janitorial workers who cleaned Ross Dress for Less clothing stores in the Bay Area were subject to systematic labor abuses, according to a lawsuit filed Oct. 24 in San Francisco.
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Immigration 101: President Obama’s executive order on immigration reform
Obama signed will an executive order that will help millions of undocumented members of our national community; here are some important provisions:
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Killing with impunity: we’ve had enough
The 43 slain university students of Ayotzinapa died because on Sept. 26 they commandeered several public buses and blocked a highway (a common form or political protest in Mexico), and by doing so interfered with the wife of the mayor of Iguala, one of the most violent and corrupt cities in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most violent and corrupt states.
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City College’s fate to be decided
After months of speculation and heated debate, City College of San Francisco’s future will soon become much clearer when the city’s high-profile trial against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) is decided: either CCSF will retain its accreditation, or it will be forced to undergo a lengthy restoration process.
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Los 43: SF rallies for missing Ayotzinapa students
“Mexico is kidnapped,” read one of the most striking banners that demonstrators held on Saturday, Nov. 15, at a rally at 24th and Mission streets to show solidarity with the 43 students from the escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico who went missing on Sept. 26.
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Mourn and organize: Remembering SF’s greatest tenant advocate
[su_slider source=”media: 24989,24990,24991,24992,24993,24994,24995,24996,24997,24998,24999″ width=”720″ height=”360″] By Tommi Avicolli Mecca By now, most people in the city know that Ted Gullicksen, the man who for nearly three decades headed up the San Francisco Tenants Union, was found dead in his apartment on Oct. 14. He leaves behind an amazing legacy of activism that saved countless tenants […]
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Film will pay tribute to life of tragically slain teen 20 years later
The name of the girl was Cecilia Rios, the one who was 15 when she was stabbed to death after getting out of school. And now 20 years later, local filmmaker Jay Francisco Lopez is planning to make a film in her memory called “Love, Cecy.”
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Chicano poet launches new book
Poet Francisco X. Alarcón’s book, “Borderless Butterflies: Earth Haikus and Other Poems,” (Poetic Matrix Press, 2014) reads more like a beautiful experience than a book of poems.
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San Francisco woman helps mothers beat diabetes through dance
Entrenched in a losing fight with diabetes for 26 years, Ana Canedo was in dire need of a kidney transplant, but she didn’t want to take the one that belonged to her daughter Norma.
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Bay Area native boxes her way to heavyweight title
By Alexis Terrazas It was rowdy, cramped and unkempt inside the Longshoreman’s Hall; the boozed-up crowd made sure of that. But above the drunken clamor, one piercing voice managed to top all of those inside the building that played host to the boxing event that night. It belonged to a girl. “Come on, tía. Let’s […]