Amid medical uncertainty, Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar, like other sufferers of long COVID, has turned elsewhere for solutions to mysterious health problems.
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Student protests at UC Berkeley echo Vietnam War era
Opinion: A growing fervor beats inside the hearts of young people today, as they did in the 60’s.
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Photos: Mission flower vendors report low sales on Mother’s Day
For vendors, the holiday represents one of the biggest days for flower sales of the year. Despite this, vendors report that sales have been noticeably lower this year.
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Mission street vendors fight to make La Placita work
La Placita, now the only city-sanctioned site for displaced Mission street vendors to sell, has been booming — or trying to.
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Longtime Mission artist gets first gallery exhibition in S.F.
MEG’s debut show, “Fiesta de Vida y Colores: A celebration in paintings,” is now on display in San Francisco’s Juan R. Fuentes Gallery until May 11.
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The silence surrounding machismo is deafening. Let’s talk about it
The gut-wrenching allegations from several women of sexual assault against Mission leader Jon Jacobo make it clear: A reckoning over machismo is long overdue within San Francisco’s Latinx communities.
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Photos: Workers, students march against war in Gaza in S.F.’s Mission
Several hundred workers, students and their families gathered at the 24th Street BART plaza in S.F.’s Mission District Wednesday to mark this year’s International Workers Day. While advocating for critical local needs like fair wages and affordable housing, protestors also called for international solidarity with Palestine. “Viva! Viva! Palestina!,” chanted Guillermina Castellanos, a labor organizer […]
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SFSU students join Gaza war protests, erect tent encampments
Student protestors erected nearly 20 tents and several canopies at San Francisco State University, joining the dozens of pro-Palestinian encampments sprouting across U.S. college campuses demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and university divestment from companies with ties to Israel.
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Lourdes Portillo, iconic Chicana documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
Lourdes Portillo, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, died at her San Francisco home on April 20. She was 80 years old.
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District 9: What candidates say about Mission District housing
Welcome to Mission Local’s “Meet the Candidates” series, in which District 9 supervisorial hopefuls respond to a question in 100 words or fewer. You can see all previous questions here. Question: Should SF be intent on creating affordable housing or all housing and should districts absorb the need for new housing equally? Jackie Fielder Former educator […]