El Tecolote contributor Edaena Salinas spoke to the campaign manager for Mission LoterĂa, Luis Quiroz. Edaena and Luis talk about what the Mission LoterĂa is, how to play, and how this amazing tradition supports local businesses and artists. To learn more about the Mission Loteria head over to missionstreetsf.com/loteria To learn more about the upcoming Lovers […]
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PHOTOS: Oakland Demands Justice for Tyre Nichols
Responding to the murder of yet another Black man at the hands of police, people from all over the Bay Area rallied and marched in Oakland on January 29, 2023, demanding justice for Tyre Nichols. Nichols, a 29-year-old father, skateboarder and aspiring photographer, was beaten by five Black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee on Jan. […]
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PODCAST: What is Title 42?
Comunidad, welcome back to Radio Teco News, a podcast of the legacy San Francisco based community bilingual Latino Newspaper, El Tecolote. My name is Alexis Terrazas, editor-in-chief, and in this next episode, we will have a conversation with Dr. Carlos Martinez, an assistant professor of Migrant Health & Social Justice in the Latin American & […]
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The Mission Food Hub’s Uncertain FutureÂ
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; photos by Benjamin Fanjoy] On Wednesdays, Maria Milagros Hernández arrives at the Mission Food Hub line before sunrise. She sits at the corner of 19th and Harrison in a foldable chair, hand sanitizer […]
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PHOTOS: Peru’s striking for change
Delegations from different parts of the Cusco region marched throughout the city for the national strike on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. The city complied with the strike and remained blocked almost in its entirety. Attempts to take over the Cusco airport were stopped by strong police repression that left at least 6 people injured. Photos […]
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California Has a Lot to Offer Storm Victims
[by Mark Hedin, Ethnic Media Services; photo via Sarah Stierch/Missvain via Wikimedia Commons] It’s never too late to be prepared. During a calm between storms, officials from the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) and the state departments of Public Health, Social Services and Insurance gathered to discuss efforts to help Californians recover from the […]
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China and India, Not Just Mexico, Feed US Fentanyl Addiction
[via Sunita Sohrabji, Ethnic Media Services; photo via U.S. DEA] China — and increasingly India — produce more than 90% of the precursor drugs necessary to manufacture the fentanyl consumed in the U.S., which challenges the narrative that Mexican cartels alone are responsible for America’s opioid crisis. Drug trafficking from Mexico to the U.S. was […]
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Leonard Peltier deserves freedom
[via Alejandro MurguĂa; art by Calixto Robles] How would you feel if you were incarcerated for a crime you didn’t commit? And how would you feel knowing that the government officials who prosecuted you — have admitted over the course of these years of imprisonment that they were wrong, and coerced witnesses and the truth […]
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In Memory of Roberto Rivera: College of Ethnic Studies elder, mentor, and friend
[via College of Ethnic Studies; Photo courtesy Bienvenido Argueta] Latina/Latino Studies Professor Emeritus Roberto Rivera passed away on January 15, 2022. Roberto’s first teaching assignment in the United States came in 1968. It was a Mexican Philosophy class in SF State’s Philosophy department. In the middle of the semester, he joined the 1968-1969 strike and, […]
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PODCAST: A look back at 2022
Happy New Year!! Before 2023 gets in full swing, El Tecolote revisits a few of 2022’s biggest stories with our very own writer Mara Cavallaro. With Mara’s focus being mental health, we talked about the three biggest stories she wrote for El Tecolote discussing this important topic during an action packed 2022. Sources mentioned in […]