[Story by Royvi Hernandez; Photo: Mark Jude Rywelski] After two years of AcciĂłn Latina’s Juan R. Fuentes Gallery being closed due to COVID-19, we are happy to be showcasing mixed-media textile artist, Alexander Hernandez. Born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca-Mexico and currently living in San Francisco, Hernandez has created various works of soft-form art and […]
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‘Sacred Waters’ Latinx and Indigenous festival honors lost waterways, memorializes ancestors
[Photos by Abraham Fuentes] It wasn’t always called the Mission Dolores. Before the Spanish invasion in 1769, the area we know today as San Francisco was home to the Yelamu people of the Ramaytush Ohlone. Creeks and lagoons dotted the landscape back then. But with the Mission System came forced religious conversions, and with that […]
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Brazilians to vote in run-off between far right leader Bolsonaro and progressive candidate Lula
[Photos by Mara Cavallaro; Featured photo: Camila, 24, QuitĂ©ria, 22, and Katharina, 22, make the L symbol for Lula.] This past Sunday, October 2, the line at the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco to vote in the presidential election wrapped around four city blocks. Lula—the beloved former Workers Party President—received 48.4 percent of the vote, […]
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Activists in a new generation of Filipino diaspora confronts Marcos dynasty
[Story by Adrian Bonifacio; Featured photo: Filipino and Filipino American activists rally in protest of the historical revisionism and continued attacks on human rights under Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, who spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2022. His address comes one day before the 50th anniversary of […]
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Chilean musician Fernando Andrés Torres writes first book about life as ex-political prisoner
Growing flowers out of sorrows. That unlucky tree was born from a crack in the rock. Instead of feeling sorry for itself, it grew flowers from its sorrows! “El aromo”. Song by Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentinian folklorist These weeks, the Chilean musician and writer Fernando (“Feña”) AndrĂ©s Torres, is having a wonderful time. A few days […]
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PODCAST: El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzales on creating a cultural institution
In the latest Cultura episode, we are thrilled to be joined by none other than El Tecolote founder, Juan Gonzales. In this episode, our co-host Monti Rossetti not only sits down with Juan Gonzales to discuss the founding of El Tecolote, but also takes us way back to the beginning of Juan’s childhood in Stockton […]
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Almost a year later, San Francisco’s historic domestic workers paid sick time law to receive app assist
[Story by Lorena Garibay; Photos by Jeremy Word] Editor’s note: This story is part of a series looking at the impact of paid sick leave on domestic workers in San Francisco and is funded by the Solutions Journalism Network. El Tecolote was selected as one of the newsrooms to participate in SJN’s Labor Cohort. [Featured […]
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PODCAST: El Tecolote’s founder Juan Gonzales on 52 years of a community newspaper
On this episode of #RadioTeco News, we have a very special guest, El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzales. The conversation ranges from his life growing up in the Central Valley, his early start in journalism, and what it takes to create a newspaper that has fifty plus years of experience when it comes to informing and […]
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Abortion is Sacred: Native perspectives on the overturning of Roe vs. Wade
[Story by Mara Cavallaro & Olivia Cruz Mayeda; Featured illustration by Sonia LĂłpez-Chávez — Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] EDITOR’S NOTE: When El Tecolote learned in May via a leaked memo that the extremist right-wing Supreme Court of […]
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Reproductive Justice Without Borders: Lessons from Latin American Organizing
[Story by Mara Cavallaro & Ricardo Gomez; Photo by Alexis Terrazas — Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] In a historic referendum earlier this month, Chileans voted against a redrafted constitution that would have addressed the climate crisis, recognized […]