COVID-19 has left many San Francisco educators mentally and physically drained. For two years, theyâve continued to work through the pandemic, while at the same time demanding that the district provide proper protections needed to face COVID-19. Now, educators are facing yet another problem. They arenât getting paid. On March 14, 2022, educators finally had […]
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Statement from Editor-in-Chief
Comunidad, Upon listening and hearing the concerns brought forward to us by high school students and a parent over an article titled âStudent led walkout against sexual assault in 2021 still relevant,â published in El Tecolote on March 10, 2022, we acknowledge that the story and accompanying illustration caused harm. They have both been removed […]
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Letter to the editor: Setting the record straight on the student walkouts
The movement against sexual assault within SFUSD high schools skyrocketed after a protest that took place at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts on November 2nd, 2021. From that day forward, over 15 high schools across San Francisco and the Bay Area in general walked out against the rape culture within their school […]
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PODCAST: We are all humans, a talk centering the unhoused in short Netflix doc
Today we are joined by Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk, the directors of the Netflix documentary and Academy Award-nominated short doc Lead Me Home. This film is about people who are fighting to survive on the West Coast and how Californiaâs unhoused population continues to grow meanwhile housing costs soar. Pedro and Jon also tell […]
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Rest in Peace and Power Francisco Flores Landa: a Community Rebel at Heart
When Francisco Flores Landa strolled into the editorial office of El Tecolote in early 1972 inquiring if the newspaper needed help, little did I realize that it would be a lasting relationship that made for cherished memories. At that moment I asked, “What can you do?” He replied, “What do you need?” From that moment […]
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Reimagining incarceration: Marlene Sanchez dedicates her life
It is often said that a childâs imagination is their greatest giftâencouraging them to play with realityâshielding them from worldly pains. Eleven-year-old Marlene Sanchez felt the limitation of her imagination as she sat on the floor of her cell. Her childhood was filled to the brim with experiences to be âreimagined.â âWhy is it only […]
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A Legacy of Dance: A Folklorists Journey Through Mexican Traditional Dance
Some people go through life placing one foot in front of the other, unaware of the musical potential that’s hiding underneath their shoes. Tap dancers know it, flamenco dancers know it, the Irish step dancers know itâand Maria Luisa Colmenarez most definitely knows. Every step she makes sends a message and she wants everyone to […]
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After 25 years of leadership at MCCLA, Jennie Rodriguez bids farewell
âIâm not retiring,â said Jennie Emire Rodriguez, who for the last 25 years has been a stabilizing force at one of the Mission Districtâs cornerstone cultural organizations. âIâm graduating.â Rodriguez, who guided Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) through some of the centerâs most challenging moments and who oversaw its growth, served her final […]
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Ukraine, and a journalistic double standard
I wasnât quite 14 when the Twin Towers fell. At that moment, I couldnât have known that a mere three years later, I would be sitting in my first journalism class, the first of many to come. Despite the timing, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 had nothing to do with my decision to pursue […]
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Call for Leonard Peltier’s Pardon and Release Grows
A national campaign calling for the pardon and release of long-time political prisoner Leonard Peltier is gaining momentum nationally. Peltier, of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in […]