Ever since the beginning of the pandemic last March, anti-Asian violence has been on the rise nationwide, but the recent uptick of attacks and robberies against older Asian people in the Bay Area has gained national media attention and support, from elected officials to celebrities. Out of 2,808 reported incidents against Asian Americans from March […]
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Radio Teco: Caravana – Meet the Artists
On our first cultural episode of Radio Teco we speak to three amazing Central American artists from different parts of the world who will be sharing their work at CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984–Present), hosted by SOMArts, from March 10 to April 15. The artists are Oriel Maria Siu, Kiara Machado, and Ozi Magaña. […]
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Radio Teco: You don’t get it, until you get it
We start off our series with a topic that has been on all of our minds, COVID. Alejandro Galicia Diaz talks to us about his near death experience as he fought, and in many ways continues to fight, against the virus.
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Attacks on elderly Asian Americans surge in the Bay Area during the festive season
In recent weeks, reports of violence against elder Asian Americans have skyrocketed. Stores in Chinatown are crammed with roadside stalls of red and gold decorations, mandarins and tangerines, dried ingredients and flowers; the festival is around the corner. The 15-day celebration of the Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, begins on Feb. 11, […]
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San Francisco’s 8th poet laureate: Tongo Eisen-Martin, a voice for the people
Minutes before Tongo Eisen-Martin received the news that he was to become the eighth poet laureate of San Francisco, he was in the midst of recording poems for the San Francisco Public Library when a liaison helping him with the shoot asked him to join a Zoom meeting. Then came the moment Eisen-Martin had been […]
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Prevention Through Deterrence: The Guiding Strategy of U.S. Immigration Enforcement
The criminalization of migration, the detainment of undocumented bodies, and the militarization of artificial borders, have become normalized pillars of U.S. immigration enforcement. Guided by deterrence theory, policymakers across the political spectrum continue to pen “bi-partisan” legislation designed to control migration despite the human and moral costs. In 1994, Bill Clinton implemented a strategy of […]
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Increase of coronavirus variants in Mission District, according to UCSF study
The latest study, conducted in late January by UCSF researchers and collaborators, found that 53 percent of positive samples at the 24th BART Plaza “rapid test and response” site have been that of a coronavirus variant, L452R, most recently coined by some as the “California variant.” On Monday, Feb.22, Unidos en Salud researchers and the […]
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Ensuring Access to Resources for Everyone
COVID has affected our economy in untold ways, and we will feel the impacts of this crisis for years to come. While millions of Californians have been unemployed for almost a year, communities of color and immigrant communities have shouldered the heaviest burden. The persisting economic crisis has been particularly acute for the workers in […]
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Attacks On Asian Americans: Seeing the whole story
It’s painful to watch the video of 91 year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee being shoved to the ground and killed. It hurts to continuously see similar videos of seemingly random violence and hate, surfacing around the country. It hurts enough to stand out in memory, amid one of the most devastating and traumatic years in history. It’s […]
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Advocates demand the inclusion of Arab, Palestinian studies in K-12 curriculum
After revisions to the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) for K-12 Californian students omitted the inclusion of Arab-American Studies, Ethnic Studies educators and advocates are demanding that the proposed curriculum be restored to its original form. AB-2016—a law that was signed by then Gov. Jerry Brown—developed a model curriculum for Ethnic Studies for K-12 school […]