In what has deemed quite an unusual move, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced on Feb. 3, that he had filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) and the San Francisco Board of Education (BOE) on the grounds that their plans to reopen the city’s public schools were “woefully inadequate […]
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It’s been called ‘The Latinx Pandemic,’ but did City health officials do enough to reach the Latinx community?
San Francisco health officials knew since late March 2020, and certainly by April, that the Latinx population was being disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic, and yet failed to take effective measures to address the crisis. While Latinx peoples are only 15 percent of the City population, according to official health data, we have at […]
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A Monumental Reflection of Community Pride, the Art of Juan R. Fuentes Reaches New Heights
Ninety miles south of San Francisco, in the historical farming town of Watsonville, thousands of discarded pieces of tile are being repurposed to construct a monumental public work of art. Juan R. Fuentes, an artist deeply connected to the social and political movements of the last 50 years, was selected to have four of his […]
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Essential but disposable: how California farmworkers battle COVID-19
Study reveals the high degree of exposure to the coronavirus in the fields and the profound impact on the economy and mental health of these families. In addition to high risk exposure to COVID-19, farmworkers in California have borne the brunt of setbacks caused by the pandemic: loss of income and employment, sudden childcare costs […]
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How Immigrant Voters Influenced 2020 US Presidential Election
The 2020 US presidential election saw a once-in-a-century voter turnout, giving the two political parties a huge boost in the number of votes ever recorded in an election. One of the factors responsible for this is the surge in the number of eligible immigrant voters from 12 million in 2000 to 23.2 million in 2020. […]
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The danger of being poor or a “Loquito”
“She was known as Princess Leia, because she often wore her long hair in two buns on the sides of her head, sometimes held together with syringes.” A quote from an article by Heather Knight. SF Chronicle, 12/08/2020 A few weeks ago, I sat on the […]
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As California Prisons Face COVID Outbreak, Organizations Demand Gavin Newsom Grant Mass Releases
Beeping filled the underpass of Interstate 880 as a caravan of cars made its way onto the San Francisco bound entrance ramp on 7th street in Oakland. The long trail of vehicles blocked all other entrances and exits of the highway, and heavy traffic began to amass in every direction. A man caught at the […]
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Mission Neighborhood Vaccine Site Helps Address Inequity Among Vaccine Distribution
COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Mission District’s Latinx community, prompting local leaders to take extraordinary measures After being turned away from San Francisco General Hospital because she wasn’t covered in their healthcare network, Teresa Velasco, 70, found out about a new neighborhood vaccine site from her friend working with the Latino Task Force. Known as “Doña,” […]
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Being a foreign student in the age of Trump
Zainab Hussain, originally from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is 22 years old and came to the United States on an F-1 Visa to study at San Jose State University and ended up double majoring in Psychology and Behavioral Science. She also earned a Minor in business studies. She’s currently on her OPT (Optima Practical Training) […]
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Are We There Yet? COVID-19 and the Impending Return to the Classroom
It seems like a decade ago when the San Francisco Unified School District announced that all S.F. public schools would be closed due to the dangers of COVID-19. For many teachers, that semester became a matter of basic pass/fail as both they and their students learned how to navigate an online curriculum. Now, one year […]