A Community Letter on Whitman & Latinos
Poetic justice has never tasted this sweet. Meg Whitman counted on her investment of millions of dollars in the Spanish media (of the $119 million spent on her campaign so far) to yield high returns in...
View ArticleCómo Entender la Acción Diferida para Indocumentados
Es posible que muchos jóvenes inmigrantes bajo posible deportación reciban un consuelo temporal gracias a la política de acción diferida que hace poco anunció la administración del presidente Obama. No...
View ArticleThe Story of ‘The Most Dangerous Tattoo’
Artist and writer Paul S. Flores received a call in 2009 from Ana Perez and Andrew Wood, who worked at the Central American Resource Center’s tattoo removal program. They had just received a grant and...
View ArticlePartidarios Aplauden Autorización de Licencias de Conducir para Indocumentados
Los defensores de inmigrantes han aplaudido la autorización de Sacramento para que menores indocumentados obtengan licencias de conducir, algo que, opinan, es un elemento clave para las comunidades...
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Mission Leaders Unite to Stop Gun Violence
Hundreds of community organizers gathered at Everett Middle School to put together a plan to end gun violence in the Mission. Roberto Hernandez stood before facing an auditorium packed with city...
View ArticleGun Buyback Brings Lines of Willing Owners
Organizers of the Mission’s first gun buyback held Thursday evening in the parking lot of the U.S. Bank at 22nd and Capp streets, were pleasantly surprised by a turnout that netted 157 guns, including...
View ArticleNonprofits Struggle With Influx of Immigrant Youth
The Bay Area, and the Mission in particular, has long been a refuge for immigrants fleeing their country of origin. However, with a surging number of predominantly young migrants escaping intensified...
View ArticleOrganizaciones Batallan con Llegada de Menores Migrantes
El Área de la Bahía, y en particular la Misión, ha sido desde hace tiempo un refugio para inmigrantes que han huido de sus países natales en busca de asilo. Sin embargo, con el aumento en la cantidad...
View ArticleUnaccompanied Minors Talk Trauma at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center
As a long time clinician at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Manuel Arredondo began to increasingly get requests to visit with unaccompanied minors who were suffering from the trauma of having...
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El Arzobispo Romero, Ahora un Beato, es Recordado en la Misión
Hay tres momentos en la vida de Gloria Cañas, una salvadoreña que vive en la Misión, que jamás podrá olvidar. El primero, es cuando recibió su Primera Comunión de las manos del Monseñor Salvadoreño...
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In the Memory of a Priest, Immigrants Get Holistic Treatment
Two decades ago, the Spanish Jesuit priest Ignacio Martín-Baró witnessed the killing, torture and oppression of Salvadorans in the country’s decade-long civil war. A respected psychologist, he urged...
View ArticleWitnessing History in El Salvador
By AMANDA MARTINEZ While most of the local Salvadoran community followed the historic presidential win by former guerilla party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) via radio programs like...
View ArticleLeaving the Gang: Tattoo Goes First
By STEFANIA ROUSSELLE This time last year, the murder rate was just heating up, but as the SF Chronicle reported today, it’s slowed to zero and seems like a good time to rerun a piece on how young men...
View ArticleFrom Activist to Negotiator
The sanctuary city amendment approved by the Board of Supervisors last week has been center stage since it was introduced in August, and for those behind the scenes, it is the culmination of a year’s...
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One Mission Parades Against Violence
A multicultured parade gathered at 16th and Mission Wednesday afternoon to unite the neighborhood and rally against the gang violence that ripped through the community last month. “We’re trying to...
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From Basta to Hasta la Vista
Gabriel Rey-Goodlatte receives his award. Bay Area activists celebrated the end to their six-month campaign against news anchorman Lou Dobbs and CNN on Friday night with pupusas, margaritas and dancing...
View ArticleOscar Romero, Presente!
En Español Thirty years ago yesterday, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero – an outspoken critic of government repression and defender of the powerless – was gunned down by a death squad as he celebrated...
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Police and Community Address Spike in SF Mission Gang Violence
Mission organizers and police alike are mobilizing to address a spate of violence including shootings in the Mission and in Bernal Heights that have sent five victims to the hospital in the past two...
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