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The digital arm of San Francisco’s Spanish/English newspaper, El Tecolote, has arrived! Latina Latino Latinx News is our new biweekly podcast focusing on all matters that affect our Latino community and beyond
Today I have the honor of speaking to El Tecolote’s Chilean-American photojournalist, Pablo Unzueta
Pablo and I talk about the work that he has been focused on the last few months ecpecially his biweekly photo newsletter called Ojos.
He also explains to us the meaning behind the word, Ojos, and the inspiration to put this series together. Then we talk in depth about his love for photojournalism and cameras.
It's the end of another year and we have another recap episode for you. Rebeca Flores and Alexis Terrazas join the show to talk to us about all that was in news and culture.
Previous podcast episodes mentioned on this show.
- Remembering Pelé
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000599372458
- The People's House
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000611311929
- Turning Pain into Purpose and Power
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000615004185
In this episode, we speak with three women, all from the Bay Area, and all who will participate in the upcoming Vigil for Gaza, which will take place in Balmy Alley on Nov. 2nd, during Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco’s Mission District.
In the first segment of this episode, we speak with Lucia Ippolito, who put out an open call to the community to build altares for victims of Gaza. Later in the episode, we’ll hear from Yenia Jimenez, a mother, poet, community advocate, and author, who will be building an altar in Balmy Alley, alongside her son, who is half Latino, and Half Palestinian. And our final guest for this episode will be Seham Steyteyieh, aka Susu, a 20 year old full time student at USF and a community organizer who helped coordinate a student walkout on Oct. 25.
On this episode we talk to Pablo Unzueta. Pablo, a photographer and writer here at El Tecolote, recently visited Chile and experienced the 50th anniversary of El Golpe, the military coup that nation suffered in 1973.
We talked about what happened in ’73, how Chile is today, and his own Chileno roots
On this episode we discuss transphobia and why we need to call it out when it happens in our Latinx community.
Check out the comics exhibition by Acción Latina R.A.I.C.E.S. Art Fellow Yano Rivera on Saturday, October 14th at Paseo Artístico - The '90s Matter in the Mission, a special artistic activation of El Tecolote's archive and free art stroll that celebrates community history in San Francisco's Calle 24 Latino Cultural District.
In this next episode, we speak with Gabriela Dematteis, Lou Dematteis, about her father, and her work as a filmmaker.
With El Tecolote celebrating another year around the sun we wanted to share with you another Radio Teco rewind as we go back to our conversation from last year with El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzalez.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen many in our communities be the targets of xenophobic and racists scapegoating. These attacks have been known to come from right-wing politicians, desperate to capitalize on the fears of their less-informed constituents. But what happens when these attacks come from with the so-called progressive safe haven of San Francisco?
With the Women’s World Cup under way, we’re doing something special for this next episode. We are revisiting last year’s interview with Bay Area Filipino soccer star, Sarina Bolden, as well as an amazing conversation with her parents Sherry and Robert.
En este episodio el invitado especial es la estrella de futbol mexicano, Hugo Sanchez.
Hablamos con Hugo sobre su tiempo como jugador de futbol, la selección mexicana, y La Liga Summer Tour que se va hacer acá en San Francisco el 5 de agosto.
Boletos - https://mlb.tickets.com/?agency=GNGE_MPV&orgid=22108&pid=9248863&utm_source=web&utm_%5B%E2%80%A6%5DMX&utm_term=Oracle_Park_LaLiga_Match_2&utm_content=Button_Web#/event/9248863/ticketlist/?view=sections&minPrice=30&maxPrice=190&quantity=2&sort=price_asc&ada=false&seatSelection=false&onlyCoupon=true&onlyVoucher=false
In this episode of Radio Teco News, we sit down with Michelle Monterrosa, the older sister of Sean Monterrosa. Three years ago, Sean Monterrosa was killed by Vallejo police. Since then, Michelle and her sister Ashley have been tirelessly fighting for justice. Michelle shares who her brother was, the arts pop-up show that was recently held in Sean’s honor, and gives us an update on Sean’s case.
On this episode of Radio Teco News we speak to El Tecolote contributor Galicia Stack Lozano about Puerto Rico and it's long history with the United States.
Further reading - Story Part 1 & Story Part 2
This January, the Anti Police-Terror Project opened its new building, the People's House---a community center for abolitionist organizing. For this episode, we spoke to two key APTP organizers-- Cat Brooks, the group's co-founder, and Guadalupe Chavez, its healing programs coordinator. From them, you'll hear about Mental Health First, the APTP's non-carceral crisis response team, and about healing justice and its relationship to abolition.
On this episode of Radio Teco News, El Tecolote reporter Manuel Obregozo talks to Alexis Terrazas about the coup and protests in Peru.
On this episode of Radio Teco News we go back to one of our favorite episodes with someone we consider an absolute legend, Melissa Ortiz. In honor of Women’s History Month we wanted to go back and listen to Melissa and her path in the sport of soccer.
On this episode of Radio Teco News we speak to boxing expert Jose Corpas. We talk about Jose's article about legendary boxer Luis Angel Firpo as well as legendary warrior Tecun Uman, and how the battle against colonialism has been a constant fight for many generations.
Read Jose's article here - https://unanimodeportes.com/sports/firpo-dempsey-fight/
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced that the federal state of emergency—the thing that has been keeping COVID tests, vaccinations, and Paxlovid free— will end on May 11. But as much as we wish it would, declaring the pandemic over won’t make that true.
On this episode of Radio Teco News, El Tecolote reporter, Mara Cavallaro gives us an update on COVID in our community.
On this episode of Radio Teco News, we talk about the Brazilian icon, Pelé, who passed away in December of 2022. El Tecolote reporter Mara Cavallaro joins us to talk about her fellow Brazilian and what Pelé meant to her.
Dr. Carlos Martinez is an assistant professor of Migrant Health & Social Justice in the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. Since 2018, Dr. Martinez has done ethnographic fieldwork with migrants stuck at the Tijuana border. In this episode, Dr. Martinez breaks down the Biden administration’s recent Humanitarian Parole Plan, the continued barring of migrants under the enforcement of Title 42, and talks about his own ethnographic fieldwork.
Happy New Year!!
Before we get started with 2023, we wanted to do a quick recap of a few of the biggest stories from 2022 with our very own writer Mara Cavallaro. With Mara's focus being mental health, we talked about the three biggest stories she wrote for El Tecolote discussing this important topic during an action packed 2022.
Sources mentioned in episode.
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (for trans, genderqueer, and gender-questioning folks).
BlackLine: 1 (800) 604-5841 (according to the BlackLine website, they’re a hotline “geared towards the Black, Black LGBTQI, Brown, Native and Muslim community. However, no one will be turned away from the Hotline.”)
For more information about Alameda’s 988 call center, visit https://988alamedacounty.org/.
Body Politic Support Group
For additional information or to join the RECOVER study, call 415-353-9306, send an email to FiguringOutLongCOVID@ucsf.edu, or fill out a form at: Studies.RecoverCovid.org.
Marked By Covid, pandemic justice and remembrance organization
In this episode, El Tecolote reporter Lorena Garibay talks to us about her reporting domestic workers in San Francisco getting access to paid sick leave. This legislation was passed in 2022, and was celebrated and touted as the first of its kind, but questions remain as to how it will be enforced. Lorena’s reporting on this ordinance is funded by the Solutions Journalism Network, an independent, non-profit organization that advocates an approach of solutions journalism guided by evidence-based reporting to the responses of social problems. El Tecolote was selected as one of the newsrooms to participate in SJN’s Labor Cohort. In this episode, Lorena tells us about her reporting, the people she spoke with, and how the four pillars of solutions journalism guided her throughout.
Cynthia Gutierrez (she/ella) is an award winning first-generation Nicaraguan Salvadoran reproductive justice organizer, full spectrum doula, cultural strategist, writer, and public speaker. Her work looks at the intersection of reproductive justice, the criminal injustice system, disability justice, and environmental justice. She is currently the program manager for the University of California San Francisco Hub of Positive Reproductive and Sexual Health (HIVE) and Team Lily programs. Cynthia is a proud abortion storyteller with We Testify. She is on the Board of Directors for ACCESS Reproductive Justice, the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom, and Women’s Voices for the Earth. Her work can be found on her website cynthiaagutierrez.com. She has a Bachelors in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Cynthia is originally from San Francisco’s Excelsior District and now resides in East Oakland with her husband and son.
For those seeking an abortion or who are looking to donate and support an abortion fund, visit the links below.
https://www.nationaladvocatesforpregnantwomen.org/
https://www.wetestify.org/
https://www.blackmillennials4flint.org/
https://abortionfunds.org/
https://accessrj.org/
https://www.sistersong.net/
https://californialatinas.org/
https://www.protectabortionca.com/
Cynthia Gutierrez (she/ella) is an award winning first-generation Nicaraguan Salvadoran reproductive justice organizer, full spectrum doula, cultural strategist, writer, and public speaker. Her work looks at the intersection of reproductive justice, the criminal injustice system, disability justice, and environmental justice. She is currently the program manager for the University of California San Francisco Hub of Positive Reproductive and Sexual Health (HIVE) and Team Lily programs. Cynthia is a proud abortion storyteller with We Testify. She is on the Board of Directors for ACCESS Reproductive Justice, the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom, and Women’s Voices for the Earth. Her work can be found on her website cynthiaagutierrez.com. She has a Bachelors in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Cynthia is originally from San Francisco’s Excelsior District and now resides in East Oakland with her husband and son.
For those seeking an abortion or who are looking to donate and support an abortion fund, visit the links below.
https://www.nationaladvocatesforpregnantwomen.org/
https://www.wetestify.org/
https://www.blackmillennials4flint.org/
https://abortionfunds.org/
https://accessrj.org/
https://www.sistersong.net/
https://californialatinas.org/
https://www.protectabortionca.com/
On today’s show we have a very special guest, El Tecolote founder Juan Gonzales. It was such a pleasure talking to the legend himself and fun to learn more about his life growing up in the Central Valley, his very early start in journalism, and what it takes to create a newspaper that has fifty plus years of experience when it comes to informing our community.
On today's show we spoke to John Hamasaki. John is running for the District Attorney of San Francisco against current DA, Brooke Jenkins. John talks about his motives to run, his past as the Police Commissioner, and why Charles Barkley needs to come back to SF and let us give him a tour of our beautiful city.
On this episode of Radio Teco News we speak to Board of Education candidate Gabriela Lopez. We talk about how the recall earlier this year affected her, her thoughts about the current state of the Board of Education, and her plans as she aims to return to the position she held.
Nicole Santamaria, an intersex woman from El Salvador, is the executive director of the San Francisco Based organization, El/La para translatinas. For more than 25 years, El/La has been advocating and seeking justice for the transgender community. In this episode, Nicole tells us about her journey, and the ever important work that El/La continues to do in the face of rising transphobia.
On this episode we are joined by the Vice President of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club, Kevin Ortiz. We discuss what the appointment of new SF DA Brooke Jenkins means for San Francisco.
In part two of this episode, we talk about how Wynn’s death was first reported by mainstream media, the significance of his final silent scream, and amid the interconnected chaos that haunts our world, how we can honor and compost our grief in hope of real radical change.
On this episode of Radio Teco News we are joined by Candice Ford and Kritee Kano, two dear friends of Wynn Bruce. Wynn Bruce was a practitioner of Shambhala buddhism who had deep connection with the earth. On April 22, 2022, Earth Day, Wynn self immolated on the steps of the Supreme Court, and ultimately succumbed to his injuries. Wynn’s death was not suicide, but a an act of courage in the face of an ever worsening climate crisis.
Welcome to season four of Radio Teco News!
This season begins with an important conversation with AJ Rio-Glick. AJ talks about their personal journey as a trans person, their relationship with their lesbian parents, and the amazing work they do today.
With over 40,000 homes empty in San Francisco, a city with thousands of unhoused people, we talked to D5 Supervisor Dean Preston about his new plan, the Empty Homes Tax.
This time on Latina, Latino, Latinx News we talk about the the fight of the many migrant families still trying to be reunified after years of forces separation.
We sit down and chat with San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The focus of another recall that attempts to dismantle the democratic process here in California.
Bay Area born soccer star Sarina Bolden joins the show and talks about her amazing career so far. We discuss everything from the sacrifices her parents made to help her start to scoring the decisive penalty that sent the Philippines to their first ever FIFA World Cup.
Today we are joined by Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk, the creators of the Netflix Documentary and Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home. This film is about people who are fighting to survive and how California’s unhoused population continues to grow meanwhile housing costs soar. Pedro and Jon also tell us about the process they went through to make such an important film as well as what they did the moment they heard their documentary was nominated for an Oscar.
Fernando Martí, the Co-Director for the Council of Community Housing Organizations, talks to us about the housing crisis here in San Francisco. He focuses on how gentrification and discrimination has led to the displacement of the working class as well as including his own personal experience with eviction.
We talk to El Tecolote's Photo Archivist, Linda Wilson, about the legendary Latino and LGBTQ activist and artist, Juan Pablo Gutierrez.
The 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections are due to be held February 15, 2022. On this episode we speak to the President of the Board of Education and one of the commissioners who is up for recall, Gabriela Lopez.
Happy New Year! We wish everyone has an amazing 2022! We, here at El Tecolote, promise to keep you connected with the most important conversations, which is why we begin with the ever so important topic, COVID. School reopening was a hot topic in 2021, but now we ask the question, how are the teachers and students doing? We caught up with a few educators and parents to talk about the recent outbreak of COVID cases in schools and the latest news about how they are being protected..
We take a look back at our debut year in the podcast world and highlight a few of our many important conversations.
On our last episode of season two, we talk about the holiday most of us will be celebrating this coming Thursday, Thanksgiving. The main focus for us, why is there a growing resentment towards this holiday and also, why we were lied to in school.
With a year left before the 2022 California Gubernatorial Election, we talk to local activist Jackie Fielder about what Governor Newsom needs to do to earn our trust, and also chat about other candidates that Fielder's Daybreak PAC are focused on.
City College of San Francisco student, Diamund, joins us to chat about the obstacles college students currently are living with, as well as the struggle professors are a part of as they try to keep their jobs.
In part two of this interview of Yesica Prado by Mabel Jimenez, we learn more about Yesica's career in journalism and how journalists cover those who are unhoused and living in their vehicles.
On this first part of a two part interview, Mabel Jimenez talks to journalist Yésica Prado about living out of her car, the struggles to do so, and how we can help.
Esta semana hablamos con directores y estudiantes del Siena Youth Center en Redwood City, California. Ellos nos hablan del trabajo que iso el centro para poder vacunar la comunidad y ayudarles entender la importancia de ser vacunado.
En esta entrevista, grabada a fines de julio, hablamos con Diana Otero, Directora de Proyectos Especiales de la Latino Community Foundation. Una fundación enfocada en el crecimiento de la comunidad Latina. Este episodio es la segunda instalación de un serie de tres partes, cuyo objetivo es abordar la importancia de estar vacunado en contra del COVID.
En este primer instalación de un serie de tres episodios hablamos con el Doctor Raul Gutierrez de San Francisco General sobre la importancia de estar vacunado en contra COVID.
El Tecolote contributor, Johanna Lopez Miyaki, spoke to SFMTA Director of Transportation, Jeffrey Tumlin. Director Tumlin tells us about the challenges Muni faces as they try to reopen and navigate life during and after the Covid pandemic.
Welcome to Latina, Latino, Latinx News! On our first episode we have a special guest talking about diversity in not only sports but in all walks of life. Megan Reyes, Communications Director at Blue Wire Podcasts, talks to us about the campaign she created to help encourage a more equal society.
This week we have our second episode of the series, "The Women of El Tecolote". and this time Accion Latina’s executive director Fatima Ramirez talks to another legend of the early days of El Tecolote and also one of the current board members of Accion Latina, Ana Montes.
This episode is our last episode of season one, but we will be back the first week of August with more amazing stories and news for season two, stay tuned!
James Cordero, Co-Director of the Water Drop Program at Border Angels, joins us to talk about the reality migrants deal with as they cross the border and the humanitarian aid Border Angels offers them.
To learn more about Border Angels go to https://www.borderangels.org
Joining us on this episode are the Jacobs-Fantauzzi brothers, Khalil and Eli, who produce and direct various films and storytelling projects. Of Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry, Khalil and Eli have deep roots in the Bay Area and the Caribbean. We’ll be discussing their longtime activism in Puerto Rico, what just filmmaking and storytelling looks like, to them, the importance of highlighting the Afro-Latinx experience and the colonial history of the Caribbean and in Latin America.
Malik Washington, investigative reporter and community liaison of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, talks to us about the history of Juneteenth and how the fight for freedom here in the United States is still ongoing.
Te presentamos la primera instalación de “Las Mujeres De El Tecolote”.
Hablamos con uno de los pilares de El Tecolote, la traductora y colaboradora, Hilda Ayala.
El Tecolote contributor, Ian Firstenberg, joins us today on Radio Teco to chat about what exactly is a Public Bank, why is San Francisco getting closer to agreeing to start one, and the history behind it.
Former soccer player and current analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes, Herculez Gomez, joins Radio Teco to talk about the culture clash he felt as a Mexican-American playing and covering soccer in both the United States and Mexico.
Anthropologist Jason De León joins us to chat about his non-profit research-art-education-media collective, "Hostile Terrain 94". An exhibition composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019.
American-born Colombian Olympian, Melissa Ortiz, joins us on this episode of Radio Teco. We talk about her experiences fighting for equality for women's soccer in Colombia and her never give up attitude that has made her one of the hardest working people in sports media.
Gabriela López, President of the San Francisco Board of Education, joins us on this episode of Radio Teco. We chat about her first few months as president and the plan to reopen schools.
En este episodio hablamos de la importancia de la frase "Las Vidas Negras Importan" y cómo tenemos que apoyar a la comunidad Afro-Americano.
Author, and former boxer, Jose Corpas joins us to chat about the legendary boxer Panama Al Brown, the subject of his 2016 book “Black Ink.”
El Tecolote contributor, Johanna Lopez Miyaki, talks to three amazing guests who give us three different perspectives on the ugly history the United States has with eugenics and forced sterilization.
Afro-latino musician, Raka Dun, talks to us to about life in his native Panama, growing up here in the Bay Area, and how the social injustice of 2020 inspired his song "Libertad".
EN ESPAÑOL - En el próximo episodio de Radio Teco hablamos con el jefe de contenido digital de MLS en Español, Adolfo Lee, de su identificación como un Argentino con raíces Asiáticos.
Documentarian, Rodrigo Reyes, joins us to chat about his latest film, 499, and what inspired him to make an experimental documentary focused on Mexican history.
“Charlando”, un nuevo serie mensual de Radio Teco donde enfocamos la conversación en un tema importante que fue el foco del mes que recién termino.
En este episodio hablamos de los ataques a la comunidad asiática, la historia de el trato a los asiáticos en Estados Unidos y Latino America, y la importancia en la unidad con la comunidad asiática.
Gabriella Frenes, a local journalist, joins us to talk about her and her family's interesting history that ties Asian, Latin, and Chumash ancestry together.
We turn our focus back to CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984–Present), hosted by SOMArts. This time we chat with the three amazing curators, Fatima Ramirez, Josue Rojas, and Mauricio Ramirez about their inspirations to put this Central American focused art exhibition together.
SF General Porter, Ryan Rouse, chat's with us about starting his new job in the middle of a pandemic and reminds us that it's not just the doctors and nurses who are the hero's in the hospital.
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.
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.
Aquí hay una previa de lo que está por venir! Después de 50 años increíbles y exitosos, el periódico español/inglés de San Francisco, El Tecolote, está entrando en el mundo digital. ¡Esto es Radio Teco!
Here is a preview of what's to come! After 50 amazing and successful years, San Francisco's Spanish/English newspaper, El Tecolote, is entering the digital world. This is Radio Teco!