Radio Teco News
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Radio Teco NewsAug 16, 2021
71. Ojos
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.
70. 2023 End of Year Recap
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.
53. Remembering Pelé
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000599372458
58. The People's House
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000611311929
60. Turning Pain into Purpose and Power
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-teco/id1555663643?i=1000615004185
69. A Vigil for Gaza
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.
68. The 50th Anniversary of El Golpe
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
67. Holding Ourselves Accountable
On this episode we discuss transphobia and why we need to call it out when it happens in our Latinx community.
66. Paseo Artístico - The '90s Matter in the Mission
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.
65. My Photo Helped Expose A CIA Coverup
In this next episode, we speak with Gabriela Dematteis, Lou Dematteis, about her father, and her work as a filmmaker.
64. Radio Teco Rewind: Creating El Tecolote
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.
63. Honduras: San Francisco’s latest scapegoat
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?
62. Radio Teco Rewind: FIFA Women's World Cup Edition
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.
61. ESPAÑOL: La Liga Summer Tour
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.
60. Turning Pain into Purpose and Power
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.
59. Puerto Rico and the United States
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
58. The People's House
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.
57. The Political Crisis in Peru
On this episode of Radio Teco News, El Tecolote reporter Manuel Obregozo talks to Alexis Terrazas about the coup and protests in Peru.
56. Radio Teco Rewind: Our Conversation with Melissa Ortiz
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.
55. The Fight In Us
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/
54. A COVID Update
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.
53. Remembering Pelé
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.
52. What is Title 42?
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.
51. A Look Back at 2022
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
50. Domestic Workers Have Rights
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.
49. Normalizing Abortion: Part 2
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.blackmillennials4flint.org/
48. Normalizing Abortion: Part 1
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.blackmillennials4flint.org/
47. Creating El Tecolote
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.
46. The Current State of San Francisco
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.
45. The Return of Gabriela Lopez
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.
44. Open Minded, Open Hearted
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.
43. An Act of Compassion - Part 2
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.
42. An Act of Compassion - Part 1
41. A Trans Person's Journey
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.
40. The Importance of The Empty Homes Tax
39. Uncage, Reunify, Heal
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.
38. A Chat with District Attorney Chesa Boudin
37. Sus Derechos De Vivienda EN ESPAÑOL
Información importante sobre sus derechos de vivienda.
36. Making Your Nation Proud
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.
35. We Are All Humans
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.
34. Gentrification And Displacement
33. Reflecting On The Life Of A Friend
We talk to El Tecolote's Photo Archivist, Linda Wilson, about the legendary Latino and LGBTQ activist and artist, Juan Pablo Gutierrez.
32. The Rich, The Racists, and The Recall
31. COVID In The Classroom
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..
2021: A Year End Review
We take a look back at our debut year in the podcast world and highlight a few of our many important conversations.
30. Should We Cancel Thanksgiving?
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.
29. Should We Re-elect Gavin Newsom?
28. Why Education Should Be Affordable
27. Being An Ethical Journalist
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.
26. Living On Wheels
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.