Artwork in Photo: “Black Butterfly” by Juan Carlos Mendazibal
SOMArts Cultural Center presents Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War, a group exhibition February 1 through 28, 2013, curated by 2012–2013 SOMArts’ Commons Curatorial Residency recipient Roxana Leiva. Works of art in a variety of media, including paintings, video, textile sculpture and large-scale multimedia installations, explore the individual experiences of reconstruction and healing in the context of El Salvador’s postwar period.
Twelve Salvadoran artists artists now living in California and New York draw upon their various experiences and family histories to create poignant works that grapple with the trauma of persecution and exile, and reveal complex personal and bi-national identities.
HBO Def Poet Mark Gonzales, who’s a Chicano Muslim, takes on—and takes down—the Islamophobic signs seen in New York City and San Francisco. (via Colorlines)
Mark is a wonderful human being.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, acknowledging that his department has routinely underreported the arrests of Latinos and Asians, the two largest minority groups in the city. Read the original investigation from The Bay Citizen’s Shoshana Walter here. (via californiawatch)
Installed in 1972, the system lists three categories for identifying arrestees by race: blacks, whites and other. Although the department could calculate the numbers manually, officers have been identifying Latinos as “white” and Asians as “other” in the computer system for years.
Seriously? I’m not buying that it was simply a hardware problem.
Edit: read the Bay Citizen’s original report to understand why I don’t buy it.
It is perhaps a measure of how neighborhoods have been gentrified in the intervening years that few marks of protests have appeared this time. In recent years, areas south of downtown have become increasingly popular among tech workers who live here but work south of here in Silicon Valley. Companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft run private buses that facilitate the reverse commute for their employees.”
Onishi, Norimitsu. “New San Francisco Tech Boom Brings Jobs But Also Worries.” The New York Times. 4 June 2012. Web. 4 June 2012. [source]
San Francisco is officially for sale to tech companies.
This WEDNESDAY 11/16, busses will depart from campus from Bancroft & Telegraph at 7am to take students San Francisco to protest the UC Regents meeting, where an 81% fee hike over the next four years will be considered.
The meeting was canceled. According to the Daily Cal,
The announcement, made by board Chair Sherry Lansing, board Vice Chair Bruce Varner and UC President Mark Yudof, was made Monday because UC law enforcement officials presented the board with “information indicating that rogue elements intent on violence and confrontation with UC public safety officers were planning to attach themselves to peaceful demonstrations expected to occur at the meeting.”
As ridiculous as it may sound, this is the excuse they used.
