Radio Teco News

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 [email protected], 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.