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.

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.

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.

Información importante sobre sus derechos de vivienda.

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.

We talk to El Tecolote's Photo Archivist, Linda Wilson, about the legendary Latino and LGBTQ activist and artist, Juan Pablo Gutierrez. 

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.

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.

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. 

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!