Tag: Puerto Rico
ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters
I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them can be done at home...
In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets
When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away.
“First of all, it’s a story...
Aya De León’s ‘Side Chick Nation’ explores post-Maria Puerto Rico
LIT Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series, including latest installment Side Chick Nation. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry...
Revolution music: What’s soundtracking protests around the globe?
ALL EARS "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution," the old anarchist-feminist saying goes. And it's true, every uprising needs a good soundtrack, though we're a long way...
Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project
For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just dropped Sacred Spells, a 19-track...
A people’s climate summit
This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss the state of climate action...
Poor People’s Campaign marches on Trump’s DC
Well I went down to the rich man’s house- to take back what he stole from me -- take back my dignity, take back my humanity….
There we were --...
OPINION: US policy forced people to leave their homes and immigrate here
We've heard the living experiences of people who have had no alternative to leaving home to escape violence, war and poverty, who now find themselves imprisoned in the detention...
Architecturally sound neon Pomeranians: Our top 5 from Mexico City Art Week
ART LOOKS I didn’t expect to be here, writing to you, about this. After many years of penning flippant retorts and scene reports from art weeks from Miami to...
The story of SF’s hidden monument to WWI
This year is the 100-year anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I. It is also the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, at root...
