Author: unsettlers
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Photojournalism: Threading the Life of a Mayan
These photos were featured as part of the essay “Threading the Life of a Mayan” published in my column “Unsettled in the Mission” on November 2, 2017 in El Tecolote newspaper. José Góngora and I collaborated in developing the video about his brother Luis’s murder by police, featuring his family in Teabo, and himself. José…
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Unsettled/ Inquietos: A collaboration with El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of the Mission!
Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays based on portraits of working class and poor residents of the traditionally Latino Mission District of San Francisco. The essays will be published in English and Spanish in the bilingual El Tecolote newspaper of Acción…
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The problem with quadrupling beat cops—armed with implicit bias and weapons—in the Mission
My encounter at 24th Street Southeast BART Plaza, approximately at 1:30pm, Oct. 9th, 2017, Indigenous People’s Day I had just stepped out of the new Mission coffee house on the Southeast BART plaza, where for about an hour I had been writing up some ideas for my next essay. The moment I walked out of…
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Threading the Life of a Mayan
SOMARTS, Day of the Dead, Altar installation with José Góngora Pat and his family, and Paz de la Calzada, Oct.-Nov. 2016 The following description is an excerpt from “Threading the Life of a Mayan”. Threaded altar By nature, thread tangles. This year for Day of the Dead in San Francisco, Jose and I worked alongside…
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Adriana Camarena responds to YBCA’s “Take This Hammer Exhibit” as part of Ten Bay Area Writers Respond, June 7th, 2016
An essay by Adriana Camarena about affordable housing, police brutality, homelessness, art and activism. The author was commissioned by the YBCA to write a response to the exhibit “Take This Hammer”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), March 11th to August 16th, 2016 (Guest Curator: Christian L. Frock) and present work at the event:…
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The Naming of Things
The Naming of Things* For Chris Carlsson, and in memory of “Processed World” magazine. I have found the place where making romantic sentences full of pathos and bravado has become factory work. On a plain of paved streets in Sunnyvale, past rows of ticky-tack Spanish-tiled roofs, in a cove of office-warehouses, holding herds of cubicles,…
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Mourning Luis the morning after the Frisco500 rise up
Mourning a police shooting On April 7, 2016 at 10:04am, two SFPD officers killed Luis Góngora Pat, a Mayan Yucatecan man living unhoused on Shotwell Street. His killing —partially caught on film— was the fourth high profile police officer-involved shooting since 2014. His killing was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Five community members…
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Democracy Now Interview: Adriana Camarena talks about killings by SFPD
Democracy Now Interview. “Death by Gentrification: Alex Nieto Killed by Hail of Police Bullets in a Changing San Francisco” April 12, 2016 – Amy Goodman interviews Rebecca Solnit and Adriana Camarena on the SFPD killing of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014 and the other salient cases of police shootings since 2014 (Amilcar Perez Lopez,…
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#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball…
#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball… Dedicated to Bay Area families victims of police brutality and their supporters I. October Spirit II. Twilight III. Tipping the playing field IV. Unaccountable Murders V. Giants for Justice VI. October Together, the new normal… VII. List of Bay Area homicide victims by police I. October Spirit “October Together” is…
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The Twilight of Alex Nieto
Somarts, Day of the Dead, Altar installation, Oct. 3-Nov. 10, 2014 On October 3rd, Elvira Nieto and I began painting the walls of our SO- MArts altar titled The Twilight of Alex Nieto, in honor of her son, Alex Nieto. Alex Nieto was killed at twilight on Bernal Hill by four still unnamed police officers…
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