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Unsettled/ Inquietos: A collaboration with El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of the Mission!

October 9, 2017 unsettlers

Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay, Interview, Photography, Storytelling

The problem with quadrupling beat cops—armed with implicit bias and weapons—in the Mission

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My encounter at 24th Street Southeast BART Plaza, approximately at 1:30pm, Oct. 9th, 2017, Indigenous People’s Day I had just…

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Threading the Life of a Mayan

November 2, 2016 unsettlers

SOMARTS, Day of the Dead, Altar installation with José Góngora Pat and his family, and Paz de la Calzada, Oct.-Nov.…

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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

June 8, 2016 unsettlers

An essay by Adriana Camarena about affordable housing, police brutality, homelessness, art and activism. The author was commissioned by the…

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Posted in: Non-Fiction Literary Writer, Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay

The Naming of Things

June 4, 2016 unsettlers

The Naming of Things* For Chris Carlsson, and in memory of “Processed World” magazine. I have found the place where…

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Mourning Luis the morning after the Frisco500 rise up

May 8, 2016 unsettlers

Mourning a police shooting On April 7, 2016 at 10:04am, two SFPD officers killed Luis Góngora Pat, a Mayan Yucatecan…

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Democracy Now Interview: Adriana Camarena talks about killings by SFPD

April 12, 2016 unsettlers

Democracy Now Interview. “Death by Gentrification: Alex Nieto Killed by Hail of Police Bullets in a Changing San Francisco” April…

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#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball…

October 28, 2014 unsettlers 2 Comments

#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball… Dedicated to Bay Area families victims of police brutality and their supporters I. October Spirit…

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The Twilight of Alex Nieto

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Somarts, Day of the Dead, Altar installation, Oct. 3-Nov. 10, 2014 On October 3rd, Elvira Nieto and I began painting…

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Unaccountable murders by police

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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Day of the Dead, Oct.-Nov. 2014, Interactive installation Over the extended Columbus Day weekend…

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