Collisions is a film that explores the lives of a family of immigrants through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl, who returns home from school with her little brother only to find out their mother has just been detained by immigration police. It was written and produced by husband-and-wife team Richard and Zareen Levien. Sadly, this story is...
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Riding Transit While Black Can Be A Death Sentence
BART police have been scrutinized before for police brutality. Remember Oscar Grant? We live in a time when footage of police officers abusing their authority and using excessive force to terrorize citizens finds its way online almost every single day. This past weekend was no exception. On Sunday, in San Francisco, California, a video leaked of...
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Why Can’t We Seem to Fix Homelessness?
When Leaders ‘Do Something’ About Homelessness, it Looks Like Doing Nothing Step inside San Francisco’s St. Boniface Church on any weekday, and you’ll find dozens of homeless people asleep in its pews. The deep, windowless quiet inside the church creates a sanctuary not only for the Catholics who visit, but also for a portion of...
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Dear San Francisco Bay Area: Our Homelessness Problem Is Unconscionable. Let’s Fix It.
Bay Area Media Teaming Up This Week to Shine a Light on Homelessness To the city and people of San Francisco: Like you, we are frustrated, confused and dismayed by the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness in our city. Like you, we want answers — and change. We see the misery around us – the...