Beyond Longbeach

Samoan Dance Brings Healing to Violence-Prone SF Community

May. 19, 2013 / By
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Silicon Valley DeBug/ New America Media, Video, Jean Melesaine

Pelenise Faataui, a native of San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, recently began teaching Polynesian dance to friends and neighbors in the area...

Merced Youth Reconnect Through Oral History Project

May. 17, 2013 / By
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Photo: Tyler Sano

by Deborah Juarez

On February 28, 2013 Merced High School showcased an Oral History Project; students interviewing family or friends, capturing their history...

Invisible Workforce: An Undocumented Immigrant Caregiver Shares Her Story

May. 17, 2013 / By
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PRI’s The World, Video, Monica Campbell

Nannies, housecleaners, caregivers—they are sometimes called the world’s most invisible workforce...

Finding Innovation, Inspiration and Hope in Washington, D.C.

May. 17, 2013 / By
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Editor’s note: Last month, Richmond Pulse contributor Yasmine Elsafy traveled to Washington, D.C., as a member of a youth delegation sponsored by The California Endowment, a private health foundation...

Health Reform Means Not Going to Mexicali for Care

May. 15, 2013 / By
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ALEJANDRA ALARCON/Coachella Unincorporated

COACHELLA — Like a lot of other families living in the Eastern Coachella Valley, when one of our family members fell sick, it meant driving about a hundred miles across the border into Mexico, to the City of Mexicali, to get taken care of by a doctor...

Protestors Target Excessive Phone Rates for Immigrant Detainees

May. 15, 2013 / By
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Richmond Pulse/New America Media, News Report, Peter Schurmann and Donny Lumpkins

RICHMOND, Calif. – At the West County Detention Facility, inmates can pay upwards of $20 for a five-minute phone call to friends, relatives or lawyers...