• Reflections on the Tuskegee Study and Its Moral Harm

    Black History Month challenges all of us to learn, reflect and understand many things about the Black American experience, among them the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This outrage, perpetrated by the US Public Health Service, was not conducted for a year or even a decade – it went on for...
  • COVID-19 Vaccinations at La Plaza 💉

      Dear Community, Thanks to the collective efforts of Gardner Health Services, the Si Se Puede Collective, and the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department, La Plaza became a vaccination center serving up to 2,000 vaccines per week. At the beginning of the pandemic, La Plaza emerged as an integral part of...
  • TRUMP ON THE BENCH

    With the start of the second impeachment trial against Donald Trump, it is perfectly legitimate to ask whether, in the midst of the public health emergency of COVID-19, it makes sense to use the legislative time and the resources of the federal government to put on their docket a...
  • TRUMP EN EL BANQUILLO

    Con el inicio del segundo juicio político contra Donald Trump es perfectamente legítimo preguntarse si, en medio de la emergencia de salud pública del COVID-19, tiene sentido utilizar los tiempos legislativos y los recursos del gobierno federal para poner en el banquillo de los acusados a un expresidente. En un...
  • Esenciales pero desechables: así batallan contra la COVID-19 los trabajadores del campo en California

    Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Además de estar peligrosamente expuestos al contagio de la COVID-19, los trabajadores agrícolas en California han experimentado como pocos los reveses de esta pandemia:  pérdida de ingresos y de empleo, costos repentinos de cuidado infantil debido al cierre de escuelas, problemas con el aprendizaje...
  • Essential but disposable: how California farmworkers battle COVID-19

    Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services In addition to high-risk exposure to COVID-19, farmworkers in California have borne the brunt of setbacks caused by the pandemic: loss of income and employment, sudden childcare costs due to school closings, problems with distance learning due to poor or zero Internet access, food...
  • DriveForward Program to Expand Reach

    Peninsula Family Service SAN MATEO, Calif. – Peninsula Family Services announced this week a new partnership and grant award from the State of California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s CalMoneySmart Program to expand the reach of our Financial Empowerment’s Financial Education program. The partnership is working to reach...
  • Programa “DriveForward” Ampliando el alcance de nuestro servicio

    Peninsula Family Service SAN MATEO, Calif. – Peninsula Family Service anuncio esta semana una nueva afiliación y otorga una subvención del Programa CalMoneySmart del Departamento de Protección Financiera e Innovación del Estado de California, para ampliar el alcance del servicio del departamento de Empoderamiento Financiero, con su programa de...
  • BIDEN’S MIGRATORY WINDS

    Literally with the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden this week dismantled a significant portion of Donald Trump’s tragic immigration legacy. The pain and indignation that the separation of newborns from his parents caused us; caged minors crying over the absence of their mother; the sequel to trauma...
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