Chema Hernández Gil
chema@social.sanfranciscan.org
Un prieto colorado. Foiled engineer and onetime media activist/journalist. Nowadays, stumping for the working class, full-time. Vegetarian from the start, vegan for the animals.<br/><br/>Opinions expressed are my own, but they could be yours too.<br/><br/>Often kicking it with <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" data-user="APYB2KcRCbgPF4Lnsm" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/users/luna" rel="ugc">@<span>luna</span></a></span> 🐕🐾 along the Embarcadero.
Posts
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Post #3497395
I'm delighted that SCOTUS reaffirmed birthright citizenship today, but the threats are far from over. Europe remains a cautionary tale on why it must be protected here in the USA. https://sanfranciscan.org/2025/02/26/birthright-citizenship-and-europe-a-cautionary-tale/
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Post #1974017
Neighborhoods like the Mission, the Tenderloin, SoMa and Chinatown are dense and vibrant. Households have low car ownership and high transit usage. But many residents are working class, often immigrant. They’re not the “right” type of urban dweller for many fans of urbanism. So instead of being urban archetypes, most urbanists focus on European models of urbanism. They point to the Netherlands, Germany, etc. Whenever places like the TL are mentioned, the focus is on the negatives, on how they’r...
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Post #1858241
This blew my mind: In 1614, the #Indigenous #Nahua noble and #historian Chimalpahin Messenger with Shield, documented (in Nahuatl!) the arrival of the Japanese embassy in Mexico on their way to Spain. Chimalpahin writes out the dates using the Mexica calendar as well, staring with 1-Tochtli (1-Rabbit) and goes into great detail about how the Japanese dressed and acted. Amazing. If you read Spanish, Miguel León-Portilla translated the diaries. You can find them here, with ample background: http...
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Post #1514141
This May Day, San Franciscans are saying: Shut it Down! That means no school, no work and no shipping. Workers’ Needs Over Billionaire Greed: NO WAR, NO CUTS, NO DEPORTATIONS! There will be at least two marches: One at 2PM at Civic Center Plaza and another one at 4PM at the Embarcadero Plaza. #SanFrancisco #BayArea #MayDay #ShutItDown
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Post #536611
I gifted myself a single-volume edition of the Lord of the Rings. I last read it when I was half the age I am today, and it&#39;s an entirely different experience now. This edition is not very bulky and the cover is a bit flexible, so it makes for good comfortable reading.