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In a neighborhood that temporarily ended up in a criminal state and felt deserted in late March, it’s hard not to wonder what would happen to the giant immigrant population of the Mission District. Nannies, structure staff and small business operators were unemployed or ventured into grocery stores, structure sites or work in the economy of strange jobs, praying not to bring the virus home.
Mission District social service agencies took action, calling their customers for check-in, but their physical windows were closed. One morning I saw a couple knocking on the door of one of the agencies. I explained that the social staff had to take calls from his home, that they had to use the number that was prominently in the front door. But we need to see someone, ” said one. I explained why it was impossible. When I left, they were still outside, hunting in, waiting.
That symbol stayed with me. I was wondering what would happen to so many other people in need. And then, walking one day on 20th Street, I followed a row of caddies immigrants to a truck on Alabama Street. Boxes of food were loaded to be distributed to others online. I asked him who was in charge. The Latino group of runners, I was told. In the weeks that followed, it was a call I met, not in consistent press releases, because they didn’t have time for it, even on the street. Work.
I kept seeing his workers at the Alabama Food Hub, where the line grew from week to week. I came here through their door-to-door volunteers in mid-April to inform Mission citizens about their participation in a COVID-19 check review with UCSF. I met them later at check s. In mid-June, an open door at 701 Alabama Street led to a spacious and giant room where experts in housing, medicine and other resources met with “face-to-face” clients to complete unemployment claims, housing, food stamps, and other benefits programs. And during the week of July, the Latina Task Force had convinced the city to upload a cell check to the Resource Center, a check opened Thursday for two hundred other people waiting to be reviewed.
It turned out that the city’s Latinx had not been abandoned. Instead, at a time when gentrification to mitigate the strength of Latin American activists, the Latin Task Force demonstrates how years of training, deep roots, and wise leadership can combine a force that has been more visual than any municipal agency. He is a children of the pandemic, however, the working group is led by others who have been activists since the 1970s. It is now transparent that all their lives delight, even their early years as low-level cyclists and motocross enthusiasts, as parents who raise families in the Mission, and especially as political creditors, prepare them at exactly this very moment. And they discovered that they were up to the task, to a point that even surprised them.
“It’s hard how this happened so quickly,” said Valerie Tulier-Laiwa, who now works with the Public Utilities Commission and is one of six members, one man and five women, on the task council’s executive committee. “There’s a way of doing things for the Mission,” he says, and stops, observing what it means first despite everything that concludes: “We’re making things happen.”
Tulier-Laiwa and his colleagues know the way to the project. Over the past 4 decades and change, the highest has dropped on all the signs of this path: San Francisco State University, the 1980s fresh systems project, RAP (one of the best schools of the 1990s), Loco Bloco, Carnival, the Beacon After School, Mission Girls and Mission Peace Collaborative program. And while some of these efforts are ancient history, the time spent on each has shaped lasting values and friendships. The elders have continued their legacy through the mentorship of a younger and more joyful generation, some of whom have joined the organization in operation today. In addition, many of these many-year-old Latin American activists now hold government office. They don’t look out anymore, but they make a difference from the inside.
It’s hard to know how the Latino organization arrived in March, but several members say it started with a first email that Veronica Garcia, a political analyst at the Commission on Human Rights, sent to Tulier-Laiwa, her mentor. . Garcia, 35, saw the crisis spread firsthand when his father, a dishwasher, was fired. This email temporarily became a text message chain and verbal exchange with others: Roberto Hernandez, known unofficially as the mayor of the mission, who regulos angelesrly works at Carnival at this time of year; Tracy Gallos Angeles, now angelic assistant legislos of District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton; and Gloria Romero, who now works at the Raza Family Institute of Angels.
With the exception of Garcia, they were all students with years of delight in network organizations and municipal administration. In search of a voice of education, they contacted Gabriela López, the vice president of the school board, and, at 30, were less than the age of some of the founding board members. I had never worked in a network organization (CBO), a delight in that fundamental of Tulier-Laiwa and Gallardo. But Gallardo had worked on the crusade for the school board and had a depression that would be effective. “She wasn’t from a CBO Mission,” Gallardo says, “but she kicked her ass and did a super-amazing job.”
Initially, the organization discovered the help of Garcia’s boss, Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, a black leader who has strong confidence in core business. You want staff? Check. Pilots? Check. Relieving the same old tasks? Let me call your boss. “She used her position to help us,” Garcia said. And Davis, extremely cheerful with the results, plans to continue. She has an eye on the city’s August budget procedure and has already asked the mayor to invest in network associations from scratch. It is preparing to enter budget negotiations with the contribution of several town halls on how the city deserves to spend the cash it plans to reallocate from the SFPD.
Walton, who along with District Supervisor Nine, Hillary Ronen, worked hard with the working group, noted the explanation for the early and ongoing visibility of the working group. “They came in combination to respond without relying on philanthropy or without waiting for the government to come,” Walton said. In other words, they took the lead.
And many followed him. The working group eventually created thirteen committees and subcommittees, many of which are composed of others who paint for networked painting organizations. It is a full bench of skill in a position to start and play, however, the executive board is demanding. “We don’t have time for other people to sit on a committee so they can include it on their resume,” said Tulier-Laiwa, an exclusive pilot with several degrees that others communicate with an addition of respect and a little fear. “We ask, “What can you bring?” We are very action-oriented.”
Romero, who has already drove an off-road motorcycle, and also amassed diplomas and experience: “We are Latino network workers. We’re essential. We’ve been, through history. We’re making a difference.”
One-hour Monday morning calls the Executive Committee has with its committees, more than 30 network organizations and a local elected official is transparent. What might have been the case for too many well-meaning people executing too many instructions is more of a well-oiled device under Tulier-Laiwa’s control. Every speaker has one minute.
“Don’t mess with Valeria and don’t communicate about your time limit,” says Ronen, who participates and has noticed that strength takes over. “It’s not really an exaggeration to say that his paintings are extraordinary.”
For Ruth Barajas, who is on the labor committee, runs the resource center and is also director of labor and school systems for network resources in the Bay Area, the task forces are running because of what saw Monday morning calls. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an organization, an elected official, or someone running for a government official,” she says. “We all have the same point of responsibility.”
It is during Monday’s calls and other approaches to the committee that the concepts come true. At the beginning of the crisis, for example, monolingual Spanish speakers lacked data on COVID-19. Some kept their outlets open because the public service announcements were only in English. Some parents wondered how their children went to school online when they didn’t have an internet connection. Susana Rojas, president of the 24th Street Cultural District, and Oscar Grande, who works for Mission Housing, formed the working group’s communications committee. They broadcast Spanish-listed advertisements on local radio and volunteers went to communicate with residents. But they had a problem: the data was replaced so temporarily that ads and flyers became obsolete within a few hours. Grande spoke to Julio Lara, his colleague at Mission Housing.
What would you do, he asked?
Lara understood the problem, because he too was having trouble updating Mission Housing’s one-page resource page. Lara suggested a website. Suddenly, he and others became the Latino Task Force’s website subcommittee. Five weeks later in mid-May the website launched with oversight by Grande, Rojas, Tulier-Laiwa and Gallardo (the latter two may not be techies, but they know what it is like to be “linked to death”). When Lara’s work popped up on Mission Local’s social media stream, it was a gift – comprehensive and easy to use. At Mission Local, we understood the difficulty of the task – our own resource page had become unwieldy.
From the beginning, when the working group listened to network organizations and Hernandez answered calls from others in need, it became transparent that weekly deliveries from the Food Bank of San Francisco-Marín would not be enough to meet demand. Hernandez began distributing food from his garage, but “word spread,” he said, and more people appeared, so he moved to the Food Hub on Alabama Street. By the time of the week, the number had risen to 1,000, and by the end of April, the Latino working group was distributing 7,000 boxes of food according to the week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with 113 volunteers. Hernandez spent hours between the days of the pantry making calls to locate new gifts, but the food (steaks, bread, milk) arrived spontaneously.
The Food Hub resolved the disorders as they arose. The workers discovered that Latinos came from all over the city and that many were too old to take their bags home. For older people who lived nearby, the task forces can buy cars, but some came from as far away as Bayview and Richmond. At the last count, the Food Hub delivers three hundred boxes of food a week packed in the back of someone’s truck.
This week, more than 10 volunteers looted beans, while others packed milk in boxes and moved palettes stacked with other donations. An organization of ambassadors on loan from the city helped organize the queue at the front. This line was several. A line doubled around Alabama at 20th and Florida in 19th to move to Alabama, where the boxes would be distributed. A separate line in shape on the west side of 19th Street and can be followed west on 19th Street and then turn north on Harrison Street along Mission Cliffs to 18th Street.
At first, it became transparent that other people online had other needs. Where can they get monetary assistance? Were you eligible for food stamps? Unemployment? And if they qualified, how did they complete the bureaucracy without a computer? The pandemic forced staff from the network organization to take refuge on the site. How can the task force safely offer what Barajas draws face-to-face attention: the face-to-face assistance that the couple he had noticed outside the doors of the social enterprise in March sought so much?
Enter the Vocational School project, a giant beast in an Alabama construction site and 19th Street where the task group already distributes food. More than a hundred years old, construction almost moved away from the network after its board of directors reached a purchase option agreement in 2013 to sell some of its 35,000 square feet. At an abundant cost, Gallardo, Tulier-Laiwa and others managed to save him in 2017. “The soul of this building belongs to the network,” Tulier-Laiwa told Mission Local at the time.
Today, it’s called Hub, a hive of frantic but controlled activities where Mission citizens can safely get the care they need.
The segment that would have been sold now houses an 18-foot cooling unit that sells all pantry supplies. Better yet, on the most sensible staircase is a massive open room with giant windows where other people flock to ask for help and get it. One Thursday in mid-June, when Barajas showed me the place, I had already registered more than 1,000 people in the food chain who needed more than food.
He pointed to the phalanx of the tables: Medi-Cal there, housing there, Cal Fresh (food stamps) there, unemployment there, etc. At the table, a city worker, a staff member of a network social enterprise, or a paid volunteer sat in front of their customers, involving them in systems they desperately need.
Edgar González, an immigrant from El Salvador, had controlled himself and his family to help himself and his family, but when the pandemic occurred, he lost his task with the Yellow Cab Company and was lost. Word-to-mouth took him from Bayview to the Alabama Street line and soon staff beckoned him to a caregiver, debit card and food stamps. “Sometimes we’re pretty good, maybe we don’t meet other people’s criteria, but we’re successful,” said his son, Zair, who before the pandemic worked for a generation of bus cleanup companies that transports others from the city to Silicon Valley. and now he’s a paid volunteer at the Hub. It was another discovery in the Hub: many citizens had never used social services. With the pandemic, they needed it.
The operation works with city loans, network organizations and beginners. Thanks again to Davis of the Commission on Human Rights, the Latina Task Force has hired 25 employees to assist in the resource center, the food center and other places.
Many are probably the next generation of network activists. Take, for example, Jacky Carrillo, a 20-year-old who started in the pantry and is now helping others get monetary support. “It gave me a wonderful opportunity to be there for my other people,” she says. When she was 13, her mother was deported to Guatemala, however, it is not a fact that she discloses to claim misery. Instead, because he sees his mother in the summers in Guatemala, “my Spanish is quite common”. She attributes this ability to temporarily move her from lifting boxes of food to training. What kind of disorders do other people face? “The staff didn’t even get a letter of dismissal,” she says outragedly from a 50-year-old woman. Workers want this document to get some benefits, so Carrillo figured out how to fix it by writing his own letter explaining the person’s situation.
In early April, UCSF researchers and physicians at San Francisco General Hospital watched with dismay the population of Latinx, 40% of its patients, which amounted to 80%, almost all with COVID-19. UCSF researcher Dr. Diane Havlir wrote in an email seeking an examination “to perceive the transmission of COVID-19 at the network paint level, in an affected paint painting (in the garden where I paint in the GHFS) and use the data at the same time. help network work and advance science.”
The consultation of how to do that. One of Havlir’s first calls to Diane Jones, a well-knew retired HIV nurse and a deeply entrenched community user, added a long-standing friendship with Gallardo. They were known through LocoBloco, an arts and percussion organization that has existed for more than 26 years and has turned many of the Mission’s youth into drummers. UCSF speaks quickly with Supervisor Ronen and the Latin American Working Group.
There’s been some resistance to the idea. Could it be from the maximum sensitive down? Why a single census area? Why a test and not just tests? The trust, the trust of the network in Gallardo and Gallardo’s trust in Jones, won, and the Latino working group joined. “Everyone went into emergency mode, thinking we wanted to do this now,” said Jon Jacobo, head of the task council’s fitness committee, who gathered more than three hundred recruits to hand out fliers and go door-to-door. network to communicate with residents. Array At Mission Local, we also heard the resistance of residents, so receiving visits from locals who spoke Spanish and maybe only answered questions meant that probably other people should apply for tests that would then be used to measure signs such as the prevalence of COVID. -19 in the Mission, the maximum affected population and the strains of the virus.
Lopez, 30, of the Board of Education, crossed the school district bureaucracy to use school sites. “It’s probably the lingering maximum I’ve had with the superintendent,” Lopez said. “We had to worry legally, identify contracts and then the same branch on the UCSF side. How did you handle it?” Uninterrupted calls.”
Jones believes he would have possibly won Havlir’s first call as soon as April 1. By April 25, testing had begun. For 4 days, about 4,000 citizens and staff were covered to detect COVID and antibodies. The collaboration of UCSF and Latino Task Force was ready for those who tested positive carefully and monetaryly for quarantine. However, they were surprised by the demographics of the other 83 positive people: 95% were Latinas, 30% of those living with more than five other people and 89% earned less than $50,000 a year. Many didn’t have a treating doctor. Only one of the 83 were white and two were Asian.
“If you look at San Francisco General Hospital,” said Dr. Carina Marquez, also from UCSF, “knows all the inequalities in fitness, but the disparity, however, is surprising. Each person, he said, had an exclusive but similar history: demanding quarantine situations, overcrowded homes, no network of monetary protection, limited English.
Through his own work, the Organization of Latino Runners also had a new ally: researchers and doctors from UCSF and The General Hospital. The effects may not be ignored and new policies followed. The city has opened unused hotel rooms to those that tested positive. The verification effects, which 53% of those who tested positive for COVID had no symptoms, indicated the need for more low barrier controls to prevent spread. For more people to review, the test showed that the city guarantees them they would get monetary and medical support.
Knowledge gave Supervisor Ronen what he wanted to convince the city of its right-to-recovery safety net. At the end of June, Ronen’s program had $2 million to provide up to 4 weeks of money to citizens and staff without a safety net. That’s enough to help some 1,500 families, however, everyone knows that the need will probably be much greater: studies have made it transparent because it defines who is most affected by the virus.
This week, the task forces opened a new cell test site on Alabama Street, precisely where staff and citizens pass and can also connect to services. Marquez and Jacobo agree that the people still have a long way to go to get a must-have staff to take the COVID exam. In your opinion, anything will need to be addressed with employers so that staff know they will have money and employment after their recovery.
Just as coronavirus shows no symptoms of slowing down, the Latino working group is growing. In a recent call Monday morning with more than 30 network organizations, legislative assistants and a user listening from The Office of Representative Nancy Pelosi, Tulier-Laiwa legalized a “Las ma’anitas” to Hernandez, who would soon celebrate his 64th birthday, and then reminded speakers that they had a minute to present.
A dizzying number of projects are underway in housing spaces, employee protection, perhaps at one point on the Hub site, and gathering feedback from parents on how schools work in the fall. As early as this summer, the Latino working group and networking organizations such as Dolores Street Community Services and the Day Labor Program helped reorganize the way the city conducted an assessment of the mission district’s wishes. At his request, and unlike Tenderloin’s previous review, the SFPD was not invited to walk for the assessment, more network teams were present, and evaluators engaged with the homeless population to ask homeless people what they needed. this month.
Meanwhile, Gallardo had recently received the effects of the city’s Affordable Housing Lottery and disliked them. After winning the lottery, very few Latinos legalize the approval process, he said. “Is it a condition or impediment that can be removed by applicants being disqualified for bad credit?” She wondered. She is able to delve into the main points and locate.
In many ways, what happens in the Mission is reminiscent of what John Barry, the best and bees of The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, he said about San Francisco in 1918. “Trust in San Francisco has not disintegrated in the network role,” Barry said in a recent interview on the UCSF Great Rounds. “He accepted the challenge as a network that seeks to unite.”
In 2020, history repeats itself, for the worse also for much better, right here in the Mission District.
Nice article, but I’m very offended. Shouldn’t it be the Latinx working group? I think we want to move away from a male-dominated system. This is not the Alabama of the 1950s. Kiss Latinx and he’ll kiss you.
Yes, five women and one man who sits on the executive committee of the working organization execute one hundred percent of a man-ruled formula. By the way, shouldn’t that be your Ricardx call? It’s not the Alabama of the fifties.
Ms. Chavez
Thank you for this report studied.
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Thank you! Lidia
Very useful, informative and inspiring article. Thank you.
I love our neighborhood.
“They came in combination to respond without relying on philanthropy or waiting for the government to come into play,” Walton said. In other words, they took the lead. »»
These other people are sponsorship managers appointed through the neoliberal government for the Mission.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is AWOL in income source for families and businesses, AWOL in investment, universal on-demand treatment, AWOL in intensifying tactile studies and AWOL in covid19 loose fitness care.
Biden’s fusion platform with Sanders requires much of it. But Pelosi didn’t move it. They seem able to leave things for now, as deteriorated situations will charge Trump in November.
Working on the project is great. But San Francisco’s political patronage ecosystem, of which it is a member, is prohibited from asking our congressman to do the right thing, so that we can classify and mitigate the great politicians as the norm.
Thank you for informing us of the correct paintings that the Latino Working Group, Lydia, is making! Do you know how we can give cash to their efforts? I didn’t see any (obvious) form on your website.
Elose: nothing. I just checked with Valerie. They still don’t have a place I can donate to, but they’re interested in it and I’ll post it as soon as they do.
Eloise: I just gave this data to Pat, some other reader, and I realize that I’ve also given it to you: there are two places where budgets are located as the Latin Task Force Hub and the vulnerable population that serves it: Give2SF, which runs through the city. https://sf.gov/give-city-respond-covid-19. and UndocuFundSF, https://www.undocufund-sf.org/en/. We write about Undocufund here. https://missionlocal.org/2020/07/undocufund-sf-how-san-franciscans-rallied-for-undocumented-immigrants-affected-through-covid-19/. And we’re preparing a bigger lead at Give2SF. I hope he’s helping you. We will continue to monitor any budget.
Thank you!!
Thank you for this piece, I was encouraged to read about the development of the activity, all the systems and projects of the Latino Task Force. You covered it well. PS I have been admiring your project photos for some time on the Mission Local website.
Pat: It’s a laughing work to write, anything that happens right in front of us. As for the pictures, you’re very nice. Thank you.
P.P.S. I would like to make a donation.
There are two places to donate where the budget locates its way to places like the Latino Task Force Hub and the vulnerable population it serves: Give2SF, which runs in the city. https://sf.gov/give-city-respond-covid-19. and UndocuFundSF, https://www.undocufund-sf.org/en/. We write about Undocufund here. https://missionlocal.org/2020/07/undocufund-sf-how-san-franciscans-rallied-for-undocumented-immigrants-affected-through-covid-19/. And we’re a bigger lead at Give2SF. I hope he’s helping you. We will continue to monitor any budget.
First of all, wonderful work! I love to see one network take care of another.
That said, the representation and one of the images show what appear to be valve masks. Although they are still users, neither do the others. I learned it myself after I dressed in a valve mask at the beginning of it all. Something vital to know and I sought to share!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/05/26/why-some-cities-and-counties-are-banning-face-masks-with-valves/
https://healthnewshub.org/health-news-hub/top-news/do-not-use-a-mask-with-a-filtered-valve-it-can-spread-covid-19/
@LatinoTaskForce Team – How can the network attend the lobby and search for COVID from our representatives? I am a resident of the Mission and need help making my component to make sure that the city no longer offers anything as inefficient as the meager COVID 100-200 tests. Let us know how we can help you, i.e. who to send an email, what requests to sign, at which manager meetings leave public comments, etc. Thank you for your hard work!
I have a similar challenge to get my touch information: have you been touching the verification site?
How can I sign up for your charming organization?
How can I talk to you? I’m deeply involved I have a circle of positive relatives. And even if they are positive, SF Health Dept. grants permission to return to the paintings and socialize after 10 days. I’m looking for studies because I wonder if that’s an imaginable explanation why for growth. They gave him the soft green to socialize. We just got in control and hoped for the best … and begged NOT to check again. This is supposed to contaminate the result. Then he won a call saying it was negative, and then, when he questioned it, he was told Array … balls, I’m sorry, yes, you’re positive. How factual is that? He had to complete new documents just to get his results. I’m involved in the process. And understanding this is essential for us that we need to stay safe. What do you know about that?
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