Jacqueline Cardenas

3 weeks ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and other city officials met at St. Anthony’s in the Tenderloin Thursday for a town hall meeting to discuss the next steps in addressing homelessness and drug use, yet most of the town was absent. “We are going to be relentless about making sure that our streets are safe, that they are clean, and that we get people the help that they need,” Lurie said to an invite-only crowd of around 50 people, mostly non-profit heads and some local residents.

1 month ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

The number of migratory monarch butterflies that winter in California and inhabit the western Rocky Mountains has significantly decreased, according to a recent report. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation recorded only 9,119 monarchs, the second worst year in the organization’s count. This is an approximately 96 percent decline from last year’s count of 233,394 butterflies at 256 California overwintering sites.

1 month ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

During a graduation ceremony in 2017, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno was “struck” when an Amlie High School student gave a speech highlighting their classes’ diversity as their strength. Yet none of the students who stepped up to the podium were Latinx, and only one was Black. Nor was there any mention of the high school’s dual language program despite having a 21% Latinx/Hispanic population, the author and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) said.

2 months ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

The United States’ capitalist and imperial core is rotting, and the new system that will emerge once working-class people unite and build it is socialism. But we aren’t there just yet. Instead, I argue we’re in a moment where the traditional global social order is shifting, and the United States empire has begun to crumble more notably than before, revealing the nation’s internal decay.

Dec 3, 2024 | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

Jared Verdejo said he vividly remembers his mother being “extremely stressed” growing up in their crowded two room house. “It was hard to see her always so angry,” 26-year-old Verdejo said. “She had to carry everyone on her shoulders.” Verdejo’s parents divorced when he was in kindergarten, leading his mother to buy a  small home in North Waukegan where his 4 siblings and several extended family members lived.