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Yesterday afternoon, District Supervisor Jackie Fielder spearheaded a rally of politicians and immigration rights activists calling for an increase in emergency immigration lawyers’ funding following ICE’s detainment of an immigrant in SoMa Monday morning. The rally comes in response to the release of footage showing ICE agents in plain clothes detaining 51-
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In this series, Voces Latinas, Golden Gate Xpress has gathered students from San Francisco State University to share their personal thoughts on questions pertinent to the Latinx community relating to identity, immigration and culture. In this episode, students reflect on the traditions that represent their cultural iden tities and make them proud as part of.
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Old hippies, toddlers, stoners and finance investors all came together in the same park that once held 1967’s The Human Be-In. The festival that is believed to have started the Summer of Love attracted “legendary beats to Berkeley radicals to the San Francisco love generation.” Under mundane circumstances, these circles may have never crossed paths,...
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San Francisco State University’s Charles F. Hagar Planetarium held its final show before closure for renovation on Oct. 13, marking a transitional period for a space that has served the campus for more than 50 years. During the last show, “Tracing Humanity Through the Stars,” astronomy graduate student, Gillis Lowry, used a red laser pointer...
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Intro 00;00;00;11 – 00;00;26;24 Zeno Zacks I just want to say I’m really glad we get to do cool productions like this. Yeah, I know, it’s it’s really fun getting to. I think every day for the past like two weeks now, I have either been building something or at rehearsal or pulling a prop...
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The San Francisco State University chapter of the California Faculty Association has begun its fact-finding period after unsuccessful bargaining sessions with the California State University system, leaving faculty and students alike concerned about a strike. Fact-finding involves a neutral party examining the CFA’s and CSU’s proposals and issuing advisory r
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Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder sit close, close enough to share a breath. The camera, however, sits even closer. You can see every pore and imperfection. Holmes’ wide blue eyes don’t blink. She tells Fielder she has nothing to deceive him about, and says “I’m engaging with you as a human being.” A beat. Fielder...
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The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services gave San Francisco State University a chance to experience a simulated 7.0-magnitude earthquake as part of their "Great California ShakeOut” tour.
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San Francisco State University’s DJ Union wants to make student-made music more accessible on campus. The student-led club is building a community for aspiring DJs, with plans for workshops, performances and more opportunities to bring electronic music to campus.
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For many students, getting a job in today’s job market can feel nearly impossible. There seem to be never enough jobs and too many people competing for the same roles. If an interview is booked, another obstacle stands in the way: an unwritten set of rules that haunts jobseekers- professionalism standards. There is no one-size-fits-all...
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Associated Students at San Francisco State University wrapped up a second day of town halls on the ground level of the SFSU Student Center Wednesday afternoon discussing potential new names for the Student Center formerly named after disgraced labor rights activist Cesar Chavez.
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Originally published in From the Source: Reporting the 2026 National Lived Experience Conference At 16 years old, Kevin Fagan was given a choice: leave home or enter foster care. He left. He rented an unfinished garage for $50 a month, slept in his Volkswagen Bug while attending San Jose State and worked whatever jobs...
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The SFSU Players Club stages Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a post-apocalyptic story about survival, storytelling and the unlikely bonds formed through The Simpsons.
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On a Monday morning, Sept. 12, 1977, Professor Robert Suczeck walked across the fourth floor of the J. Paul Leonard Library to the faculty reading room. With a swipe of his ID card, he opened the door and walked into a nightmare. Furniture was strewn across the room — some overturned, some broken. In the...
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit trains have been twisting and turning along the tracks, bringing Bay Area passengers to their destinations for more than 50 years. Over a hundred thousand people rely on BART as their mode of transportation every week, according to BART’s daily ridership report. BART, however, faces a fiscal crisis that may...
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In the wake of a 2025 report that decloaked shipments to Israel, SF State students had shown up to the Oakland Port Commissioner’s Office every two weeks with their demands, the goal being to show them how much people care about stopping these shipments, and their commitment to the cause. Since January 2025, 280 military...
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Sandy dunes, sunset views and a cool ocean breeze are a promise when one visits San Francisco’s Sunset Dunes, the park that replaced a large stretch of the upper Great Highway in the Outer Sunset. A giant mosaic octopus greets visitors at an entrance as families, bikers and joggers filter into the path. Various attractions...
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Ashley Rocha’s experience on the softball field began when she was young, playing T-ball at 5 years old before moving on to travel ball. As she grew older, she participated in multiple club sports, including volleyball, softball and soccer. But as school and athletics became increasingly demanding, Rocha had to choose which sport she wanted...
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Recent Wesleyan University graduate Aviva Branoff woke up before the sun rose to cross the Bay Bridge and join an early morning CloseAI protest against OpenAI’s annual DevDay developer conference, where Sam Altman was set to give a keynote address. She was joined by dozens of people, including a 16-year-old high school student who skipped...
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“Jerk for Kirk! Jerk for Kirk!” echoed across UC Berkeley’s Memorial Glade last September; a call for demonstrators to masturbate in honor of Charlie Kirk, the late conservative political commentator and founder of the right-wing organization Turning Point USA. There were no reports of anyone taking the call to action. However, the scene was no...
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