Protesters march to the Tenderloin SFPD station on Eddy street. (Jacquelyn Moreno/ Golden Gate Xpress)
Protesters march to the Tenderloin SFPD station on Eddy street. (Jacquelyn Moreno/ Golden Gate Xpress)

Turn of the Tenderloin Podcast Episode 1: Community organizers protest against the UC Hastings lawsuit

Jacquelyn Moreno

Aug 10, 2020

Turn of the Tenderloin is a Golden Gate Xpress podcast dedicated to the community in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

In this episode, community organizers come together to fight against the UC Hastings lawsuit that advised the city to remove tents within the Tenderloin district.

The lawsuit they are referring to was released on May 4. This lawsuit filed by UC Hastings demanded the city to “end the dangerous and illegal conditions” in the Tenderloin by removing tent encampments but did not have an alternative plan for over 2,000 unhoused San Franciscans in the neighborhood.

Coalition on Homelessness, Poor Magazine, Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, and other community members gathered at the steps of UC Hastings and spoke about how this affects Black and Brown unhoused folks in the Tenderloin.

The protest would then march to SFPD’s Tenderloin station on the corner of Jones and Eddy street. The organizers also expressed that SFPD should be defunded and the city should redistribute the funds to the community of Black and Brown people.

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Jacquelyn Moreno
Jacquelyn Moreno has received her Associates Degree in Journalism from Mt. San Antonio College prior to moving to San Francisco from Chino, CA. She is in her third year at SF State and hopes to graduate Spring 2021 with a B.A. in Journalism with an emphasis in print/online and minor in Gender and Women studies. She was formerly the A&E staff reporter for SAC.Media digital newspaper at Mt. SAC. Her reporting at Mt. SAC won 2nd place in 2019 at the California College Media Awards for best use of social media for a single event. The event being covered was the Keeping Families Together March where locals gathered to protest ICE in downtown Los Angeles.

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