Category: Voices
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Community Organizer Responds to Curfew Sweeps Investigation
Above: Keegan Kyle discusses his investigation into curfew sweeps with Amita Sharma on KPBS Evening Edition. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Pat Finn, Amita Sharma and Claire Trageser Ramla Sahid, community organizer with Mid-City CAN, and Keegan Kyle of voiceofsandiego.org spoke with Maureen Cavanaugh on KPBS Midday Edition yesterday about the expansion of untested curfew sweeps in…
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Letter: Too Many Kids in Handcuffs
By Diana Ross, Mid-City CAN Diana Ross is the collaborative director for the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network. You can reach her at dross@midcitycan.org. The data in Keegan Kyle’s curfew sweep story, “Hundreds of Kids Arrested on an Unproven Hunch,” raise two troubling issues. The first is a purely practical one: Why is San Diego spending…
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Call This Bike Advocate a Spokes-woman
Samantha Ollinger recently quit her job as an accountant to focus full-time on advocating for bicyclists in San Diego. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido In 2008, Samantha Ollinger and her husband mounted their bicycles in Philadelphia and pushed off toward a new home in San Diego. They pedaled about 2,000 miles before…
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Cultivating Community in Southeast SD
Diane Moss is executive director of Project New Village, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on its first community garden in Mount Hope. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido For more than 20 years, Diane Moss ran a teen pregnancy prevention program in southeastern San Diego’s low income, largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods.…