Chema Hernández Gil, A San Franciscan

About to start the walking tour by learning from local victories to own the streets and space with organizing, art and resistance.

The Untokening isn’t slowing down!

Starting off the Untokening CA with an open mic at La Conxa with good friends and great accomplices.

Wrapping up Vegan Advocacy Initiative with an all-woman panel.

Packed house for Seed the Commons’ Nassim Nobari’s talk at Vegan Advocacy Initiative’s conference right now.

What Seed the Commons is all about: radical food activism for food justice and animal liberation.

Excited about the strong progress in Mexico around the animal liberation and vegan movements at the Vegan Advocacy Initiative People of Color AR, advocacy and food justice conference.

On this day, it's worth remembering that 525 years ago, over 200,000 people lived in Mēxihco-Tenōchtitlan and it was more than twice as dense as San Francisco.

A light dusting of ash from the North Bay fires covered everything in the Mission this morning, including bike saddles.

Many of these buildings didn’t exist when I first moved in to Rincón Hill/The East Cut only three years ago.

U.S.

By advocating non-compliance and resistance, the “Resist” movement is calling into question the legitimacy of this administration’s authority.

Click below to see my short video on the weekend-long No Muslim Ban protest at San Francisco International Airport this past January 28 and 29.

It has been a week truly worthy of San Franciscans.

UPDATE: In a Feb 16, 2017 press release Riseup confirmed they had been unable to update their warrant canary due to gag orders that accompanied two sealed warrants related to alleged extortion activities.

San Francisco’s city front.

On the wall at Alcatraz Island.

Chilly Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz Island, Occupied Ohlone Land.

Planning the summer’s activities with Bicis del Pueblo PODER at Excelsior Works & showing off new, custom SF-made aprons.

Getting bikes out to the community in the Excelsior with PODER and Bicis del Pueblo this sunny Saturday.

My maternal grandparents looking dapper, Manuel Gil Segovia and Esperanza Valle Aceves.

Had a bike build at Carver Elementary in Hunters Point today alongside a lowrider show and Black cowboys.

The famous Folsom Street dumpster lane at 1st St.

Incredible day remembering Cesar Chavez and discussing food justice while building community with vegan tamales, PODER and Millahcayotl.

First class I’ve ever given in a church.

I missed the crowds of Giants seasons

Roseo was killed by a security guard at the Safeway on 16th and Potrero.

Went to Marin after work and picked the sweetest oranges I've ever had.

Klockars' blacksmith shop is on Folsom Street, between Fremont and 1st.

Rincón Hill has a couple of beautiful green spaces, like the Essex hillside between Folsom and Harrison.

Bike lane symbol has medicine wheels.

A couple of things parking lots are good for: learning to bike and turning into homes, even if temporary.

This year's haftseen.

After more than a decade of gathering and sharing my thoughts using a mix of wikis, Wordpress instances and other random solutions, consolidating them into a format that had long-term value, like plain text files, seemed like a great idea.

After a couple of hours of getting acquainted with Jekyll and deploying it using GitHub Pages, I turned my attention to getting Nassim’s new blog migrated to our host.

First Tweet of 2016, courtesy of Nancy Pili: Picking up bikes yesterday for Bicis del Pueblo, rainbow included

A successful PODER SF Bicis del Pueblo day at June Jordan High with the SF Bicycle Coalition, McLaren Bike Park and SF Yellow Bike volunteers!

one of my best friends died today. we miss you cafe, hope you’re doing well!

Publicado originalmente en La Jornada en Ciencias, suplemento mensual de La Jornada, en mayo de 2008.

Su corresponsal y compañera en la caverna de ALICE durante la jornada de puertas abiertas del CERN.

Le lundi passé, Jon Stewart, l’animateur de l’émission américaine satirique The Daily Show, a interviewé l’ancien président mexicain Vicente Fox.

I keep having all these ideas about what my next entries will be about, but I always forget them.

I was reading the few entries I made before and they seem so unlike my life.

So, it’s a Thursday night / Friday morning here in Old Lôzane and me and geeky LC are sitting on our computers.

A long day is finished.

wow, i’m very tired. tonight was surreal. me and manuel went to geneva to a concert. we got there, paid, only to realize that it was the wrong date. no biggie, a little talking, and we got our 15 francs back each. then we went to my old place of employment

my weekend came and went just like that. didn’t even notice it. slept most of the time i think. it’s a crying shame, but i still have a few more hours… about 23. i haven’t been able to contact lc. i tried calling, but whomever answered didn’t understand,…

i decided, after a little hesitation, to start a “blog”. why the quotes?

Article publié dans Flash Informatique de l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne le 25 janvier 2000.

Editor’s Note: Originally written out of boredom and shared online in late 1997, shortly after moving from Tennessee to Switzerland by way of Florida and Belgium, just out of high school.