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Author Archives: Naomi Marcus

Living amid SF’s tech scene, they’ve never had a mobile phone

by Naomi Marcus September 8, 2020November 18, 2020

Not a flip, not a so-called Obama phone, not any cell phone; but they do have a little notebook If you chat with the identical homeless Ukrainian twins on the streets of the Mission, you’d learn that our Golden Gate Bridge can’t hold a candle to their Zaporozhye Arch Bridge, the longest bridge  (and the […]

Antes de la pandemia por COVID-19, Guoron saludaba a las personas en situación de calle en St. John’s. Ahora visita a algunos en el Marriot

by Naomi Marcus August 18, 2020September 29, 2020

Before COVID-19, Guoron greeted the homeless at St. John’s. Now he visits some at the Marriott.

by Naomi Marcus August 17, 2020November 18, 2020

Susan Vela, blind and now unemployed, on living in COVID-19 times

by Naomi Marcus August 7, 2020November 18, 2020

‘I never danced with my dad,’ Milton Giron (1961 – 2020)

by Naomi Marcus August 3, 2020September 29, 2020

En una pandemia, para algunos el trabajo puede parecer como el hogar

by Naomi Marcus July 28, 2020September 29, 2020

In a pandemic, work can seem like home for some

by Naomi Marcus July 26, 2020November 18, 2020

Life in the time of COVID-19: Just when you think life couldn’t get worse, you get appendicitis

by Naomi Marcus July 16, 2020November 18, 2020

A Mother Gets COVID, Her Son Gets Surgery

by Naomi Marcus July 15, 2020November 18, 2020

Solo durante la pandemia: “Estoy acostumbrado a vivir solo, pero extraño las conversaciones, mis cafecitos y hablar de mis recuerdos”

by Naomi Marcus July 14, 2020September 29, 2020

Alone in a pandemic: ‘I am used to living alone, but I miss my chats, my cafecitos and talking about my memories.’

by Naomi Marcus July 13, 2020November 18, 2020

Finding moments of grace and gold in the midst of a pandemic

by Naomi Marcus June 30, 2020September 29, 2020

One woman, one job at San Francisco General Hospital, and a community ready to help

by Naomi Marcus July 12, 2019September 29, 2020

A community letter: I can get anyone hired — except Susan

by Naomi Marcus February 16, 2019September 29, 2020

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