by the El Reportero’s staff
Francisco Pancho Ramos Stierle (der) is arrestado.
Francisco Pancho Ramos Stierle was released Thursday Nov. 18 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), four days after he was arrested by police for meditating at the Occupy Oakland encampment. Pancho’s friends and supporters launched a now successful online campaign against the possible deportation of “Pancho”, an undocumented immigrant the police of Oakland arrested during a riot Nov. 14 at Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza.
The movement got more than 8,500 people to sign a petition on Change.org, asking the Immigration office to free the protester. The petition went viral also on Facebook and Twitter, where the hashtag #FreePancho is among the most used in the Bay Area.
Although Ramos is back with the protesters, ICE demanded he returns to court soon to address the federal immigration hold on him, so his supporters continue to campaign through change.org to achieve his unconditional release.
Lee wins election for Mayor of San Francisco
Interim Mayor Ed Lee won the Nov. 8 election for San Francisco Mayor with less than a third of first-place votes. The new ranked-choice voting system, used for the first time in this race, declared Lee as the next mayor of the City. He is also the first Chinese descent to be elected mayor of San Francisco.
In second place came John Avalos, the supervisor who grew strong after showing support to the Occupy SF movement. In the Mission District, Avalos took away most of the votes, but the turnout in that area was low, leaving Avalos behind in the race.
That lack of voters was the surprise factor in this mayor’s race, only 30 percent of voters participated. Lee’s voters had a bigger presence in the polls and that was important to determined the over all result.
