

Two minutes that'll wreck your excuse for not changing the world.
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for building unity and alliances across traditional racial and gender lines, and for serving as a selfless and inspirational advocate for oppressed peoples around the world.
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Concise tribute format that lets Martinez's work speak loudest.
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Martinez co-founded the Institute for Multi-Racial Justice and edited the bilingual newspaper El Tecolote—her hands were in every radical San Francisco project for decades.
The San Francisco Foundation's Community Leadership Awards specifically recognize grassroots organizers over institutional leaders—this is legacy validation from the community itself, not the establishment.
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