Rose Aguilar (roseaguilar.org) is the host of Your Call (yourcallradio.org) on KALW in San Francisco, an op-ed contributor for Al Jazeera English and author of Red Highways: A Liberal’s Journey Into the Heartland. She has written for AlterNet and Truthout.
Life on San Francisco’s streets for women over 50 is filled with hardships, small and large.