By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Measures ABCD, Fred Glass, six council candidates in NC, Jess Haro, deported veterans, Dr. Bronner, Chunky Sanchez, keeping SD seafood local, Standing Rock, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Does SANDAG’s ‘Measure A’ Amount to Bold Action on Climate Change?
Measure B – Ballot Box Planning at its Worst
Chargers Stadium Ballot Measure C — As In Chutzpa
Measure D – Nice Try, But No Cigar for The Citizens’ Plan
Notes on the First 2016 General Election Presidential Debate
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
From Mission to Microchip: An Interview with California Labor Historian Fred Glass. Part 1
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Hoping a Museum Will Help My People Finally Overcome
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Six Candidates Compete for National City Council Elections
Latinos in San Diego by Maria E. Garcia
Jess Haro: From Stockton to San Diego
Geo-Poetic Spaces by By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Rules of the Road
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: September 11-17
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
By Sarah van Gelder / Yes! Magazine
Keeping San Diego Seafood Local
By Sustainable Seafood / Slow Food Urban San Diego
Junior Trump and the Skittles of Doom
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
An Insider’s Story About Scams at Wells Fargo Bank & Ashford University
By Anon / OB Rag
Honorably Discharged then Dishonorably Deported
By Joe Armenta
Peninsula Planners Juggle Minutes, Agendas and 30-Foot Height Limit
By Geoff Page / OB Rag
American Consumption Shouldn’t Keep Economy Afloat
By John Lawrence
Dr. Bronner’s Announces Resignation from the Organic Trade Association
By Ryan Fletcher & Lauren Stansbury / CommonDreams
From Coal to Climate: the Evolution of an Activist
By Mark Hughes / SanDiego350
Ramon ‘Chunky’ Sanchez: Singing My Way to Freedom
By Anna Daniels
Prop 66 Promotes ‘Shotgun-Style-Appointment’ of Unqualified Defense Attorneys
By Stephen Cooper
National Report: The Clinton-Kaine Campaign Checks In From Kent, Ohio
By Yuko Kurahashi