By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Prop 47’s non-crime wave, Issa’s probs, March for Truth, divided local labor, Trump Zone, Memorial Day, 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:
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Resistance Is Persistence! San Diego Progressive Activist Calendar June 2 -14, 2017
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Waiting for Proposition 47’s Crime Wave in San Diego
Hurry Up and Slow Down: Tales of San Diego Politics
Congressman Darrell Issa’s Confefe Problem
March for Truth Organizes as Putin’s Puppet Starts to Dance
Photo Gallery: Marches for Truth in San Diego, Nationwide
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
What’s the Matter with San Diego Labor (Part 3): A Divided Movement Hurts Us All
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Evolution of Time
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
We Have Entered the Trump Zone
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Border Patrol Confirms National City Parents In Custody, No Criminal Charges Filed
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: May 21-27
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
San Diego Veterans for Peace Memorial Day Observance
By Jack Doxey / San Diego Veterans for Peace
Memorial Day: Recruiter’s Siren Song to Hero (Under Construction)
By Stan Levin
In Congress This Week – May 30, 2017
By Indivisible 49
What We Can Learn from War Memorials
By Kevin Basi / Other Words
Please Don’t Wish Me a “Happy” Memorial Day
By Lori Saldaña
Nixon’s GOP Blocked Investigations into His Actions, As Well—Until They Couldn’t
By Hunter / Daily Kos
Single-Payer Health Care in California Would Protect Business and Save the Public Money
By Stephen Rosenfeld / Alternet
Collidescope 3.0: Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America
By Yuko Kurahashi / HowlRound
Downtown Protest Set in Response to Expected Trump Decision to Abandon Climate Agreement
By SDFP Staff
What the Heck? The Story of My Randomly Sounding Fire Alarms
By Judi Curry
Former Lemon Grove Mayor Supports Surveillance Tech Transparency
Dave Maas / Electronic Frontier Foundation
Miramar Air Show, Just Don’t Go!
By Dave Patterson
Storms Brewing Over the Future of Mission Bay
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Trump Against the Planet: Defending the Climate With Local Action
By Indivisible