Of the three shadows
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Still Think Those Confederate Monuments Are All About Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
Still think those Confederate monuments are all about heritage and history? Here’s a Vox video by Carlos Waters that uses a timeline to show the relationship of spurts of monument erections and historical events. There’s definitely a pattern here … [Read more…]
San Diego Housing Crisis Facing a ‘Perfect Storm’ | Video Worth Watching
I’ve always thought it was perfectly appropriate to respond to the current affordable housing shortage in the way we respond to a natural disaster. It certainly is a disaster, but one that’s human-made rather than “natural”.
Extending the metaphor, just as weather forecasts provide us an opportunity to prepare for severe conditions, the current housing market forecast is giving us an opportunity to mitigate the effects of a brewing “Perfect Storm”. As KPBS News notes: San Diego is in the midst of its worst housing crisis in recent memory, with low vacancy rates, rising rents and a growing number of people living on the streets. As bad as things are… they’re likely to get worse. Thousands of homes set aside for low-income people are set to become market rate, meaning struggling renters could see their housing costs skyrocket. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says experts are calling it a perfect storm. [Read more…]
White Supremacy – Our Culture and Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
Last night in Trump’s campaign rally speech (now think about that for a second—a campaign rally in the eighth month of his term; the event was paid for with campaign funds. And you think Christmas merchandise on shelves in September is premature!) we heard the code words “culture” and “heritage”. These are normally venerable words, now being pressed into service for ignoble purposes. When used to lament the loss of Confederate monuments, the culture and heritage being referenced is White Supremacy and slavery.
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La Vuelta Car Cruise End of Summer Cultural Festival to Highlight El Barrio
Logan Avenue Consortium Doing Good Work on the Avenue
Change is coming to Barrio Logan. Some of it good, and some of it bad. But what hasn’t changed is this working class community’s cultural ethos rooted in its history.
Hipster galleries may have opened selling thousand-dollar bongs and tours of the neighborhood, but there are still people and organizations doing solid work trying to keep barrio culture alive. Groups like the Logan Avenue Consortium (LAC).
The LAC promotes Barrio Art Crawl and organizes the bi-weekly summertime La Vuelta Car Cruise that has been a hit among the lowrider set. They also support each member’s endeavors from the weekly Latin Jazz Jam to the Logan Avenue Flea Market to the various events that take place at many of the different cultural spaces along Logan Avenue. [Read more…]
Dick Gregory, In Memoriam | Video Worth Watching
A pioneer comedian Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) passed away Saturday at the age of 84. An ardent civil rights activist as well as anti-war political activist, Gregory will be missed.
Democracy Now! has posted a video feature “Dick Gregory In His Own Words: Remembering the Pioneering Comedian and Civil Rights Activist” culled from appearances on the program. During the 2002 interview Amy Goodman thanks him for helping to get Democracy Now! on the air nationally, in his capacity as a new member of the Pacifica National board.
Here’s a video clip that’s featured in a Digby Hullabaloo post by Denis Hartley that is taken from a 2014 appearance on the Arsenio Hall show. In it, Dick tells his version of how he broke the color barrier of late night TV during an appearance on the Tonight Starring Jack Parr show.
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Pillars of the Community: Seekers of Unity in a Climate of White Supremacy
I heard talk on TV about people being “stunned” that the president would say that both sides were at fault when he had “rebuked” (if you really want to call it that) the white nationalists’ stunningly violent and reckless behavior in Virginia just the day before.
Stunned about what? I would have been stunned if he hadn’t taken his words back. What happened was the dude desperately had to get back to his true self, back to speaking from the dark places in his mind. [Read more…]
Higher Education and the American Political Imagination
As I enter my thirtieth year as a professor at a public college of one kind or another, I’m used to the constant political fray that comes with being in the middle of funding battles, debates about education reform, and the culture wars, but this may be the first time in my long career that I have begun a new semester with the knowledge that a large number of Americans no longer see higher education as a public good.
Over the summer, the Pew Research Center released an interesting poll that helps explain where we are at this political and cultural moment in America. The survey revealed that most Republicans now believe that institutions of higher education have an adverse effect on the United States. [Read more…]
Solar Eclipse Day in San Diego! | Video Worth Watching
Unless you have recently arrived on planet earth it has been impossible to miss the months long build up to the solar eclipse which will trace a path across the United States from sea to shining sea. While San Diego is outside of the path of the total eclipse, we’ll still experience a 60% eclipse here.
Our partial eclipse begins around 9am, when the moon touches the sun’s edge. The maximum eclipse is around 10:20 am and it’s all over around 11:46 am. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: August 13-19
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 locally sourced writers on white supremacy, nazis in Chicano Park?, Confederates in the White House, Kasatka, California hating, what happens after Charlottsville, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Music for a Transit of Mercury | Video Worth Watching
A propos of the solar eclipse coming tomorrow, here’s a video set to music of another relatively rare solar phenomenon: a transit of Mercury. About 13 times per century Mercury passes between the earth and the sun. That small black dot you see moving across the face of the sun in this video is the planet Mercury. The most recent occurrence of a transit was a little over a year ago on May 9th, 2016, from 4:12 am – 11:42 am PDT. The orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory obtained an uninterrupted vista, recording it not only in optical light but also in bands of ultraviolet light. Featured here is a composite movie of the crossing set to music.
Credit for this video goes to: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein; the images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Credit for the music: Encompass by Mark Petrie. [Read more…]
Time to Take Five | Video Worth Watching
Has this been a crazy week or what?!? Ready for a little break? I think it’s time to Take Five …
Paul Desmond (alto sax), Joe Morello (drums), Eugene Wright (bass) and Dave Brubeck (piano) – Live in Belgium 1964 [Read more…]
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