Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, and at-large contributors on war & peace, DeMaio conceding, the taxi drivers’ victory, SD’s political shuffle, labor unrest, tired Mexico, the voting cycle, Honky, extreme weather, and, as always, bucketfulls of OB news.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
DeMaio Concedes, Police Documents Raise Questions About Who Knew What, When
A Hard-won and Bittersweet Victory for San Diego Taxi Drivers
SeaWorld Stock Tanks As Financials Disappoint and Protests Continue
Are You Ready for the 2016 Political Shuffle in San Diego?
‘Tis the Season for Labor Unrest: Walmart Activists Sit-In, Port Truckers Walk Off, Contract Workers March in DC
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Post Election Notes from the Left Coast: Apocalypse Now? Just Say No
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
After the Wars, City Heights
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
México Está Cansado… (Mexico is tired of…)
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
The Natural Voting Cycle
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Kristallnacht
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: November 2-8
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
War and Peace Week at the San Diego Free Press
By Anna Daniels
Hold on to Freedom
By Bob Dorn
Baghdad Tattoo
By Janet Parkinson
Drill Team (a paean, not to the war machine)
By Jay Powell
Remembering the Looks in their Eyes
By Dana Levy
Reclaim Armistice Day and Honor the Real Heroes
By Arnold “Skip” Oliver
Please Don’t Thank Me For My Service
By Hal V. J. Muskat
La Jolla Shores Sundown
By Karen Kenyon
San Diego Rep’s “Honky” Navigates the Murky Waters of Race, Rhetoric and Basketball Shoes
By Alejandra Enciso Guzmán
War & Peace: In My Classroom
By Lori Saldaña
Extreme Weather Watch: October 2014 – Drought in Australia and Brazil
By John Lawrence
Learning About Counter-Recruitment With Project YANO (Youth And Non-Military Opportunities)
By Jesus Mendez-Carbajal
I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But…
By Emmanuel Ortiz
Stand with Indigenous Peoples, Stop the Pipelines
By Will Falk
Women’s Perspectives and Changing Roles In the US and Iraq War
By Lori Saldaña
The US Military is a Major Contributor to Global Warming
By John Lawrence
SDFP Street Beat: North Park Jack in the Box, South Park Target, Uptown Regional Bike Corridor Update
By Anna Daniels
Veterans For Peace Give Out 2,300th Sleeping Bag Set in Downtown San Diego
By Gil Field
OB Rag Contributors:
Flap Over “Competing Ribbon-Cuttings” for OB Entryway All a Big Misunderstanding
By Frank Gormlie
OB Rag Trying to Cover Point Loma – But We Need Help
By Frank Gormlie
Visual Analysis of a Cross-Walk at Newport and Abbott
By OB Rag Staff
Scott Bowles – Drowning Victim – Remembered by His Family
By OB Rag Staff
Ed Harris to Run for Toni Atkins’ 78th Assembly Seat in 2016
By Frank Gormlie
New Hours at the OB Library
By OB Rag Staff
OB Town Council: Ocean Beach Community Plan Is the Grand Marshall for the Holiday Parade
By Frank Gormlie
Ocean Beach CDC Unveils 3D Models of New Veterans Plaza
By Frank Gormlie
Protests and “Blackfish” Force SeaWorld Earnings and Attendance to Drop
By Frank Gormlie
Round-About Being Considered for West Pt Loma and Bacon in Ocean Beach
By Frank Gormlie