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, at-large contributors, sourced writers and poets on National Poetry Month, Steve Kowit, Indiana’s religious freedumb law, Sea World going Scientology, Cali’s drought, the fight for $15, baseball, needing empathy, Lena Horne, Ayotzinapa march, nuclear news, and lots of articles from/for our friends in OB.
San Diego Free Press National Poetry Month:
SDFP to Commemorate National Poetry Month Throughout April
By Brent E. Beltrán
Sal is Short for Salvador
By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Port of Hope
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Last Will by Steve Kowit
By Steve Kowit
Redemption in City Heights
By Anna Daniels
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Indiana’s So-Called Religious Freedom Law: If It Walks Like a Duck…
Protests on 4/15 Up the Ante in the Fight for $15 in San Diego
SeaWorld Steals a Page from the Scientology Playbook
Drilling Down on California’s Drought
Will Mickey D’s Dollar Deal Super-Size April 15 Protests?
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Baseball is Not a Metaphor
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Redemption in City Heights
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
What the World Needs Now is Empathy
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Even Jesus Opposes Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Port of Hope
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia (History)
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Americanization through Baseball
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: March 22-28
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
A Note About the 50th Selma Jubilee March
By Rev. Richard Lawrence
Lena Horne: A Great Lady Who Broke the Color Line
By John Lawrence
A Public Interest Message About the San Diego City Charter
By Norma Damashek
Readers Write: Super-Sizing the Crawford High School Stadium
By Jim Zumbiel
Video: The San Diego March for Ayotzinapa
By Horacio Jones
Nuclear Shutdown News – March, 2015 Edition
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
California’s Severe Voting Drought
By Anthony York / Capital & Main
This Land Is Our Land? Not If Republicans Have Their Way
By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos
‘Not Nearly Enough’: McDonald’s Wage Hike Lambasted as Publicity Stunt
By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams
OB Rag Contributors:
Hundreds Turn Out for Mike Hardin Memorial in Petco Park
By Frank Gormlie
Friends of OB Library Dedicate Their Bench
By Frank Gormlie
OB’s Avalanche Hosts Middle School Scholastic Surfers
By Brian J. Brady
Ocean Beach Planners Agenda for Wed., April 1 – New Officers, a South OB Crosswalk and the One Paseo Project
By Frank Gormlie
Peninsula Planners Win Appeal of Carleton Row Homes
By Tony de Garate
Nuclear Shutdown News – March Edition
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
The Great California Genocide
By gjohnsit / DailyKos
Video From 1990: Why Some People Don’t Like Ocean Beach
By Source
The Coolest House in All of Ocean Beach
By Frank Gormlie
Is It True that California Only Has One More Year of Water Left?
By Andrew Freedman / Mashable
Court: Navy Sonar Training Injures Whales, Dolphins and Other Sea Animals
By Big Island Now Staff
This Land Is Our Land? Not If Republicans Have Their WayBy Joan McCarter / Daily Kos
Crushing the Occupy Movement – How Wall Street Used Government Forces to Suppress Political Dissent
By gulfgal98Follow / DailyKos
Know Your Ocean Beach Planning Board Member
By Lois Lane