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: ALEC, ALEC and some more ALEC, and then a bit more ALEC, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out ALEC, costly crappy roads, getting lost in SD, Junco’s art show, the mayor welcoming his ALEC buddies, 1915, giving Gitmo back, did I mention ALEC?, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views.
If you didn’t notice, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and their extreme right wing, anti-worker agenda were in town this past week so we kicked up the coverage a bit.
SDFP’s ALEC coverage:
ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Austerity
By Jonas Persson and Mary Bottari / Center for Media and Democracy
San Diego Activists Go All In for Anti-Alec Protests
By Doug Porter
A Who’s Who of ALEC’s Corporate Overlords Meeting in San Diego
By Doug Porter
Hot Topics at ALEC’s 2015 Meeting in San Diego
By Brendan Fischer / PR Watch
Confronting ALEC’s ‘Everybody Does It’ Defense
By Doug Porter
ALEC Gets a Raucous Reception in San Diego
By Doug Porter
ALEC Confidential: Tales from Inside the San Diego Meeting
By Bill Raden / Capital & Main
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
San Diego Activists Go All In for Anti-Alec Protests
A Who’s Who of ALEC’s Corporate Overlords Meeting in San Diego
Confronting ALEC’s ‘Everybody Does It’ Defense
ALEC Gets a Raucous Reception in San Diego
Average Motorist’s Annual Cost for San Diego’s Crappy Roads: $843
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles #5: A Field Guide for Getting Lost in San Diego
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
SDFP Cartoonist Junco Canché to Have First Solo Exhibit of Work
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
The Swarm
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Faulconer Welcomes ALEC to San Diego
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Old Man
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: July 12-18
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
1915: It Was a Very Good Year
By John Lawrence
Video Essay: Off-Site Events Draw Local Participation in San Diego Comic-Con 2015
By Horacio Jones
It’s Time to Give “Gitmo” Back to the Cubans
By Frank Gormlie
Diversity and Parity in Theatre: Notes from the Dramatists Guild Conference in San Diego
By Alejandra Enciso Guzmán
San Diego Gardening: How to Ditch the Lawn
By Connie Beck
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Austerity
By Jonas Persson and and Mary Bottari / Center for Media and Democracy
After EPA Ignored Environmental Racism for Decades, Communities Fight Back
By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams
Measure of Deception: CA Initiative Would Gut Retirement Benefits for Millions
By Bill Raden / Capital & Main
How I Learned That Unapologetic Black Anger Can Change the World for the Better
By Chauncey DeVega / AlterNet
JFK Pledged Cuban Isolation Would End with Soviet Threat
By John Perr/ Daily Kos
Hot Topics at ALEC’s 2015 Meeting in San Diego
By Brendan Fischer / PR Watch
The Complicated World of Having Your Boss Decide What Kind of Birth Control You Can Use
By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos
How San Diego Is a Petri Dish for the ALEC Agenda
By Brendan Fischer / Center for Media and Democracy
The Calamity of the Disappearing School Libraries
Debra Kachel / The Conversation
ALEC Confidential: Tales from Inside the San Diego Meeting
By Bill Raden / Capital & Main