Looking Back at the Week: June 28-July 4
Compiled 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: Hateville USA one year later, anti-Vaxxers failing, La Migra hanging with haters, Barrio Logan doing it for themselves again, Ernie getting poetical at a meeting, Mauna Kea protected (for now), marriage equality, occupying the Neighborhood House and the rise of the Chicano Free Clinic, Cali workers now getting paid sick leave, trending student loan defaults, CV’s rising politico Jason Paguio, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views.
SDFP would like to give special props to SDFP’s Maria E. García on finishing the weekly series, The History of the Neighborhood House in Logan Heights. She has done a great service by documenting an important part of San Diego’s 20th century Chicano history. We look forward to her writing monthly on other historical topics related to SD’s Chicano community.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Murrieta, the Town Without Pity, Remembered One Year Later
Report: Border Patrol Union Officials Working with Hate Groups
Anti-Vaxxers’ Tactics Fail to Sway Legislature
Hugs Offered to Hating Hecklers at Murrieta Immigration Rally
Fun, Fear and Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles #2: That Music You Are Hearing
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Ignored by Comic-Con Barrio Logan Creates Its Own
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Poetry at a Budget Meeting
Protecting Mauna Kea by Will Falk
Protecting Mauna Kea: “We Are Satisfied With The Stones”
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Equality
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Vows to Equality
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: What’s Worse
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia (History)
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: The Occupation of Neighborhood House…
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: June 21-27
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Paid Sick Leave for California Workers Starts This Week
By Francine Busby / San Diego Democratic Party
Nuclear Shutdown News – June 2015: Balloon Shuts Down Troubled Indian Point Plant
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
Student Loan Default a Growing Trend?
By John Lawrence
Humble Heart Thrift Store: Thrift, Coffee, Love
By Avital Aboody
The Rising Star of Chula Vista: Jason Paguio
By Barbara Zaragosa / South Bay Compass
For Hundreds of Families, There’s No Place Like Home in San Diego
By Jeeni Criscenzo del Rio
Mark Lane in Murrieta: We Are Absolutely a Country of Immigrants
By Mark Lane
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Why Bree Newsome’s Action Was the “Amazing Grace” I Needed
By Tanya Steele / YES! Magazine
Racial ‘Neighborhood Gap’ Fuels Social, Economic Inequality
By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams
Damning New Analysis Reveals Deadly Lack of Police Training on Mental Illness
By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
By Frederick Douglass