By Brent E. Beltrán
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 sourced writers on: Labor’s day in SD, SDPD Chief’s false reasons for not releasing video, fighting for more than $15, our great(?) country, hopeless homeless, the western heatwave, a shameless Carlsbad developer, sorta but not really bike friendly North Park and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Sharing Solidarity on Labor’s Day in San Diego
SDPD Chief Invokes Ferguson Effect Falsehood to Block Body Cam, Video Evidence
Creative Protests Mark Planned Parenthood ‘Show Trial’ in DC, Anti-Choice Group Meeting in San Diego
With Victories From Coast to Coast, Fight for $15 Has Always Been About More Than a Paycheck
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Happy Labor Day? The Jury is Out
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
How Can We Call Our Country Great When There’s No Equality and Justice for All?
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Back to Homeless and Hopeless in San Diego
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Aphrodite’s Rock
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: August 30-Sept 5
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
7 Great Music Videos about Work and Working People
By SDFP Staff
Extreme Weather Watch: August 2015 – The Western US Burns Up
By John Lawrence
Have You No Shame , Mr. Caruso? Carlsbad Residents are Not ‘Corporate Interests’
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
A Journey Through the Otay Valley Regional Park
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
California Lawmakers Seek Local Oversight of Downtown Planning
Murtaza H. Baxamusa, Ph.D., AICP / San Diego UrbDeZine
Are Journalists Safe in Mexico? Benefit Concert to Support Independent Journalism in Mexico
By Anna Daniels
Politics & Events in the South Bay, September 4 to September 11
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
Escondido Can’t Afford the Safari Highlands Ranch Development
By Don Greene / Escondido Democrats
North Park – San Diego’s Weak Excuse for a Bike Friendly Place
By John P. Anderson
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
The Economy of the Future-Economic Democracy
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance
Labor Day 2028
By Robert Reich / Robert Reich Blog
Labor Day 2015: Stand Together and Fight Back
By Senator Bernie Sanders / Daily Kos
One Day Soon, That Drone Overhead May Be Pointing a Taser at You
By Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig
In ‘Win for Public Schools,’ Washington Supreme Court Rules Charter Schools Unconstitutional
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams