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: TPP, SANDAG, OB, possible $15 minimum wage, SeaWorld breeding ban, censorship in Esco, climate colonialism, South Bay’s booming GDP, gardening for El Niño 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
A Defining Issue for the 2016 Elections Will Be the Trans Pacific Pact (TPP)
SANDAG, Water Agencies Faith Based Planning
California Here We Go: $15 Minimum Wage Headed for Statewide Ballot
Charger Stadium Deal Could Be Key in Block vs Atkins Senate Contest
SeaWorld’s Crying the Blues Over Orca Breeding Ban
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
San Diego Democrats to Progressive Base: We’re Just Not That Into You
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Do All “Black Lives Matter?”
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Doctors Without Bullets
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Planning My Garden for an El Niño Winter
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Leaving the Underworld
Progressive San Diego by SDFP Staff
Ocean Beach … ‘It’s Beside the Point’
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: Sept 27-Oct 3
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Effective Altruism: Is It Up To Rich People To Save the World?
By John Lawrence
Escondido’s Secretive Appearance Committee Decides What’s Art and What’s Not
By Wendy Wilson / Alianza North County
Empire’s Newest Terror: Climate Colonialism
By Will Falk
Foreign Interventions in the Middle East: More Havoc, Nuclear Weapons, Less Order
By Frank Thomas
North Of The Fence: South Bay GDP Growth Nearly 25 Percent More Than County
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Called a War Crime by Doctors Without Borders
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams
Why Free College Tuition Makes Sense for America
By Bernie Rhinerson / FreeCollegeNow.Org
ReformCA Files Its California Pot Legalization Initiative
By Phillip Smith / AlterNet
Killer Robots: Coming Soon to a Battlefield Near You
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams