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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: American terror in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino, SD’s Climate Action Plan, nailing Monsanto, Hitler’s ‘stache, livin’ la vida Logan, OB activism, disturbed Piyon-Juniper forests, the Homeland, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
So a Right Wing Nut Job with a Gun Walks into a Planned Parenthood Office…
San Diego’s Climate Action Plan: Too Little, Too Late? Too Much, Too Soon?
The Clear Broth of Actual Reform in San Diego
San Bernadino Shooting Kicks Off Holiday Gun Sales
Terrorism Bumps Climate Change Off the Front Page
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Nothing or Everything Changes After Paris
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Nailing Monsanto
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Hitler’s Mustache
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: November 22-28
Sunshine/Noir II by Brent E. Beltrán
Livin’ La Vida Logan
Progressive San Diego by Frank Gormlie
Progressive San Diego: 15 Years Ago Was a High Water Mark for OB Activism
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
A Higher Calling for Downtown San Diego’s East Village
By Bill Adams / UrbDeZine
Pinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed
By Will Falk
A Centuries Old Sunni-Shiite Conflict is at Heart of Middle East Problems
By John Lawrence
America Has Changed its Name to The Homeland
By Bob Dorn
Photography Keeps Alzheimer’s Patients In The Moment
By Barbara Zaragoza
Paris’ Forgotten Massacre of October 1961
By Nat Krieger
North Of The Fence: Meth Seizures Up, Violent Attacks and Holiday Cheer
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Your 401(k) Is No Replacement for a Pension
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Climate Artists Commit ‘Brandalism’ to Expose Corporate Hijacking of COP21
By Sarah Lazare / CommonDreams
Energy Democracy: Inside Californians’ Game-Changing Plan for Community-Owned Power
By Al Weinrub / Yes!
Dead, White, and Blue: The Great Die-Off of America’s Blue Collar Whites
By Barbara Ehrenreich / TomDispatch
US Represents Cautionary Tale about Media System Dominated by Market Values
By Victor Pickard / CommonDreams