By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features a double dose of articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SD feeling the Bern, victory in the fight for $15, Trump the fool, D9 council candidate Sarah Saez, the multi-headed beast known as the Citizens’ Plan, pushing SDPD reforms at the ballot box, neo-feudal financial parasites, EHC’s transportation justice victories, fascism in America, puppy mills in Carlsbad, and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), 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
Bernie Sanders is Coming To San Diego
Feel The Bern, San Diego! March 22 Live Blog & Social Media Round Up
Si Se Puede! Sanders Wows Diverse Crowd in San Diego
November Ballot Measures in Turmoil: Fifteen Bucks Per Hour and a Football Stadium
House GOP Morality Crusaders Go After Scientists
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, California – The $15 Minimum Wage isn’t a Done Deal
Assault on Public Employee Unions Fizzles at the Supreme Court
First Look: City of San Diego June 2016 Primary Ballot
Cancel April Fools Day – Who Needs It When We’ve Got Trump?
A $15 Minimum Wage Didn’t Fall From the Sky and the Sky Won’t Fall Because of It
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Meet Sarah Saez: Candidate for San Diego City Council District 9 (Part Two)
Meet Sarah Saez: Candidate for San Diego City Council District 9 (Part Three)
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Thinking About Some Guys Who Fought Like Wildcats
Wee Lives Matter
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Free Political Prisoners
Finding Who Is Responsible for ISIS
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
San Diego’s Old Central Library: Public Benefit or Profit Center?
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Four Men Run For Southwest Chula Vista’s District 4 …
Chula Vista’s Taxes May Skyrocket To Fund Bond Measures For Infrastructure, Schools
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Double Edged
My Life In Cyprus
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: March 13-19
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Readers Write: All War is International
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
Why Bernie’s Struggle Will Continue
By Bob Dorn
San Diego’s Multi-Headed Beast of a “Citizens’ Plan” Initiative
By Norma Damashek
North Park Community Plan Update – We Can Do Better by Working Together
By Howard Blackson and Don Leichtling / UrbDeZine
Joe Wilder: Gentleman of Jazz
By John Lawrence
Activists Move Closer to Getting Needed Police Reforms on Ballot
By Women Occupy San Diego
We Need More Patient Escorts Because ‘Our Body Is Still A Battleground’
By Krizia Puig
America, Got Fascism?
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Why Are Innocent People Being Killed by Terrorists?
By John Lawrence
The Language of Pinyon-Juniper Trees
By Will Falk
CEO Revolving Door at Tri-City Costly to Taxpayers
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
On Government Abuse, Democracy and Poverty, California Has Work to Do
By Becca Cramer / ACLU San Diego
Financial Parasites Have Become Neo-Feudal Landlords
By John Lawrence
Creating a Space for Seniors for Life at SDSU
By Lee Taylor
Readers Write : Media Reduces Sanders Supporters to 50 Shades of White
By Bob Dorn
International Women’s Day Celebration in Pictures
By Bree Davis
What San Diego Should Learn From the Country’s Best and Worst Public Transit Systems
By Hutton Marshall / SanDiego350.org
Will Carlsbad Stop Making Puppy Mills Profitable?
By Richard Riehl
Transportation Justice Victories: What We Have Accomplished With People Power
By the Environmental Health Coalition
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Women Voters: Their Growing Influence in Politics and Policy
By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
The Worst Republican Responses to the Brussels Attacks (So Far)
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
Invisible Disability Project: Ableism And Erasure
By Dr. Linda Williams and Monica Slabaugh / Invisible Disability Project
Historically, Liberals and the Left Have Underestimated the Right. Today, They Overestimate It.
By Corey Robin
Scientists Urge Feds to Continue Fracking Moratorium off CA Coast
By Dan Bacher / Indybay
Study Shows Why Women Janitors and Security Guards Are At Risk
By Debra Varnado / Capital & Main
Let Donald Trump Be Our Unifier
By Eve Ensler / AlterNet
Red Riding Hood Has A Gun And So Does Everyone Else, So It’s All Good
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
Secret Service Bails Republicans Out of Their Convention Open Carry Dilemma
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
FBI to Apple: Nevermind
By Common Dreams
Robert Reich Sees the Future: How the People’s Party Prevailed in 2020
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.Org
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Very Precise Female
By Brett Warnke
Why Fixing Climate Change is Women’s Work
By Kate Stringer / Yes! Magazine
What’s Behind America’s Unusual Fixation With Large Breasts
By Carrie Weisman / AlterNet