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: the June Primary contests, oligarchy taking a desert trip, our old scumbag still feeling the Bern, implementing a carbon tax, feminism in San Diego, Our Lady Kibeho, roller skating nuns, the struggle of an asylum seeker, oxymoronic affordable housing, the DMV improving voter registration, 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
Don’t Be Bored by Board of Education Races
Republicans Look to San Diego for the Best City Government Money Can Buy
Issa for Vice President? (One Way to Get Rid of Him)
Vote ‘Aye’ on San Diego’s Proposition ‘Eye’
‘Experts’ Say Newly Registered Bernie Supporters Are Too Lazy or Stupid to Vote in Mayoral Contest
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Oligarchy Rocks at the Desert Trip Festival
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
An Old Scumbag’s Take on Bernie and Hillary Unifying Their Party
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Thousands of Tuna Crabs Invade Imperial Beach …
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
New State of Being
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: May 1-7
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
A Twofer: Carbon Tax Solves Both Climate Change and Plastic Ocean Pollution
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green
Rent Going Up? Planning to Move? Welcome to the Street
By John Lawrence – SDFP reprint (1969)
Feminism is Alive and Well in San Diego . . . but the Fight is Getting Harder
By Anne Haule
The Great Eastern Expansion: Where Is The Plaza?
By Barbara Zaragoza
Our Lady of Kibeho at the Moxie Theatre
By Mukul Khurana
San Diego’s Roller Skating Nuns at Skateworld
By Sister Donatella Soul / The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Diego Chapter
A Jazzy San Diego Weekend: Two Worlds Merged Rather Than Collided
By John Lawrence
A Mother’s Courage: The Struggle of an Asylum-Seeker in San Diego
By Jaime Rodriguez-Sosa
Is Affordable Housing In the City of San Diego an Oxymoron? Part 4
By Katheryn Rhodes and John Lawrence
California DMV Takes Important First Steps Toward Improving Voter Registration Services
By ACLU San Diego
Direct Action Journal: Overcoming Fear
By Will Falk
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Dr. Billionaire, Meet Dr. Salk
By Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.Org
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California?
By Ellen Brown
Compared to Rest of World Americans Are Delusional, Prudish, Selfish Religious Nuts: Study
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
Warning for the World: Five Pacific Islands Officially Lost to Rising Seas
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams
Engaged In Good Causes: Longtime War Criminal Inexplicably, Unconscionably Gets Not Jail Sentence But Award (WTF?)
By Abby Zimet / CommonDreams
The History of Abortion Is a History of Punishing Women
Larry Schwartz / Alternet
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