Looking Back at the Week: July 10-16

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: protest and racism, Dems kind of uniting, the City Attorney being a jerk, B.A.STA!, gun sales rising, the new pedestrian crossing at the San Ysidro port of entry, the LeGerrette’s, the Convadium, turf wars at school, BLM, bomba founders moving away, and lots of other inspiring, 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
Protests Reveal American Angst About Racism
Unity Day for Democrats – Will It Fly? (And How Far?)
Attacks on San Diego’s Homeless Continue
City Attorney’s Justice for Sale Scheme Targets Family of Mentally Ill Man Slain by Police
Suspect in Homeless Attacks Arrested, Another May Be At Large

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
2016 Summer Chronicles 4: Bush League Nation

Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Barrios Against STAdiums! to Protest Chargers Pro-Stadium Speakers

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Gun Sales Go Up

North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Pedestrian Crossing Now Open At San Ysidro Port of Entry …

Latinos in San Diego by María E. García
Carlos and Linda LeGerrette : Abiding Commitment to Community Service

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Angry White Man In My Mirror

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
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San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:

The San Diego Convadium – Part 3
By John Lawrence

Artificial Turf Wars in San Diego Schools
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag

Black Lives Matter San Diego Rally: Photo-Essay
By Bree Davis

Haitian Storytelling: The Last Tiger in Haiti at the La Jolla Playhouse
By Yuko Kurahashi

Una Carta a José
By Adrián Arancibia

General Dynamics, Once a San Diego Mainstay, Now Dearly Departed
By John Lawrence

San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Anti-Parks Caucus Seeks to Remove Protections for Public Lands
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos

Policing Isn’t Working for Cops Either
By Kazu Haga / Waging Nonviolence

We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
Kate Stringer / Yes! Magazine

At Least 84 Dead as France Reels from Attack in Nice
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams

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Brent E. Beltrán is a third generation pocho and second generation San Diegan that lives next door to Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. He's married to his warrior healer wife Olympia and is the proud father of a youngling name Sandino. Brent is a member of the SDFP Editorial Board, occasionally writes the column Desde la Logan and posts Looking Back at the Week every Sunday morning. He can be contacted at desdelalogan@gmail.com and through his Twitter account @DesdeLaLogan.