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)
Looking Back at the Week: July 3-9
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