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: SB 32, Trump trying to go black, the upcoming propositions, taco trucks on every corner, love in the anthropocene, Colin Kaepernick, drugs, the plastic bag battle, free classes in SD, 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
SB 32: California’s Big Bet on the Environment
Trump’s Black Outreach: Anything’s Better Than Zero
A Sneak Peek at the 2016 California Ballot Propositions
Will Gov. Brown Do the Right Thing for Farmworkers?
Hillary’s Got Hot Sauce for a Taco Truck on Every Corner

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
A Long Hot Summer: Where’s the Love in the Anthropocene?

From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Colin Kaepernick: An NFL Quarterback Was Just Added to My List of Social Heroes

North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
South Bay, San Diego November Elections 2016

Geo-Poetic Spaces by By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
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Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Aug 21-27

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:

Rising Costs of Living [With an Education] in California
By Lydia Wood, James Anderson and Brandon Edwards-Schuth

Free Classes in San Diego
By Mimi Pollack

Black Breastfeeding Week 2016
By South OB Girl / OB Rag

Drugs: the Human Dilemma, Part 2
By John Lawrence

Readers Write: Taking Exception to Clinton’s Exceptionalism Speech
By Stan Levin

Sunrise … Sunset
By Anne Haule / Musings of a Boomer Feminist

The Battle Against Plastic Bags in California; A Brief History
By Mitch Silverstein

Kaepernick Challenges Americans to Reflect on What They Really Stand For
By Peter Bloom / Common Dreams

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Brent E. Beltrán

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.

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