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 short term victory at Standing Rock, fake news, California bracing for Trump’s assault on immigrants, hands off Medicare, Chargers reviving downtown stadium talks, Armenians of California, GMOs, remembering Pearl Harbor, SDPD’s racial bias, 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
Fake News, Conspiracies, and No News is Good News
California Legislators, School Boards Brace for Trump’s Assault on Immigrants
One Million People Demand Republicans Keep Their Hands Off Medicare
Take Your Football Stadium and Shove It, Mr. Spanos!
Wanna Fight Trump? Start by Acting Locally
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Will the Trump Presidency be an Extinction Level Event for Labor? We Better Hope Not
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Castro’s Last Gasp
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
King Tides, Otay Mesa’s Industrial Growth and Disturbing Feminicides
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
People Stare at Me
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Nov 27-Dec 3
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
Standing Rock: Longest Running War for US
By Anna Daniels
Victory at Standing Rock! Department of Army Says No to DAPL!
By Dave Archambault II, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman
Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites
By Norman Soloman / Common Dreams
How to Be a Democratic Party Insider: California ADEM Elections
By RL Miller / Daily Kos
Numbers Tell the Story of Standing Rock
By Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn / Yes! Magazine
The Armenians of California: Challenges and Achievements
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
The Election of President Donald Trump: A Historical Chicano Perspective
By Herma Baca / President of the Committee on Chicano Rights
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Don’t Result in Better Crop Yields
By John Lawrence
Remembering Pearl Harbor and WWII Vets in the Time of Trump
By Frank Gormlie
Readers Write: Military Too Small?
By Stan Levin
The PangeaSeed Murals of Local Ocean Beach Artist, Celeste Byers
By South OB Girl / OB Rag
American Dreamtime for San Diego Refugees
By Nat Krieger
Veterans Help #NoDAPL Resistance Achieve Significant Victory
By Brian Trautman
Trump’s Plan to Make Education Great Again: Abandon Public Schools
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
Study: SDPD’s Racial Bias is Undisputed and Ineffective
By Martha Sullivan, Women Occupy San Diego
Layla and the Owl’s Eyes: Ecopsychology and Being Human
By Will Falk
Helga: Growing up in Hitler’s Germany
By Karen Truesdell Riehl