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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: the Women’s March(es), protests, Trump’s executive orders, Frye and McCormack calling out Kasparian, public education under assault, our border under siege by Trump, ACLU taking action, 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
Creativity, Solidarity Mark San Diego Women’s March
North County San Diego Women’s March Surprises Organizers
Trump Executive Order Vandalizes Obamacare
A Deplorable Deplorable: Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services
Pipelines, Propaganda, and Even More Protests
Voter Fraud Claims: Amping Up the Crazy With an Eye Towards 2018
Trump News Brings on the Blues
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The Final Assault on Public Education is On in Earnest
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Who Are You Going to Believe? Trump, Truth, Citizens and the Press
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Donna Frye and Irene McCormack Show Solidarity with Kasparian’s Accusers
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Teardrops in a Bucket
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Drone Foundation Laid
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
The San Diego-Tijuana Border Under Siege? Donald Trump’s Executive Order
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Jan 15-21
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
Women’s March San Diego: Somewhere Near Sanity
By Bob Dorn
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Introduce James Baldwin to a New Generation
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
40,000 San Diegans at Women’s March – Photo Gallery
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
PETITION: Use Qualcomm Stadium Parking Lot as a SafePark-Camp for the Homeless
By Women Occupy San Diego
Compassion as a Radical Act
By Dave Patterson / Vets for Peace
Early Speculation on County Supervisor Races
By Don Greene
ACLU Announces First Legal Action On Trump Conflicts Of Interest
By ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Building Trades Allow Themselves to Be Played Like Fools
By Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money
Southwestern College Students Struggle With Homelessness
By Cristofer Garcia / The Southwestern College Sun
Repeal and (Don’t) Replace
By John Lawrence
Campaign Against Labor Leader for Sexual Harassment Charges Heats Up – Protest to Call for Mickey Kasparian’s Resignation – Wed., Jan. 25th
By Staff / The OB Rag
Janet and George Gastil: San Diego Locals Contributing to our Communities
By Mimi Pollack
ACLU of CA Statement of Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Executive Orders
By Edward Sifuentes / ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Women’s March in Washington D.C. — This is how day #2 of the resistance went
By Barbara Zaragoza
Calls For Senators Feinstein and Harris to Reject Trump’s Climate Denier Cabinet
By David Harris / SanDiego350
ChangeFest Speakers Rally for Driscoll’s Boycott, Against Domestic Violence & for Fracking Ban
By Dan Bacher / DailyKos
Gov. Brown: ‘California is Not Turning Back. Not Now, Not Ever.’
By Governor Jerry Brown