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: Dem Party and Labor’s Kasparian mess, Trump, immigration crackdown, Hershey Felder, Ajisen Ramen, Sunset Cliffs erosion, public transit as social justice, 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
Resist and Persist: Trump Can’t Stand It
Alt-President Bannon Presides and Other Tales of Trump
It’s Time to Clean House at SANDAG
‘Nevertheless, She Persisted.’ One Heck of a Resist Trump Tuesday
Dueling Downtown Protests Set as Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Escalates
Weekly Progressive Calendar for San Diego: February 10-22, 2017
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
How Not to Be the Resistance: Local Democratic Party and Union Leaders Fail Early Test
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
So-Called President Trump: The Fine Art of Name Calling
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
We’ve Got to Stay Ahead of This Devil Named Trump
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
The Wishing Tree
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Where Do I Go?
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
The San Jose Solution for Emergency Shelter
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
$16 Million Later, Where Are San Ysidro School District’s Solar Panels?
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Jan 29-Feb 4
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
Thank You UC Berkeley Students and Community for Confronting Racist
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Immigrants Enrich San Diego and the Nation
By Miriam [Mimi] Pollack
Law and Disorder at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos
‘A Day Without Women’: Calls Grow for General Women’s Strike
By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams
Music as Self-Expression: Hershey Felder in ‘Our Great Tchaikovsky’
By Yuko Kurahashi
The Separation Clause of the Constitution and the Johnson Amendment
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
Restaurant Review: Ajisen Ramen on Clairemont Mesa
By Judi Curry
Bluff Collapse Reminds Us of Inevitable Erosion of Sunset Cliffs
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Trump Goes For The Nuclear Option: Getting Rid of the Filibuster
By John Lawrence
How Black Women Helped Shape History And Today’s Democratic Party
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Top 10 Companies to Boycott Because of Trump Products or Money
By SDFP Staff
Progressives Lost The Vote On DeVos But Won Something Else
By Jeff Bryant / Education Opportunity Network
Public Transit as a Social Justice Issue
By Joseph Wagner / San Diego UrbDeZine
In This Post-Filner Era, the Democratic Party and the Labor Council Need to Do Better
By Sara Kent
Reports of the Destruction of Experience and the Failure of Ecopsychology are Greatly Exaggerated
By Thomas J. Doherty