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: Trump’s bans, Dems coming out against Kasparian, madness, more Trump, scared school kids, resistance over collaboration, Twinkies, Frederick Douglass 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
Trump’s Muslim Ban: The Whole World is Watching
Calexit: A Waste of Time and Energy
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Anti-Semitic Acts Impact San Diego
Prominent Democrats, Community Activists Call on Labor Leader Kasparian to Stand Down
Trump Kicks Off Black History Month By Suspending Investigations of White Supremacists
Progressive Calendar for San Diego February 3-13, 2017
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Feckless Democrats and Business Unionists Fail Early Trump Era Tests
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Trump’s Long Shadow Falls on San Diego Immigrants, Refugees, Muslims
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Love Really Does Trump Hate
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Madness
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Icing on the Cake
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
School Children Afraid in South Bay, Disrespect Felt by Much of Mexico
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Jan 22-29
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
An Alternative Pledge
By Barry Johnson
Call To Order, January 20, 2017
By Fran Finley
Honor Our Promise: US Vets Ask Trump to Rescind Executive Order
By Center for American Progress Action Fund
How Do We Stop Trump and Win Gains in Justice and Equality?
By David Solnit, George Lakey / Common Dreams
A Performance for Social Justice: The Life and Times of Patricia Prewitt
By Yuko Kurahashi
Resistance Rather Than Collaboration Is the Only Way In the Trump Era
By Andrew J. Mackay
What Happened to the Rails?
By Roy Little
How Twinkies Made a Few Billionaires Richer While Thousands Lost Jobs
By John Lawrence
One-Third of Working Age Families in San Diego Can’t Make Ends Meet
By Center on Policy Initiatives
I Do Not Remember Ever Being this Depressed Over the Results of an Election as this One.
By Judi Curry / OB Rag
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: The Not-So-Great Depression and WW II Come to Logan Heights – Part I
By Maria E. Garcia
ACLU Files Demands for Documents on Trump’s Muslim Ban
By ACLU
Climate Change: No One Is Exempt
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green
Frederick Douglass Opens Twitter Account and Trolls Trump
By Annie Lane
Gold Mountain Sisters
By Grace Yee / Women’s Museum of California