Looking Back at the Week: April 16-22
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: Chicano Park Day, BunnyPAC, Dumanis out, March for Science, Students for Economic Justice, Ernie McCray’s birthday, San Diego Lowriders, temporary ending of fireworks, Yermo Aranda, 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
Call to Action: Trump Is Bad For Business in San Diego
BunnyPAC Makes Duncan Hunter Look Uber Silly
Government Shutdown Countdown Begins in Congress
Dumanis Easing Out As DA Amid Ethics Questions, Considering Supervisor Seat
Progressive Activist Calendar April 21- May 1, 2017: 100 Days of Resisting
Photo Gallery: San Diego Among 600 Cities Joining the March for Science Worldwide
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Plant the Seeds for a Progressive Future in San Diego: Support Students for Economic Justice
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Happy Birthday, Ernie McCray: Still Pushing for What’s Good in the World at 79
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Easter Island
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Illusions of Syria
Latinos in San Diego by María E. García
For the Love of Cars, for the Love of Community: ‘San Diego Lowriders’
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Chula Vista Casino Lawsuit and South Bay Representatives #Resist
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: April 9-16
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
California Is Undermining Public Schools by Spending Big on Charters It Doesn’t Need
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
In Congress This Week -April 17, 2017
Compiled by Indivisible 49
Suborbital Protest Heralds Upcoming March for Science
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
It’s Spring: Time to Save the Planet
By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
Trump Has Deep Links to Organized Crime: Federal Investigators Know It and the Public Is Catching Up
By Jefferson Morley / AlterNet
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
By Taj James Rosa González / Yes! Magazine
Ghoulishness Envelops Arkansas’ Mass Execution Schedule
By Stephen Cooper
SeaWorld Ends Summertime Fireworks for Now
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Beyond the ‘Golden Gulag’: Film Screening and Panel Discussion at SDSU to Focus on Prison Abolition
By Lydia P. Wood and James K. Anderson
Bridges and Walls
By Nat Krieger
Readers Write: Proposed San Diego Budget Bad News for Urban Forestry
By Anne Fege
Present at the Creation: Walter Cronkite and the ‘Environment Story’
By Ron Bonn, SanDiego350
The Trump Administration Lost Again in Court, This Time on Voter ID
By Jessica Huseman / ProPublica
Chicano Park Day
A Missing Link to Greatness: San Diego Artist Guillermo ‘Yermo’ Aranda
By Maria-Elena Ugalde
A Cactus Speaks of Persistence (Thoughts about the Restorations of the Murals at Chicano Park)
By Ernie McCray
A Freeway Runs Through It: A City Heights-Barrio Logan Conversation
By Anna Daniels
Field of View: 43rd Annual Chicano Park Day
By Annie Lane
Victor Ochoa – Mural Maestro of Chicano Park
By Frank Gormlie
Walking in Chicano Park, Winter ’13
By Will Falk
Barrio Logan’s Chicano Park, Our National Treasure
By Brent E. Beltrán