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Looking Back at the Week: April 2-8

April 9, 2017 by Brent E. Beltrán

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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 Padres, San Diego resistance, local journalists being targeted, Palm Tuesday, Downtown homeless sweeps, pigs feeding pigs, climate deniers in congress, the Tijuana sewage spill, Music Theory, Reagan, corporate climate allies, 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
Lack of Minimum Wage Enforcement Sparks April 4 City Hall Protest
The Padres: A Baseball Team Worthy of San Diego
San Diego Resistance: Coast to Coast, Persisting and Connecting
Internet ‘Predator’ Scam Targets Local Journalists
Progressive Activism Calendar, April 7-17, 2017

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The American Epidemic of Quiet Desperation Continues Unabated

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Palm Tuesday

North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Tight Votes on Sanctuary Bill and SANDAG Reform in Chula Vista and National City

My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Cruel Downtown Sweeps against San Diego Homeless People Have Got to Stop – Now!

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Pigs Feeding Pigs

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: March 26-April 1

 

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:

Let’s Talk About ‘Job-Killing’ Regulations
By Mark E. Anderson / Daily Kos

The Value of Equal Pay to the U.S. Economy
By Kate Bahn / Center for American Progress

The Clocks Are Striking Thirteen, and Big Brother Is Coming To A Theater Near You
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams

A New Way to Close the Gender Pay Gap
By Martha Burk / Common Dreams

Trump’s Fog Machine
Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

Undocumented Filipinos Are Living a Special Nightmare in Trump’s America
By Alyssa Aquino / Foreign Policy in Focus

President Trump Boo’ed By North America’s Building Trades Unions
By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet

Climate Deniers: Do Your S.D. Congressmembers Represent Your Views?
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko

Under Trump, the U.S. May Now Be Killing More Civilians Than Russia
By Peter Certo / Institute for Policy Studies

These 156 Lawmakers Support Expanding, Not Cutting, Social Security. Does Yours?
By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams

The Rise of Corporations as Climate Change Allies
By Nicola Moelter / SanDiego350

How Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan Colluded with a Foreign Government to Manipulate the 1980 Presidential Election
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag

No. 45, in the Locker Room
By Bob Dorn

Massive Tijuana Sewage Flows Into San Diego Beaches: A Timeline of Events
By Barbara Zaragoza

Veterans For Peace Condemns U.S. Actions In Syria
By Veterans For Peace

John Steinbeck’s ‘To a God Unknown’: How to Be a Writer In the Age of Donald Trump
By Stephen Cooper

Music Theory
By Karen Kenyon

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Brent E. Beltrán

Brent E. Beltrán is a third generation pocho and second generation San Diegan that lives next door to Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. He's married to his warrior healer wife Olympia and is the proud father of a youngling name Sandino. Brent is a member of the SDFP Editorial Board, occasionally writes the column Desde la Logan and posts Looking Back at the Week every Sunday morning. He can be contacted at desdelalogan@gmail.com and through his Twitter account @DesdeLaLogan.
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