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Looking Back at the Week: May 21-27

May 28, 2017 by Brent E. Beltrán

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Looking Back at the Week: May 21-27

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 California Democratic Convention, targeting Hunter, Issa’s exclusive town hall, what’s wrong with labor in SD (Kasparian!), ICE raids in National City, Carlsbad reluctantly approving district elections, AB 784 and AB805, 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:

Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
A Spymaster’s Clandestine Speech and the Importance of June Third’s March for Truth

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Cat Herding and Loathing at the Democratic State Convention
DC Democrats Target Congressman Duncan Hunter
Darrell Issa’s Exclusive Town Hall Set for June 3
Congressman Duncan Hunter Okay With Assaulting Reporter “If He Deserved It”
Discrimination Lawsuit Over Rejecting Refugee Children Taps Escondido Treasury

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
What’s the Matter with San Diego Labor (Part 2): Rank and Who?

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Jacaranda

North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
ICE Raids Near National City Schools, Parents Arrested, Children Left Unattended

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: May 14-20

 

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

California Failing to Track Police Database Abuse
By Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation

This Week in Congress — May 22, 2017
By Indivisible 49

School Choice: Segregation by Another Name
By Mark E. Andersen / Daily Kos

Think Tank Recommends Universal Draft Registration and Military Testing
By Rick Jahnkow / Draft NOtices

Carlsbad Council Bows to Lawsuit Threat, Approves District Elections
By Richard Reihl / The Reihl World

Trump’s Deviant Budget Celebrates Cruel Form of Individualism
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

Extinction Likely for Majority of California’s Native Trout and Salmon
By Dan Bacher / Daily Kos

Park City, Depression, and the Compulsion to Write
By Will Falk

Nationwide Report: Insurance Corporations Created Exploitative $2 Billion Bail Industry
By ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties

New Orleans Mayor Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Confederate Monuments
By New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Veterans for Peace On the March: Memorial Day Actions in DC
By Brian Trautman

SANDAG is Ailing; Assembly Bill 805 Could Be the Cure
By Lisa Wellens/ SanDiego350

California Has an Opportunity to Stop Predatory Lending with AB 784
By Liana Molina

 

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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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