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 Comey firing, the Kasparian firing, Indivisible in Coronado, disposable people, the greatness of national monuments, homelessness in SD, whiffs of Watergate, the death of George Winne, Jr., 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
Progressive San Diego Activist Calendar – May 12-23, 2017
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Comey Firing Is an ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’
Trump’s Next Target: Voter Rolls
Indivisible Activists Prick RNC Bubble in Coronado
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Workers, Students and Adjuncts as Disposable People in the Trump Era
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Drawn
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
South Bay Loses an Icon and Faces a Journalism Crisis
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
A Guidebook for the Resistance: On Tyranny By Timothy Snyder
By Vivian Rothstein / Capital & Main
Repeal of the Affordable Care Act: A Moral Travesty
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org
How Crossing the US-Mexico Border Became A Crime
By Kelly Lytle Hernandez / The Conversation
National Monuments Make America Great
By Shaun Gonzalez / Mojave Desert Blog
Kasparian Out, Protests Continue
By San Diego Free Press Staff
Take Action: Reform California’s Money Bail System
By ACLU of California
The Trump Administration Is an Oil Junkie — and It’s Looking to Score off California’s Coasts
By David Helvarg / OB Rag
Bearing Witness to Homelessness in San Diego
By Stan Levin / San Diego Veterans for Peace
ACLU Comment on Trump Firing of FBI Director Comey
By Gabriela Melendez / ACLU San Diego & Imperial Counties
Donald Trump Is Radicalizing America’s Court System Before Our Very Eyes
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Constitutional Crisis: Echoes of Watergate and a Whiff of Fascism
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Sessions May Revive Harsh Penalties for Low-Level Drug Charges
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams
Post-Comey Firing, Trump Impeachment Is ‘What the Country and the World Need’
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams
Listening in Ocean Beach
By Brett Warnke / OB Rag
Darrell Issa’s 2016 Report Card Revealed
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
May 11 Protest of RNC in Coronado
By San Diego Indivisible
Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles—Once Eradicated—Spread Across the Twin Cities
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
The Death of George Winne, Jr., and the Fight for a More Peaceful World
By Curtis Yee / The Triton (UCSD)
NSA Tools, Built Despite Warnings, Used in Global Cyber Attack
By Nadia Pupris / Common Dreams