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Looking Back at the Week: August 22-September 2

September 3, 2017 by Brent E. Beltrán

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This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on Chicano Park under attack, tax reform, the 2018 District Attorney election, San Diego marching against hate, Duncan Hunter’s asshole, Hurricane Harvey, the war on reality, Chicana Tributes, Democracy vs Dictatorship, short term vacation rentals, the Miramar Air Show, 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
DACA, California Values Act in the News; Progressive Activist Calendar September 1-11, 2017

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
UPDATED: Chicano Park Murals Targeted as Revenge for Confederate Statue Removals
San Diego March Against Hate Says It Loud and Proud – Photo Gallery
Congressman Duncan Hunter’s Take on Trump: “He’s Our Asshole”
Hurricane Harvey: Mirroring a Planet and a Nation Gone Amok
Reforming Taxes and So Much Other Winning
San Diego’s 2018 District Attorney Election: The Issue is Justice for ALL

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Following the Lead of the Liars: How Conservatives Are Winning Their War on Reality

Latinos in San Diego by Maria E. Garcia
San Diego Celebrates Chicana Civil Rights Activists at Women’s Museum of California

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Moonlight Melody

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: August 20-26

Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Real Fake News – Operetta vs. Trump (Gilbert and Sullivan Edition)
Hurricane
How Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Worse
A Trans History: Time Marches Forward And So Do We
What Are the Potential Industrial Environmental Disasters Due to Hurricane Harvey’s Flooding?
Remembering Molly Ivins
Sia: Soon We’ll Be Found
DACA: ‘We Didn’t Come This Far to Give Up’

 

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

Readers Write: Democracy v. Dictatorship
By Stan Levin

Competing Proposals on Short Term Vacation Rentals Vie for City Council Approval
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag

San Diego Bureaucracy vs. The Homeless People
By Orlando Barahona

Running on Thoughts and Gasoline
By Bob Dorn

The Miramar Air Show: Just Don’t Go
By Dave Patterson, San Diego Veterans for Peace

I Didn’t Know I Was Racist Until My Sister Married a Black Man
By Joni Halpern

Evangelicals Nashville Statement Promises Hell for Homosexuals
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams

Eleven Reasons an Electric Car Wouldn’t Be For You
By Bill Adams / San Diego UrbDeZine

Only Collective Action Will Solve Climate Crisis
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko

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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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