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Looking Back at the Week: September 10-16

September 17, 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 the dirty games behind keeping local electricity dirty, Hurricane Irma, #BlackOutNFL, AB805 and a broken SANDAG, Medicare for all, our unsheltered human crisis, the war on unions, 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
UPDATED: Do You Really Want to Pay More for Dirtier Electricity? – Progressive Calendar September 15-25, 2017

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Hurricane Irma: Bringing Out the Stupid in Florida
#BlackOutNFL: Pro Football Has Lost Me and I’m Good With That
Assembly Bill 805, Mending a Broken SANDAG, Heads to Governor’s Desk
Let the Medicare For All Debate Begin!
Press Conferences on Homelessness In San Diego: Another Way of Saying “Let Them Eat Cake”

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The War on Public Sector Unions is a War on Progressive Politics and Democracy Itself

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Memorial Takedown

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Blown Out of Breath

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: September 3-9

Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Hurricane [from Hamilton: An American Musical]
What Will Happen to Undocumented DACA Doctors?
Farewell Cassini : Saturn Photographic Animation
Edie And Thea: A Love Story
Is Calling the President a White Supremacist Out of Bounds?
A Lament for Michael Brown Echoes On In St. Louis

 

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

Issa and Hunter’s Staffing Merry-Go-Round
By DWeisman / Escondido Grapevine

The Heat Is On: How Climate Change Is Making Western Wildfires Worse
By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos

Tom Steyer’s Message on Climate Change Comes to San Diego
By Celeste Oram / SanDiego350

Why Black Pride Makes Sense
By Unknown

Naomi Klein’s ‘NO Is Not Enough’ – It’s Up to Us to Fix This Mess
By Sharon Carr

ACLU Challenging Warrantless Border Searches of Phones and Laptops
By Hugh Handeyside & Esha Bhandari / American Civil Liberties Union

Trump’s DACA Deal: The Art of the Double Cross
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos

 

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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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