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 Cali’s climate crisis, Cate not getting prosecuted, GOP’s cashman Issa and trashman Hunter, fear in time of fire and Hep A, SD Dems rolling with radical right, the Dojo Café, properly interpreting the 2nd Ammendment, 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
California’s Combustible Climate Change Crisis + Progressive Activist Calendar, October 20 – 31
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Why Councilman Cate Likely Won’t Be Prosecuted for Helping Out Soccer City
San Diego’s GOP Congressmen: Issa’s Opponents Have Incoming Cash, Hunter Could Be Picking Up Trash
Issa Protesters Cry Fowl Over Sheriffs Ticketing
Peter Navarro’s Economic Hallucinations, Trump’s Lack of Empathy, and the Latest Lorena Conspiracies
Ginning Up Fear Over California Fires and Hepatitis A
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The New Democrats Crab-Walking with the Radical Right, San Diego Style
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
So Proud of My Son and the Dojo Café
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
After the Fall
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: October 8-14
Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Fighting Fire with Fire: Sam Bee’s Penis PSA, Eminem Draws the Line
Trump Fiddles While California Burns
This Republican Farmer from Kansas is Calling for #NotOnePenny
The White House Makes Its Own Fake News – You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
Gold Star Parents of Army Specialist Etienne Murphy, Who Died in Syria in May, Talk About What Matters to Them Now
Could Puerto Rico’s Water Supply Be the Next Target for Privitization?
Prophets of Rage – Radical Eyes
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
A First Hand Account of the Northern California Fires
By At Large
Putting a Knot in Pinkwashing
By Karuna Jaggar / Common Dreams
A San Diego Vets for Peace Homeless Encounter
By Stan Levin
How San Diego’s Transit Went from First to Worst
By Murtaza Baxamusa / UrbDeZine
The Rights of Nature and the Power of Law
By Will Falk
The National Math and Science Initiative: Bad Education Policies Based on Junk Science
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
Readers Write: It’s Time to Properly Interpret the Second Amendment
By Pete Beauregard
Lori Saldaña: Remembering the October 2007 Wildfires
By Lori Saldaña