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 Jones winning in Bama, #MeToo in the White House, Kasparian having to go, Net Neutrality, California burning, Diane Takvorian, deported veteran Hector Barajas, 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 Activist Calendar, December 15, 2017-January 5, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Counter-Protest at Pro-Border Wall Rally Was an Embarrassment
#MeToo Reaches the White House; Trump Not Amused
Black Votes Matter: Jones Wins Senate Seat in Alabama
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Cameo in an Proud Boys Video: Fun Guy or Closet Extremist?
Senator Al Franken Had to Go in DC, Doesn’t Mickey Kasparian Need to Do the Same in San Diego?
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
California’s Burning: What Will Rise from the Ashes?
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Red Flag Warming
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: December 3-9
Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Thai Oyster Cult Video Leads YouTube Globally Trending Hits
Roy Moore: Putin may be ‘more akin to me than I know’
16 Women and Donald Trump – There’s a Pattern Here
‘Freedom Is Never Voluntarily Given By the Oppressor’ – MLK Jr.’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail
When Is It a Good Time to Talk About Gun Safety? The Sandy Hook Elementary School Mass Shooting – Five Years and Counting …
ALS Sufferer Fighting GOP Tax Bill: ‘I Don’t Know How Many Birthdays I Have Left’
Roy Zimmerman – ‘Vote Republican’
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Veterans For Peace Give Out 3200th Sleeping Bag Set in Downtown San Diego
By Gil Field / San Diego Veterans for Peace
KPBS Honors Our Everyday Hero: Diane Takvorian
By Environmental Health Coalition
Tell The FCC Not To End Net Neutrality!
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.Org
ACLU Demands Naturalization Hearing for Deported Veteran Hector Barajas
From the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
How Coca-Cola Invented Christmas As We Know It
By Valerie Vande Panne / Alternet
The Day School Shootings Became the Norm
By Annie Lane