This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on: a New Year’s wish, Huncan Dunter on TV, recreational cannabis, new laws, Trump unhinged, Darrell Issa, reverse Robin Hood, destroying public education, Sessions’ war on weed, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.

San Diego Free Press Columns:

Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Rep. Duncan Hunter Lets Loose in TV Interview – Progressive Activist Calendar, January 6-16, 2018

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
A Peek at California’s New Laws for 2018, Including Where to Buy Recreational Pot in San Diego
San Diego 2018: What the Democratic Party Leadership Must Do
Attn Darrell Issa: The 1950’s Called – They Want Their Politics Back
Trump Unhinged: Hot Gossip and Sad Stories, Served with a Side of Authoritarianism

From the Soul by Ernie McCray
A New Years Wish for My People

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Midnight
Surviving Winter

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Fat Cat Comics Presents: Reverse Robin Hood

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: December 24-31

Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Deathless – Ibeyi
A Call to the American Resistance
‘Earth Is Where We Make Our Stand’: The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan
2017 – The United Nations Year in Review
All You Have To Do Is Look Up – Timelapse 2017
The Mess – Living With Bi-Polar Diagnosis
Why Jeff Sessions Hates Marijuana
Nowhere And Everywhere At The Same Time, No.2 – William Forsythe

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

Are You Ready to Win Some Progressive Activist Victories in 2018?
By SDFP Staff

Ticking Time Bomb at San Onofre Nuclear Plant
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko

Destroy Public Education (DPE); It’s a Billionaire Fueled Agenda
By Thomas Ultican

Why Jeff Sessions’ War on Weed Is a Futile Pursuit
By Phillip Smith / Alternet

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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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