Looking Back at the Week January 21-27
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: an early start for Dems, County Supervisor candidates Saldaña, Passons and Fletcher, the endless inegalitarian spiral, blessings, Ohio, Democrats attacking education, clean energy, 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
Local Democrats Get An Early Start – Progressive Activist Calendar, January 26 – February 4, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
These County Elections Are The Ones to Watch in 2018
Lori Saldaña, Candidate for District 4 County Supervisor: The Truth Will Set You Free
Omar Passons, Candidate for District 4 County Supervisor: Policy Wonk With a Heart of Gold
Nathan Fletcher, Candidate for District 4 County Supervisor: Build a Coalition for Change
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Welcome to Plutocracy: The “Endless Inegalitarian Spiral” Continues Apace
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Blessings
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week January 14-20
Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Kitties Are So Nice
Sen. Tammy Duckworth to Trump: I won’t be lectured by a draft dodger
Linda Sarsour and Rebecca Traister On This Year’s Women’s March
Ursula K. Le Guin Accepts the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Puerto Rico’s Power Authority to Be Privatized
Hugh Masekela – Strawberries
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
‘Billionaire Boom’: World’s Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half Got Zero, Zilch, Nada
By Jon Queally / Common Dreams
Dear Ohio: An Open Letter to the Bellwether Election State
By Joni Halpern
The Mind Trust Attack of Public Education is Led by Democrats
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
45 Years After Roe v. Wade, How Far Have We Come When It Comes To Abortion And The Right To Privacy?
By Kelly Macias / Daily Kos
TNTP Making Big Bucks from the Destroy Public Education (DPE) Movement
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
To Protest Racist Comments and Policies, Walkout Planned for Trump’s Davos Speech
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams
You Can’t Get Clean Energy From Natural Gas!
By Edward Bergen / SD350
Brent E. Beltrán
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