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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on: Black History Month, students protests, arming teachers, Democratic state convention, the battle for the 49th, Working People’s Day of Action, 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:
Black History Month by Annie Lane
The Road to President
The Struggle for Black Sitcoms
Ruby Bridges
Annie Malone, Hair Care Magnate
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Arm the Teachers, Blame the Liberals Says Rep. Hunter + Progressive Activist Calendar | Feb. 23 – Mar. 5, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
A Spring of Student Protest Aimed at Gun Violence
Why Should I Be a Democrat? Part One: The 2018 State Convention Comes to San Diego
Competition for Rep. Duncan Hunter’s Seat Gets Down and Dirty
Survey Says: Flipping the 49th Won’t Be Easy
Keeping the Stupid in Politics, San Diego Style
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Working People’s Day of Action: February 24 from 3:30-5 p.m. at Convention Center Park
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Whirling
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Trump the Media Magnet
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: February 11-17
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Melt the Guns – XTC
Parkland, Florida High School Student Emma Gonzalez at Rally After Mass Shooting Calls BS
‘Our Community Just Took 17 Bullets to the Heart’
In America, Must Job Descriptions for Teachers Now Include How to Handle Mass Murder?
Parkland Survivor Sam Zeif: We Are Going To Win This Fight
Which Is Easier to Sell, a Couch Dance or an AR-15? Hmmm.
Parkland, Florida Students Sing a Defiant Response to the Recent Mass Shooting
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Mexican Post Card: Goin’ to the Dogs
By Nat Krieger
How Republicans Stole the Second Amendment
By Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza / Daily Kos
Standards-Based Education Reform is Toxic
By Thomas Ultican
‘Teresa Gets a Boyfriend’ at Saville Theatre
By Anna Daniels
White House Listening Session on School Shootings: ‘Just make it stop! We should have fixed it!’
By Anna Daniels
The NRA’s Dana Loesch and Marco Rubio: Genuine ‘Insane Monsters’
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos