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: Trump’s upcoming visit, Women’s Herstory Month, Dem desmadre in the 49th, Tuck’s dirty secret, responding rapidly to ICE, SD area legislators leading on environmental justice, 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:
Trump’s Border Wall Visit
UPDATED: Trump’s Visiting San Diego on Tuesday: How Will Activists Respond?
County Announces Restrictions for Border Protests During Trump’s Visit
Progressive Groups Hope to Fund Digital Billboard at Border Crossing for Trump Visit
Women’s History Month
West Virginia Teachers Show Why Unions Matter
By Anna Daniels
The 8 Women on U.S. Currency
By Melissa Jones / Women’s Museum of California
Why Did Rosie Wear a Bandana?
By Ellison Langford / Women’s Museum of California
5 Japanese-American Women Activists Left Out of U.S. History Books
By Nina Wallace / Yes! Magazine
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Black Women, Anti-Trump, & Student Protests! Progressive Activist Calendar March 9-19, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Debate Dodging and Disappointed Democrats in the 49th Congressional District
Carl DeMaio Expected to Parachute in to ‘Save’ the 50th Congressional District from Rep. Hunter
Attorney General Sessions Swoops into Sacramento to Denounce ‘Lawless Open Borders Radicals’
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Marshall Tuck’s Dirty Secret: How Right-Wing Money Infiltrates Democratic Politics
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Land’s End
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Uncle Sam’s Hand Off
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Feb 25-Mar 3
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Trump’s Brand is Ayn Rand
Civil Rights Leader Who Desegregated U. of Georgia Reflects on Student-Led Movements of Today
New Generation Joins Barrio Logan’s Long Fight
Why The Rich Love Destroying Unions (‘Janus v. AFSCME’ case edition)
International Women’s Day 2018 : The Time Is Now
How International Women’s Day was celebrated around the world
From Madagascar, the Valiha, a Sort of Bamboo Zither
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
By Michael Bader / Alternet
San Diego’s Rapid Response to ICE
By Peter Zschiesche
The Time Has Come to End Old-Growth Logging in our National Forests
By Peter Brownell / Medium
Readers Write: San Diego Legislators Lead the State on Environmental Justice
By Ana Reynoso / Environmental Health Coalition
Rent Control in California: Seven Myths and Seven Solutions for Protecting Tenants
By Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi / UrbDeZine
ACLU Files Amicus Brief Supporting Civil Rights of Man Ticketed For Allegedly Living in His Truck
Edward Sifuentes / ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
The Awful Plight of Washington D.C. Schools Reveals the Failure of Portfolio-Style Reform
By Thomas Ultican / Ultican