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 National Poetry Month, Council Districts 2 & 4, rotten County officials, Last Days in OB, Ernie turning 80, Yasser Murtaja, education fakers, 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:
National Poetry Month curated by Anna Daniels:
Fault Line Park
By Jeeni Criscenzo
Pillar of Delay / The Beauty is in the Making | National Poetry Month
By Sadé Graves
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Can We Have a Conversation About Capitalism Yet?
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy. And Realized I Should Start Paying for It.
Protests Set as County Supervisors Ready Endorsement of Trump’s War on Immigrants
Will District 2 Voters Give Republican Lorie Zapf a Third Term? San Diego City Council District 2 Snapshot
It’s Time to Clean House: San Diego’s Rotten to the Core (and Racist) Elected County Officials
Can Myrtle Cole Convince Voters She Really Cares? | San Diego City Council District 4 Snapshot
Under The Perfect Sun by Ian Duckles
A Review of ‘Last Days in Ocean Beach’ by Jim Miller; Coping With the End of the World As We Know It
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Still Loving After All These 80 Years
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Organic Spirituality | Geo-Poetic Spaces
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Palestinian Journalist Yasser Murtaja
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: April 8-14
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Despacito – Musical Chicken Version (Mr. Chicken)
Elizabeth Acevedo – ‘Beloved or If You Are Murdered Tomorrow’ – All Def Poetry
Rainbow Bridge – an ASL Poem About the Orlando Tragedy
The Art of Change: Feminism // A Prickly Subject
How Border Walls Disrupt Nature
Medicinal Cannabis For All – the #ReeferSanity Army Takes On Jeff Sessions!
Tammy Duckworth Makes Senate History (Again)!
Who Is This Latest Pulitzer Prize Winner, Kendrick Lamar?
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Vengeful Alabama to Kill 83-Year-Old Man
By Stephen Cooper
Activists Protest County Supervisors’ Anti-Immigrant Scheme
By Frank Gormlie
ACLU Criticizes Board of Supervisors’ Decision to Support the Trump Lawsuit Against California
By Edward Sifuentes / ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Fake Teachers, Fake Schools, Fake Administrators; Time to End the Charade
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
‘Community Hero’ Attorney Steve Binder and San Diego’s Homeless Court Program
By Karen Kenyon
Swimming with SeaWorld’s Captive Dolphins
By Nicole Hussey
Parkland Shooting Survivor David Hogg Says Follow the Money
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
A Photographer Looks at Pollution
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
Brent E. Beltrán
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