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, voting, Issa rallies ending, CD6, failure at San Diego County jail, Priscilla Yañez, the last days in Ocean Beach, 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:
Eleanor’s Gift
By Gail Shatsky
Game Night
By Fran Finley
Joy to the Fishes
By Steve Kowit
Beth
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Have You Decided How to Vote Yet? Want Help? | Progressive Activist Calendar April 27-May 7, 2108
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Historic Rallies at Rep. Issa’s Offices to End This Week: A Retrospective
When We Vote, We Win. Will We Vote in San Diego?
Cate vs. Hough June Contest Will Repeat in November | San Diego City Council District 6 Snapshot
Another Fail for San Diego County Jail
Under The Perfect Sun by Jennifer Cost
Last Days in Ocean Beach: Reckoning with the Anthropocene
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Putting My Love in Play
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Reflective Wave
Latinos in San Diego by Maria E. Garcia
Priscilla Yanez — Civil Service Worker or Spy?
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: April 15-21
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
On the Nature of Daylight – Max Richter
Supernova Women — Restorative Justice, Legal Weed and the California Cannabis Enterprise
About That Caravan in Mexico …
The Bookmobile – a StoryCorps True Story
Why Build a Lynching Memorial?
Jena Friedman: It’s Been a Rough Time for Men Lately
Romain Thiery – Requiem for Pianos
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
OB’s ‘Vote’ Human Chain Captured in Drone Images
By Staff
Uncle Sam Says ‘So Long, Suckers! I Quit!’
By Leonard Eiger / The Loose Nukes
A Rotten Peach Poisoning Atlanta Public Schools
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
A Forgotten Massacre in Baghdad
By Kilian Colin
The Savagery of One True Religion | Dear Ohio, Part 5
By Joni Halpern
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson Leaves People Nowhere to Go
By Tara Raghuveer / People’s Action Blog