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: the March for Our Lives, criminal justice reform, dirt digging on Duncan, DA contest going national, La Mesa’s Climate Action Plan, Bill Horn’s Palomar Airport issues, From Where We Sail, 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
County Supes Set to Join Trump’s War on Brown People | Progressive Activist Calendar March 30 – April 9, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
In the Wake of the March for Our Lives, Let’s Talk About Criminal Justice Reform in San Diego
Digging Up Dirt in Duncan Hunter-Land | Election Snapshot for the 50th Congressional District
Snapshots of Congressional Districts 51, 52, and 53 | Three Incumbent Democrats With Safe Seats
With a Big Endorsement, District Attorney Contest Gets National Attention
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
If the Democrats Want a Wave Election, Don’t Sell Out Main Street in Favor of Moneyed Interests
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Shedding Tears of Hope and Joy As Children Make America Great
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Resurrection
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Deportation and Incarceration
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: March 18-24
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
D.C. choir sings with Jennifer Hudson, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ at March For Our Lives Rally
Eleven year-old student Naomi Wadler speaks at March For Our Lives Rally
Linda Brown Recalls Her Role in the Historic ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ Case
Activist Dolores Huerta and Carlos Santana Have a Decades-Long Relationship
How the NRA Hijacks Gun Control Debates
Puerto Rico’s ‘Taller Salud’ FEMAle Led Disaster Recovery Project
Maimouna Youssef, Ft. Daniel March – ‘Stardust’
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
La Mesa City Council Adopts Strong Climate Action Plan
By Angela Deegan / SanDiego350
Battling the Death Penalty with James Baldwin
By Stephen Cooper
2020 Census Citizenship Question Amounts to a ‘Sabotage’ of Democracy
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
Supervisor Bill Horn’s McClellan-Palomar Airport Retaining Wall: $12 Million for 60 Feet?
By Raymond Bender
Indiana’s Destroy-Public-Education Leader is Going National (Again)
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
Let’s Bring Back Dueling
By Bob Dorn
Privatizing the Veterans Administration: A Key Part of the Trump Agenda
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
‘From Where We Sail’: Six and a Half Years Navigating Three Oceans and the Human Heart
By Anna Daniels
Daphne’s Dilemma
By Karen Kenyon
Brent E. Beltrán
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