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 dirty primary campaigns, using and abusing police authority, a voter app for progressives, Alicia Muñoz and Rick Shea for CBOE, the history of San Diego’s coastal thirty foot height limit, 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:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Images of Obama and Filner Invoked as Primary Campaigns Get Down and Dirty
The Use and Abuse of Police Authority in San Diego
A Voter App for San Diego Progressives Now Available
Looking Back: Nathan Fletcher, Candidate for D4 Supervisor – Build a Coalition for Change
Looking Back: Omar Passons, D4 Supervisor Candidate – Policy Wonk With a Heart of Gold
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Re-Electing Alicia Munoz & Rick Shea to the San Diego County Board of Education Matters
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Editor Interrupted
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Reflecting on What Could Have Been
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Naked Moon
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
War Crimes
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: May 13-19
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Stems – a Stop-Action Animation
Google Employees Quit Over Military Drone Program – Project Maven
Is Natural Gas a Clean Alternative?
Stacey Abrams Makes History With Georgia Win
Abolish ICE
What Do You Get When You Mix Old-Style Russian Fascism and New Facebook-Style Technology?
Indigo Girls – Shame On You
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
A Net Neutrality Vote in the House of Representatives Needs a Push from You
By Ernesto Falcon / Common Dreams
A Photographic Look at Mosques and Synagogues During Ramadan and Shavuot
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
As Monsanto Glyphosate Case Moves to Trial, Man Dying of Cancer Gets Day in Court
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams
The History of San Diego’s 30 Foot Height Limit
By Frank Gormlie / The OBRag
ACLU Documents Show Widespread Abuse of Child Immigrants in U.S. Custody
By ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
San Diego Veterans for Peace Hometown Arlington West Memorial 2018
By Staff
Manly Fear
By Bob Dorn
The Time the German Football Club Didn’t Give Nazi Salute
By Anna Daniels