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 Migra madness, Biblical justifications, janitors striking back, racism in DC, midterm election thoughts, Sara Jacobs showing class, pounding the 49th, 1968, 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
Who Needs the Constitution? The Bible Tells Them So | Progressive Activist Calendar June 15-25, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
America, the UnBeautiful: Otay Mesa Protest, Border Patrol Harassment, & Children in Cages
Third Time’s the Charm for Cheesecake Factory Janitors’ Wage Claims
Pelosi to Visit San Diego as DC Ratchets Up the Racism
Rich People Follies: A Refund for Issa, the Billionaire Ballot Measure, and a Badass Convention Center
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Thoughts on the Midterms: Defeats for Big Money and Democrats’ November Hopes Somehow Survive
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
The Dressing of a Groom
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
La Llorona Cries Out
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: June 3-9
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Optimism – a Poem, Paper-Cut Animation and Cello
This Tiny Home Community In Oregon Is Bringing Shelter And Hope To The Homeless
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Students Perform At The 2018 Tony Awards
From the Ministry of Truth: Singapore Summit Video
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Mothers Didn’t Even Get To Say Bye To Kids
Trump Immigration Facility: ‘Effectively, These Kids Are Incarcerated’
Elemental
‘We Have No Idea When Or If Mother And Child Will Be Reunited’ | One of the Detention Facilities is Here in El Cajon
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
The More Things Change: Tulsa’s Race Massacre History Books Turned Into A Race “Riot”
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
49th District Congressional Candidate Sara Jacobs Shows Class With Concession Statement
By Sara Jacobs
What It Was Like Pounding Precincts in the 49th District for June’s ‘Jungle Primary’
By Mark R. Day
Are Public Schools in California’s Inglewood a Warning?
By Thomas Ultican
Where Were You in 1968? San Diego Free Press Invites Your Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary
By Anna Daniels
World Cup of Soccer 2018 + West Coast TV Schedule
By Micaela Shafer Porte
Rewriting the Culture War with Music: Diversionary Theatre’s ‘The Loneliest Girl in the World’
By Yuko Kurahashi
One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol Off a Greyhound Bus
By Mitra Ebadolahi, Border Litigation Project Staff Attorney / ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Immigrant Children’s Detention Center in Texas Displays Ominous Trump Mural
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams
Do Not Ever Question the Fuhrer’s Orders
By Stan Levin
Inner Thoughts of a Wanna Be Dictator
By Lauren Botuck
The Old Fascist
By Bob Dorn
My Family
By Cassandra Shafer
Our Fathers
By Karen Kenyon
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