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 Our Children, immigration policy, the winners and loser of the June Primary, internment camps, community-based block program, 1968, school choice failure, 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:
Commemorating 1968
The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius | 1968
Micaela Shafer Porte
Leaving the Induction Center | 1968
By Douglas Rawlings
Number 7 | 1968
By Douglas Rawlings
Dazed and Confused in Ocean Beach | 1968
By Doug Porter
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Immigration Protests: The Whole World is Watching | Progressive Activist Calendar June 22-July 2, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policies Provoke Protests on the Left, Misinformation on the Right
Student, Farmworker Visas to Be Targeted as Administration Looks to Double Down on Immigration
San Diego’s June Primary: Winners, Losers, Winners Who Lost, and a Flip Flopping DA
San Diego Protests Are Still On: Trump’s Immigration Action Just Makes Things Worse
Immigrants as Hostages: The GOP’s Midterm Election Strategy
Navy Proposes to Build Trump Internment Camp at Camp Pendleton
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #1: Scattering Ashes
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
My Heroes in Matters of Diversity; A Shout Out to Community-Based Block Program
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Syntagma Square
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: June 10-16
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Rep. Beto O´Rourke Prepares to Visit the First ‘Tent Facility’ for the Overflow of Unaccompanied Minors
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
Elijah Cummings Rips Republicans For Allowing Trump’s Child Internment Camps
Mom Separated From Son: We’re ‘Trying To Save Our Lives’
Migrant Kids Update: Trump Fixed It! (Snark Alert)
Muro (The Wall)
The ‘Fundamental Decency’ of Japanese Internment
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Immigrant Rights Advocates Mark Father’s Day with Vigils & Visits at Detention Centers
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams
McClellan-Palomar Airport Expansion: An Independent Analysis?
By Raymond Bender
After Tax Cuts for Richest, House GOP Unveils $5.4 Trillion Attack on Nation’s Safety Net
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
‘Tender Age Facilities’ the Most Grotesque Orwellian Doublespeak of All
By Anna Daniels
Philadelphia Story: Another School Choice Failure
By Thomas Ultican
‘Immigrant Orphans’? No Plan to Return over 2,300 Children to their Parents
By Anna Daniels
Behind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremacy
By Ian MacDougall / ProPublica
Photo Galleries: A Weekend of #KeepFamiliesTogether Demonstrations Throughout San Diego County
By Doug Porter