Looking Back at the Week: June 3-9

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 2018 Primary Election results, racial harmony, Claudio Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, The Madres, SDG&E’s pipeline, 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
Elections Are Just One Small Part of Activism | Progressive Activist Calendar June 8-18, 2018

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Vote for Small “D” Democrats on June 5
Now That You’ve Voted in the 2018 California Primary… (You did vote, right?)
2018 San Diego Primary Election Results & Analysis
Think the Primaries Were Tough? Get Ready for the General Election.

Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
A Few Last-Minute Reminders for the Procrastinating Progressive Voter

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Dreaming of Racial Harmony

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Harvest

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, Presente

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: May 27-June 2

Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Simple Song #3 ● David Lang ● from Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’
“Don’t Treat Us Like Animals:” Outrage Builds After Border Agent Kills Indigenous Guatemalan Woman
Senator Describes Immigrants Held In Cages ‘Like Dog Kennels’
In Narrow Ruling, Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Refused Cake to Same-Sex Couple
Missing Migrant Children Update, June 6, 2018
Blue Whale Mom and Calf Playing with Bottlenose Dolphin
Wake Up (Rage Against the Machine Cover)

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Why I Can’t Support Summer Stephan for County DA (and why we need Genevieve Jones-Wright)
By Timothy Holmberg

Happy Birthday to Us
By Staff

Dear Betsy DeVos, I Will *Never* Report My Students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement
By Steven Singer / Common Dreams

Bonnie Dumanis: Will She Fool San Diego Again?
By Timothy P. Holmberg

Where Do I Vote in San Diego? Last Minute June 5, 2018 Primary Election Voting Info
By Anna Daniels

A Vote for Summer Stephan and Sheriff Bill Gore Is an Endorsement of Police Brutality
By R. Zamora / La Voz Es Fuerza

Moxie Theatre’s ’The Madres’: The Women’s “Performance” during the Dirty War
By Yuko Kurahashi

The Del Mar Fair: A Photographic Look
By Michael-Leonard Creditor / Flexible Fotography

SDG&E’s Proposed Pipeline at Odds with San Diego’s Climate Action Plan
By Colleen Cochran

Anthony Bourdain—’As Honest and Fearless in His Words as He Was in His Travels’
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

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Brent E. Beltrán is a third generation pocho and second generation San Diegan that lives next door to Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. He's married to his warrior healer wife Olympia and is the proud father of a youngling name Sandino. Brent is a member of the SDFP Editorial Board, occasionally writes the column Desde la Logan and posts Looking Back at the Week every Sunday morning. He can be contacted at desdelalogan@gmail.com and through his Twitter account @DesdeLaLogan.