Looking Back at the Week: July 15-21

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 resistance at Comic-Con, press freedom, UFCW members wanting their Local back, quislings, reporter going full riot, Pepe Villarino, STR’s getting regulated, a climate awareness mural at Southwestern, 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
Resistance at Comic-Con: Voting is a Superpower | Progressive Activist Calendar July 20 – 30, 2018

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Facebook, Fascism, Trolls, and Press Freedom in 2018
In the Wake of Yet Another Scandal, UFCW Local 135 Members Want Their Union Back
On Vidkum Quisling’s Birthday, Reflections on Defeating a Trump-Putin Alliance
Racism 101: White Lady Reporter Wants You to Know Black Lives Matter is Coming to National City to Riot

Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #5: Gentrifying Dystopia in Bombay Beach

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Building Trust With Police is Like Trying to Assemble a Jigsaw Puzzle
Who Does He Think He’s Fooling?

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Artificial Horizon

Latinos in San Diego by María E. García
Jose ‘Pepe’ Villarino: A Giver, Not a Taker

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: July 8-14

Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
San Diego Celebrates Pride 2018
Turning Kindergartners into Kinderguardians – Meet Puppy Pistol & Uzicorn
LGBTQ+ Activists Dress As Pride Flag at the World Cup in Russia
A Very Stable Genius – Randy Rainbow
‘The Denial Of Facts Runs Counter To Democracy’: Key Moments from Obama’s Mandela Lecture
These 16-Year-Olds Are Campaigning for the Right to Vote
‘Pa’lante’ – Hurray for the Riff Raff

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:

The Taboo on Talking Climate Change
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green

Southwest High School Students Create Climate Awareness Through Murals
By Michelle Roberts

27 Things You Need to Know About Mueller’s Latest Indictments
By James Dunlap / Facebook

Short-Term Rentals Get a Short Leash from San Diego’s City Council
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag

A Tiny Home Update: “The New American Dream” in Progress
By Orlando Barahona

Russian Spy Maria Butina, Donald Trump, the NRA, and Republican Politicians at All Levels
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos

The Invasion of North American GMO Corn and the Price of Resistance | Seeds of Rebellion, Part II
By Nat Krieger

60 House Democrats Launch Medicare for All Caucus
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.