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 white fright, smart activism, the state of hate, immigration activism, police accountability, Zimmerman’s fake cannabis statistics, STV’s, burdensome charter schools in SD, 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
Persist With Pride, Even Though the World is Crazy | Progressive Activist Calendar July 13 – 23, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Smart Activism: Not Every Protest Or Petition is Worthy of Your Time
The State of Hate in California – Three Consecutive Years of Double Digit Increases
Activist Actions in San Diego Keep Up the Pressure on Border Enforcement Issues
A Blight of White Fright Infects the United States
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 # 4: Getting Inside the Inexhaustibility
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Malcolm X and Police Accountability on My Mind
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Mydriasis
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: July 1-7
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Fitz and the Tantrums – A Place for Us
The Immigrants Deported to Death and Violence – The Backstory – The New Yorker
Can Trump Really Pardon Himself?
Watch Tearful Migrant Families Reunite After Weeks of Separation
What ‘No-Poach’ Rules Mean For Fast-Food Workers
Voices from Stonewall, the Riot that Sparked the Gay Rights Movement
A Bastille Day Salute with a Marat/Sade Medley ft. Judy Collins
Persisting With Pride – H.B.I.C.
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Ex-SDPD Chief Zimmerman’s Fake News on Marijuana Takes on a Life of Its Own
By Jessica Sutherland / Daily Kos
U.N. Breastfeeding Resolution Opposed by Trump Administration’s Corporate Shills
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams
Short Term Vacation Rentals: Discussion Continues on San Diego Mayor’s Flawed Plan
By Frank Gormlie
Summertime | A Photographic Look
By Michael-Leonard Creditor
Zapatista Food Forests | Seeds of Rebellion, Part I
By Nat Krieger
August 26, 2018: A National Day of Action Opposing Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams
SB 237 Threatens Community Choice Energy
By Laura Sisk-Hackworth
Rewriting Reality: My Edits to Pruitt’s Resignation Letter
By Colleen Cochran
The Coming Supreme Court’s Taint of Illegitimacy
By Bill Adams / UrbDeZine
The Burden of Charter Schools in San Diego County
By Thomas Ultican
Ocean Beach’s Future Likely to Be Decided on Monday, July 16
By Frank Gormlie