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
1968: A Year of Loss and Hope
By Ernie McCray
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Immigration Protests Continue Nationwide
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
The Civility Distraction: Sorry, We Can’t All Be Friends, Right Now.
Fear Mongering 101: MS-13 as the New ISIS
Day of Action – #StandWithMuslims in San Diego – Protest on Supreme Court Travel Ban Ruling
Travel Ban Ruling by the Supreme Court Gets a Passionate Response in San Diego
San Diego Unions Respond to Supreme Court Ruling; New Strategies, More Activism
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #2: Learning to Be No One
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Simply for the Children’s Sake
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Caring for a Dropped Flag
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
The Bible Says …
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: June 17-23
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Spinal Tap – ‘Stonehenge’
MJ Hegar for Texas – Doors
Entertainment Explosion! and a Lesson From Op-Ed – The Break with Michelle Wolf
How Progressives Win: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Her Win And ‘The Start Of A Movement’
Cory Booker Warns of POTUS Conflict of Interest in Selecting Supreme Court Justice
Summertime – Big Brother & The Holding Company, ft. Janis Joplin
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Otay Mesa Detention Center – Chant and Response: “We are with you. We hear you. We will not forget you.”
By Kathy Stadler
Text of Senator Kamala Harris’ Speech Outside Core Civic Otay Mesa Detention Center
By Senator Kamala Harris
Utilities Commission Rejects San Diego Gas & Electric’s Pipeline
By Colleen Cochran / The OB Rag
Lemon Grove Oral History Project: Lemon Grove Incident
By John Valdez / Lemon Grove Oral History Project
Lost in Pursuit of the American Dream | Dear Ohio
By Joni Halpern
San Diego Needs a Citizen Commission on Refugee and Immigrant Affairs
By Rebecca Paida
Immigration and Family Separation: 9 Facts vs. Fiction
By Michelle Martin, PhD Cal State Fullerton
History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools
By Thomas Ultican
Supreme Court’s Janus Decision: Anti-worker Billionaires Win Big
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Authoritarianism Thrives on Demoralization: How to Fight Trump and Stay Psychologically Healthy
By ZawnVillines / Daily Kos
Janus v. Black Families
By Kyra R. Greene
No SCOTUS Appointment while Trump under Criminal Investigation
By Anna Daniels
Annapolis Newsroom Massacre: “Toxic Masculinity” Mixed With Guns. Again
By John Queally / Common Dreams
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