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Looking Back at the Week: August 12-18

August 19, 2018 by Brent E. Beltrán

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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 freedom of the press, Prop 13, local GOP losing, stopping Trump’s SCOTUS pick, Judge Roy Cazares, SD’s shattered establishment, thhe Queen of Soul, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.

 

Editorial Statement: Who Is the Enemy of the People?
By SDFP Editorial Board

 

San Diego Free Press Columns:

Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Stop Trump’s Supreme Court Choice! #UniteforJustice

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Convention Center, County Voting Initiatives Bode Poorly for Local GOP Leaders
Freedom of the Press, It’s Not Just for Newspapers Anymore
Despite Claims by Reform Opponents, Nobody Is Trying to Repeal Proposition 13 in 2020

Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #9: The Music of the Street

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Elderly Reflections on a Melancholy Day

Latinos in San Diego by María E. García
Judge Roy Cazares: From Shelltown to the Bench (With a Stopover at Harvard)

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Southern Cross

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: August 5-11

Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Salsa Celtica: El Sol De La Noche, Live at Helsinki Festival
Why Homeless Advocates Opposed the Convention Center Ballot Measure
Robert Reich: 10 Steps To Finding Common Ground
CPI Executive Director Kyra Greene Blasts the County Board of Supervisors for ‘Shamefully Discriminatory Jim Crow Practices’
Today is the Anniversary of Nixon’s Confidential Enemies List Memorandum
Walking the Talk – Parkland Students Take to the Road to Change the Nation’s Response to Gun Violence
The World Mourns the Loss of the Queen of Soul, R.I.P. Aretha

 

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

Immigrant Families, Food, and Stalking a Border Town Greyhound Bus Station
By Mimi Pollack

Ugly Teachers’ Union Smear from State Policy Network
By Thomas Ultican

After the Day San Diego’s Establishment Shattered; Lessons to Be Learned and a Way Forward
By Cory Briggs 

Group Asks District Attorney Stephan to Recuse Her Office from Investigation into Earl McNeil’s Death
By San Diegans for Criminal Justice Reform

Democrats Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
By Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos

Rapist Brock Turner’s Appeal Denied, Victim’s Statement Still Speaks Powerful Truth About Sexual Assault
By Annie Lane

Aretha Franklin: the ‘Voice that Shook the Heavens’, the Woman Who Shook our Souls
By Anna Daniels

‘Brown’s Last Chance’ Could Be Our Last Chance To Avert Climate Change Apocalypse
By Stephanie Corkran / SanDiego350

Don’t Get Distracted: 565 Immigrant Children Are Still Held by U.S. Authorities
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

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Brent E. Beltrán

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.
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