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Looking Back at the Week: August 5-11

August 12, 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 SD Deplorables Jerry Sanders & Carl DeMaio, GOP ghouls going after legal immigrants, convention center expansion problems, AB 931, desert dinos, Glow’s Azalea Park murals, Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center gets their building, 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
Dumanis Gets Dumped by Deputy Sheriffs Association

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
San Diego’s Deplorables: Jerry Sanders & Carl DeMaio Want to Sell ‘Son of B’ to Voters
GOP Ghouls Ready to Go After Green Card Holders, Legal Immigrants Looking for Citizenship
August Elections: Organized Labor Wins Big in Missouri | Women Win Big Everywhere
UPDATED: No Deal! Says Council. Comic Con is Gone and Other Colossal City of San Diego Schemes Gone Wrong

Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #8: “Already Dead”: A Lunch Poem for Golden Hill

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Don’t Shoot: Thoughts on AB 931

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Dinosaurs in the Desert

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: July 29 – August 4

Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Amazing Red Lotus Sea, Nong Han Lake Udon Thani. (North East Thailand)
Sen. Kamala Harris’ Remarks on Identity Politics Given During Netroots Nation Address “Earth Will Be Annihilated”: On 73rd Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, a Warning Against Nuclear War
Richard Nixon resigns – August 8, 1974
Crashing Sean Spicer’s Book Tour, or Trolling with Unicorns
Sharice Davids: Fighting for Progress
Claire de Lune x 2 : NASA and Kamasi Washington
10 Ways to Fight Hate – a Southern Poverty Law Center Response to the “Unite the Right” Rally

 

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

Hibakusha and Hope in the Nuclear Age
By Robert Dodge / Common Dreams

Can We White People Be ‘Woke’ to Our Privilege? If So, How and Why Should We?
By Anne Haule

Azalea Park Murals offer a Mini-Survey of Gloria ‘Glow’ Muriel’s Work, Part I
By George Howell

Azalea Park Murals Offer a Mini-Survey of Gloria ‘Glow’ Muriel’s Work, Part II
By George Howell

Some Street Scenes of Europe | A Photographic Look
By Michael-Leonard Creditor

The American Sequel to Nazi Germany is Coming Along Just Fine | Dear Ohio, Part 8
By Joni Halpern

Lived Experiences, Microaggressions, and Good Deeds in the Classroom | Readers Write
By Vanessa Torres

An Open Letter to the New FAA Administrator: Mr. Dan Elwell
By Raymond Bender

Estela de los Rios- An Advocate for Others
By Mimi Pollack

School Choice is a Bamboozle, a Hornswoggle, a Flimflam
By Thomas Ultican

SB 964 Will Require Largest U.S. Pensions to Report on Climate Risk
By Laura Sisk-Hackworth / SanDiego350

Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center: Victory for Barrio Logan, San Diego History, Culture
By Josie Talamantez

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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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