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 San Diego’s Deplorables, Jerry Cano, NRA’s cash problems, Proposition 6, lack of police oversight, Padres in Yuma, STVR vote, banning Styrofoam, unconscious bias and racism in National City, 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
Persistence Pays Off! The NRA’s Money Troubles
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
San Diego’s Deplorables: National City Councilman Jerry Cano
Why Does It Feel Like We’re Losing If There’s So Much Winning?
Proposition 6: Carl DeMaio’s Endless Initiatives Strategy, Part One
Truth and Justice in San Diego Takes Second Place in Quest for Police Oversight
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles 2018 #7: When the Padres Still Played Baseball in Yuma
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
A Forensic Poem
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Roy Rogers ~ Talking Walls
Robert Reich: We’re Living a Constitutional Crisis
How U.S. Involvement In Central America Led To a Border Crisis
Abolish ICE: Why We Need to Abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
The Privatization of Puerto Rico’s Public Schools Has Begun – Betsy DeVos Is On the Job
Asgardia: The Real Space Nation
You Gotta Believe In Something – Why Not Believe In Me?
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
The Right-Wing Firestorm Starting With the Smear of ACORN Rages On
By Peter Dreier
The Shape of the Human Heart | Readers Write
By Trevor Barton
Fast Food Chains Forced to End ‘No Poaching’ Policies, Others Under Investigation
By Peter Zschiesche
Out-of-Town Vacation Rental Owners Summoned for ‘Firestorm of Anger’ At City Council Meeting
By Frank Gormlie
QAnon Shock Troops Amplify Trump’s Lunacy
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
The Creeping Privatization of Public Libraries
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos
An Open Letter in Support of SB 1186 to Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher
By Shahid Buttar / Electronic Frontier Foundation
Will San Diego Become the Largest City in the State to Ban Styrofoam?
By Frank Gormlie
Destroying Public Education With Vouchers and Charters in Wisconsin
By Thomas Ultican
Responding to the Unconscious Bias and Racism at National City Council Meetings
By Mark Lane and Shane Parmely
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