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, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on Labor Day, #RiseForClimate, Kavanaugh hearings, Obama, extended detention for refugee children, polluted steel mills, reflections on 1968, the sins of Lorie Zapf, high SDG&E bills, 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
People Worldwide Will #RiseforClimate This Weekend | Progressive Activist Calendar September 7 -17, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Lousy Labor Day News Coverage, Kavanaugh, Bail Bonds, and Kaepernick | Short Takes
Democratic Senators Throw a Wrench in Kavanaugh’s Sure Thing Nomination Process
49th District Candidate Mike Levin’s Candidacy Getting a Boost from ex-President Obama
As Immigrant Children Contemplate Suicide, Trump Administration Moves to Extend Detentions
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Lessons for Labor Day 2018: Solidarity Works!
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
With Labored Breath: The Polluted Legacy of the Steel Mills
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Stonewall Jackson’s Arm
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
The Pollution Payout
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: August 26-September 1
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
If You Ever Got Impeached – a Randy Rainbow Parody
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Delivery’ from the Stephen Schwartz Musical ‘Working’ based on the Writing of Studs Terkel
Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer
Update on Prison Strike Demanding End of “Slave Labor”: After 10 Days, Protests Spread to 11 States
Deep Dark Secrets – Opening Statement by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on the Kavanaugh Hearings
Corporate Landlords: The Fight for Affordable Housing in California
We Know He Wants to Overturn Roe – Rebecca Traister on Kavanaugh Hearings
Skin Deep – featuring Buddy Guy
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill
By Katharine Trendacosta / Electronic Frontier Foundation
September 8 Global Mobilization Demands ‘Fast and Fair Transition to 100% Renewable Energy for All’
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
Iraq Should be a Much Bigger Part of McCain’s Legacy Than His ‘Civility’
By Peter Certo / OtherWords
‘I Have a Dream’ at the San Diego-Mexico Border and Reflections on 1968
By Rev. Richard Lawrence
Miramar Airshow Sells War: Just Don’t Go!
By Gil Field / San Diego Veterans for Peace
The Racist Stain of Trump’s Presidency
By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
The Deafening Drumbeat of the Unfree
By Stephen Cooper
The Sins of Councilwoman Lorie Zapf – Part 2
By Frank Gormlie
Torlakson’s California Charter Law ‘Action Team’ Has a Troubling Tilt
By Thomas Ultican
San Diego Families Hit By Outrageous SDG&E Bills
By San Diego Community Choice Alliance
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