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Looking Back at the Week: October 14-20

October 21, 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, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on caring enough to vote, judges, Measure YY, threatful Huncan Dunter, Dorn’s reporting life, Europe’s “failing” healthcare system, 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:

Don’t forget to vote!
San Diego Progressive Voter Guide, November 2018

Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Tell the Whole World You Care Enough to Vote | Progressive Activist Calendar October 19 – 29, 2018

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
UPDATED With Suggestions | An Explainer on Electing Judges in California
The How and Why of Measure YY, the San Diego Unified School District Bond Ask
The Duncan Hunter(s) and Various Other Threats to Our National Security
California Politics | Odious Prop 8 Money, Questionable Prop 6 Polling, and a Nasty Ad for Marshall Tuck

Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Two City Works Press Books Explore San Diego’s Impact on the Psyche | Release Reading at Tiger! Tiger!

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
I Keep Thinking of Christine

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Encountering Idols At LAX (KPOP’S NCT 127)

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: October 7-13

My Reporter’s Life by Bob Dorn
Pain and Suffering at the SDPD
Some Big Developments
The Ups and The Downs

Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Tyger – Guilherme Marcondes
German ‘Indivisible’ Movement Draws 240,000 to Berlin Rally
The ‘March for Our Lives’ Parkland Students Collaborate with Artists Sage, Kesha and Chika to Create a Powerful Video on the Issue of Gun Violence
Iconic ‘Black Power’ Salute at Olympics Marks 50th Anniversary
This Is What Voter Suppression Looks Like
‘Duncan Hunter Jr. Is a Coward’
Canned Heat – Election Blues

 

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

Trump on 60 Minutes: “I’m President and You’re Not”
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos

How the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time
By Jeff Bryant / Campaign for America’s Future

A Letter to Duncan Hunter from an Aspirationally Corrupt Admirer
By Brett Warnke

Longtime I.B. Resident Supports Paloma Aguirre for City Council | 2018 Candidate Profiles | Readers Write
By Drew Douglas

Fanita Ranch Development Opposed by Santee City Council District 1 Candidate
By Colleen Cochran 

An American Traveler’s Experience with Europe’s ‘Failing Healthcare System’
By Karin Brennan

Homelessness Can’t Be Solved with Fines and Arrests
By John Tharp & Maria Foscarinis / OtherWords 

Trump and Saudis Conspire to Cover Up Murder of Washington Post Journalist
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos

Trump Cheers Assault on Journalist as Republicans Smear Murdered Washington Post Columnist
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos

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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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