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 the confirmation of Kavanaugh, mail in ballots, the Occupy SD troll, Dems gaining in the Assembly, the local Republican congressional pity party, the importance of Tom Thurmond, Carlsbad’s crossroad, poli-trick-ians Summer Stephans and Myrtle Cole, 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
Ballots Drop Tuesday: Do You Have a Plan to Vote? | Progressive Activist Calendar October 5 -15, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Democrats Challenge Republican Incumbents for Two of San Diego’s State Senate Seats
UPDATED: Maienschein Loses Equality Endorsement – Democrats See Gains in 2018 San Diego Assembly Races
‘Occupy San Diego’ Facebook Page Occupied by Troll
Republicans Harkey and Hunter Run on Pity Platform | San Diego’s Congressional Contests
2018’s Bottom of the Political Barrel: Three Candidates You Should Avoid Voting For
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Why Electing Tony Thurmond as Superintendent of Public Instruction is the Most Important Race in California
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Mowing My Mother’s Lawn
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: September 23-29
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (Live At Woodstock 1969)
The Fearless Revolutionaries Who Made Voting Possible
Willie Nelson – Vote ‘Em Out (Texas – Rally for Beto)
Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women—It’s a Men’s Issue
The Political Power Of Women’s Anger – Rebecca Traister
Trump Administration Sends 1,600 Kids to Texas Tent City as Number of Detained Children Hits Record High
Presumed Innocent … But Locked in Cages Nonetheless
Blues For A Warm Planet [Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite]
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Immigrant Children Carted Off in the Dead of Night to Trump’s Texas Tent Camp
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
A Tale of Two Properties – Carlsbad at a Crossroads
By Socrates Kanetakis
Re-Branded NAFTA: Yes to Big Oil, No to Consumer, Health, Safety and Environmental Protections
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams
Trump Mocks Kavanaugh Accuser; Republican Crowd Chants “Lock Her Up”
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
I’ve Been Seeing Ghosts Lately | Dear Ohio, Part 10
By Joni Halpern
A Texas-Sized Destroy Public Education IDEA
By Thomas Ultican
Poli-trick-ians Like Summer Stephan and Myrtle Cole Have Got to Go
By Geneviéve Jones-Wright
Kavanaugh Confirmation: White House Whitewashed FBI Report Gives Cover to Swing Republican Senators
By Frank Gormlie
We Need to Talk About Masculinity
By Jill Richardson / OtherWords
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