This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SB 32, Trump trying to go black, the upcoming propositions, taco trucks on every corner, love in the anthropocene, Colin Kaepernick, drugs, the plastic bag battle, free classes in SD, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Aug 21-27
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: dead thoroughbreds, the death of an OB Torrey Pine, a sneak peak at November’s ballot, Trump’s cockroach army, the need to pass Prop 55, dreaming alone, Gateway Inn charged, Inez, Milholland, SeaWorld disturbing the peace, Spanos hating on the homeless, Darrell’s BS, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Aug 14-20
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: homelessness, judging the judges, hot July, an alternative vision for the East Village, SD Vets protest air show, what depression feels like, knowing your rights during disasters, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
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Looking Back at the Week: Aug 7-13
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: what many people are saying, Da Bonnie subpoenaed, GOP doom and gloom, Ellis dropping out, Barrios Against Stadiums, the local abortion fight, electing Dems, Midge Costanza, adjuncts, money in Carlsbad, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
San Diego Chargers Stadium: Q&A with Barrios Against Stadiums
“Our backyard has historically been neglected. People can call BASTA! NIMBY as much as they want but our backyard is full. Start storing stuff in yours.”
Interview by Jeffrey Siniard / Bolts From The Blue
Bolts From The Blue blogger Jeffrey Siniard reached out to interview SDFP columnist/editor Brent Beltrán to discuss why Barrios Against Stadiums, which he is a part of, opposes a stadium in the East Village. We reprint the interview here in it’s entirety with photos added from a protest against the Chargers stadium held on July 15 in Barrio Logan. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: July 31-Aug 6
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Trump’s rough week, marijuana edible madness, Chicano Park Museum fundraiser, dismantled rock art in OB, San Onofre’s whistleblower, Moxie and Cygnet’s latest, better land use in NC, walking amongst ancestorsand lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center Coming to Barrio Logan
Community Fundraiser Set for August 13 at Bread & Salt
The Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center is coming to Barrio Logan next door to Chicano Park. The City and museum have yet to sign a lease over the property that for years held the Cesar Chavez Continuing Education Center. But it will happen.
Activists involved with the Chicano Park Steering Committee created the nonprofit Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. Board members include…
Chicano Park co-founder and lifelong CPSC member Josie Talamantez, who wrote the proposal to place Chicano Park’s Monumental Murals on the National Registry of Historic Sites and recently presented in Washington, DC before the National Landmark review committee (her proposal passed unanimously), is leading the charge to make the museum happen. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: July 24-30
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: whether Trump will arrest Clinton if elected, doing whatever it takes, Fiesta Island’s future, love and meritocracy, Chicana pioneer Andrea Skorepa retiring, storm clouds over Illa Del, healthy communities in National City, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: July 17-23
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SDFP winning a bucketful of SPJ awards, the Repug convention, exposing hate in America, Pride 2016, the BLM march, keeping Fiesta Island wild, SD’s plastic bag ban, power and direct action, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: July 10-16
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: protest and racism, Dems kind of uniting, the City Attorney being a jerk, B.A.STA!, gun sales rising, the new pedestrian crossing at the San Ysidro port of entry, the LeGerrette’s, the Convadium, turf wars at school, BLM, bomba founders moving away, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
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Barrios Against STAdiums! to Protest Chargers Pro-Stadium Speakers
On Friday, July 15 from 11:30am to 1pm the San Diego Chargers will be bringing their pro-East Village stadium campaign to Barrio Logan for the Family Health Center’s Spirit of the Barrio luncheon. B.A.STA!, Barrios Against STAdiums!, will be outside the event holding a silent protest with signs and banners opposing the Chargers efforts to build a stadium one block from Barrio Logan. A press conference will also take place. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: July 3-9
By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: the killer of homeless people, police killings in Louisiana & Minnesota, police deaths in Dallas – a horrible, horrible week – helping homeless during the All-Star game, Carlsbad, putting lipstick on the convadium pig, taking a trip to Baja, Surfrider’s half ton trash cleanup, failing deported veterans and lots of other inspiring (and, like this week, sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
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