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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Da Bonnie spinning the news, a sneak peek at 2016 races, why the City Attorney matters (Goldsmith!), the most under reported story of the year, Hillary hispandering, the most hated man in America, props for the Freeps 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, Dec 20-26
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: progressive activism in 2015, the meaning of Trump, books for stocking stuffers, toons by Junco, the end of prohibition in Chula Vista, insight into Friendship Park, a mission to Mission Valley, different takes on the holiday season, 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: Dec 13-19
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SD’s Climate Action Plan, the return of hate towards Central American refugees, fear and loathing for the holidays, HUD burro-crats, Trabajadores de la Raza, Caruso’s lagoon mall, satirizing new laws by Republicants, the Tuna Boat House, a Force filled family, 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: Nov 29-Dec 5
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Kersey ‘fixing’ San Diego, that audacious hater Trump, police reform, assholery in the Escondido School Board, saying no to hate and welcoming refugees, ‘those people’, making a killing, a moment of silence, the San Ysidro Blues, Dr. West’s visit, La Lupe, solar’s fake friend, the oldest refugee crisis 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: Nov 29-Dec 5
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: American terror in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino, SD’s Climate Action Plan, nailing Monsanto, Hitler’s ‘stache, livin’ la vida Logan, OB activism, disturbed Piyon-Juniper forests, the Homeland, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: Livin’ La Vida Logan
Barrio Logan is one of the oldest neighborhoods in San Diego. It used to be one whole community called Logan Heights, named after congressman John A. Logan, but the creation of the Interstate 5 freeway that bisected the neighborhood changed that. Then the building of the San Diego–Coronado Bridge changed it again. Thousands were displaced from building the freeway and the bridge. Now Barrio Logan encompasses a relatively small patch of land sandwiched between the San Diego Bay and the I-5 freeway and north of National City and south of San Diego’s East Village.
Fewer than 5,000 people inhabit my barrio. Thousands more come during the day to work here in the shipyards, the Port of San Diego and the other companies that line the bay side of Barrio Logan. Of those 5,000 barrio denizens about 85% of them are non-white, most of which are of Mexican descent. But things are changing. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: November 22-28
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Anti-Muslim bigotry in SD, BLM on Black Friday, New Dems tired third way, Sprague rocking Dizzy’s, security patrols in OB, Sea World’s doomed hotel idea, Jerry Brown at the Climate Change Conference, 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: November 15-21
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: wargasms, Hillary holding her own, Carson’s terrorist recruiting campaign stopping in SD, The Citizens’ Plan, Peters voting with fear, suicide of the white working class, SD’s hidden homeless, Jesse Ramirez, the little people of Carlsbad, extreme weather, hawkish Hillary, renaming Robert E. Lee 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: November 8-14
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Mizzou’s stand, anti-Starbucks stupidity, deadly force in SD, just saying no to SANDAG, #MillionStudentMarch, the fight for more than $15, a greedy capitalist, BikeSD’s advocacy, 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: November 1-7
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 fall of Haggen, the end of Keystone XL, Prop 47 fear mongering, the fight for $15, surviving sudden poverty, Big Brother coming to OB, border life, no justice for Anastasio Hernández Rojas, 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: Oct 25-31
By Brent E. Beltrán
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: Gretchen Newsom diving into the mayoral race, modern day racism, marijuana & taxes in 2016, inequality in higher ed, Tom Hom, Chicano Park improvements, Barrio Logan style resistance in prose, local jazz, dia de los muertos, Palestine reflections II, BikeSD, a sleeping seaside village’s awakening and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Excerpt From Sunshine/Noir II: The Rock – Resistance Barrio Logan Style
By Brent E. Beltran
Juanito held the rock firmly in his hand—almost too firmly, as his knuckles turned white from the pressure. He stood there shaking, and tears slowly fell from his reddened eyes. A wheezy cough escaped his tight lungs as the eleven-year-old stood on Harbor Drive facing the towering cranes that loomed over this toxic barrio. Every breath he took was a challenge. The setting sun cast a powerful glow of purples and oranges across the radiant, polluted sky.
He had grown up on these neglected streets, a Barrio Logan native in more ways than one. He stood there with rock in hand as semi trucks rumbled past, hauling bananas picked by people that looked just like him. The vehicles added more pollutants into the atmosphere as they traveled to various points north and east. That rock, smooth from centuries of ocean water beatdowns, weighed heavy in his trembling hand. [Read more…]
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