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 locally sourced writers on Chicano Park under attack, tax reform, the 2018 District Attorney election, San Diego marching against hate, Duncan Hunter’s asshole, Hurricane Harvey, the war on reality, Chicana Tributes, Democracy vs Dictatorship, short term vacation rentals, the Miramar Air Show, 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: August 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, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on Antifa boogeymen, Pillars of the Community, La Vuelta, Umbra, mayor’s secret police chief panel, library privatization in Esco, displaying patriotism, solar power to the people, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
La Vuelta Car Cruise End of Summer Cultural Festival to Highlight El Barrio
Logan Avenue Consortium Doing Good Work on the Avenue
Change is coming to Barrio Logan. Some of it good, and some of it bad. But what hasn’t changed is this working class community’s cultural ethos rooted in its history.
Hipster galleries may have opened selling thousand-dollar bongs and tours of the neighborhood, but there are still people and organizations doing solid work trying to keep barrio culture alive. Groups like the Logan Avenue Consortium (LAC).
The LAC promotes Barrio Art Crawl and organizes the bi-weekly summertime La Vuelta Car Cruise that has been a hit among the lowrider set. They also support each member’s endeavors from the weekly Latin Jazz Jam to the Logan Avenue Flea Market to the various events that take place at many of the different cultural spaces along Logan Avenue. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: August 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, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on white supremacy, nazis in Chicano Park?, Confederates in the White House, Kasatka, California hating, what happens after Charlottsville, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
What Would You Do If White Supremacists Tried to Hold a Rally in Chicano Park?
Community Activists Respond to a Very Real Hypothetical
Barrio Logan’s national landmark, Chicano Park, is sacred space to the multitude of people that visit every year. It is the epicenter of Chicanx art and culture in San Diego and “el ombligo de Aztlán” as poetic wordmaestro alurista once wrote.
After the white supremacist terror in Charlottesville, Virginia I thought about what I would do if nazis and white supremacists decided to hold a rally in Chicano Park, steps away from my home. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: August 6-12
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 locally sourced writers on: terror and white supremacy in Charlottesville, SB17, Tricky Dicky’s resignation, Not One Penny, Republican election shenanigans in 2020, district elections in Carlsbad, filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, two totally different school board meetings, 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: July 30-August 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, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on: SANDANG!, the white trash White House, sex and evangelicals, Juan Martin Sajche, Moses Williams, holding LE’s accountable, vapor beds, 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: July 23-29
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 locally sourced writers on: Republican failure and Obamacare living on, Reefer Madnes redux, presidential transphobia, crowdfunding for Snopes, Border Angels, SDFP’s six journo awards, labor solidarity, SANDAG’s climate change culpability, Dems vying to unseat Huncan Dunter, cleaner and cheaper community choice energy, 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: July 16-22
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 locally sourced writers on: preemptive pardons, Lies in America Week, Wreck and Run health care, the Del Mar Death Track, Junior Hunter’s troubles, Herbert Siguenza, resisting foreign intervention, 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: July 9-15
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 locally sourced writers on: wage theft in SD, TreasonCare, the Summer of Hate, videos worth watching, community choice energy, Trump’s Baja fiasco, Rediscovering Japan, 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: July 2-8
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 locally sourced writers on: Proud Boys disruption of Impeachment Rally, voter suppression commission, the end of public education, Barrio Logan’s community garden, losing the spirit of the revolution, 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: June 25-July 1
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 locally sourced writers on: Trumpcare protests, the closing of Suzie’s Farm, the persistence of Indivisible SD, Trump’s latest tantrums, the end of public education, Puerto Rico, Faulconer needing to resign, chipping away at the homeless problem, Depersonalized learning in City Schools, Dumanis targeting a cannabis lawyer, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
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