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: six months of the Kasparian scandal, threats to democracy, the port trucker strike, pathetic Issa, stopping Trumpcare, not waiting on homelessness, PTSD, Watergate 45 years later, 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 11-17
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: stopping Trumpcare, RepubliMath, fear and loathing in America, BigPharma, Carlsbad cronyism, 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 4-10
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’s 5th anniversary, Special Election Showdown, the Comey Hearing, our vindictive mayor, The Revolutionists, 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: May 28-June 3
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: Prop 47’s non-crime wave, Issa’s probs, March for Truth, divided local labor, Trump Zone, Memorial Day, 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: May 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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: the California Democratic Convention, targeting Hunter, Issa’s exclusive town hall, what’s wrong with labor in SD (Kasparian!), ICE raids in National City, Carlsbad reluctantly approving district elections, AB 784 and AB805, 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: May 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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: The Trumptanic, Kasparian getting the boot from Labor Council, Amy Goodman, making schools safe, sexual assaults at SWC, Smart People, Truax House, 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: May 7-13
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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: the Comey firing, the Kasparian firing, Indivisible in Coronado, disposable people, the greatness of national monuments, homelessness in SD, whiffs of Watergate, the death of George Winne, Jr., 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: April 23-29
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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: Islamophobe anger at SDUSD, beyond 100 days, ZombieCare, Net Neutrality, People’s Climate Change March, no place for the homeless, calls growing for Gastelum’s resignation, the inevitability of Universal Health Care, a bike ride to heaven, San Diego Tenants United call for rent control, ACLU defending Ginsberg, 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: April 16-22
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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: Chicano Park Day, BunnyPAC, Dumanis out, March for Science, Students for Economic Justice, Ernie McCray’s birthday, San Diego Lowriders, temporary ending of fireworks, Yermo Aranda, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Barrio Logan’s Chicano Park, Our National Treasure
By Brent E. Beltrán
Editor’s Note: Chicano Park was designated as a National Historic Landmark on January 11, 2017. This 2013 article from the San Diego Free Press archives chronicles Chicano Park’s placement on the National Register of Historic Places.
On Friday, March 15, the Ides of March, there was a press conference at Chicano Park in my beloved Barrio Logan. The press conference was put together to announce Chicano Park being added to the National Register of Historic Places. In other words, Chicano Park was officially recognized as being a national treasure of the United States. Those of us who live in Logan and the various barrios throughout San Diego, California and beyond already recognize this fact. But, through the fine work of Chicano Park co-founder, Josie Talamantez, the nation now officially recognizes this.
In front of Chicano Park co-founders, activists, artists, professors and numerous members of the media Mayor Bob Filner gave praise to Chicano Park and those that struggled for a peoples park. He was followed by District 8 City Councilman David Alvarez, State Senator elect Ben Hueso, Chicano Park Steering Committee Chairperson Tommie Camarillo and Josie Talamantez who broke down the process and criteria for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. It was a proud day for all involved in the creation and maintenance of Chicano Park. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: April 9-16
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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: the War on Drugs redux, fickle Faulconer, Sessions border session, Trumpcare redux, tax marches, MLK through COMD, ending Carlsbad cronyism, Into the Beautiful North, Don Carlos, doing something in Park City, 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: April 2-8
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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: the Padres, San Diego resistance, local journalists being targeted, Palm Tuesday, Downtown homeless sweeps, pigs feeding pigs, climate deniers in congress, the Tijuana sewage spill, Music Theory, Reagan, corporate climate allies, 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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