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Do You Have Fun at Our Contributor Meetings?

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Every so often the San Diego Free Press organizes a meeting of minds, so to speak — a gathering of contributors, readers and everyday supporters like you. It helps ground us, spark conversations and scout new talent. Your donation helps us underwrite the cost of securing a meeting location, and allows for the refreshments we provide. Yay for food!

Look out for details about our 2018 Contributor Meeting coming up in January!

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Is the People’s History, Right Here in San Diego, Important to You?

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Jim Miller has written about Golden Hill.

Anna Daniels has written about City Heights.

Brent Beltrán has written about Barrio Logan.

Barbara Zaragoza has written about the South Bay.

Maria Garcia’s series The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights has won numerous local and state awards.  She continues the people’s history with her current series Latinos in San Diego.

The “San Diego Noir” and “Sunshine Noir II” series showcased an anthology of local writing about San Diego.

This is just a glimpse of the countless compelling and detailed articles published here at the San Diego Free Press. They provide a unique look into the working class lives and diverse communities that make San Diego what it is today.

Support the San Diego Free Press‘ People’s History project today!

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Do You Value the Work of Volunteers Who Promote Progressive Issues?

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More than 60 volunteer citizen journalists in the region wrote about homelessness, spiraling rents, labor issues, police-community relations, the environment, mental health, city planning, and local politics from a progressive perspective this past year. 

The San Diego Free Press is run by seven volunteer editorial board members — Annie Lane, Doug Porter, Patty Jones, Brent Beltrán, Anna Daniels, Frank Gormlie and Rich Kacmar. They have directed this online platform seven days a week for five years. They have collectively provided outreach into the community, dealt with legal issues, become experts on WordPress and social media, and created a progressive media vision.

SDFP’s four (volunteer) daily editors — Doug Porter, Annie Lane, Rich Kacmar and Anna Daniels — do the day in and day out work of receiving, inputting, editing and publishing articles. This also includes responding to emails, requesting additional information from contributors when necessary, and finding images to go with articles (again, when necessary).

Support the San Diego Free Press volunteers with your donation today!

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San Diego, CA, 92104

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Has the San Diego Free Press Been Your Go-To Site for Grassroots News and Progressive Views These Past Five Years?

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Welcome to the San Diego Free Press 12 Days of Passing the Hat. We want to do even more in the coming year; getting out the word about the upcoming midterm elections, sharing stories of local activism, and doing our best to keep local officials honest.

Help us underwrite the cost of the technology that keeps the lights on seven days a week! This includes everything from server costs to the StatCounter tool we use, which helps us track what makes the big time and where we need to improve. It also allows us to promote certain articles so we can reach more of #TheResistance each and every day.

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SDFP Contributors Make the News!

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By Staff

This past quarter a number of San Diego Free Press contributors and editors have been mentioned on other media sites or received special recognition for their activism in the community. Our congratulations to the people acknowledged below, not just for their words on this site, but for their compassion, insights and commitment.   [Read more…]

Who’s in Charge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Mick Mulvaney or Leandra English? | Video Worth Watching

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I don’t envy anyone showing up for work this week at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). There are two people claiming to be your boss. One of them is the person designated by law as the successor to the former director, and the other is someone who the White House has decided it wants to run the agency. How to decide?

One of the principal architects of the founding the agency, Elizabeth Warren, presents the case that the Dodd-Frank Act clearly specifies the terms of succession for the CFPB, and that with the departure of former Director Richard Cordray, the Deputy Director Leandra English, by law, assumes the position of Acting Director. The White House, in arguing that there’s a vacancy that needs to be filled, and using that opportunity to appoint current White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, is actually acting illegally. The Acting Director, English, has filed suit in the U.S. District Court of D.C asking for a temporary restraining order blocking Trump from appointing Mulvaney and affirming her position. But in the meanwhile, chaos?   [Read more…]

The Art of Flying – A Murmuration of Starlings | Video Worth Watching

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The relatively warm winter of 2014/2015 permitted starlings to remain in the Nederlands rather than embark on their typical southern migration. This presented Dutch filmmaker Jan van IJken with an opportunity to capture the mesmerizing and ineffable flight patterns of these otherwise unremarkable aerial navigators. The collective noun for starlings is a “murmuration”, although after watching these fluid and breathtaking maneuvers, I submit that a “gasp” might be equally appropriate.   [Read more…]

Evan Ziporyn’s ‘Frog’s Eye’: Motion, Stillness, Survival | Video Worth Watching

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Steven Schick conducts the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus in the 2008 West Coast premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s Frog’s Eye. The performance was a collaboration with Tijuana-based dance troupe Lux Boreal under the direction of Henry Torres.

The concert hall space pulsates as the musicians and dancers explore the feelings of motion, stillness and survival in Ziporyn’s composition.

The full video includes a brief interview at the beginning with Schick, Ziporyn and Torres.   [Read more…]

LADAMA – “Porro Maracatu” | Video Worth Watching

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LADAMA is a group of four women, virtuosic musicians, and educators — Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas—each from a different country and culture of the Americas, who are sisters in song, rhythm and spirit. Harnessing music from their respective countries of origin –Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States, the group utilizes traditional and non-traditional instruments from across the Americas, but with a modern twist, to produce Latin Alternative music.   [Read more…]

Rebecca Solnit: Ending Sexual Harassment Means Changing Masculinity & Undermining Misogynist Culture | Video Worth Watching

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For some perspective on this Saturday’s “Me Too March” check out this recent interview of Rebecca Solnit by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!. Elaborating on her recent Literary Hub article “Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease” she reminds us that in the case of Abu Ghraib, where initially an attempt was made to characterize the problem as merely being a case of a few “bad apples”, it was eventually acknowledged that the issue was systemic, an issue of a toxic culture which sustained the behavior. Similarly, when discussing the current cases of sexual abuse and harassment coming to light it is dangerous to focus only on the behavior of some number of individual cases. We need to examine the system and the culture that supports that behavior. And for those who might suggest that these behaviors are unalterable genetic traits, there appears to be at least one instance demonstrating that it is indeed possible to create a culture which does not enhrine the alpha male heirarchical structure.

She also notes that the tenor of the times is reminiscent of earlier events which had energized public action on these issues, events such as Anita Hill’s revelations about Clarence Thomas in 1991, the Steubenville sexual assault and the New Delhi rape in 2012, and the Isla Vista mass murder near UC Santa Barbara in 2014. Let’s hope that recent events bear out that observation.   [Read more…]

William S. Burroughs – A Thanksgiving Prayer + Jello Magic for Dessert | Video Worth Watching

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Food for thought … As an antidote to overly saccharine Thanksgiving missives floating in the seasonal zeitgeist, here is über curmudgeon William S. Burroughs venting his “Thanks” for the holiday. It’s from 1986, but surprisingly still resonant …

And since no good meal is complete without dessert, how about a bit of culinary Jello magic …   [Read more…]

Former FCC Chair Wheeler Reacts to Net Neutrality Attack | Video Worth Watching

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They’re coming for Net Neutrality again! On Wednesday current FCC Chair Ajit Pai (who formerly served as Associate General Counsel for Verizon) will formally propose a roll back of Title II protections for the open internet. The full board will be voting on the issue on December 14, but given the current composition of the board, the expectation is that it will be approved.

On Tuesday, Pai announced his plan in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (an annotated analysis by Mashable’s Jason Abbruzzese is here). In this video clip former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler who presided over the most recent implementation of the Title II protections weighs in on the issue, interviewed by Bloomberg’s Emily Chang.   [Read more…]

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