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: County Sup contest, anti-Trump groups, SD activists mobilizing, the end of the world, Standing Rock, Gregory Canyon, angst to action on climate change, the internet of things, unmet housing needs, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Reader’s Write: San Diego’s Unmet Housing Needs of 32,275 Units
By Rev. Richard Lawrence
It is a huge mistake for the Union Tribune to throw rocks at the glass house in Sacramento, as it has recently done, while ignoring our local shrine of good government.
Somehow, the City of San Diego was able to dissolve the “State of Emergency due to a Severe Shortage of Affordable Housing” without having taken any substantial actions of any kind—most specifically ignoring the Affordable Housing Task Force (AHTF) Report of 2003. That Task Force, chaired by former City Manager Jack McGrory, was organized to address the housing crisis and recommended measures to address the unmet housing needs of 32,275 units and the additional annual need for 8,415 housing units. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Vapor
Mercury plunges
Water drops rise into air
Opposites react [Read more…]
From Postcards to Picket Lines, San Diego’s Activist Community is Mobilizing
Progressive Calendar for San Diego, November 25- December 4
Responses to the election results continue to dominate activist actions in San Diego in the coming weeks. There are also strikes, a union-sponsored diaper drive, and a critical hearing on the racial profiling practices of the San Diego Police Department.
The City of San Diego released a long-awaited report on the SDPD late on Wednesday afternoon right before Thanksgiving. Of course, most folks were already on their way to other events. Coincidence? I don’t think so. [Read more…]
A Standing Rock Thankstaking
Black Friday Shopping Tip: Support Good Journalism Everywhere
While right wingers run out and buy guns after elections not to their liking, many folks are spending money on words following the election of Donald Trump.
In the days since the November 2016 election, news organizations like ProPublica, the Atlantic, Mother Jones and the New York Times have all seen a rise in subscription revenue and on-line readership. The average daily readership at the San Diego Free Press has increased by more than 50%.
Between the rise of fake news and the fall of the financial underpinnings of news reporting, supporting honest journalism should now be considered a patriotic act. I’d like to take that one step further by suggesting gift purchases on Black Friday to support a free press in this country. [Read more…]
Anti-Trump Groups Strive for Unity
The organizers of Monday night’s Community Forum on the Role of Progressives in the Age of Trump weren’t expecting a packed house at the Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest.
Additional chairs were brought in. People were invited to sit on the floor and encouraged to share the eighty printed agendas once they became scarce.
While the overall numbers of people anxious to participate in doing something about the upcoming reign of reaction was impressive, the makeup of the crowd–mostly white, male, and of the baby boomer generation–was disappointing. [Read more…]
Late Votes Dim Dems Hopes in County Supervisor Contest
With just under 200,000 mail-in and provisional ballots left to be counted, two contests thought to be victories for San Diego Democrats have flipped.
Incumbent Dave Roberts now trails Del Mar Mayor Kristin Gaspar by 296 votes in the race for District 3 County Supervisor, a reversal of fortunes with serious long-term implications for the local Democratic Party.
The latest vote counts for Mayor of Lemon Grove now show Raquel Vasquez beating George Gastil by 12 votes.
County Board of Education incumbent Rick Shea, on the other hand, is holding off a charter school lobby financed challenge by Mark Wyland, leading 100,331 to 98,883. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The American Flag
A foreigner
carried the tattered flag
slung roadside
to her house in Europe
where it pledges allegiance
to a mirror in her bedroom
A wish
whirling within each star
for the country
fallen into its own shadow [Read more…]
The Sheep Have Voted
Looking Back at the Week: November 13-19
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: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, more Trump, even more Trump, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
#ResistanceSD: Upcoming Trump Protests and More
A Calendar for Those Who Are Fired Up and Ready to Go
While mainstream politicians and institutions may be playing ‘wait and see,’ we at San Diego Free Press believe the rest of us have but one choice: resistance.
On Fridays from now on, I’ll be dedicating this space to promoting activism in the Time of Trump. My sources will be social media listings, press releases, and you.
A bit of confusion in the coming months is to be expected. Lots of people feel motivated to make their voices heard. In cases where there are competing but similar events or campaigns of the progressive persuasion, I’ll do my best to list everything. [Read more…]
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