April is Poetry month. To kick off this event here’s a favorite of mine: Charles Bukowski’s Bluebird, read by Harry Dean Stanton, with animation by Monika Umba. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: March 25-31
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on: the March for Our Lives, criminal justice reform, dirt digging on Duncan, DA contest going national, La Mesa’s Climate Action Plan, Bill Horn’s Palomar Airport issues, From Where We Sail, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
On This Day in 1957: BBC Coverage of the Record Setting Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino | Video Worth Watching
From the BBC archives: on this day in 1957 the BBC’s flagship news program Panorama covered the bountiful Ticino spaghetti harvest. A mild winter and an unusually early warm spell set a record for the harvest which still stands today. More details on the making of this historic newsreel inside. [Read more…]
Maimouna Youssef, Ft. Daniel March – ‘Stardust’ | Video Worth Watching
Maimouna Youssef, a.k.a. MuMu Fresh, reminds us that we’re Stardust in this live 2015 performance at The Rawkus in London. [Read more…]
County Supes Set to Join Trump’s War on Brown People | Progressive Activist Calendar March 30 – April 9, 2018
We can no longer afford to ignore the County of San Diego in the struggle against the policies of the Trump administration.
San Diego’s Republican County Supervisors are proposing to join Attorney General Jeff Sessions lawsuit challenging our state’s stance against the administration’s racist policies. These actions will be considered in a closed session on April 17. The vote will likely be 3-2 in favor our using the County’s moral authority and our tax dollars in support of bigotry.
In addition to supporting the use of immigration enforcement as an instrument of terror, the Supes are proposing to consider supporting the administration’s quest to use the 2020 census to ask every American household to record which members of their family are US citizens. [Read more…]
Resurrection | Geo-Poetic Spaces
I will still be wrapped in silk
when the winding cloth
is placed on altars by priests
Fasting
when the darkened churches
glow [Read more…]
Puerto Rico’s ‘Taller Salud’ FEMAle Led Disaster Recovery Project | Video Worth Watching
It has been six months after hurricane Maria and the island of Puerto Rico is still struggling with massive infrastructure issues. Samantha Bee takes her show on the road to Puerto Rico to investigate. This segment features Allana Harking investigating a group of women in Loíza, Puerto Rico who, in the absence of Federal FEMA assistance, began asking the community what their most pressing concerns were. Discovering that a frequent answer was the lack of a roof, they set about mitigating those concerns by installing tarps to provide protection. [Read more…]
With a Big Endorsement, District Attorney Contest Gets National Attention
“In the age of Trump, brave reform-minded prosecutors are more important than ever. Geneviéve Jones-Wright will be just that.”
There’s big news to report on the race for San Diego County District Attorney. The cavalry has arrived, namely the Real Justice Political Action Committee. Co-founder Shaun King formally endorsed Geneviéve Jones-Wright on Wednesday. This means experienced and reform-minded boots on the ground are coming to town.
Bleating about outside influence began months ago, with appointed incumbent Summer Stephan’s political consultant, Jason Roe, sounding the alarm via Twitter about liberal donor George Soros’ Democracy Alliance taking an interest in the DA’s race.
Real Justice isn’t funded by Soros (it’s Silicon Valley money), but the Greek billionaire has been known to fund similar contests. [Read more…]
How the NRA Hijacks Gun Control Debates | Video Worth Watching
Who does the NRA really represent? Is it its gun owning membership, or the companies that send millions of dollars its way? Hmmm. Vox’s Carlos Maza and Coleman Lowndes present some revealing statistics and a remarkably analogous historical situation to help answer that question. [Read more…]
Snapshots of Congressional Districts 51, 52, and 53 | Three Incumbent Democrats With Safe Seats
Three incumbent Democrats. Zero controversies. No surprises expected on June 5. I thought this snapshot would be the most boring of all the election pieces I write pre-primary. But it wasn’t. I learned some stuff, and you will too.
The Democratic Party has a majority of registered voters in each of these Congressional Districts. There are no challengers from the more progressive wing of the party taking on the center to center-left incumbents.
My assumption was that I’d find a bunch of minor GOP functionaries and a smattering of whack-a-doodles in the opposition. They’re there, but there are also a few compelling stories to be told along the way. [Read more…]
Shedding Tears of Hope and Joy As Children Make America Great
I’ve lived a life
among children,
as a child initially, obviously,
and who knows how many
young ones there are
with whom I’ve had the honor
of being in their company
as their teacher
or their vice-principal
or their principal
or as Mr. Ernie [Read more…]
Activist Dolores Huerta and Carlos Santana Have a Decades-Long Relationship | Video Worth Watching
Over a montage of excerpts from the documentary Dolores, we hear from Dolores Huerta and one of her long-time supporters and the producer of the documentary, Carlos Santana, for whom she is the “Queen of Light”. [Read more…]
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