Did you know the San Diego Free Press publishes the Progressive Activist Calendar on Fridays? Each week we comb through hundreds of press releases, Facebook events, and organizational listings to bring our readers a one-stop shop for activist actions of every progressive persuasion in the region.

We include ten days of demonstrations, educational opportunities, organizing meetings, get-out-the-vote efforts, and cultural events. You’ll be amazed at just how many progressive happenings are taking place in San Diego.

It’s a huge undertaking. Sometimes we end up posting over 50 events. Each week we make a point of ‘boosting’ those posts on Facebook. Twenty bucks or so puts this information on the radar for thousands of people.

Help us continue to increase awareness of activism in America’s Finest Tourist Plantation.

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Neither do we. We work hard every day to maintain a media platform for citizen journalists that’s sophisticated and professional and safe, but we couldn’t have gotten where we are without consulting a legal team that knows all there is to know about intellectual property — and specifically how to protect the San Diego Free Press and contributors alike for the long term.

Thankfully, your donations allow us to underwrite the cost of obtaining legal guidance, purchasing necessary educational materials, resolving issues if and when they arise, and developing a Terms and Conditions policy with everyone’s best interests in mind.

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Of course you do! Your donations are used to maintain our snail mail address; to supply business cards for contributors and editors; and for promotional materials like informational flyers about the San Diego Free Press, which are handed out at events.  These are all part of the SDFP infrastructure.

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If you guessed San Diego Free Press, you’re right. Since 2012 we’ve published progressive voter guides in advance of every major election. While they do include our endorsements –and we’re picky,– each voter guide includes links to all the candidates’ websites and handy emoji letting the reader know who else backs them. SDFP also provides analysis, links, and basic information about ballot measures along with information about whose money is supporting the choices voters are asked to make. 

Tens of thousands of people rely on our research and advice in the weeks leading to elections. We’d like to expand our reach through social media promotions during 2018; in this time of Trump trauma getting educated voters to the polls is more important than ever. And we want our readers to have the information they need to select worthy candidates all the way down the ballot. After all, today’s school board member could be your next CongressCritter, or worse, they could be a tool for the education-industrial complex seeking to make tomorrow’s citizens into compliant followers of whatever garbage is being advertised.

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Over the course of its five-year lifespan, the San Diego Free Press and various editors and contributors have won a total of 28 awards for excellence in journalism. Your donations help us underwrite the cost of submitting entries to the annual Society of Professional Journalists competition and for an SDFP table to host each year’s winners at the event.

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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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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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San Diego, CA, 92104

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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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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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A Handful of the Most  Important and Interesting Books of 2016

If you just can’t bring yourself to give up on the sordid consumer frenzy and go all in for a Buy Nothing Christmas, then perhaps getting your loved ones a few good books to help them navigate the dark near-future is the next best thing.

Here is my annual list of a handful of some of the most instructive stand-out books of 2016:   [Read more…]