I remember back, maybe
when I was in junior high,
neighbors talking in hush-hush tones
about a man
who had drowned himself
in the night.
“Hey, why y’all whispering?”
I wanted to know,
all wide-eyed
and mystified
and horrified.
“Shhh, boy, he died of suicide.”
And we all just carried on
with our lives,
looking at how he had died
through the eyes
of ignorance,
of unfamiliarity [Read more…]
Christine Blasey Ford’s Letter Detailing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh
Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford has gone public with allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her down and sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s.
She reached out to Senator Diane Feinstein via the letter posted below, initially asking for confidentiality, fearing retaliation and public attacks. News of the contact broke late last week when media reports indicated the Califonia Senator had forwarded serious allegations to the FBI.
Ford ultimately came forward out of concerns that reporters would soon identify her and a sense of public duty. She has provided medical records and the results of a polygraph test to back up her claim. [Read more…]
This Is How Democrats (Women!) Win | Video Worth Watching
Who says Democrats don’t have an agenda? Elissa Slotkin on the “pre-existing conditions” issue makes it real and personal. (h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: September 9-15
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, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on women run, D2, D4, workers struggling, wanting to be heard, candidate canvassing, street scenes, The Jungle, Seize The King, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
‘Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)’ – Marc Ribot, and featuring Tom Waits | Video Worth Watching
After two years without Tom Waits on the music scene, he’s back! He joins Marc Ribot in a version of Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) with video by Jem Cohen. (h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
Paul Taylor Dance Company – Promethean Fire | Video Worth Watching
A little over a week ago the Washington Post reported the death of dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor on August 29th at the age of eighty-eight. He was considered the last of the 20th-century cohort of American Dance titans. Here is a work from 2002—Promethean Fire—where he used Bach’s Toccata & Fugue as the musical framework for his dance. I’ve always been smitten by the Toccata & Fugue, and watching Taylor’s expression of this work is double happiness. [Read more…]
Candidate Canvassing Campaigns Blitzing the County | Progressive Activist Calendar September 14 – 24, 2018
With more than two dozen canvassing efforts planned for the coming days, Nathan Fletcher, Tommy Hough, Monica Montgomery, Dr. Jen Campbell, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Mike Levin, Todd Gloria, Chris Ward, Dr. Akilah Weber, Alejandra Sotelo-Solis, Mona Rios, Jose Rodriguez, Cori Schumaker, Tasha Boerner Horvath, James Elia, and Sunday Gover all want a little help from their friends with talking to voters throughout San Diego. And if you read through the listings below, you’ll find there’s also a celebrity coming to town to knock on doors.
Getting out the vote is serious business in San Diego this year. There’s still time to join campaigns. If you’re not able, be sure to be encouraging should they knock on your door. Contacting voters is the absolute best way to win an election and this level of pre-election activity is unprecedented in my experience.
[Read more…]
Census Data: More Work, Less Pay for San Diegans
From the Center on Policy Initiatives
More San Diegans were working in 2017, but their earnings lost ground.
The median household income in the City of San Diego jumped to $76,662, up 5% from 2016, largely because more people per household worked. But inflation-adjusted individual earnings dropped for the third year in a row, according to analysis by the Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) of U.S. Census Bureau data released this morning.
“The good news is households have higher incomes, but only because more family members are working,” said CPI Research Director Peter Brownell, PhD. “Wages are still lower than before the recession in real dollars. When you factor in inflation, people are still losing ground.” [Read more…]
Climate Change, Clogged Drains, and Lorie Zapf
By Jordan Beane
On September 13th, the Union-Tribune released their interviews with our District 2 candidates, Dr. Jennifer Campbell and current District 2 City Councilmember Lorie Zapf. In Zapf’s interview, there were a lot of specific questions about the Climate Action Plan, it’s goals and more.
However, I believe the UT should have asked her a simpler question: Do you, Councilmember Zapf, believe in climate change?
Our Republican representative wants you to believe she cares about this existential threat and its impact on San Diego. She, along with the rest of the city council, voted to approve San Diego’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) in 2015. She mentioned the CAP in an op-ed. She even used the word “climate” in a tweet once (the only time she’s done so in 1,700+ missives). She and the Lincoln Club (San Diego’s version of the Koch Brothers) flooded the mailboxes of District 2 with the same two images of Zapf cleaning out the San Diego River, portraying our Republican representative as an environmental champion. [Read more…]
Political Golf Tip #1 | Geo-Poetic Spaces
His swing was long
before he teed off
The ball spun
into an unplayable lie
prior to the drive
The game lost
because of the player’s poorly executed pre-shot routine [Read more…]
Storm Surge Meets Virtual Reality Technology – The Weather Channel Animation | Video Worth Watching
The Weather Channel shared on its Twitter feed this impressive animation designed to illustrate the impact of various levels of storm surge. For the curious, Wired has the backstory on How The Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation, describing the technology that made the production of the video possible. [Read more…]
San Diego City Council District 4 | Cole vs. Montgomery: How to Make Black Lives Matter?
At the heart of District 4 are San Diego’s historically black communities, created in large part by property deeds limiting where people of color could buy or rent homes.
In 1969 a coalition calling itself BOMB: Black, Oriental, Mexican Brothers called a public meeting in Southcrest Park and began advocating for a civil rights advocate to be appointed to a vacated City Council seat.
The appointment and subsequent election of Leon L. Williams began a tradition of the District 4 seat being held by African-Americans. Five decades later, issues of race and repression are at the center of a contentious contest between a storied incumbent and her activist challenger. [Read more…]
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