This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Kersey ‘fixing’ San Diego, that audacious hater Trump, police reform, assholery in the Escondido School Board, saying no to hate and welcoming refugees, ‘those people’, making a killing, a moment of silence, the San Ysidro Blues, Dr. West’s visit, La Lupe, solar’s fake friend, the oldest refugee crisis and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
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Looking Back at the Week: Nov 29-Dec 5
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: American terror in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino, SD’s Climate Action Plan, nailing Monsanto, Hitler’s ‘stache, livin’ la vida Logan, OB activism, disturbed Piyon-Juniper forests, the Homeland, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Paris’ Forgotten Massacre of October 1961
By Nat Krieger
To call the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris the worst mass killing in the City of Lights since World War II is evidence of the mainstream media’s collective and selective amnesia.
On October 17, 1961, at the climax of the Algerian War of Independence against France, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters filled the boulevards of Paris to demand an end to a police ordered curfew that prohibited “Algerian workers…[and] French Algerian Muslims” from being in the streets from 8:30 pm to 5:30 am. The Prefect of the Paris police, the same man who rounded up 1,600 Jews for the Nazis during World War II, was ready for the demonstrators. The police cordoned the Algerians off into small groups, or trapped them on bridges over the Seine, and either opened fire or waded in, batons swinging.
Thousands were arrested and detained in the same velodrome where the Jews of Paris had been held for transport to Auschwitz 19 years earlier. An estimated 200 demonstrators (the exact number will never be known) were shot or beaten to death in the streets of Paris, in prisons across the city, even in the courtyard of Police Headquarters steps from Notre Dame, their mutilated bodies dumped into the Seine for nights afterward.
As with the hundreds of other massacres committed by all sides in the decades of struggle between France and her former colonies there has never been an accounting, a trial, or any kind of process to establish the truth, let alone reconciliation. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: November 22-28
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Anti-Muslim bigotry in SD, BLM on Black Friday, New Dems tired third way, Sprague rocking Dizzy’s, security patrols in OB, Sea World’s doomed hotel idea, Jerry Brown at the Climate Change Conference, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: November 8-14
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: Mizzou’s stand, anti-Starbucks stupidity, deadly force in SD, just saying no to SANDAG, #MillionStudentMarch, the fight for more than $15, a greedy capitalist, BikeSD’s advocacy, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: November 1-7
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: the fall of Haggen, the end of Keystone XL, Prop 47 fear mongering, the fight for $15, surviving sudden poverty, Big Brother coming to OB, border life, no justice for Anastasio Hernández Rojas, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Oct 25-31
By Brent E. Beltrán
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: Gretchen Newsom diving into the mayoral race, modern day racism, marijuana & taxes in 2016, inequality in higher ed, Tom Hom, Chicano Park improvements, Barrio Logan style resistance in prose, local jazz, dia de los muertos, Palestine reflections II, BikeSD, a sleeping seaside village’s awakening and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Oct 18-24
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: the right to lie, local police protest, pay their own way, global plutocracy getting yo mama, black gay icons, poor K-Faulc, SD’s day of the dead celebrations, possible 100 years war, guns, Greg Cox, reflections of occupation, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Oct 11-17
By Brent E. Beltrán
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: the Dem debate, opposing Columbus Day, gun nut backlash, Sunshine/Noir II, the race to the bottom, Lilia Lopez, bodysurfing, extreme weather, wealthy water wasters, Tijuana’s Turista Libre, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, community news site. [Read more…]
Lt. Gov. Newsom’s Gun Violence Initiative Draws Predictable Fire
By Doug Porter
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference yesterday, rolling out details of a proposed ballot initiative aimed at reducing gun violence in California. The setting for the announcement was San Francisco’s 101 California St. office building, site of a 1993 mass shooting.
The measure, co-authored by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, includes provisions of bills that have stalled at the state Capitol or were vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown in recent years.
Owners would be required to dispose of weapons with high capacity magazines grandfathered in after the 1999 ban. Ammunition sellers would be licensed and required to do point-of-sale background checks on every purchase of ammunition. A process would be established to seize guns from people prohibited from owning them because of their criminal records and federal authorities would be automatically notified of each addition to the state’s databased on prohibited firearms owners.
Needless to say, gun groups are locking and loading. [Read more…]
SeaWorld’s Crying the Blues Over Orca Breeding Ban
By Doug Porter
There was good news and bad news for SeaWorld at Thursday’s meeting of the California Coastal Commission.
SeaWorld prevailed in its quest to nearly double the size of its killer whale enclosure, to be marketed as the Blue World Project, despite an ongoing campaign by animal rights activists urging a no vote from the panel.
The bad news was the condition barring the theme park from acquiring any further orcas by way of breeding, artificial insemination or transfers. When the current batch of 11 whales reaches old age there will be no replacements, meaning the $100 million or so SeaWorld was getting ready to throw at the project looks not-so-good. I smell a lawsuit a’coming. [Read more…]
Oregon College Massacre, More Gun Nut Excuses
By Doug Porter
A very disturbed 26-year-old man killed nine people and injured seven others at a community college in Oregon on October 1st. He was killed in a gunfight with police officers responding to 911 calls.
The President made his 15th appearance to address the nation following a mass shooting. He was obviously very angry and frustrated.
The blowback from the right edge of the flat-earthers was, as usual, both ignorant and infuriating. [Read more…]
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