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…]
‘From Where We Sail’: Six and a Half Years Navigating Three Oceans and the Human Heart
“If you can sail to Catalina,” someone once said to me, “you can sail around the world.” — From Where We Sail
The road trip is a well-established genre in America’s literary cannon, and San Diegan Dianne Lane’s recently released memoir From Where We Sail is an engaging narrative within this literary tradition. The full title of the book includes the additional description: A Family’s Six and a Half Year Journey Around the World on Sorcery.
Dianne dedicates the book to her family and “beloved Sorcery who brought us home.” Sorcery, their 61-foot sloop-rigged sailboat, is as much a character in the memoir as her husband Robb and their young children Alex and Annie. [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…]
Privatizing the Veterans Administration: A Key Part of the Trump Agenda
By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
The replacement of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin has two narratives in the media—that Shulkin “embarrassed” Donald Trump with a trip to Europe that included days of sightseeing, and that Shulkin “clashed” with other officials at the VA.
Despite the amount of play the first item has received in the press, and despite some completely justified criticisms of Shulkin’s efforts both slip his wife’s travel costs onto the VA’s dime and indulgence in gifts he should never have accepted, the idea that he was pushed out over travel costs is clearly ludicrous. Scott Pruitt has engaged in far more lavish—and ridiculous—travel policies, hauling along a vast entourage on trips to Italy and Morocco, and the only thing his actions have earned from Trump is a suggestion that Pruitt may get a promotion to some other department ripe for wrecking. Besides, Trump isn’t capable of embarrassment.
And when the press reports that Shulkin butted heads with officials, what they really mean is that Shulkin was blocking appointees from Trump who were pushing to privatize the VA. Fast. The conflict was simple: Shulkin, the only hold-over in Trump’s cabinet from the Obama administration, was trying to maintain the VA as a viable system of health care for veterans. The Trump appointees that filled all the other VA slots, were actively working to do to the VA what Pruitt has done to the EPA—destroy it. [Read more…]
Let’s Bring Back Dueling
I saw and read a note to The New York Times the other day that set me to thinking of kinda complicated politics.
Well, that is what that newspaper likes to engage in, and so probably do they all. They’ll say, “If this, then that, and, pretty soon… The Apocalypse. On the other hand…,” they’ll say. So we end up back in the muddled middle, our fondest hopes for reason and enlightenment lost in the give and take back.
If you want to know what the news business stands for, play The National Anthem, or ask who’s interested in an interview with Donald Trump. Keep it simple.
Truth? Truth in the industry has become a now-and-then preoccupation, rising and falling as do other preoccupations, like getting people to read a story, or to consider buying all-electric, self-driving 2-ton cars that happen to be advertised as part of sports coverage.
Still, no one is as cynical as today’s out and out conservative, who believes in family values and then supports separating immigrants from their children. Or he’ll (usually it’s a he) advocate hard work after he’s invested in robot technology that eliminates jobs for humans, or he’ll recommend home schooling and send his own kids to prep schools and Yale. [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…]
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