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: post-Scalia partisanship, education Walk Ins, FBI crying wolf, pragmatic realism, becoming bilingual, MTS border racism, Roger and Norma Cazares, the face of homelessness, making peace, socially-blind urban planning, moral courage, ACLU and others calling out SDPD and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
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Roger and Norma Cazares: ‘Action Matters’
Norma and Roger Cazares together and individually have helped change San Diego. They usually share the same political views although there have been a few exceptions. Norma supported Hillary, Roger supported Obama. Once again they are split with Norma once again supporting Hillary and Roger supporting Bernie.
Roger says that he is totally amused with the Republican party. They’re destroying the Republican party similarly to what Pete Wilson did in California. He is concerned that we will not have a two party system. Roger believes this is dangerous. Both agree there needs to be a two party system in order to hold each other accountable. Roger says both Trump and Cruz have helped bring the closet racist out of the closet. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: January 18-23
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: Dems division, “White Line” gondolas, record global temps, SD emergency shelter, the sell off of “excess” properties, Andrea Skorepa, absurd Republican politics, SD needing a commission on refugees, and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Andrea Palacio Skorepa: From VISTA Volunteer to Casa Familiar CEO
Andrea Skorepa has been CEO of Casa Familiar (Casa) since 1980. As we spoke I could not distinguish if Andrea was Casa Familiar or if Casa Familiar is Andrea. Both are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them.
Andrea was born at Paradise Valley Hospital. The first fourteen years of her life were spent growing up in San Ysidro, then her parents moved to Chula Vista where she attended Castle Park High School. While attending Junior College, now known as Community College, Andrea decided that she would become a Peace Corps volunteer. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Dec 13-19
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: SD’s Climate Action Plan, the return of hate towards Central American refugees, fear and loathing for the holidays, HUD burro-crats, Trabajadores de la Raza, Caruso’s lagoon mall, satirizing new laws by Republicants, the Tuna Boat House, a Force filled family, 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 15-21
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: wargasms, Hillary holding her own, Carson’s terrorist recruiting campaign stopping in SD, The Citizens’ Plan, Peters voting with fear, suicide of the white working class, SD’s hidden homeless, Jesse Ramirez, the little people of Carlsbad, extreme weather, hawkish Hillary, renaming Robert E. Lee and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
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Jesse Ramirez: The First Executive Director of the Chicano Federation
As we sat down to do our interview, Jesse Ramirez opened the conversation saying “I am a product of the Great Depression. We had to put food on the table so we did everything we could to make money”. He had many stories and memories of various events in the period between the 1930s and 1940s.
Jesse was born on April 22, 1926, in Houston, Texas and raised there. During the Depression he and his brother did various things to “put food on the table”. They sold newspapers and shined shoes to earn a few pennies. He sold the Houston Chronicle for three cents. He says the big thrill would be if someone gave you a nickel for the three cent newspaper and told you to keep the change. On Saturday nights they would stay up late preparing the Sunday paper for delivery. [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…]
Lilia Lopez: From Logan Heights to the United Nations
Introducing our new series ‘Latinos in San Diego’
By Maria E. Garcia
If you have not met eighty-seven year old Lilia Lopez, wife, mother, friend, feminist and activist, you have missed out on a woman who has influenced many people. She has worked diligently to improve the lives of women, not only in San Diego, but all over the country and Mexico and Europe.
Lilia says that I am responsible for her becoming involved in Chicano issues. While I was a student teacher at Lowell Elementary School in the 1970s, I invited her to attend a meeting with a group of moms. She says that was when she understood the injustices the women were facing. She couldn’t sit back and do nothing.
Lilia did not need me or anyone else to take the leadership role in so many issues that affected Latinas. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Sept 27-Oct 3
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: standing with PP, the continuing saga of Marne Foster, gun nuts excusing another school massacre, letting Adam and Steve be, dancing to Narcocorridos, random acts of kindness, the passing of Judy Oliveira, a balanced transportation future in SD, the signature stings in Carlsbad, Maria returning to Delano, a diary of a Karen refugee and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, community news site. [Read more…]
Chicano Park in Barrio Logan
Editor’s note: Welcome to our newest column, Progressive San Diego! We received an email from Dave, a reader in Liverpool, UK, who’s visiting San Diego later this year. He had one simple question: What are some progressive places to visit?
That got us thinking. There’s nothing really available online that’s broad and comprehensive with regard to San Diego’s progressive history and locales — a directory of sorts. We want to change that.
And so twice a month we will feature a person, place or thing that has done something to contribute to our important cause and culture. Given our time and resource restraints, each feature will be short and sweet, or pulled from other sites with permission. Please feel free to add information in the comments. We would love this to be organic and ever evolving.
This installment: Chicano Park in Barrio Logan [Read more…]
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: The Occupation of Neighborhood House…
…and the birth of the Chicano Free Clinic
The occupation of Neighborhood House that began when barrio activist Laura Rodriguez chained herself to the doors on October 4, 1970 occurred a mere six months after the takeover of Chicano Park in April 1970. Both actions involved many of the same people and both actions demanded community control over decisions that affected the lives of residents.
With the takeover of Chicano Park in April 1970, the barrio had said “¡Basta!” to land use decisions that displaced thousands of residents as a result of military use of the bay during World War II followed by the growth of the shipbuilding industry; then by the construction of freeways and the Coronado Bridge; and zoning changes that permitted yonkes (junkyards) to exist side by side with long time residences.
The occupation of Neighborhood House was a demand for community control over this beloved institution that had been in existence for 58 years at that time. Its progressive era service philosophy had been displaced by Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. [Read more…]
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