Photo Gallery: A Family of Endangered Light-footed Clapper Rails in Pacific...
By Roy Little He is a native Light-footed Clapper Rail living in the Kendall-Frost Preserve in Pacific Beach, and she is a documented immigrant who arrived sometime in the middle of last year. After...
View ArticleA History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights : John Bareño, 1930′s
SDFP exclusive series The History of Neighborhood House: From 1918 to the occupation in 1972 By Maria E. Garcia One conversation about Neighborhood House always leads to another. When I told Kiko I was...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with the Vergara Decision for Teachers
By Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew Last week's decision in the Vergara v. the State of California lawsuit that undermined tenure and seniority rights was a profound slap in the face to teachers who have...
View ArticleChé Café Served 30-Day Eviction Notice, UCSD Cites Code Violations
Statement and press release from the Ché Café Collective By Davide Carpano, student at UCSD and member of the Ché Café Cooperative The Ché Café, a 34-year-old student-run cooperative at the University...
View ArticleFew Are Left Fighting For The Ché
By Kyle Trujillo, UCSD Undergrad On Wednesday of finals week, June 11, I cut short a study session and hurried across campus to Scholar's drive to the Ché Cafe Collective. I knew it as the Che....
View ArticleReaders Write: Alumni Appeal to Save UCSD’s Che Cafe
Dear UCSD Activist Alumni, The San Diego Free Press has published a fine article, written by the Che Cafe Collective. Please circulate it widely. SDFP editor, Frank Gormlie, is an alum of UCSD. Alumni...
View ArticleAmericans Are Dangerously Politically Ignorant — The Numbers Are Shocking
The nation’s collective ignorance paves the way for extremist politicians to validate their positions to the public. By CJ Werleman / AlterNet The health of a democracy is dependent on an educated...
View ArticleUnion Appeals to UCSD on Behalf of Che Cafe
The following letter was sent to the administration and student councils of the University of California San Diego this week concerning the impending university ordered closing of the Che Cafe: We are...
View ArticleCourt Rulings: Corporations Are People; Women Not So Much
By Doug Porter Today was another day for bad news out of Washington. I knew there was trouble brewing when the announcement was made this morning that Supreme Court Justice Justice Samuel Alito would...
View ArticleA History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Joe Serrano
SDFP exclusive series The History of Neighborhood House: From 1918 to the occupation in 1972 By Maria Garcia From the moment Joe Serrano tasted bread for the first time he loved it. Until he attended...
View ArticleAre African American Males an Endangered Species?
By John Lawrence As a white guy, this question is still very germane for me since my grandson is an African American male. Or rather he is half African American and half European American - actually a...
View ArticleUCSD’s Che Cafe Gets a Reprieve
UCSD's Che Café has been saved. For now, anyway. The renowned cultural icon, which operates as an all-ages music venue, performance space and cafe, won a temporary restraining order allowing the...
View ArticleI am Teaching College in my Pajamas
By vickijean /DailyKos Don't you love those commercials for online universities? You can go to college at home, in your pajamas!! Well, I teach at a small state-located university and I am now training...
View ArticleA History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Oscar and Rosita Torres
By Maria Garcia Oscar is now 80 years old and yet his memories of Neighborhood House are as clear as if they had happened yesterday. Like other boys in his age bracket, board games, baseball and...
View ArticleSan Diego For-Profit Universities Making Tons of Money Handing Out Worthless...
Ashford University and University of Phoenix Worst Offenders Targeting Returning Vets By John Lawrence Everyone wants to better themselves, right, by getting a college education. Most of all the Iraq...
View ArticleLessons for a New Gilded Age: Labor Studies Courses at City College
By Kelly Mayhew There’s been a lot of discussion of economic inequality recently in wake of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. As many economists have observed, American workers are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
San Diego’s P100 Program Targets the Poor and Vulnerable While Letting the...
By John Lawrence Since 1997, San Diego County has required all families applying for California's version of welfare called CalWORKs to submit to warrantless, suspicionless, unannounced home searches...
View ArticleRequiem for a Overachieving School Principal
An Abrupt and Controversial Reassignment at the School for Creative and Performing Arts Leaves Parents Angry By Doug Porter Mitzi Lizarraga ran San Diego Unified’s School for the Creative and...
View ArticleHow Your Local Library Can Help You Resist the Surveillance State
By Melissa Morrone / Waging Nonviolence A woman was trying to apply for a job at a major retailer. She had to fill out an online form that prompted her to create a username and password, and then enter...
View ArticleHelping Young People Who See the World through Frosted Windows
By Ernie McCray I just finished watching a Turner Classic Movie, "Scandal at Scourie," that featured two of my favorite all-time movie actors, Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson, playing a couple who...
View Article
