https://sandiegofreepress.org Grassroots News & Progressive Views Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:40:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/sandiegofreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cropped-SDFP_square_logo_black_bkgrnd_512x512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://sandiegofreepress.org 32 32 130968731 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/last-call-last-column/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/last-call-last-column/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:39:39 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201453 [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/last-call-last-column/feed/ 21 201453 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/thank-you-from-the-san-diego-free-press/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/thank-you-from-the-san-diego-free-press/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:38:19 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201358 And other important info Dear friends, The day has come to dim the lights at the San Diego Free Press. We could not have had such a successful six and a half year run without you. Each one of you invested something essential in this endeavor, whether it was through your thought-provoking submissions, committed readership, or crucial financial support. We are so grateful for the opportunities we have had as editors to get to know so many of you personally. We have some important good news to convey. We were able to renew our server contract, which keeps the site live, through June 2021! That means that even though we will no longer be publishing new content, our archives, comprised of more than 9,000 posts, will be accessible on the site through that date. To those of you who recently donated, you helped to make that extension possible – thank you so very much. There are a few other details that we would like to leave you with.   [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/thank-you-from-the-san-diego-free-press/feed/ 5 201358 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/dear-san-diego-free-press/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/dear-san-diego-free-press/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:34:11 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=200610 [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/dear-san-diego-free-press/feed/ 1 200610 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/microplastics-are-everywhere-in-us-too/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:27:12 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201415 microplastics, tiny bits of plastic waste ubiquitous in oceans, lakes and rivers and even soil and air. Wildlife as diverse as whales, seabirds, fish and zooplankton are polluted by ingesting plastic debris. It’s naïve to assume that humans, sharing the same global environment and eating at the top of the food chain, are magically spared contamination from plastics. Though no one has yet measured how much plastic pollution humans actually carry around, there’s plenty of evidence we’re taking the stuff in, by eating, drinking and just breathing.   [Read more...]]]> 201415 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/words-out-geo-poetic-spaces/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:28:45 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201428 [Read more...]]]> 201428 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/movin-on-with-style-and-grace-video-worth-watching/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/movin-on-with-style-and-grace-video-worth-watching/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:00:09 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201437 [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/movin-on-with-style-and-grace-video-worth-watching/feed/ 1 201437 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/which-presidential-candidate-will-you-support-in-2020/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/which-presidential-candidate-will-you-support-in-2020/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:07:02 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201409 [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/which-presidential-candidate-will-you-support-in-2020/feed/ 2 201409 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/and-then-they-came-for-the-vietnamese/ https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/and-then-they-came-for-the-vietnamese/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:15:33 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201402 By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams What fresh hell is this? In yet another mindlessly cruel, deeply racist, utterly pointless move aimed at – what?! distracting the masses from the dumpster fire engulfing him? flexing his psychotic muscle by trying to find more people of color he can traumatize? – the Trump administration (sic) wants to deport certain Vietnamese refugees who may or may not have committed any crimes but they’re not quite white so really does it matter?   [Read more...]]]> https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/and-then-they-came-for-the-vietnamese/feed/ 2 201402 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/amazons-disturbing-plan-to-add-face-surveillance-to-your-front-door/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:03:44 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201369 By Jacob Snow, Technology & Civil Liberties Attorney, ACLU of Northern California / ACLU Speak Freely Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year. While the details are sketchy, the application describes a system that the police can use to match the faces of people walking by a doorbell camera with a photo database of persons they deem “suspicious.” Likewise, homeowners can also add photos of “suspicious” people into the system and then the doorbell’s facial recognition program will scan anyone passing their home. In either case, if a match occurs, the person’s face can be automatically sent to law enforcement, and the police could arrive in minutes. As a former patent litigator, I've spent a lot of time reading patents. It’s rare for patent applications to lay out, in such nightmarish detail, the world a company wants to bring about. Amazon is dreaming of a dangerous future, with its technology at the center of a massive decentralized surveillance network, running real-time facial recognition on members of the public using cameras installed in people’s doorbells.   [Read more...]]]> 201369 https://sandiegofreepress.org/2018/12/future-of-journalism-is-in-our-hands/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:53:05 +0000 https://sandiegofreepress.org/?p=201370 The never ending hunt for truth is a turbulent journey By Olivia Tai and Ebony Estrada The future of journalism is in our hands, the younger generation. As young, aspiring journalists, we strive to bring awareness to the industry. With all the talk of fake news and slandering of journalism, people may see journalism in a negative light. We want to change this perception. Journalism is one of the most essential elements of having a functioning, educated society. However, with the all the chaos and disarray of the modern day, journalism has been met with much skepticism. Cries of “fake news” run rampant, and faith in the integrity of journalism is in decline. The objective of journalism is to inform and educate. It is our goal to bring back the passion for truth in journalism and remember that it is a tool that can truly help the underrepresented, underprivileged, and those without a voice.   [Read more...]]]> 201370