Links and Connections
Photo by Albert Elliott.
Ocean Beach and Point Loma Links
- Ocean Beach Historical Society ~ History of Ocean Beach, San Diego, California
- Ocean Beach Mainstreet Association ~ OBMA represents the businesses in the Newport Avenue commercial district.
- Ocean Beach Planning Board ~ and facebook page. Planning for the future of the Ocean Beach Community
- Ocean Beach Woman’s Club
- Ocean Beach Town Council ~ The object and purpose of the Ocean Beach Town Council is to express the will and represent the welfare of the community of Ocean Beach; here’s the OB Town Council facebook page
- Ocean Beach Community Development Corporation
- Point Loma Association –
- Point Loma OB Democratic Club
- Peninsula Community Planning Board
- La Playa Trails Association
- San Diego Chapter Surfrider Foundation
OB Facebook Pages
- Ocean Beach!!!
- OB Rag facebook
- OB Crime Watch – facebook
- Friends of Orchard Beach
Misc Link
- Ocean Beach Photos, Steven Rowell Photography ~ Images from the 1960’s to the Present
- Out of Bounds ~ Mike James’s OB Remembrances (as fuzzy as they are) of Ocean Beach (1976-1999)
San Diego Local Progressive Media
- San Diego Free Press – the online media partner and prodigy of the OB Rag
- East County Magazine
- Excuse Me, I’m Writing
- Marjorie Cohn ~ Law Professor (ret.) and former president of the National Lawyers Guild
- San Diego CityBeat
- San Diego Education Report Blog
- San Diego Reader
- SD Urban ~ San Diego’s core neighborhoods
- voice of san diego
- Calif Free Press
San Diego Progressive Organizations
- Center on Policy Initiatives ~ CPI
- Project YANO ~ The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
- Regional Task Force on the Homeless ~ Where every homeless person counts
- San Diego Chapter of 350.org ~ Moving San Diego to a clean energy future
- San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice ~ Get Involved with Peace!
- San Diego Coastkeeper
- San Diego Veterans for Peace ~ Hugh Thompson Memorial Chapter 91
- The Border Angels
- The Peace Resource Center of San Diego ~ Working for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment since 1980
- The San Diego River Park Foundation ~ Engaging people to celebrate and care for Our River
- Save Our Heritage Organization – for San Diego
- Activist San Diego
Like Minded Folks
- Calitics ~ A progressive open source news organization for California politics
- Daily Kos
- DeSmogBlog ~ Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science
- LA Progressive ~ Dick and Sharon
- TomDispatch ~ A regular antidote to the mainstream media
Also, check out the archive of OB Rag’s coverage of the Occupy Movement 2011
Links to Other Organizations
- 350, Join the Movement ~ Global Warming. Global Action. Global Future.
- Blue Frontier Campaign ~ Seaweed Rebel
- Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft ~ COMD
- Courage Campaign ~ A New Era for Progressive Politics in California
- New America Media
Tech Links
- Akismet ~ Comment Spam Killer!
- Avatars Plugin ~ Sterling Adventures
- Comments with Avatars ~ Sterling Adventures
- Democracy AJAX Poll ~ andrew sutherland
- Firefox Browser – Surf Smart ~ Later Days Internet Explorer!
If you would like to submit a link to be considered for this page please send it to us at OBRagBlog.
Frank Gormlie April 22, 2024 at 11:30 pm on Why San Diego Should Not Be Awarded Anything for Its ‘Bonus ADU’ Program — Not One ADU Unit Has Been Built as Low-Income HousingIN case you haven't noticed, 'build, build, build' has been the developer elite's mantra for decades; to say the 'government is owned by the unions'...
ingrate April 22, 2024 at 9:52 pm on 2 New Projects Proposed for West Point Loma Boulevard in Ocean BeachGet a load of the er load being dumped by Midway Rising in La Prensa: https://laprensa.org/perspective-grift-expands-midway-rising-development-deal 
Mateo April 22, 2024 at 9:45 pm on California Leaders Take Sides in ‘Most Important Supreme Court Case on Homelessness in 40 Years’The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 eliminated the firewall protection between investment and commercial banking. With FDR's, John...
sealintheSelkirks April 22, 2024 at 8:41 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBHawaii Takes A Stand Against Short-Term Rentals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk9eu9lemIU ___ PHASING OUT STVRs. What a novel idea, eh? sealintheSelkirks 
Joseph April 22, 2024 at 4:10 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBKh, By that do you mean away from you? Shouldn't this project be celebrated? 
Greg April 22, 2024 at 1:56 pm on 8 ADUs in 3-Story Complex Proposed for 4500 Block of Pescadero in Point LomaEveryone forgets about DEMAND when they talk about supply and demand of housing. Disincentivize this kind of behavior, demand drops, prices drops. 
Geoff Page April 22, 2024 at 1:38 pm on California Leaders Take Sides in ‘Most Important Supreme Court Case on Homelessness in 40 Years’And one of San Diego's aspiring leaders running for a city council seat, Colleen Cusack, showed her commitment and is in D.C. with those demonstrating...
Gilbert Field April 22, 2024 at 10:47 am on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Interesting concept. I would even say that 75% of the cost of a home is the land in SD. Where is all this city land...
Elizabeth Smith April 22, 2024 at 7:00 am on Why San Diego Should Not Be Awarded Anything for Its ‘Bonus ADU’ Program — Not One ADU Unit Has Been Built as Low-Income HousingWait, what?!? 1B in the next four years on bike lanes? 
rich riel April 21, 2024 at 7:38 pm on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Twenty five percent of all real estate sales prices are land costs. The overall solution to the homeless problem is to bring down housing costs....
Caligirl1960 April 21, 2024 at 7:09 pm on City Approves Affordable Housing Project on Abbott Street in OBThere are high costs to own property,such as property taxes,electricity and water plus the high prices the upkeep of these properties. Do you see the...
