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Our weekend arts picks include the North Park Book Fair, Sidro Saturdays and an exhibition at the Front, Pride, Guillermo Galindo's found object sonic devices and the iPalpiti Festival.

A surprising climate deal was announced last week in the Senate and Congressman Scott Peters talks about why the passage of the climate and economic bill is important for San Diego. Then, KPBS environment reporter Erik Anderson on what local climate activists are saying about the bill. Next, a new Voice of San Diego report finds women in the military are more than twice as likely to take their own lives as civilians. Then, the Space Force is abandoning traditional physical fitness assessments and instead outfitting troops with fitness trackers. Next, a plea in a federal case involving a pornagraphic sex trafficking ring. Finally, an excerpt of the latest episode of KPBS's "Port of Entry" podcast explores how a company of Mexican and U.S. artists use theater, music, movement and play to actively engage their audiences in conversations about life along the border.

Debt ceiling dramas have been going on a long time. The first one happened exactly 70 years ago. President Eisenhower asked Congress for an extra $15 billion and the Senate said, "No dice."

An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.

For more than 40 years, Human Rights Watch has defended people at risk of abuse by investigating abuses scrupulously, exposing the facts widely, and relentlessly pressing those in power for change that respects rights. HRWFF makes effort to celebrate diversity of content and perspective in the films we select and post-screening conversations we host. From filmmakers to film participants to panelists, we strive to prioritize space for identities, viewpoints, forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalized in the film industry, news and media. Discussions following the screenings with filmmakers, film participants, human rights activists & journalists take place after every screening to provide our audience with the opportunity to dig deeper into the issues they have just seen on screen. Get your passes and join us online for a week of dynamic films and live conversations with filmmakers and human rights experts from around the world. Click here to see full movie line-up. Date | From Wednesday, February 2 through Tuesday, February 8. Click here to see full schedule. Location | Online Get tickets here! General public: $9 Film festival pass: $35 HRW/ MOPA Members: Individual tickets $6 + Festival pass $20 High School students + teachers can view the films free: email lane@mopa.org for free ticket codes for your class. This event is brought to you by Human Rights Watch and the Museum of Photographic Arts. For more information, please visit ff.hrw.org/san-diego or contact Arturo Garcia from MOPA at garcia@mopa.org or by phone at (619) 238 7559 x210.

From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.

Alida Cervantes, Angélica Escoto, Carlos Castro Arias and Cog•nate Collective were chosen this year by a newly expanded jury of nonlocal curators representing the Whitney Museum, San Francisco's MOMA and more.

Here are the award winners.

From the museum: Workshop sign-up will begin the day of the event at 10 a.m. by our Education Center. Workshop times: 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m. Space is limited Mingei is thrilled to continue to offer this free, onsite event for all ages. Each month the Museum will partner with local artists and organizations throughout San Diego to provide interactive activities including hands-on art making, musical performances, storytelling prizes and more! This October, honor Day of the Dead and create your own sugar skull piñata with piñata artist Diana Benavidez. You will experiment with cardboard, crepe streamers, tissue and construction paper to craft and decorate your whimsical creation. Alongside the history and folklore of piñatas, Diana will share her own hybrid methods of using this craft for expression and storytelling. Diana Benavidez is a Binational artist from the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Her art practice explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Diana builds piñatas that reflect upon her experiences growing up as a woman in a border town. Her work is characterized as introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas such as media, gadgets, and technology. Diana received a BA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego and her art has been exhibited in Mexico, Canada, and the US. Currently, three of Benavidez's piñatas are on display at PIÑATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION group exhibition at Craft in America Center in Los Angeles. Family Sunday is made possible through a generous grant from the ResMed Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

In recent years, the demands on the NEDA helpline, and the humans who ran it, escalated. The organization says it was unsustainable. But some have worries about new plans for an online chatbot.