Please leave your thoughts and views about Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer’s tenure in Comments below.
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Please leave your thoughts and views about Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer’s tenure in Comments below. Fresno tenants put up with a lot-abusive landlords, poor living conditions, retaliation threats, arbitrary evictions and unaffordable rents. Bad landlords operate with impunity, and tenants are afraid to assert their rights. Last year, Rev. Sharon Stanley of the Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM) showed reporters a bag full of roaches collected from one apartment in an infested apartment complex on Lowe Avenue in southeast Fresno. The media campaign exposed the problem, bringing much-needed public attention to the plight of tenants, and pressured the landlord to take steps to address the substandard housing conditions. However, the landlord who forced families …[Read the details] Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers’ health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating young people, educating old people, keeping military testing and recruiting out of schools, and discouraging the Army from building real-weapon video arcades in shopping malls. But when it comes to stopping our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, our citizens are less clear how to go about it. Anti-war activists want Congressman Jim …[Read the details] War Some people say Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have now become Obama’s wars. But to be honest, we live in a democracy and “we the people” have allowed the wars, so there is blame to share. We have spent more than $1 trillion on these wars already. A majority of Americans oppose both wars; they want to end these wars and bring our troops home. And with the national debt soaring above $13 trillion, America cannot afford these endless, atrocious wars. Peace Fresno wants to end the US wars of aggression in Iraq …[Read the details] Although the cluster of birth defects in Kettleman City is now under a comprehensive investigation by state and federal environmental agencies, the situation has intensified as local advocacy groups filed an administrative complaint on June 18 against Kings County with the U.S. Department of Transportation under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They allege that the Board of Supervisors discriminated against Spanish-speaking residents by limiting their participation in hearings to consider expanding the toxic waste landfill operated by Waste Management Inc. located three miles outside the town. In a related development, the California Legislative …[Read the details] |
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