By Mike Rhodes Progressives in Fresno did not want to see Jerry Dyer elected mayor. They see Dyer as a mini-Trump and did everything they could to stop him from being elected. Dyer’s nefarious [...] Continue Reading
Archives for June 2020
World’s Immigration and Poverty under the Pandemic
By Eduardo Stanley The number of victims is soaring around the world because of Covid-19, with over 100,000 dead persons in the United States while President Trump is playing golf. He leads the [...] Continue Reading
Helping Fresnans to Stay Safe
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Just the FAX, Please
By I. smiley G. Calderon When I first moved to Fresno just a year and a half ago, I didn’t know that the public transit system is referred to as the “FAX,” short for “Fresno Area Express.” I [...] Continue Reading
Attack on Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C.
By Leni Villagomez Reeves On April 30, at about 2 a.m., Alexander Alazo, a Texas resident and Trump supporter—he wrote “Trump 2020” on a Cuban flag—took an AK-47 and fired 32 shots at the Cuban [...] Continue Reading
Connecting the Dots: The Plan to Invade Venezuela and Kidnap or Kill the President for Big Money
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The Invasion On May 3 and 4, two groups of armed men left Colombia on boats to attempt to land in Venezuela, seize Maiquetia International Airport, kidnap President [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Connection to Nicaragua
During the late 1970s, the Nicaraguan People’s Solidarity Committee in Fresno raised money to support the revolutionaries in Nicaragua. Later, the group changed its name to the Latin American Support [...] Continue Reading
Meet Madera County’s New Public Health Officer
By Peter Maiden Dr. Simon Paul is the public health officer for Madera County. He started in his position in February, just weeks before the first reported case of Covid-19 in Madera County. He [...] Continue Reading
El coronavirus ataca los centros para ancianos
Por Gabriel Lerner Uno de los aspectos más espeluznantes de la pandemia del coronavirus es cómo ataca y se ensaña con los ancianos. En particular aquellos que viven postrados y en proximidad en los [...] Continue Reading
Reunite, Resistance, Feminism and Activism
By Janet Capella (Editor’s note: The following text is from the author’s presentation at a gathering at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Fresno on June 22, 2019. The author is an antiwar [...] Continue Reading
Without Knowledge There Are No Solutions
The pandemic issue has become radically politicized. Motivated from the White House, the movement against science—and against vaccines and knowledge in general—with the excuse of protecting individual [...] Continue Reading
La Pandemia Paralela: Las Mujeres Trabajan Más Y Duermen Menos Debido Al Covid-19
Por Sunita Sohrabji Las mujeres alrededor del mundo enfrentan una crisis paralela en tiempos de la pandemia del COVID-19, mientras sus cargas de trabajo tanto remunerado como no remunerado aumenta [...] Continue Reading