By Vic Bedoian The Bureau of Land Management recently approved a new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument. The oil well hasn’t operated for nearly 20 years and was slated to be [...] Continue Reading
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Why Oliver Baines Shouldn’t Head Fresno Police Reform
By Kevin Hall Short answer: He’s a cop. Newly engaged Fresno activists young and old are about to get a fundamental lesson in local politics. That’s because their efforts to radically alter the [...] Continue Reading
Air District Fails Audit
By Tom Frantz For years, San Joaquin Valley clean air activists have railed against the local air district program of emission reduction credits (ERCs). This program allows new polluting projects [...] Continue Reading
Alex Vavoulis Left an Enduring Legacy
By Vic Bedoian Alex Vavoulis, the man who launched radio station KFCF in Fresno among many other achievements, died June 9 at the age of 95. He was a proud Greek-American who grew up in New [...] Continue Reading
Nursing Homes Unsafe during Pandemic?
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the plight of U.S. seniors, who have been disproportionately infected and killed by the disease. Eight out of 10 Covid deaths in the United [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Sanctions Imposed on International Court at The Hague
By Leni Villagomez Reeves “State of Emergency” On June 11, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a “state of emergency.” Not about the pandemic. Not about racist violence by the police and the [...] Continue Reading
Border and Racism Issues
By Leni Villagomez Reeves There are two issues to address. They are closely related. First, we must realize that it is U.S. policies and direct interventions that have produced violent unstable [...] Continue Reading
Finding Good in Horrible
By Ruth Gadebusch In a way that we never foresaw, this nation has been shaken to its bones—to its graveyards—with the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the killing of a Black man. Seemingly [...] Continue Reading
Where Is the Freedom in This Land?
Free verse poem by Richard Iyall Why was this country formed, this country called United States? Did notthe founders seek their freedom and their independence from a kingwho ruled its people with [...] Continue Reading
Raisin City Water-Faucet
By Stephen Barile There is a well,a submersible-pump,pressure-tank and archaicbrass-faucet on the end of a steel-pipesticking out of the groundat the south extremity of Raisin City Park,a [...] Continue Reading
La Frontera y el Racismo
Por Leni Villagomez Reeves Hay dos asuntos al que tenemos que dirigirnos. Son relacionados directamente. Primero, hay que darnos cuenta que son las políticas y intervenciones directas [...] Continue Reading
México: Impacto de la Pandemia en Trabajadores Informales
Por Eduardo Stanley El Covid-19 está afectando dramáticamente a nuestra sociedad, no solo por los altos niveles de contagios y muertes sino también por sus efectos en la economía. En México está [...] Continue Reading