Last winter in an e-mail to this reporter, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said that “some people may not believe it, but I really do care about homeless people.” In January 2023, Fresno City Council Member [...] Continue Reading
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In Memory of Eddie Montoya
BY SALLIE MAGGARD Eddie Montoya was found deceased on the streets of the Tower District in August 2023, and there was a memorial for him on Sept. 10. His name has been submitted to the National [...] Continue Reading
CVLRT Endorses Republican for Congress
On Dec. 9, 2023, the Central Valley Leadership Round Table (CVLRT) met in Firebaugh to interview candidates for California’s 13th Congressional District, which includes parts of Merced, Madera, [...] Continue Reading
A Luta Continua: The Struggle That Must Be
Dr. Claudine Gay was appointed president of Harvard University on Dec. 17, 2022. She became the first Black president in Harvard’s nearly 400 years of existence. Dr. Gay had been serving as the dean [...] Continue Reading
Security Implications of Climate Change
After the open discussion on climate change and security at the UN Security Council in July 2011 during the German Council Presidency, and considering further developments, governments and [...] Continue Reading
Perspectives on the War
It is more than 100 days since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, and the daily news bulletins of destruction raise painful emotions. For me, it was an additional shock to learn from an article in a [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Speak Out for Palestine
Zahra Al, a teacher and Fresno State alumnus, told the Fresno City Council on Jan. 11, “I am here for Palestine, I am here for Gaza. I am here to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. I am [...] Continue Reading
Khalida Jarrar
Statistics are important. We can know the official count of the dead and realize that this represents only those who have been identified and that many more bodies remain, killed but unidentified and [...] Continue Reading
To Gaza, Palestine: “Your Pain Is Our Pain”
A POEM BY ZAHARA AL With the first blast that shattered your peace, we cried “Genocide!”An oppressor’s cruel act, their war crimes cannot hide.Each explosion they unleash, in their ruthless, [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Oppression, Cruelty Ignored
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Photos splashed across the Internet of smiling [...] Continue Reading
Can We Prevent a Frightening Prospect?
It has long been said that all great empires come to an end. Is that to be our fate? Yes, we are an empire even though we seldom apply that word to the American Dream. I fear that we are about to get [...] Continue Reading