By Tiffany A. Potter Most days this is where I live, in the gray. The older I get the more acutely aware I am that life is not black and white; but rather, a perpetual shade of gray. We’re most [...] Continue Reading
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Clearing the Air: Air District Claims Success While Air Quality Worsens
By Tom Frantz The American Lung Association (ALA) has once again confirmed, in their annual report, that San Joaquin Valley residents are breathing the worst air in the nation and subsequently [...] Continue Reading
Green Party Primary 2016
By Richard Gomez A person who has taken a bold step forward and out of the wreckage that is considered politics by registering with the Green Party generally identifies with Green values. That person [...] Continue Reading
Voting Progressive in the California Presidential Primary
By Yezdyar “Yez” Kaoosji By the time this newspaper is distributed readers will have barely a week left to vote for a truly progressive candidate in the California Presidential Primary. So, where [...] Continue Reading
Earth Day Fresno 2016
By Richard Iyall Earth Day Fresno 2016 was celebrated on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Radio Park. It was the perfect day for people in Central California to show their gratitude to the wonderful water [...] Continue Reading
AT&T 2016 Shareholders Meeting: CWA Activists vs “Business as Usual”
By Stan Santos Communications Workers of America District 9 is in a struggle with AT&T for the jobs and livelihoods of almost 16,000 members in California and Nevada. Over a dozen members from [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Public Defender’s Office Under Fire from ACLU
By Amanda Tripp A lawsuit accusing the Fresno County Public Defender’s office of providing inadequate defense will continue to move forward; mid-April Judge Mark Snauffer ruled in favor of allowing [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC – June 2016
**This Content is Paid for By the Central Valley Progressive PAC** CVPPAC Endorses Perea for Mayor After decades of Republican mayors in this city, we have the highest concentration of poverty in the [...] Continue Reading
Stand with Students
By Community Alliance Staff Throughout this school year, the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) has organized community meetings in the residential districts within Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
REQUIEM FOR A MALL: The Fulton Mall, Sprawl, and Revitalization
By Jacob Clark The destruction of the Fulton Mall is underway. The sculptures have been uprooted, the trees chopped down, and the ground plowed asunder. The city says this restoration of Fulton [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Homeless Forsaken By Those in Power, part 2 |
By Paul Thomas Jackson The civil rights of people—whether homeless or stably housed—are also at stake in encounters and detentions by police, whose duties are ever more burdensome. As of 2016, the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – June 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday June 9, 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK June 1, first Wednesday of each [...] Continue Reading