By Richard Stone (Author’s note: Below is one of a series of excerpts from a book that will be running for the next few months. Let us know if you’d like to see more.) The book’s introduction [...] Continue Reading
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Book Review: The Terrorism Trap
A Review by Alex Vavoulis In 2002, after the tragic event of Sept. 11, the renowned author Michael Parenti wrote The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond. It should be required reading for anyone [...] Continue Reading
Native American Identity, Culture and Education
By Ernesto Saavedra & Jennifer Vargas Before highways, government buildings and shopping centers littered the San Joaquin Valley, the Yokut and Mono tribes populated the Valley and surrounding [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
By Ernesto Saavedra It’s summer in December. As the leaves of autumn fall to make way for the winter to come, the heartbeat of the street lights up the night sky, emanating a heat that burns down [...] Continue Reading
Blight to Light
By Clayton Whited, Omar Ruiz, Juanita Perez and Patricia Sifuentes Blight to Light is a cooperative effort involving Fresno State students, community members, city officials and property owners to [...] Continue Reading
LGBT 2014 in Review
By Kaylia Metcalfe (Author’s note: This article was finished and submitted on Nov. 15; some things might have changed since then.) This year was, in many ways, a banner year for LGBT rights and [...] Continue Reading
Aiming at the Homeless, Aiming at People of Color
Photo Essay By Leonard Adame Dirty. Animals. Lazy. Beggars. Criminals. Parasites. Abnormal. Stupid. These are terms (and so many more) aimed at the homeless, and at people of color. Surely, you the [...] Continue Reading
Bittersweet: Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
By the Community Alliance On Nov. 20, President Barack Obama issued another historical executive action on immigration that was received with a mix of happiness, sadness and anger. This bittersweet [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Votes to Invest in Health
By the Community Alliance In January of this year, Fresno County’s healthcare safety net, the Medically Indigent Services Program (MISP) was on the brink of being completely dismantled due to lack of [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – December 2014
Blight in Fresno Is a Major Problem Blight in Fresno is a major problem that many Fresno residents have long had to withstand. Currently, Fresno has more than 250 documented blighted properties in [...] Continue Reading
The Smartphone Boycott of Bank of America
By Marc Keyser Matt Taibbi’s scathing report in Rolling Stone on the monumental corruption of the Bank of America is all the more disturbing because so little is being done to stop it. We the People [...] Continue Reading