By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji This month’s column is devoted to updating the community about activities and plans of the Progressive Network of Central California. Our first priority for the next few months [...] Continue Reading
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Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – April 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to positive [...] Continue Reading
Reinstating Merced High School Transportation: Bus Cuts Foster Inequality Among Students and Employees
By Jeff Freitas Last April, the Merced Union High School District (MUHSD) Board of Trustees cut school bus service for high school students living within a five-mile radius of the school, eliminating [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – April 2013: Air Board Intransigence
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is a public health agency run by a Governing Board of local politicians including names such as Judy Case of Fresno County, [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – April 2013
By John Crockford A Free Phone, 250 Free Minutes and 250 Free Texts Each Month Enrollment is available to individuals who qualify based on federal or state-specific eligibility criteria. You may [...] Continue Reading
What Would It Look Like for Society to Hit One Out of the Ballpark?
By Leonard Adame “Them that’s got shall get, them that’s not shall lose.”—Billie Holiday I wanted to take Mickey Mantle’s place in Yankee Stadium. I knew I too could run to first in three seconds or [...] Continue Reading
So Tell Me Something New: What about Systems Thinking?
By Jean Kennedy As I reflected on our African-American month of celebrations, it was a little different this year. Along with spending it in the South, my radio shows helped to promote the viewing of [...] Continue Reading
Setting the Course for Tomorrow
By Ruth Gadebusch On April 9, women will have caught up with the pay that men made by Dec. 31. Despite all the efforts through the years to equalize pay for equal work women still lag behind, [...] Continue Reading
When the Personal Becomes Political
By Kaylia Metcalfe I attended a writers’ conference recently where I listened to a panel discussion about the “The Politics of the Writer” that centered on the idea of separating the artist from the [...] Continue Reading
See The Bus in Fresno
By Kaylia Metcalfe The New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) and Gay Central Valley are proud to present the West Coast Tour of The Bus by James Lantz. The show will be performed at the Unitarian [...] Continue Reading
Hindemith, Verdi and Edward Albee
By Alfonso C. Hernandez The Winter Concert Series in Three Rivers in February presented the Calidore Quartet formed by four young musicians from the best of the Colburn School of Music: Estelle Choi, [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Joins Eve Ensler’s Call to “Strike, Dance, Rise!”
By Georgia Williams Jemmy Bluestein began spreading the word about One Billion Rising (OBR) when he heard Eve Ensler, noted author of The Vagina Monologues, speak on KFCF radio about a year ago. [...] Continue Reading