By Toni Harrison On July 30, 1985, I remember watching the news and seeing a dark, dismal and scary airport scene where Rock Hudson was wheeled from a plane, having just returned from Paris, where he [...] Continue Reading
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Our Future Is Now
By Kaylia Metcalfe By the time this issue comes out, I will have become a mother. (I am due any second now, typing between contractions, so I feel pretty confident that the world will have a new [...] Continue Reading
The Lessons of History and Privatization of Public Services
By Matthew Ari Jendian The Fresno City Council voted 4-3 to hire a Walnut Creek firm to investigate outsourcing residential trash service on Aug. 16. The majority of the City Council was led by Lee [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – Oct. 2012
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING Thursday Oct 11 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Oct 3, first Wednesday of each month at noon at [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – Oct. 2012
Edited by Richard Stone Matt Ford composed this month’s poem while traveling in South America. He writes that “a Community Alliance ended up in my hands [sent by] a friend. It brought back beautiful [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – Oct. 2012
By John Crockford Free Books Online The Online Books Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/), which lists more than one million free books on the Web, is a service of the University of [...] Continue Reading
The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar – Oct. 2012
Compiled by Susan Orovitz Tuesday, October 2–Saturday, November 10 Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists. The Jewish Federation of Central California and Temple Beth Israel invite you to attend a [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron, Oct. 2012: “Incommensurable”? Really, Now, Do You Have to Say This Out Loud?
By David E. Roy For those who like to keep track of anniversaries (take note all who are not romantic), this year is the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s groundbreaking book, The Structure of [...] Continue Reading
Columbus and the Crouching Beggar at the Donut Shop
By Leonard Adame The young Asian man in the picture, soiled, hungry, shaking a Styrofoam cup at me so that I’d drop some change in it, crouched at the donut shop’s doorway. He hadn’t bathed or [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with Dallas Rivera: Don’t Count Him Out
By Jean Kennedy I am 3,000 miles away from the KFCF studio, and Dallas Rivera, my engineer, finds a way to get our show, Keeping It Real (KIR), on the air every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Pacific time [...] Continue Reading
Tribal Spirit
By Sister Occupy In July, the other Sister Occupy traveled with me from Merced to Fresno to attend the marvelous (and tragic) annual picnic that celebrates the lives and honors the passing of those [...] Continue Reading