Worried about a Christian Nationalist takeover of the federal government? Good. You should be. Feeling helpless to block Project 2025 and Agenda 47, Trump’s Cliff Notes version of it, because you live [...] Continue Reading
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Never Stop Protesting!
As of June 19, more than 37,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. An article [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
August 2024 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. This is a .pdf of the August 2024 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of [...] Continue Reading
Central Labor Council Sponsored Page
August 2024 This is a .pdf of the August 2024 Central Labor Council Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading
Looking for Every Opportunity to Do Evil: H.R. 8771
Something impressive about the U.S. ultra-right is the apparent ability to do a huge number of bad things simultaneously. An example is the State and Foreign Operations and Related Programs [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC Fundraiser a Success
The Nov. 5 general election is hurtling toward us. Fresno progressives gathered two days after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, which was the topic of several conversations. The [...] Continue Reading
Conn “Ringo” Hallinan: He Knew Whose Side He Was On
I learned a lot from Conn “Ringo” Hallinan, who passed away on June 19. Ringo had a full life as both a writer and political organizer, and ran the journalism program at UC Santa Cruz for 23 years. [...] Continue Reading
Descansa en Paz Merlinda Hermosa
“Whether belting out a Mexican revolutionary song or filling the role of Lucia Norman [Maria Broussé], Espinosa dominates the stage, she is a gem.” —Juan Esparza, editor, Vida en el [...] Continue Reading
Human Toll of Broken Security Promises
“We were the first to meet the enemy,” said Tetiana Mironenko, representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Commissioner for Human Rights Protection. We met in a spacious office in downtown [...] Continue Reading
Delano Sued Over a Bottling Plant
In April, the Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District (the “District”) filed a lawsuit against the City of Delano (“Delano”) over the newly established Niagara water bottling plant. The [...] Continue Reading
Another Scramble for Africa
Historians refer to the spread of European empires over Africa during the Age of Imperialism as the “scramble for Africa.” The scramble for Africa unfolded as a series of significant events that [...] Continue Reading
Gender, Misogyny, Race/Class Questions in Presidential Election
With President Biden’s withdrawal from his presidential bid, Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency. Kamala Harris’s parents gave her the [...] Continue Reading