By: Patrick Young With over 200,000 dead and a collapsed city, Haiti is desperate for help. The pervasive poverty Haitians have been living with for years is now past the breaking point. With few [...] Continue Reading
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Peace & Justice Festival: 9th Annual Rally in the Valley
By: Ken Hudson Be counted for peace at the Peace & Justice Festival: 9th Annual Rally in the Valley on Sunday, March 21, from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Big Fresno Fairgrounds Junior Exhibit [...] Continue Reading
Latest Stunt at Labor Board Shows SEIU’s Charges Have No Merit
By: Sadie Crabtree After a year of stalling union elections for more than 100,000 of their own members who want to quit SEIU, SEIU officials have cast themselves as champions of democracy in a [...] Continue Reading
Huge Victory for Kettleman City and Environmental Justice Allies
By: Bradley Angel In a major victory for the residents of the embattled Latino farmworker community of Kettleman City and their environmental justice allies, corporate giant Waste Management, parent [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno Opposes Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
By: Camille Russell On December 1, after three months of deliberation and 10 war councils, President Obama announced an escalation of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a [...] Continue Reading
Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region
By: Lloyd Carter Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty This two-part series shows how a long American tradition of helping small farmers has, in the past few decades in the [...] Continue Reading
Outrage of the Month
By: Mike Rhodes You would think that Fresno City College, like other institutions of higher learning, would do everything in its power to support academic freedom and free speech. Our faith was [...] Continue Reading
SEIU’s Civil War
By: Bill Fletcher American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. (This article was originally published by In These Times at InTheseTimes.com. For [...] Continue Reading
Green Washing the Milk
By: Robert Gammon Editor's Note: This article was originally printed in the East Bay Express The organic dairy industry has fallen on rough financial times in the past year. Small farmers have been [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Melts Down
By: Dan Waterhouse As 2009 draws to a close, some 125 City of Fresno employees know that their New Year’s Eve will not be a joyous one: When they wake up on New Year’s Day, they will be unemployed [...] Continue Reading
The ACLU: Defending Your Civil Liberties
By: Bill Simon It has been a busy month at the Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC. Civil liberties just keep trying to go away! Several members of the Board were present at the Fresno State Study-In [...] Continue Reading
Credo
By: Richard Stone Matthew 25:26 says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” My colleague, Maria Telesco, understands the passage as a pronouncement by Jesus that the redemptive work his life [...] Continue Reading