Fresno’s premier awards ceremony for worst quotes and votes by local polluters and those who serve them—The Smoggies—is returning for a third straight year. Renowned for its sarcasm, lack of trigger [...] Continue Reading
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Merced County Falls Short
(Editor’s note: The following article is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, a nonprofit newsroom based in Merced.) During its last meeting of the year, the [...] Continue Reading
Japanese Concentration Camps in Images
In 1942, the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ordered all Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to be interned in [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Comedian and Activist Tou Ger Xiong
The actor, comedian and activist of Hmong origin, Tou Ger Xiong, died on Dec. 11. According to a statement from Xiong’s family, he was murdered in Colombia after being kidnapped by criminals who [...] Continue Reading
Getting to Know a School Board Candidate
(Author’s note: Dan Bordona has announced his candidacy for a school board seat in the November 2024 election. The author worked as a teacher at Edison High School when Bordona was also there—first as [...] Continue Reading
Impact of Climate Change on Food Security
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) warns that the progress made in human development in recent decades could be slowed or even reversed by climate change when new threats emerge to food security and [...] Continue Reading
Justice in Honduras?
Berta Cáceres was killed on March 3, 2016, one day before what would have been her 45th birthday. Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca woman in Honduras who co-founded the COPINH—Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading
Textile Workers Village Struggles to Survive
Poselok Tekstilshchikov, literally translated as Textile Workers Village, appeared in the 1960s in the Soviet Union. Almost 20,000 people, mostly women, worked at the Kherson Cotton Mill. The mill [...] Continue Reading
Another Fresno Opportunity
A believer in a “downtown,” a heart of any city, I was overjoyed with the new dreams and plans for Chinatown. Then I remembered what happened to Fresno’s Fulton Mall. It was exciting, unique and [...] Continue Reading
Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of MLK’s Birth
On Jan. 15, the City of Fresno will celebrate the 95th birth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an uncompromising champion of nonviolence, human rights and social justice. Since 1984, the [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
January 2024 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
January 2024 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. This is a .pdf of the January 2024 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size [...] Continue Reading