When Esmeralda Soria ran unsuccessfully for Congress four years ago, the folks at Courage California, formerly Courage Campaign, heartily endorsed her as part of a slate of progressives, a California [...] Continue Reading
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Climate Change Adaptation Partnership
It is not easy to fully understand a system as complex as global climate change. However, a wealth of evidence shows that global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of [...] Continue Reading
The One and Only Rogue
You might know a thing or two about typical fringe festivals, but do you know Rogue? To those who don’t know, there are fringe festivals worldwide, but there is only one Rogue Festival—an [...] Continue Reading
Day of Remembrance
It was an historically ironic location for the Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds, where thousands of American citizens were held for months living in [...] Continue Reading
Madera Passes a Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
(Editor’s note: The following story is printed with permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) The City of Madera is the first in the San Joaquin Valley to support a [...] Continue Reading
United Against Hate
California Attorney General Rob Bonta will be the keynote speaker on April 6 at the United Against Hate forum at Fresno City College. “We must stand united against hate and do our part to prevent [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Hate Event at the Fresno Center
The latest effort by the San Joaquin Valley Media Alliance, the Community Alliance newspaper and several co-sponsors in the Stop the Hate campaign was a meeting at the Fresno Center in southeast [...] Continue Reading
Peace Is Possible, Ethical Behavior Is Possible
During more than 52 years, various right-wing governments of Colombia and revolutionary forces, including the FARC and the ELN, maintained a state of war. In 2012, formal negotiations for a peace [...] Continue Reading
Lest We Forget
The need for a Black History Month (February) and likewise a Women’s History Month (March) is not that we forget, but that all too often the stories of these groups are unknown, having been ignored in [...] Continue Reading
Killing the Truth in Gaza
“If the genocide in Gaza is not halted, it will presage a new world order. A world where the old rules, more honored in the breach than the observance, no longer matter. It will be a world where [...] Continue Reading
Life and Loss in Kherson Two Years On
On Feb. 5, Russian artillery hit a southern regional center, Kherson, killing four civilians. With 70,000 Russian troops concentrated in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya oblasts along the Dnipro River, the [...] Continue Reading
Law and Order
Watching the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the subsequent Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutions and imprisonment or fines of those involved in the criminal activity that left five [...] Continue Reading