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
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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
Fresno Center for Nonviolence Sponsored Page
January 2024 [...] Continue Reading
Las Elecciones 2024 Estarán Marcadas por el Voto Étnico y el Racismo
POR IVÁN WIELIKOSIELEC El 15 de mayo de 2018, el por entonces presidente Donald Trump autorizaba la construcción de un muro en la frontera mexicana de 300 millas. ¿La razón? “proteger al país de [...] Continue Reading
Un Nuevo Comienzo
A principios de este año, un restaurante local se vio obligado a cerrar cuando fue bombardeado con acusaciones racistas infundadas. Varios meses después y después de mucha angustia, ha reabierto con [...] Continue Reading