By Osiris Godwin Net neutrality seems to be one of those buzzwords that whizzes past us every day. We don’t notice it or pay it much attention; much like a fern in an office, we just assume that it [...] Continue Reading
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The Passing of Rufino Dominguez
By Eduardo Stanley On Nov. 11, well-known immigrant and indigenous people’s rights activist Rufino Dominguez Santos, 52, died in Fresno. Dominguez was the co-founder of the Binational Front of [...] Continue Reading
Engage in January
MLK Weekend Activities “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need [...] Continue Reading
All Good Things…
By Tiffany A. Potter As I’ve gotten older, I have learned, even welcomed, the adventure that is life. At some point, I began to realize that there was nothing to fear and that, in fact, I was capable [...] Continue Reading
Community Giveback Project
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly and currently incarcerated people and our families. The group fights against the [...] Continue Reading
Straight from Our Roots: Coco by Pixar
By Raquel Enriquez (Translated by Lourdes Oliva) Miguel is 12 years old and wants to be a musician. He loves music so much that in his spare time, he sings and learns to play the guitar. But getting [...] Continue Reading
My Dreams Don’t Have Borders
A faith vigil was held at Rep. Devin Nunes’ office in Clovis on Dec. 20 to support a clean DREAM Act. All photos by Peter Maiden. [...] Continue Reading
A Call to Action: Enough Snowflakes Make an Avalanche
By Daniel O’Connell, Ph.D. A simple test of any strategy is that it directly names its objective. For progressives in the San Joaquin Valley, the goal before us is to transform our region from one of [...] Continue Reading
Elections Report–Cuba
By Leni Reeves I was in Cuba for the Nov. 26 elections there. Of course, you’ve been told all your life that Cuba doesn’t have elections, but it does. In the United States, communist-dictatorship is [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Protest to Protect Net Neutrality
By Bob Turner The call was sent out over the Internet. “The new chairman of the FCC was a top lawyer at Verizon. Now he’s calling for a vote to kill net neutrality...Join the Protest Dec. 7 at [...] Continue Reading
Straight Outta Fresno
By Peter Maiden Poppin’, a hip-hop dance related to the Robot, originated in Fresno and traveled up and down the Valley to the Bay Area and Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hmong B-Boys and B-Girls were [...] Continue Reading
Women Usually Clean Up the Big Messes
By Sheila Kennedy Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission and was originally published at https://www.sheilakennedy.net/2017/10/women-are-always-the-ones-cleaning-up/. The [...] Continue Reading