By Hannah Brandt Fresno City Council Member Steve Brandau (R) opened the Aug. 17 City Council meeting by saying that unlike he usually does, he would not be “winging it.” He said that in this case, [...] Continue Reading
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14 Things You Need to Know about the Giant Sequoia National Monument
By Art Rodriguez The timber industry wants to cut down green trees instead of dead trees because they can only get top dollar for green trees. Saw mills will not buy brown trees that are bark [...] Continue Reading
Project Shalom/Salam
Interview with Helen Siporin, a member of Fresno’s Jewish community and co-founder of Project Shalom/Salaam. Q. How did you learn about the Syrian refugees? A. Last February, my friend Susan [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence (1584 N. Van Ness Ave.). This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK A worldwide [...] Continue Reading
Are You a Progressive?
By Mike Rhodes Do you consider yourself on the left or a liberal? A progressive or a neo-liberal? Or do all of these mean the same thing? As a founding member of the Central Valley Progressive [...] Continue Reading
“Campesinos” por un día
El trayecto a Mendota, California, en auto, con clima, fue fascinante: por los dos lados de la carretera, había campos sembrados, llenos de árboles, llenos de vida. Verdes. Increíblemente paralelos, [...] Continue Reading
¿Quién es la nueva editora de Communities Alliance en la sección en Español?
Soy Lourdes Oliva, pero todos me conocen como Lulú. Nací en Guatemala, soy colombiana por parte de mi padre y mexicana por puro gusto. Mi mamá y mi abuela vinieron a Estados Unidos en 1977, como [...] Continue Reading
¿Quién es la maestra María Elena?
Mi abuelo nació en Fresno, California poco después del descubrimiento del oro en 1886. Yo nací en Coalinga, exactamente un año y un día después de mi hermana mayor. Su nombre fue María y su vida en [...] Continue Reading
The $70 Million that Might End Fresno’s “Tale of Two Cities”
By Emily Brandt We need to “raise our city to a level where past leadership, current leadership and future leadership work together...The goal [of this meeting and this project] is to see if we can [...] Continue Reading