By King David “The public execution has a juridical-political function. Its aim is not so much to reestablish a balance of justice as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between [...] Continue Reading
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THE ORANGE PRESIDENT COMETH and Hope FOR THE CONVIVIAL LIFE, part 2
By Brian Jay Snyder Jeannette Armstrong, an artist, author and anti-Tar Sands activist of the Okanagan Tribe in British Columbia, pleads with us to become indigenous again: We think about [...] Continue Reading
Electoral Reform NOW or Trump wins in 2020
By Richard Gomez Vote counting from the local to national level deserves a really good shake-up. Elections should more accurately reflect the voters’ needs and desires. The Rank Choice Voting System [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – February 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday February 9 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Feb 1 (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
Understanding the Political Landscape of the City
- The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC - By Mike Rhodes Looking at the changing demographics of Fresno and voter registration numbers favoring the [...] Continue Reading
Universal Heart | A profile of Muralist Mauro Carrera
By Hannah Brandt If you search Creative Fresno’s innovative and extensive Digital Mural Map of Fresno, Mauro Carrera’s Fulton Street work is called Universal Heart. The artist, who began making murals [...] Continue Reading
Community — Or Lack Thereof — In Schools
By Rumi Sherriff Recently, substitute teacher David Roberts was banned from future employment at Clovis West High School for simply wearing a “Black Lives Matter” button while teaching. A key [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – January 2017
By Hannah Brandt “We are not fundamentally a different country today than we were a month ago. . . The same country that elected Donald Trump, elected Barack Obama. . . This election is just another [...] Continue Reading
WINDOWS TEN
By Uncle Bill Windows Ten, Windows Ten Go away, don’t come again! Each new system drives me mad! What’s wrong with keeping what we had? Each “feature” complicates the mess. I find I can do less and [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – January 2017
Community Alliance Lifts Spirits By Daniel Holmes Hello to you at Community Alliance. I had the good fortune to come across one of your little newsletter papers in here – Wow! You people are really [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Demanding Clean Air in 2017
By Tom Frantz As the new year begins, residents of the San Joaquin Valley continue to gasp air permeated with pollution levels well above national and world health standards. During the winter, high [...] Continue Reading