By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
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Don’t Mourn, Organize!
By Mike Rhodes Now that the transition is under way to install a right-wing Republican narcissist who has the potential to alter the political landscape into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, we [...] Continue Reading
Proposed Newsstand Ordinance a Concern for Independent Print News
By Editor-in-Chief If you listen to the Community Alliance version of Stir it Up on KFCF 88.1 every month, you may have heard me talk a few weeks ago about the proposed newsstand ordinance for the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – January 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday Jan 12 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Jan 4, (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
Joint Statement from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and National Indigenous Congress
Translated By Jonathan Luevanos (Author’s note: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist political group formed by indigenous people from the Lacandon Jungle in [...] Continue Reading
FRESNO PROGRESSIVES REJECT PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP
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Fresno Leaders Speak Out About Post-Election Immigration Concerns
By Vic Bedoian There are an estimated three hundred thousand undocumented immigrants in the San Joaquin Valley who fear what the future may hold for them if the Trump administration does what they [...] Continue Reading
Mixed Election Results in Fresno County
By Michael D. Evans No doubt everyone was shocked by the outcome of the national election. We will be assessing and analyzing how Donald Trump could possibly have been elected President for [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights Commemoration Day
By Mariya Zheleva Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” This year, the Human Rights [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Native Americans Raise Awareness About the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Hannah Brandt Central Valley tribes held three events in Fresno in November to educate the public about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and support native peoples protecting the land and water at [...] Continue Reading
KFCF BANQUET 2016
Free Speech Award recipients 2016 are Justice Rene Medina and Juan Rafael Avitia. Programmer of the Year Award recipient is Tom Willey for “Down on the Farm.” Photos by Richard D. Iyall, Cowlitz and [...] Continue Reading