By Kamal Abu-Shamsieh “I Am Not Your Negro” is a film that documents significant events in the history of African Americans through the works of the social critic and writer James Baldwin. In his [...] Continue Reading
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Education: Hanson is Gone, Time for Change
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes On March 28 at 4 p.m. at The People’s Church (7172 N. Cedar Fresno, CA 93720) the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) will be hosting An Education Summit on the Future of [...] Continue Reading
I’m Undocumented and I don’t Think Trump is the Problem
By Miguel Bibanco (Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Know Youth Media and is republished with permission.) Just a month into Trump’s presidency and the controversies [...] Continue Reading
Housing Code Enforcement: From Protest to Policy
By Daniel O’Connell In the 1930s, union leader A. Philip Randolph came to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to complain that the New Deal was not helping his workers enough and that stronger measures were [...] Continue Reading
Disabled by Consumer Culture & Dignified Paths to our Fullest Potential
By Brian Jay Snyder I sit with great sadness upon a tree stump beside my home in the mountains of Central California. I see hundreds of tree stumps and multiple log-decks with hundreds of dead trees [...] Continue Reading
Working with Syrian Refugees in Fresno
By Wasan Abu-Baker I was born and raised in Palestine, in a highly-educated household. My father was politically active and outspoken for the civil rights of Palestinians through non-violent [...] Continue Reading
Mindfulness Walks
Fresno Mindfulness Walks – A Walk Across Fresno In May 2014, Lori Clanton founded Fresno Mindfulness Walks when she woke up on a Saturday morning and decided to walk a neighborhood other than her [...] Continue Reading
Journalism, Fake News, and The First Amendment
By Joshua C. Shurley, Ph.D. Walter Lippman, considered by some to be the "father of modern journalism" famously wrote that "there can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which [...] Continue Reading
CAMINOS DE ESPERANZA
Por Gustavo Esteva Sobran motivos y razones para preocuparse. Al despertar, la pesadilla no se esfumó. Estaba en el mundo real, no en el sueño. Nos preocupamos los mexicanos, especialmente los que [...] Continue Reading
Former Community Alliance Editor Visits State Prison Creative Writing Guild
By Boston Woodard It was great to meet my friend of 12 years for the first time. Mike Rhodes, former editor of the Community Alliance and author of Dispatches From The War Zone, spoke to members of [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – March 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday March 9 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 1 (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading