WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday September 8 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK September 7, first [...] Continue Reading
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A Money River Runs Through It – Mayoral Race Contributions Soar
By Kevin Hall More than a million dollars was spent leading up to the June primary by the three men hoping to become Fresno’s next mayor, and based on recent statements from the two remaining [...] Continue Reading
Black Lives Matter and Others in Fresno Protest Police Brutality
By Hannah Brandt In July the nation was rocked once again by police shootings of African Americans. First it was the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. Sterling was a 37-year-old man [...] Continue Reading
Health care coverage still not reality for some Fresnans
By Hannah Esqueda More than two years after the Affordable Care Act theoretically opened the door for universal health care, members of Fresno’s traditionally underserved communities still [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2016
By Hannah Brandt Never ending gun violence continues to plague us. It happens in every corner of the world like a cancer. People often say that cancer does not discriminate because people of all [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor – August 2016
Food Not Bombs Hi, my name is Brittney Fairburn. My boyfriend, Ruben Jimenez, and I have been in charge of running the Sunday Food Not Bombs meals for many years. Food Not Bombs receives donations [...] Continue Reading
California Drought
By George B. Kauffman According to a study by Jiangfeng Wei, Research Engineering Scientist Associate IV, in the School of Geological Sciences in Austin, Texas; Qinjian Jin, Postdoctoral Research [...] Continue Reading
USE THAT VOTE
By Ruth Gadebusch As a long-time advocate for civic education I deplore what these days seems to be disintegrating into government by demonstration. At the same time, I appreciate that all too often [...] Continue Reading
Elie
By Tiffany A. Potter Confession: I am finding it hard not to lose faith in humanity at the moment. I’m not proud of it, and I’m sure it will pass though it sometimes doesn’t feel like it will, [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: California continues to heat the planet
By Tom Frantz Now that California has been declared the sixth leading economy in the world, where does it rank in terms of climate disrupting emissions? It turns out that California, in 2014, was the [...] Continue Reading
Water Letter from WILPF
1 O. Box 5114 Fresno, CA., 93755 June 17, 2016 The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Fresno branch, agrees that protecting and securing a reliable water supply in the San [...] Continue Reading