*** The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC *** By Mike Rhodes There is a controversy, mostly being played out on the national stage, about what it means to be [...] Continue Reading
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Rite of Passage
On November 30, 2014, I received the rite of baptism at Community United Church of Christ in Fresno, CA. It was my third baptism: the first took place at a Methodist church in Illinois when I was an [...] Continue Reading
FULTON MALL SUPPORTERS TO APPEAL DEMOLITION RULING
By Doug Richert The Downtown Fresno Coalition (DFC) was formed to promote responsible revitalization of downtown Fresno. Focusing on preserving Fulton Mall, one of DFC’s most abiding concerns is to [...] Continue Reading
El Molcajete del Diablo
By Leonard Adame The sky is at its most ominous in the desert--it is the repository of snake-eyed glints, a place where molcajete stone is born distance doesn’t exist there nor does it in the [...] Continue Reading
USE THAT VOTE
By Ruth Gadebusch It surely appears very early in the game to be so fully engaged in an election, but like it or not it is all engulfing. The importance of this coming election cannot be denied. My [...] Continue Reading
International Network in Action
International President of the National Network In Action, Rev. Dr. Floyd D. Harris, Jr. has united community leaders and activists statewide to continue to push the Black Lives Matter movement in [...] Continue Reading
“Hey, Hey, LBJ!” Anti-War Performance Comes to Rogue Festival
By Hannah Brandt In 1964, San Francisco native David Kleinberg dropped out of school to travel. He knew something was going on in Vietnam, but wasn’t too worried about being drafted. He thought it [...] Continue Reading
JOURNALISTS, PROFESSORS, LEGISLATORS: What do they have in Common?
By Alex Vavoulis All three have become victims of the Corporate State; they are all victims of the capitalist class because the three provide fertile ground for the capitalist to improve its income; [...] Continue Reading
DARWIN DAY 2016
By George B. Kauffman Last month our nation celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, while the entire world celebrated the birthday of Charles Darwin, who is ranked alongside our greatest [...] Continue Reading
Abbot’s Story
By Richard Stone Author’s Note: The following piece is entirely fictional. It is based (in some ways closely) on my direct connection with the mother of a well-publicized real-life murderer, and on [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – March 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, March 10, at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 2, (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading