A personal reflection by Camille Russell With a title like Cowspiracy, it better be good! Cowspiracy contends that animal agriculture in the 21st century is “the most destructive industry facing the [...] Continue Reading
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Review of ART
By Cherylyn Smith The innovative theater company Curtain 5, under the direction of Jerry Palladino, presented ART, by Yasmina Reza, at the Fresno Art Museum in late October. A superlative cast was [...] Continue Reading
Notes from Home: Drill for Will
By Trudy Wischemann (Editor’s note: This article was previously published in Tulare County’s Foothills Sun-Gazette on Oct. 7, 2015.) I was bottle-feeding a kitten on the back step when I heard Paul [...] Continue Reading
Young Women Leading the Fight for Social Justice Honored
By Beth Becker WASHINGTON, D.C.—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, has been named winner of the Berger-Marks Foundation 2015 Edna Award for Social Justice. The Edna Award, which [...] Continue Reading
Stand with Students
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes For too long, our community and educators have not kept an attentive eye on what is happening with the superintendent or the board at the Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Joins the Central Valley Progressive PAC
By Mike Rhodes “Whose got the power? We have the power!” That chant rang out loud and clear from the 200+ attendees of the CVPPAC Evening with Dolores Huerta. “What kind of power? People power!” [...] Continue Reading
Saving Sierra Nevada Forests from Catastrophic Collapse
By Vic Bedoian Scientists and land stewards in Sierra Nevada pine forests are alarmed about the changing conditions inflaming the frequency and ferocity of mountain wildfires in recent years. [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: People, Planet and the Valley
By Sudarshan Kapoor In commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s Proclamation of Human Rights Day, the Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley is hosting a discussion of [...] Continue Reading
Just Mercy
By Maria Telesco Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 348 pages, $15. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him “America’s Nelson [...] Continue Reading
Disability Rights Groups Advocacy Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide
Editor’s note: The following article is republished with permission from Not Dead Yet, a disability advocacy organization. The majority of disability groups, such as ADAPT and the Center for [...] Continue Reading
WILPF: 2015 November
DANGEROUS WILPF WOMEN IN ACTION By Joan Poss On Oct. 9, the first Wednesday of this month, Ingrid Carmean, Sue Kern and I were holding our silent vigil against all wars. At about 12:30 p.m., I noticed [...] Continue Reading
Perspectives on the Criminalization of Homelessness in Fresno
By Jonathan Luevanos On the other side of the railroad tracks, west of downtown Fresno, there is an area that is socially and culturally independent of all of the other communities in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading