By Tiffany A. Potter Storyland reopened on Sept. 4, and I couldn’t be happier for it. I consider it a jewel of this town that we live in (a town that outsiders seldom have anything nice to say [...] Continue Reading
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Former Migrant to Fresno Advocates for Children in Poverty
By Hannah Brandt Like the migrants and refugees flooding Europe’s shores today, Luan Huynh’s family escaped the ravages of war in Vietnam on a boat. In their case, it was her father’s fishing boat, [...] Continue Reading
John Lewis and Selma in Fresno
By Hannah Brandt Congressional Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis (D–Ga.) was a guest at the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno on Aug. 19. A discussion with Lewis' Central Valley [...] Continue Reading
The Idolatry of Whiteness
By Bryson White (Author’s note: The following is an excerpt from a sermon delivered at the First Mennonite Community Church on Sept. 20.) In Jeremiah 8, the “wise leaders” of the nation are [...] Continue Reading
NEW ORLEANS A DECADE AFTER KATRINA “Waiting for Godot” Courtesy of Disaster Capitalism
By Gilbert Mercier (Editor’s note: This article first appeared at News Junkie Post: www.newsjunkiepost.com.) When journalists report on a story— providing that they embrace a pseudo-neutral AP [...] Continue Reading
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and He’s Counting on You for Help
By Maria Telesco For the past 14 years, women incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla have received a holiday gift bag, courtesy of the prison’s Inmate Family [...] Continue Reading
OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Dear Board of Supervisors: I, Hazel Grace DeRossett, am the Mother of Shemaiah Lindsey, an inmate in the Fresno County Jail. History is repeating itself. I respectfully request the Board pass some [...] Continue Reading
Gandhi An Apostle of Peace and Nonviolence Celebration
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”—Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi, the great spiritual, social [...] Continue Reading
Edward Said Lecture Series
By Vida Samiian The Middle East Studies program at Fresno State will host its first Edward Said Lecture Series this fall honoring the late Palestinian-American literary theorist and public [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Continues to Evolve in Its Own Unique Ways
By Gerry Bill Trying to paint an accurate word picture of Cuban society is very much like trying to paint a ballerina’s pirouette— one can capture a point in time image, but dynamics of the move are [...] Continue Reading
The Road Ahead
By Mike Rhodes Loretta Kensinger is the vice president of the Central Valley Progressive PAC and has led some of the discussions within the group about developing a local electoral strategy around [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – October 2015
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Oct. 7 (first [...] Continue Reading