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Peace Fresno and Palestine Freedom Project Forum
By Stan Santos On Sept. 6, Peace Fresno and the Palestine Freedom Project presented a forum with several speakers including Richard Becker, author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire. Richard [...] Continue Reading
The Children of Conflict: The Ignored History of the Migrant Refugee Crisis
By Matt Ford (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Aug. 25 in CounterPunch. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.) On July 25, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – October 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, Oct. 9, 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. 1, the first [...] Continue Reading
Bhangra Bboys Breakbeats: Exploring Identities through the Arts
By Ernesto Saavedra On Oct. 4, beats and cultural barriers will be broken. Bhangra Bboys Breakbeats (BBB) will make its way to Fresno to showcase the unique and powerful blend of traditional [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – October 2014
Edited by Richard Stone This month’s selections are by Wayne Warkentin, longtime peace activist, a board member of Peace Fresno for five years, an environmentalist (Sierra Club, Earth First! [...] Continue Reading
Latin American Film Festival
By the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies The Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies (CLAS) has announced the second annual Latin American Film Festival. The mission of the [...] Continue Reading
Report from Cuba
By Leni Reeves We were a small determined group—the 2014 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. Our oldest was Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) member Judy Geer from Santa [...] Continue Reading
Water is Everybody’s Business
By Stan Santos (Author’s note: This article is based on research done in July 2014 and presented in the Spanish language section of the August Community Alliance.) In September 2013, a nonprofit [...] Continue Reading
Curfews and Repression in Ferguson Represent Further Consolidation of Right-Wing Power
By Dhoruba Bin-Wahad We have discussed this for years haven’t we? The militarization of American law enforcement has accompanied the racist and corporate right-wing consolidation of power in America [...] Continue Reading
Virak Ou: Fresno’s Adopted Son, Cambodia’s Hope
By Hannah Brandt Most Fresnans do not know that an internationally renowned human rights activist spent many years among us as a classmate, colleague, and neighbor. I certainly did not until I went [...] Continue Reading