By Leni Reeves Q. So, can I go to Cuba now? A. Same as before: a tightly scheduled educational or cultural exchange trip according to U.S. government guidelines, now without having to request a [...] Continue Reading
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WILPF: February 2015
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday February 12, 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK February 4, first [...] Continue Reading
Marjorie Cohn on Drone Warfare: Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective
In the anthology Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues, [...] Continue Reading
Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System
By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: This is one of a series of articles on this subject. Stay tuned for more to come.) There are more people incarcerated in the United States than in any other [...] Continue Reading
Truth and Reconciliation: Fresno Pacific University Examines Peace and Justice through Theater
By Hannah Brandt For years, American college campuses have lulled themselves into a complacent slumber regarding political activism and social justice. The decades of ambivalence among American youth [...] Continue Reading
Meeting the Challenge: A Tempered Response
By David E. Roy In last month’s Community Alliance, there was a passionate article about religion that echoed some of the themes I have pursued for the past six years. While the author, Norman [...] Continue Reading
We Are All Tired and Can’t Breathe
By Ernesto Saavedra On Dec. 3, 2014, thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered in 43 cities, and more, in response to the missing 43 students (as of Dec. 7, it was 42) from the Raúl Isidro [...] Continue Reading
Here Is How We Are Going to Win
By Mike Rhodes When political commentator Jim Hightower was in Fresno in 2011, he said that “some claim that a populist movement can’t hold together, that it’s like herding cats. But those who say [...] Continue Reading
Fresno to Ferguson
By Hannah Brandt On one of the first cold days of the season, the glow of lights from a TV news crew in the distance amplified the foggy halo around Fresno’s downtown water tower. Eaton Plaza has [...] Continue Reading
Goodbye to the Inanimate
By Leonard Adame How many of us who moved away have come back to Fresno only to discover an almost foreign city? While I was gone for more than 18 years, the city doubled in size, mostly to the [...] Continue Reading