By Building Healthy Communities Fresno Building Healthy Communities’ leaders are utterly disappointed that the City of Fresno disregarded the community’s request for more time to understand the City [...] Continue Reading
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How the “Global” Affects Our “Local”
By Edgar Reyna-Estrada From Venice to Amsterdam, from London to New York City, metropolitan areas have been breeding grounds for the accumulation and reproduction of capital for many centuries. [...] Continue Reading
Move To Amend: Taking Back Our Democracy
By Anthony Yang, Jamaica Scott and Andres Martinez The conception of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was to protect the rights of people—not businesses and corporations. Furthermore, these [...] Continue Reading
Squatting on the Flag
By Will Durst If you believe the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, you might be tempted to conclude that the CIA lied to the press and the public and to Congress about [...] Continue Reading
Justice for Our Lives
By Oree Originol Justice for Our Lives is a series of designs portraying people from marginalized communities who have lost their lives due to state violence and hate crimes. These images call [...] Continue Reading
How to Make Wheat Paste
By Abigail Janzen Wheat paste is a simple nontoxic adhesive that has been used through the ages. An alternative to the liquid adhesives you might get at the store (e.g., Elmer’s, Gorilla Glue), wheat [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – January 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING Jan. 8, second Thursday of each month, 7 p.m.–9 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. Meetings are open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Jan. [...] Continue Reading
10 Myths about Obama’s Latest War
By Reese Erlich Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on www.truthdig.com on Oct. 1, 2014. It is being reprinted with the author’s permission. Also, Mr. Erlich will be in Fresno on Jan. 7. [...] Continue Reading
Organized Religion and the American Empire
By Norman Lambert In David E. Roy’s article, “The Story of How Jesus Was in Opposition to the Empire” (Community Alliance, December 2014), the point seems to be that Jesus was the original “freedom [...] Continue Reading
Beyond: The Journey Toward Living as a Whole Person
By Richard Stone (Author’s note: Below is one of a series of excerpts from a book that will be running for the next few months. Let us know if you’d like to see more.) The book’s introduction [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: The Terrorism Trap
A Review by Alex Vavoulis In 2002, after the tragic event of Sept. 11, the renowned author Michael Parenti wrote The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond. It should be required reading for anyone [...] Continue Reading