By Boston Woodard I wasn’t sentenced to death before coming to prison, but wound up on death row, not literally where I would eventually be executed via California’s state-sanctioned death penalty [...] Continue Reading
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Time to Get Serious
By Ruth Gadebusch It is time for those beyond the agriculture world to get serious about our water. Despite all the talk about the drought, not many seem to be taking it seriously. It is for [...] Continue Reading
Excerpt from Expanding the Yaqui Religious Experience (1989)
By Jesse C. Gonzales “In the beginning...God,” to those who follow Judeo, Christian and Islamic beliefs, that passage is an introduction to the answers that can satisfy many questions concerning [...] Continue Reading
Retroactive Justice Now!
By Ebony Easter My goal in writing this article is to describe the real dangers of psychiatric hospitalization by providing my account of being an inpatient and the important role that justice can [...] Continue Reading
The Struggle to Stop Slumlords in Fresno
By Simone Whalen-Rhodes After years of neglect by the property owners, the Fresno Inn was recently shut down by city officials who declared the property a hazard. The city moved the tenants to [...] Continue Reading
The Barrio Art Collective Manifesto
Editor’s note: This is a public service announcement from the Barrio Art Collective, which is dedicated to all of the people in the struggle in the barrios, alleys and marginalized areas in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – June 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet on Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK June 4 (first [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – June 2014
Edited by Richard Stone Alex Vavoulis, former professor at Fresno State and a founding father of KFCF, offers us a poem written in 1966 by his longtime friend Thanasis Maskaleris. Vavoulis writes, [...] Continue Reading
A Student Movement for Student Voice
By Saa’un P. Bell On May 8, about 50 student leaders across California assembled to urge the State Board of Education for greater student participation in the state’s new school funding law, known [...] Continue Reading
Peace-Making Model Comes to Fresno
By Richard Stone In April, Fresno played host to an artist who constructed a model drone to remind us of the lethal capabilities of these pilotless aircraft. In May, we had the opposite: Jim Fitz, [...] Continue Reading