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
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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
A Broken Home
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes In July of this year, a tenant in Fresno woke up to a ceiling partially caving in. This was caused by a leaking swamp-cooler and inflicted injury to the tenant. At this [...] Continue Reading
Indigenous Migrants Celebrate Their Guelaguetza in Fresno
By Erika C. Encinas As summer is ending and the color of trees is changing, indigenous communities are getting ready for their annual festival in Fresno. Every September, the Binational Center for [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – September 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra It’s an early Sunday morning in August, we’re recapping the night before—a lot of liquor, a lot of laughs and a lot of “recreational” activities. We’ve just celebrated the going [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2014
Commitment to Nonviolence As a Board member of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, I’d like to comment on your August “From the Editor” column. In it, you justified various illegal actions (including [...] Continue Reading