By Ruth Gadebusch It’s election time, as if you didn’t know! Our phone lines are busy. Our e-mail is jammed full. We are invited to fund-raisers. We are begged to join phone banks. We get pleas to [...] Continue Reading
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No Understanding
By Leonard Adame For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. —Romans 15:4 Now these things became [...] Continue Reading
The Situation Is Critical
By Jonathan Noe Luevanos Felix The Fresno Police Department (FPD) is an organized institution that stands for professionalism. The department is funded by taxpayer money to train competent [...] Continue Reading
Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
By the October 22 Fresno Committee The 19th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation in Fresno will occur on Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the [...] Continue Reading
Fireplace Burning: Clearing the Air, October 2014
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (Air District) is contemplating a change this summer to its fireplace rule, which is also known as District Rule 4901. The change [...] Continue Reading
Collaboration and Contradictions: Can Progressive Groups Work Together?
By Richard Stone On Aug. 21, a meeting was co-hosted by the Fresno Partnership and Fresno Metro Ministry to explore possibilities of wider collaboration. An expansive array of groups was [...] Continue Reading
National Chemistry Week
By George B. Kauffman Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and science deniers, the creationists and other fanatics of their ilk are Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and [...] Continue Reading
The Ultimate Progressive Conference: Progressive Religion October 2014
By David E. Roy A major Earth-saving Event, slowly being assembled at Pomona College in Claremont, will be launched on June 3, 2015. The overall purpose and many of the topics are exceptionally [...] Continue Reading
Gandhi: An Apostle of Peace and Nonviolence
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” —Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi, the great spiritual, [...] Continue Reading
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