By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: Some names have been changed and/or omitted per request of some of the people interviewed given the sensitivity of the topic.) According to the latest U.S. [...] Continue Reading
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Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Prompt Protests
By Camille Russell Beginning on July 8, Israel initiated massive airstrikes on Gaza that brought protestors to the corner of Shaw and Blackstone avenues twice in the week of July 13. Peace Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Mideast Extremism Requires New Progressive Response
By Paul Pierce, Patience Milrod and Darrow Pierce As we write this, it is Saturday evening, July 26. Earlier today, Israel extended a 12-hour ceasefire by four hours. Hamas has responded by firing [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra In Native American/Indigenous communities, there exists this deep sense of living and thinking holistically. Everything is connected to everything in one way or another. We humans [...] Continue Reading
The Forgotten City
By Sally Parker The Fallout Financial institutions and the near demise of the housing market are all related to a new epidemic: Slumlords. Although this problem has been around for ages, it appears [...] Continue Reading
Lest We Forget
By Ruth Gadebusch With women’s rights under such attack these days, it would seem a time to emphasize the motto of the suffragist who led the struggle for the vote for women: “Men, their rights and [...] Continue Reading
Living Through War in Gaza
By Athena A six-year-old child in Gaza will have lived through three wars in their lifetime. This affects me personally because my parents lived through the 1948 war and the 1967 war, and I lived in [...] Continue Reading
Hobby Lobby Caught Hobnobbing with SCOTUS Elite While the Bill of Rights Was Left Out in the Cold — Progressive Religion August 2014
By David E. Roy At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark 5-4 ruling that determined it was the “right” of the owners of the “closed corporation” Hobby Lobby to choose not to [...] Continue Reading
Digital Cheese
By Will Durst Plenty of people had good reason to be in a foul mood back in 2012. The Detroit Tigers. Members of the Romney family. And, after making the acquaintance of a windy lass named Sandy, [...] Continue Reading
Chicano History: Revisted
From El Concilio de Fresno The Local Chicano Planning Committee was formed by El Concilio de Fresno to coordinate the second symposium event titled “Chicano History: Revisited in Fresno County.” This [...] Continue Reading
Men of Color Facing Life Obstacles: The Prison Press – August 2014
By Boston Woodard Independent researchers want to understand the roadblocks young men of color face that could impede their success in life. They are looking into the underlying causes: disparities [...] Continue Reading
Summer of Brown Boi
By Erica Woodland Just four years ago, the Brown Boi Project, a community of people of color organizing across race and gender to challenge and transform dominant understandings of gender and [...] Continue Reading