By Tom Frantz The New Year is a time for hope. In terms of air quality, it is a good time to reflect on the path to clean air that the Central Valley could follow if the political will existed among [...] Continue Reading
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Interfaith/Intercultural Day in Madera
By Carlos Anderson The Madera Coalition for Community Justice will sponsor its 18th Annual Interfaith/Intercultural Day on Jan. 23 to celebrate the diverse and numerous religious, ethnic and cultural [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: A Tech Collective for the Fresno Progressive Community?
By John Crockford Though there seems to be a sufficient pool of tech people working and living in this area, I’ve recently learned that a handful of local progressive organizations have had some [...] Continue Reading
30 Years in Fresno: Celebrating the 85th Birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor This year, Fresno will observe the 85th birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., starting on Jan. 17 with a garlanding ceremony at noon at Fresno County Courthouse [...] Continue Reading
Does Walmart Have No Shame?
By Georgette Carrillo Walmart, America’s super discount store, had a rollercoaster year in 2013. If you’re a Walmart investor, you can’t complain given that it had excellent profits largely to due [...] Continue Reading
The Great Beauty Sure to Delight Audiences
By Roque Rodriguez The Great Beauty is filled with beautiful people doing beautiful things in a beautiful city. At no point does the film let excess get in the way of telling its compelling story, [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – Jan. 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday January 9, 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK January 1, first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
The Bitter Reality for Farmworkers
By David Bacon (Editor’s note: Reprinted from New America Media, Nov. 27, 2013. Reference http://newamericamedia.org/2013/11/the-bitter-reality-for-farm-workers.php.) As families prepare to [...] Continue Reading
For All Who Care About the Future: The California Green Party
By Richard Gomez The California Green Party has endorsed four candidates for the June 3 Primary Election: Luis Rodriguez for Governor, Ellen Brown for Treasurer, Laura Wells for Controller and [...] Continue Reading
The Road to Equality, Full of Potholes
By Kaylia Metcalfe June was six months ago. The Supreme Court struck down DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) and paved the way for full equality for same sex couples—but that equality is sometimes slow [...] Continue Reading
Is Climate Change the Worst Thing?
By Leonard Adame Our society is on the verge of creating self-aware robots (Datas?), cars that can drive themselves and spaceships that will soon take colonizers to the moon and Mars. Technology has [...] Continue Reading
No Simple Answers
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, the idea of dividing the Fresno Unified School District is in the air as the answer to all the woes. Alas, it is not as simple as that. We don’t need any more [...] Continue Reading