By Vickie M. Fouts Bruce Neuburger of the Bay Area has recently written a book, Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California. Neuburger is a former farmworker, longtime [...] Continue Reading
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Peace Fresno Membership Drive and Annual Elections Meeting
By Beverly Fitzpatrick September is a busy month for Peace Fresno, as it has been since 2001. Today, Peace Fresno continues to speak out against war and oppose injustice. Soon in your mailbox you [...] Continue Reading
Hessen, Morin, Dante, Mexico, Colombia
By Alfonso C. Hernandez Indignez-vous! (Get Angry), Engagez-vous! (Commit Yourself to Political Action) and Citoyen du monde (Citizen of the World) are three books written by Stéphane Hessel in which [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – September 2013
Edited by Richard Stone Margaret Hudson, our great-hearted colleague who has been recuperating from an accident since the winter, has sent us one of her poems, with thanks “to everyone for their [...] Continue Reading
What We Could Carry
By Lorenzo Bassman On Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno presents Nikiko Masumoto in her one-woman show, What We Could Carry, a performance of Japanese-American [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2013
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday Sept 12, 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Sept 4, first Wednesday of each [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – September 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press — Within Spartan Cells: Security Housing Unit Anguish
By Boston Woodard It should be noted that all prisoners involved with the mass hunger strike in California’s security housing units (SHUs) are not the irretrievable miscreants (“gang members”), as [...] Continue Reading
I Lost It at Filmworks: On Viewing We Steal Secrets
By Thomas Quinn With eager anticipation I attended the Aug. 9, Fresno Filmworks showing of the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney. About 4/5ths through it I walked out [...] Continue Reading
In Defense of We Steal Secrets
By Robert Navarro My friend Tom Quinn has provided a rousing criticism of the movie We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. Tom knows more about the U.S. security state than anyone I know, and what [...] Continue Reading