By Tom Frantz The biggest stationary sources of air pollution in the southern half of the Central Valley are directly related to oil production. Diesel trucks do not damage our lungs as much as this [...] Continue Reading
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Get Fresnans Enrolled
By Ellen Wu For decades, low-income childless adults and individuals who had to buy their own health insurance have been left to fend for themselves. But all that is about to change. On Jan. 1, [...] Continue Reading
International Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Start of the Cuban Revolution
By Leni Reeves The Cuban Revolution started 60 years ago, and it was a hard start. In fact, nothing afterward has been easy either. Blockaded and attacked by the most powerful empire in human [...] Continue Reading
Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
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
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