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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
Farm Workers, Troy and the Tamale Lady
By Leonard Adame All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.– George Orwell So what is hard work? Typing all day? Naah. Most offices are air conditioned. Selling in a mall? [...] Continue Reading
Ñuu Savi: People of the Rain
By Miguel Villegas Ventura Ñuu Savi = People of the rain Tu’un Savi = Language of the rain Ñani = Brother Ku’va = Sister Ve’e Tu’un Savi = The Academy of the Mixtec Language I would like to [...] Continue Reading
Ñuu Savi; Pueblo de la Lluvia
Por Miguel Villegas Ventura, Instructor de escrito del Mixteco en Fresno, California Quiero comenzar hablando sobre la historia de Ve’e Tu’un Savi, Asociacion Civil, que en español es conocido como [...] Continue Reading
Bill McKibben to Speak in Fresno
By Angela Price Bill McKibben is certainly not a person you’d expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that’s where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2013
By Mike Rhodes The next big thing to create an upheaval in the political/economic landscape of Fresno will be the struggle over downtown development, specifically around the Fulton Mall. Powerful [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Voice: Roy Zimmerman’s Wake Up Call
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji Progressive singer satirist Roy Zimmerman says, “I get accused of preaching to the choir, but that’s not how I think of it. I think of it as entertaining the troops.” What [...] Continue Reading
Documenting the Data Wars: Fresno Filmworks Presents WikiLeaks Documentary
By Andrew Veihmeyer In a digital world where exposing sensitive details is often commonplace and instant, what happens when decades worth of data is revealed in one of the largest breaches of [...] Continue Reading
A Sugar Story: How Addiction to Sweets Made Me a Healer
By Duane Law My path to a healing career began more than 35 years ago in the back of a Datsun station wagon. I’d driven deep into a northern California forest armed with a vacuum cleaner hose, duct [...] Continue Reading