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The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar – January 2013
Compiled by Susan Orovitz 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 positive [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: Getting Information
By John Crockford In future editions of the Crockford Files, we’ll be exploring how local governments are making use of technology to keep us informed. Twitter, for example, has become a popular [...] Continue Reading
EPA Allows More Pesticide Air Pollution
From a press release from the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment San Joaquin Valley and Ventura County community groups filed a lawsuit on Dec. 12, 2012, against the U.S. Environmental [...] Continue Reading
Ali, King, John Henry Lewis, Malcolm and My Dad
By Leonard Adame My father fought professionally. He weighed 118 pounds in his prime, but he hit like a middleweight. He always was a brawler, going to dances in the 1930s and picking fights in the [...] Continue Reading
More Than Taxes
By Ruth Gadebusch Despite all the uproar about taxes—unfair, too little, too much, affecting the wrong people, exemptions, etc.—they are necessary. However, they are not the only wealth sustaining [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice Issues the Focus of Radio Partnership
By Jean Kennedy In 2013, I want to engage my readers in a number of topical conversations with additional questions and answers on my radio shows. On www.BlogTalkRadio.com, I co-host a program with [...] Continue Reading
CHP Targets Farmworkers for Car Impounds
By Pam Whalen In what has become a regular event in the Caruthers area, every year at the peak of the harvest the California Highway Patrol cruisers start showing up in the early morning when [...] Continue Reading
New Marshal in Dodge City: Fresno’s Second Police Auditor Sets Up Shop
By Richard Stone So Fresno has a new person in the Office of Independent Review, with the task of reviewing all cases of an officer-involved shooting (OIS) and auditing the handling of public [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – Dec. 2012: Off the Grid / Discount Shopping
By Kevin Hall Off the Grid If you live in Fresno’s Tower District, Southeast Fresno, West Fresno or downtown, the pollution monitor that measures wintertime particulate levels for your neighborhood is [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – Dec. 2012
An Open Letter to President Obama…from Michael Moore Monday, November 19, 2012 Dear President Obama: Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – Dec. 2012
I went to the grand opening of the Renaissance at Santa Clara in November. The $11 million project was built to provide 69 units (340 square feet each) to help end homelessness in Fresno. If you do [...] Continue Reading