How to Ground the Lords and Share the Rings of Power In my previous column (“The Lords of the Rings, Lording It Over All,” June 2011 California Alliance), I outlined some of the fundamental reasons [...] Continue Reading
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The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar
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 actions; to model interfaith [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner
Editor's Note: Three Rivers resident and accomplished writer Alfonso C. Hernandez submitted the following excerpt from a longer work. In the light of our police situation in Fresno, if not around the [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
From Fresno to the Israeli Military By Darrow Pierce In December 2009, despite great opposition from family and friends, I moved to Israel, gained citizenship and started learning Hebrew in a kibbutz [...] Continue Reading
“Midge,” TEL and CFCs: Two Classic Cases of Unintended Consequences
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944), a prolific inventor known to his acquaintances as “Midge,” was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In the Betts Academy, a small, private college preparatory school, [...] Continue Reading
¡Chale con la guerra!
El 29 de Agosto miles de Chicanos marcharon en Los Ángeles, California para protestar y exigir el alto a la guerra en Vietnam. Seria el primer movimiento de la comunidad Chicana en contra del [...] Continue Reading
DUI Checkpoints: What’s the Agenda?
When you think of DUI checkpoints, you might imagine drunken drivers justly being taken off the road. However, a closer look at the actual practices of the Fresno Police Department (FPD) and [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
The media has asked: "Obama invaded Libya and where is the peace movement?", and flatly stated we are hypocritical. My answer: we're all over. For 10 heartbreaking years we have been in Reedley, [...] Continue Reading
History is Knocking: Stop the Machine! Create a New World!
There comes a time when efforts to avoid the truth begin to fail, when one can no longer go about daily life and pretend that all is okay. If you are like most of us, you are experiencing this. There [...] Continue Reading
Peace Challenge for Youth
The Fresno Center for Nonviolence (FCNV) has received a donation made in memory of Kathryn Stephens to again provide mini-grants to several youth groups to work on projects that “makes it [...] Continue Reading
Community Gardens, Chickens and More
It seems like homegrown food production is on the rise in Fresno. People are digging up their lawns and replacing them with vegetable and herb gardens, backyard chicken coops are popping up in many [...] Continue Reading
A Fair Farm Bill = Job Creation, Infrastructure and Family Farms
The sun is finally out, heating up the fields and bringing much need nourishment to the abundance of Mediterranean crops that grow here in the Central Valley. Politics are heating up too: The federal [...] Continue Reading