Our nation’s chief Fear Inflamers, whose normal speed is over-drive, have shifted into over-over-drive in their attempts to attack and destroy the possibility of relocating a major New York City [...] Continue Reading
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Defend Immigrant Rights!
On Saturday, September 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Central Valley Immigrant Rights Movement Summit will be held at the offices of SEIU Local 1000, 1551 East Shaw Avenue. The summit is being [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
Silence is betrayal! - A GREEN Outlook By Richard Gomez Green Party Gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells is expected to be in Fresno on October 1st and 2nd. To help or for more information call me at [...] Continue Reading
September Poll: Do you think City of Fresno police chief Jerry Dyer should resign or be removed from office?
Please leave your thoughts and views about Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer's tenure in Comments below. [...] Continue Reading
Time to Make Fresno the Renters’ Rights Capital of the Central Valley
Fresno tenants put up with a lot-abusive landlords, poor living conditions, retaliation threats, arbitrary evictions and unaffordable rents. Bad landlords operate with impunity, and tenants are afraid [...] Continue Reading
How to End Wars
Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the [...] Continue Reading
War and Antiwar
War Some people say Bush's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have now become Obama's wars. But to be honest, we live in a democracy and "we the people" have allowed the wars, so there is blame to share. We [...] Continue Reading
Kettleman City Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Kings County
Although the cluster of birth defects in Kettleman City is now under a comprehensive investigation by state and federal environmental agencies, the situation has intensified as local advocacy groups [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the editor
I want to share some of the things that annoy me in the hope there are others who feel the same way. If so, commentary via a letter to the editor for the next issue would be a good idea; so here [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
Dude: What Happened to My House? By Stan Santos In 2009, my family became part of the exploding number of households that were buying or owned homes that lost half their value. In November, I took [...] Continue Reading
From ‘Student Movement’ to People’s Movement
On June 18, the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees voted to raise student fees another 5% for the fall semester, which translates into a $204 increase and brings the semester total to [...] Continue Reading
Another World Is Possible
It was sometime early in June. I was attending a Brown Berets meeting. It was barely the second or third meeting I had attended. Debbie Reyes, an organizer for the Prison Moratorium Project was also [...] Continue Reading