By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
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The Consequences of Selling the Tower Theatre to a Church
The sale of the historic Tower Theatre, built in 1939, to a Christian church (Adventure Church), unleashed a battle not only in the Tower neighborhood but also throughout the city of Fresno. If the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2021
Addressing Islamophobia Recently, the Sacramento Bee and the Fresno Bee published an article in which a Muslim student recounted her experiences with anti-Muslim bias at Fresno State, including an [...] Continue Reading
Essential but Disposable: How California Farmworkers Battle Covid-19
By Jenny Manrique In addition to high-risk exposure to Covid-19, farmworkers in California have borne the brunt of setbacks caused by the pandemic: loss of income and employment, sudden childcare [...] Continue Reading
Organizing for Healthcare for All in the Time of Covid
By Lynn Jacobsson Here we are in 2021, still in “The Time of COVID,” when the need for guaranteed healthcare for all Americans is more critical than ever as the coronavirus pandemic has spread [...] Continue Reading
The Struggles Continue for Immigrant Women
By Myrna Martinez Nateras Without a doubt, 2020 was an unprecedented year, not only because of the first pandemic of the 21st century but also because of the U.S. election in which the popular vote [...] Continue Reading
El Mallku and Justice in Bolivia
By Juan Trujillo Limones As a result of cardiac arrest, the historic indigenous social leader Felipe Quispe Huanca died at the age of 78 on Jan. 19 in El Alto, Bolivia. The Mallku (community [...] Continue Reading
Nicaragua and the Dilemma of Daniel Ortega
By Peter Maiden Some solidarity activists working in support of the first Sandinista government in Nicaragua (1979–1990) believed North Americans shouldn’t criticize the Sandinista Front for [...] Continue Reading
Push for Legalization of Essential Workers in Covid Relief Bill
By Sunita Sohrabji Rep. Raul Ruiz (D–Palm Desert) joined several immigration advocates on Feb. 16 to push for an immediate path to legalization for more than 5 million undocumented essential [...] Continue Reading
Preservation of Central Coast Landscapes
By Vic Bedoian Environmental and civic groups in California are moving quickly to pass a bill in Congress aimed at preserving public lands in the Central Coast region of the state. The bill would [...] Continue Reading
Exploitation or Dignity for Migrant Farmworker Families?
By David Bacon (Editor’s note: This article summarizes the conclusions of a report by the Oakland Institute, Exploitation or Dignity: What Future for Migrant Farmworker Families in the United [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: National, State and Local Not on the Same Page
By Nayamin Martinez The Biden administration took two early measures to fulfill its campaign commitments to address climate change: 1) The United States rejoined the Paris Agreement, and 2) the [...] Continue Reading