By Tom Frantz This column has detailed the lack of integrity at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) for a long time. Kevin Hall wrote about illegal and insufficient [...] Continue Reading
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Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor “On a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed [...] Continue Reading
Let’s Make Supervisors Accountable
By Eduardo Stanley It is particularly disgusting to see how elected officials and other public servants are confronting the pandemic that is affecting so much of our community. For instance, the [...] Continue Reading
Exercise Your Right to Vote in Person
The back-and-forth regarding vote-by-mail and in person voting has become a bore. As has been discovered by Americans now that Ms. Liberty’s skirts have been lifted by a perverted, lascivious, [...] Continue Reading
Why Latinos Should Support Kamala Harris as VP
By Gabriel Lerner California Senator Kamala Harris should be the Democratic vice presidential candidate. An energetic and courageous leader, Harris deserves the support of the Latino community at [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – August 2020
WILPF MEETING Normally we meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all. There will be no [...] Continue Reading
Whoa! Slow Down! Rethink!
By Ruth Gadebusch To you who would tear down statues, rename places and force others out of jobs due to views expressed decades ago: Whoa! Slow down! Rethink all this laundering of history. Are we [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation – August 2020
Defund the Police and Invest in Students In the days leading up to the June 29th Kern High School District (KHSD) Board meeting, the Kern Education Justice Collaborative (KEJC) collected over 1500 [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence – August 2020
We honor and celebrate the 150th year (2019-2020) of Gandhi’s birth the principles of peace and nonviolence sustained by those who are a part of the global struggle for freedom and justice. By [...] Continue Reading
I Am a Book
A Free Verse Poem by Richard Iyall I am peace. I am love. I am the light from high above. I am the light that shines within. I am the spark that makes you grin. I am a book upon on a [...] Continue Reading
Teatro Inmigrante: New Theater Project 2020–21
(Editor’s note: Teatro Inmigrante is the brainchild of Agustín Lira and Patricia Wells, local artists with roots in the farmworkers’ movement originated in the 1960s in the Central Valley.) In [...] Continue Reading
This Is Not Getting Better
By Eduardo Stanley The Covid-19 pandemic is putting us to the test as human beings and as citizens. And the results aren’t good. While Fresno and California were doing well implementing the [...] Continue Reading