By Saraí Ramos González Rural communities with large numbers of workers in the food production sector will be disproportionately affected by Covid-19. Many are ineligible to receive government aid, [...] Continue Reading
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Corona Blues: COVID-19 and Our Black Community
By I. smiley G. Calderon Emerging data and statistics about the mortality of the deadly novel Covid-19 disease have disturbingly shown Black Americans suffering at greater percentages and rates [...] Continue Reading
Double Jeopardy of Being a DACA Recipient during a Pandemic
By Diego San Luis Ortega The Covid-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. We all fear for the health of our families and anxiously await new information to help us weather this crisis. But [...] Continue Reading
Pandemic Hurting Local Small Businesses
By Eduardo Stanley The social crisis created by the eruption of the coronavirus pandemic has hurt the economy since March, when local and state governments implemented a “stay in place” policy to [...] Continue Reading
Fresno—A Hotbed of Radicalism?
By Mike Rhodes May 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of a social and political upheaval that changed how some people saw this sleepy little town. Shaw Avenue south of Fresno State was shut down by [...] Continue Reading
Exotic Cat Zoo Facing Trouble in Coronavirus Shutdown
By Peter MaidenPhotos by Peter Maiden Less than 40 miles from Fresno on the way to Sequoia National Park, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, there is a turnoff from Highway 180 to a place called Cat [...] Continue Reading
An Empowering Friendship
By Pat Wolk (Editor’s note: Eleanore “Ellie” Bluestein passed on April 7 in Fresno. She was 91 years old. Ellie was born in New York, where she met her husband, Gene. They moved to Minnesota for [...] Continue Reading
Aleha ha-shalom Ellie Bluestein, May You Rest in Peace!
By Jemmy Bluestein The calls, cards and messages have told so many amazing stories of devoted comrades, compadres, friends through the years, and each of their encounters with my mother, Ellie [...] Continue Reading
Cuba and the United States in a Time of Pandemic
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba has had to confront the pandemic at home. People must manage a contagious illness in a setting where physical contact and social closeness are culturally [...] Continue Reading
The pandemic, Trump’s bizarre behavior and the Community Alliance
The pandemic affecting our society is serious and already has taken the lives of more than 100,000 people worldwide. It draws attention to how some governments reacted to the pandemic by protecting [...] Continue Reading
Has the Air District Changed Its Stripes?
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, behind the façade of a public health agency, has forever been in the back pocket of local polluting industries such as [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: On Tyranny
By Dr. Alex Vavoulis In his prologue for On Tyranny:Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, author Timothy D. Snyder says that “Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy [...] Continue Reading