Say Their Names Say the names of some of those that have died in ICE custody this year: Ismael Ayala Uribe, Chao Feng Ge, Isidro Perez, Marie Ange Blaise, Maksym Chemyak, Brayan Rayo-Garzon and [...] Continue Reading
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Disappearing the Poor of Fresno
Effort in Sacramento to Stop Fresno SB 634, introduced by State Senator Sasha Pérez (D–Alhambra), was recently signed into law. As introduced in the Senate, SB 634 would have prohibited the [...] Continue Reading
Palestine: Acting Locally, Thinking Globally
Without U.S. Support It Wouldn’t Have Happened The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of [...] Continue Reading
Protests Are Growing
More Than 7 Million Protest on No Kings Day According to the Oct. 18 No Kings Day organizers, in one of the largest single day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly 7 million people [...] Continue Reading
Great Delano Grape Strike Revisited
“I remember, as a child, three or four years old, going to funerals of men in Pixley, Arvin, Ducor, Visalia, throughout the Central Valley. These men had died alone, by themselves. I remember burying [...] Continue Reading
The Failures of Mayor Dyer and the Fresno City Council
Two homeless shelters, the Journey Home and the Golden State Triage Center, are closing in Fresno by the end of 2025 due to a lack of ongoing state and federal funding, which had previously supported [...] Continue Reading
La Gran Huelga de la Uva de Delano de 1965: Lecciones para Construir una Coalición Multiétnica
POR BOB McCLOSKEY e I.SMILEY CALDERON “Recuerdo, de niño, a los tres o cuatro años, asistir a los funerales de hombres en Pixley, Arvin, Ducor, Visalia, por todo el Valle Central. Estos hombres [...] Continue Reading
The Failures of Mayor Dyer and the Fresno City Council
Two homeless shelters, the Journey Home and the Golden State Triage Center, are closing in Fresno by the end of 2025 due to a lack of ongoing state and federal funding, which had previously supported [...] Continue Reading
United for Change
Several recent demonstrations were held in Fresno to lend support to ongoing national boycott efforts against Chevron, for its ongoing logistical support for Israel, and against Home Depot, for its [...] Continue Reading
Authoritarian Policing in Fresno and D.C.
A 2025 report titled “Driven by Bias: An Analysis of Police Stops in Fresno” by Catalyst California in partnership with Fresno Building Healthy Communities finds that “the Fresno Police Department [...] Continue Reading
Protesting Concentration Camps
Fresno Residents Object to Authoritarian Rule As authoritarian rule is consolidated in the United States, and as the President exhibits clear signs of dementia, Americans continue to protest [...] Continue Reading
Community Members Stand By Council Member Arias
On June 26, the May 1 Committee for Immigrant Rights, local community members and human rights advocates gathered in front of Fresno City Hall to “call for a halt to the disinformation campaign [...] Continue Reading