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
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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
$488 per Minute to Police Fresno
Property taxes ($202.6 million annually) and city sales taxes ($143.8 million annually) comprise the lion’s share of the City of Fresno’s revenue. Perhaps taxpayers should be more concerned about how [...] Continue Reading
A Force More Powerful: The People
“Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S. deported immigrants and [...] Continue Reading
Una Fuerza más Poderosa: el Pueblo
“Nuestros campos de concentración extraterritoriales, por ahora, se encuentran en El Salvador y la Bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba. Pero no esperen que permanezcan allí. Una vez que se normalice su [...] Continue Reading
A Force More Powerful: The People
“Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S. deported immigrants and [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Homeless Ordinance Conflicts with State Model
On May 12, Governor Gavin Newsom released a state model ordinance for “cities and counties to immediately address [homeless] encampments with urgency and dignity.” The Governor’s Office said that the [...] Continue Reading
Primero los Inmigrantes el 1 de Mayo
El Primero de Mayo de este año en el Valle Central fue un día de acción centrado en las políticas de deportación masiva de la administración Trump y en defensa de los trabajadores inmigrantes y sus [...] Continue Reading
The Catastrophe Continues
May 15 marked the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the “catastrophe” in 1948 when more than 750,000 Palestinians (80% of the population) were forcibly dispossessed from their lands and homes in what is [...] Continue Reading
Immigrants First on May 1
This year’s May Day in the Central Valley was a day of action focusing on the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies and in defense of immigrant workers and their families. Across the [...] Continue Reading