Our economic system, with its excessive corporate greed and its concentration of ownership and power, destroys anything that gets in the way of profits. It destroys lives and discards human beings. [...] Continue Reading
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La Política de la Ciudad de Fresno Mata, Digan sus Nombres
Nuestro sistema económico, con su excesiva codicia corporativa y con su concentración de propiedad y poder, destruye todo lo que se interpone en el camino de las ganancias. Destruye vidas y descarta [...] Continue Reading
Clovis Fought the Law and the Law Won
“Clovis didn’t get to be 70% white by accident,” said Patience Milrod in 2019 when filing a lawsuit initiated by longtime housing and homeless advocate Dez Martinez against the City. Milrod continued, [...] Continue Reading
“Animals,” Gladiators and California Prisons
(Author’s note: Talk to any incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person and they will tell you that prisoners in California jails and prisons are treated like animals. I can personally attest to this [...] Continue Reading
State-Sponsored Carnage in California Prisons
“The integrated yard policy (IYP) is per force a staged fight because integrating rival factions will always lead to violence…In my experience, the IYP was always a device used to break the leadership [...] Continue Reading
Fresno: A Tale of Two Cities
Fresno is two cities, like most American cities. It’s a city of haves and have nots. It’s near the bottom of the list in America for income equality. Some of the haves are employers who fail to pay [...] Continue Reading
California Prison Gladiator Fights, Again!
In July 2022, populations inside all California prisons began being forced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to intermix across hostile groups, resulting in [...] Continue Reading
Shelter Emergency—Homeless Lives Matter
“I could care less about Disney on Ice when there are people [not] waking up, dead on the streets. I am the one who has to drive through Tower seeing bodies lying there, lifeless, because the warming [...] Continue Reading
Refugios de Emergencia: Las Vidas de Las Personas Sin Hogar Importan
“No podría importarme menos ‘Disney on Ice’ cuando hay personas que amanecen muertas en las calles. Yo soy el que tiene que conducir a través del barrio Tower de Fresno para ver cuerpos tirados allí, [...] Continue Reading
Excremental Change: Public Toilets Needed Now
A livable city should have an adequate number of public toilets. Urban planners plan for public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit and parks, but they almost never plan for providing public [...] Continue Reading
Newsom Suspends $1 Billion in Funding for Homelessness
On Nov. 3, calling the current approach unacceptable, Governor Gavin Newsom immediately halted more than $1 billion in Homelessness, Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grants to local [...] Continue Reading
Board of Supervisors Out of Touch
At the Oct. 11 meeting of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS), the supervisors showed how out of touch they are with the demographics of the county and seemingly out of touch with reality. [...] Continue Reading