“Zein was the youngest member of the al-Najar family. They lived in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. On Oct. 10, 2023, 18 members of the family, including five children and three women, were [...] Continue Reading
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Racism and Class War in Fresno
At a Sept. 23 press conference, City of Fresno officials announced that the City would be aggressively enforcing its harsh new anti-camping ordinance, which calls for arresting unhoused people [...] Continue Reading
Military Madness
BY BOB MCCLOSKEY “Military madness is killing your country, So much sadness, between you and me, War, war, war, war, war, war.” —Graham Nash War Abroad and at Home Against the [...] Continue Reading
Prop 36 a Dangerous Ruse
California Proposition 36, the Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative, is on the November ballot. If passed by voters, years of successful sentencing reform and [...] Continue Reading
“Are They Supposed to Kill Themselves?”
Huge Loss at the Supreme Court On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a case challenging a long-standing Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision called Martin [...] Continue Reading
Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter and Neither Does Yours
As the unabated slaughter continues in Gaza and the threat of regional war looms, the 79th Hiroshima Commemoration was held on Aug. 6 at Fresno State. The event was sponsored by the Human Rights [...] Continue Reading
Dyer Emergency, Is Harsh Anti-Camping Ordinance Racist?
“Every unhoused individual out here right now is walking on death row. You have now signed every unhoused individual experiencing homelessness in Fresno city their death certificate.” —Advocate Dez [...] Continue Reading
Where Is Our Humanity?
Record-setting 115-degree heat. It is deadly on the streets of Fresno in the intense heat. It’s also deadly because it is City policy to continue encampment sweeps, harass individuals, confiscate [...] Continue Reading
Protests Continue as Netanyahu Addresses Congress
Erratum: [In the fifth paragraph, in response to a quote from Netanyahu, we had included the parenthetical comment “(It must be noted that Netanyahu s allegations of rape are refuted.)” We believe [...] Continue Reading
Never Stop Protesting!
As of June 19, more than 37,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. An article [...] Continue Reading
Law, Dis-Order and Insanity
Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The longstanding and ongoing criminalization of poor people, people with [...] Continue Reading
Hate Speech and Crimes
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone or commit violence against targeted [...] Continue Reading