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
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Genocide Continues
In 1989, while a high school social studies teacher, I went to Palestine, and what I learned completely transformed my point of view. As a teenager in the 1960s, I had absorbed the Leon Uris Exodus [...] Continue Reading
Yokuts Valley: Respect or Racism?
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors are making a last-ditch attempt to hold on to S— Valley and erase the town’s new name, Yokuts Valley. The supervisors voted 3-2 for a charter amendment that [...] Continue Reading
Recall Supervisor Nathan Magsig
By Linda Tubach Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig has led the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to decide to sue the State of California to stop the replacement of S— Valley’s racist and [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Peace Activists Say Stop Nuclear War Now!
Oct. 16 marked 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, the closest our world has ever been to nuclear war, and here we are again according to the experts. The United States is arming the war in [...] Continue Reading
Abolish the S-Word in Place Names
In 2019, in remembrance of Hanna Harris, the U.S. Senate designated her birthday, May 5, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Harris was just 21 and a [...] Continue Reading