By Mike Bridges Following Hurricane Sandy, the conditions on the East Coast have been extremely harrowing, but Occupy Wall Street has transformed into #OccupySandy and made a difference. It started [...] Continue Reading
Activism
News from Kettleman City
From a Press Release Kettleman City residents and their environmental justice allies applaud the Department of Toxic Substances Control for taking enforcement action today (Nov. 15, 2012) against [...] Continue Reading
The Valley Is Forging a Sustainable Food System, Starting at Home
By the Fresno Food System Alliance On Oct. 14, the New York Times Magazine published a feature article by Mark Bittman titled “Heavenly Earth,” which highlighted the relationship between farmers and [...] Continue Reading
Musicians’ Strike Settlement
By Larry Gardner On Oct. 24, Fresno Grand Opera (FGO) management and the musicians’ negotiating committee for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 12 came to a tentative agreement. The [...] Continue Reading
Can Solar Calm the Coming Storm?
By Tom Cotter Going solar is a part of solving the climate disruption we are experiencing. Though climate change failed to emerge as a topic during the 2012 presidential debates, New York Mayor [...] Continue Reading
Where Am I?
By Maria Telesco On election night, a TV pundit proclaimed, “Tomorrow, half the people will be happy, and the other half will be angry.” The problem is, he failed to tell me which group I’d be in, [...] Continue Reading
Next Generation
By Richard Stone (Author’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book Incarnation: Coming to Life in Mind and Body.) A person-to-person encounter takes place, and the gist of it is magically [...] Continue Reading
All We Want for Christmas…Are No More Drones!
By Bev Fitzpatrick Wouldn’t no more drones be a great gift? Unfortunately, that gift will have to be unwrapped in the future as our reelected President, the U.S. military and the CIA continue drone [...] Continue Reading
Where Have the “GMen” Gone?
By Stan Santos A conservative cabal of Fresno City Council members and city executives, including Mayor Ashley Swearengin and City Manager Mark Scott, are determined to privatize traditional city [...] Continue Reading
Does Peace Have a Chance?: Reporting on a Panel Discussion about Kashmir
By Richard Stone In a world that often seems dominated by rancor, an opportunity to have even-tempered discussion on a controversial issue is itself a cause of hope. So what to think when such an [...] Continue Reading
Building Environmental Justice for Healthy Communities
By Debbie Reyes The Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN) will hold its 2012 biannual conference this month. This year’s theme is “Roots of Resistance: Building Environmental [...] Continue Reading