By Kelly Borkert It could go unnoticed if you aren’t eating or serving lunch just north of Storyland in Roeding Park Saturdays at 1 p.m. as Food Not Bombs has for nearly 16 years. The people who [...] Continue Reading
Activism
What a Party It Was!
By Bill Simon On Sept. 12, 72 people gathered at the Golden Restaurant to celebrate the Greater Fresno Chapter ACLU-NC’s fifth annual membership meeting and the election of a new board. And what a [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots: Profiles of Local Activist Leaders
By Richard Stone At 32, Hector Cerda still sees himself as a young activist, just coming into his own as an organizer and thinker. And at the center of his agenda is the sacredness of water. When [...] Continue Reading
Fire Bombing Police Cars Affects Us All
By Mike Rhodes Fresno progressive activists are known for protesting at Shaw and Blackstone (Peace Corner), petitioning their government for grievances, or even establishing alternative institutions [...] Continue Reading
El Dorado Park: Revitalization or Gentrification?
By Dan Waterhouse On the heels of three people being shot by party crashers at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house across the street from Fresno State in July, students are taking on the campus area [...] Continue Reading
“You Are My Other Me”
By Stan Santos I Remember the Boot… I remember the boot on my face, as I lay on my back in an alley, hands cuffed behind me. I remember the feel of the gravel stuck to the bottom of the boot, as it [...] Continue Reading
Pulling the Plug on Low-Income Health Funding
By Gary Lasky The Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted on September 20 to reject up to $28 million in federal healthcare funding for Fresno County’s low-income residents. Although there were [...] Continue Reading
Can They Say That?
By Richard Stone A panel discussion on “Media Responsibility, Ethics and Civility” will be held on Oct. 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Peters Education Center adjacent to the Save-Mart Center on the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading
Death, Dignity, and Fairness
By Mike Starry The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Central California (FCA-CC) will feature keynote speaker Ed Howard of San Diego University’s Center for Public Interest Law at the Annual Meeting of [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Helps to Provide Basic Public Services to the Homeless
By Mike Rhodes At the beginning of this year, the Community Alliance started providing some basic public services for the homeless. Portable toilets and a trash bin were set up on F Street, between [...] Continue Reading
Frederick Soddy: Radioactivity, Isotopes, Social Responsibility of Scientists and the Environment
By George B. Kauffman Amid the kerfuffle caused by John Hutson’s misguided attempts to introduce nuclear power plants into Fresno County despite the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster, I thought [...] Continue Reading