There are foreboding winds stirring in the electronic media world: A virtual battle of titans approaches as the major telecommunications, data and video providers determine the future flow and [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Know Your Rights!
1. Always be calm and cool; a bad attitude guarantees a bad outcome. 2. Remain silent; what you don’t say can’t hurt you. 3. You have the right to refuse searches; saying no to searches can’t be [...] Continue Reading
Support the DREAM Act Rally in Fresno
Hundreds of students and community activists held a rally on November 19 at Fresno State University in support of the DREAM Act. The rally was prompted by media reports that the Associated Student [...] Continue Reading
George “Elfie” Ballis: A Personal Recollection
Few residents of Fresno County earn freestanding obituaries in the Washington Post, as did George Ballis when he died last month. That obit recounted an interesting but odd career, with moments of [...] Continue Reading
Smiling Seriously: Creative Genius at Work
[Editor: This article was originally printed in the October 2004 Community Alliance newspaper.] If you are a progressive political activist in Fresno, you have seen him with his video camera at your [...] Continue Reading
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School
In recent months, the Fresno Chapter of the ACLU has become involved in the struggle by community members to have a middle school built in Southwest Fresno. A funny thing happened on the way to that [...] Continue Reading
From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
News broke last month that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. As soon as the story got [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
The Art of Dumpster Diving Explored By Richard Stone The video Dive (to be shown November 10 at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence at noon and 7 p.m.) turns attention to another stupidity of corporate [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Support Real Peace for Palestinians Israel’s attempt to end the so-called moratorium on settlement building in Palestine seen as “unprecedented” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...] Continue Reading
Making Routine HIV Testing a Reality at Fresno Hospitals
Just do it. HIV has been around for more than 30 years. We know it is a time bomb—about 10 years before symptoms show. We know it can be diagnosed and treated long before symptoms show. We also know [...] Continue Reading
William James Tranquilli
With sorrow, we announce the peaceful passing of William James Tranquilli on September 3, 2010, after a lingering illness. A well-known activist for many causes, Will enjoyed living in Fresno for many [...] Continue Reading
Linking Popular Democracy and Economic Development in Africa
[Richard Stone writes that Aaron Tesfaye has lived in the United States for about 30 years, including many in Fresno. He attended Fresno State and, after getting his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate [...] Continue Reading