Who decides how land in the San Joaquin Valley is used? How do those decisions affect our lives? What can we do about it? Those queries were the overarching theme of an environmental and land-use [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Community Responds to Veterans’ Healthcare Cuts
Trump and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have proposed cuts to the VA’s workforce and budget that affect various aspects of service for veterans. These changes include job losses, potential [...] Continue Reading
Cientos Participan de “Equidad en la Plaza” en Sacramento
Cientos de personas, muchas de ellas representando a organizaciones sin fines de lucro del Valle de San Joaquín, se reunieron el 23 de abril en la explanada frente al capitolio estatal de Sacramento [...] Continue Reading
It Has Happened Here: Hit the Streets!
In the 1935 dystopian novel about fascism titled It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Lewis states that “when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” It seems [...] Continue Reading
Fighting Oligarchy Tour Inspires Bakersfield
The coast-to-coast “Fighting Oligarchy Tour,” featuring Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), hit the Central Valley town of Bakersfield, where oil and agriculture [...] Continue Reading
Equity on the Mall
Fourteen hundred people, many of them representing nonprofits in the San Joaquin Valley, came together on April 23 on the mall in front of the State Capitol in Sacramento to listen to speakers, [...] Continue Reading
May Day March in Madera
The Madera May Day Committee announced on April 21 the celebration of International Workers’ Day on May 1 starting at 5 p.m. The celebration will include a 40-minute march through the city [...] Continue Reading
Marcha 1 de Mayo en Madera
El Comité del Día de Mayo de Madera anunció el lunes 21 de abril, la celebración del Día Internacional de los Trabajadores el jueves 1ro. de Mayo a partir de las 5 p.m. en el Parque de la Corte (210 [...] Continue Reading
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
Protests Against Tesla Grow
On March 15, a protest against the Tesla electric vehicle dealership in north Fresno drew about 200 people. The protest was part of a similar action that occurred in several U.S. cities, with [...] Continue Reading
Democrats, Stand Up!
“I’m trying to figure out what leverage we actually have,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D–N.Y.) said at a press briefing in February. “What leverage do we have? Republicans have repeatedly [...] Continue Reading
Too Young to Die in a Nuclear War
The world’s richest man, President Donald Trump’s hatchet man Elon Musk, and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unbridled access to the government’s data and computer [...] Continue Reading