By Mike Rhodes The first Mike Rhodes Social Justice Scholarship of $1,000 was given to Esmeralda Serapio, who is a student at the San Joaquin College of Law. The scholarship was set up by Howard [...] Continue Reading
Activism
The People’s Dispensary Fresno Cannabis Town Hall
By Peter Maiden The Cannabis Town Hall was held at the First Congregational Church in Fresno on May 6, offering perspectives on jobs in the marijuana business, especially for people of color whose [...] Continue Reading
Why We Can’t Wait: Being Black in the Cannabis Industry
By Cesar Casamayor and Gidai Maaza There is unfinished business when it comes to cannabis legalization—the trauma-filled legacy of the War on Drugs within the Black community, especially on young [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: High-Speed Rail Construction Is a Dirty Business
By Tom Frantz Readers may have noticed recent high-speed rail (HSR) construction in various parts of the San Joaquin Valley. The building of bridges over Highway 99 in south Fresno and over the San [...] Continue Reading
The Crushing Burden of Student Loan Debt
By Alexia Baca Morgan Americans have $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. This is is $620 billion more than total U.S. credit card debt. It is second only to mortgage debt in this country. The [...] Continue Reading
Cruel and Unusual—Life and Death in Fresno County Jail
By Bob McCloskey “The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.”—Fyodor Dostoyevsky On April 28, 2019, the Fresno Bee published a front-page article about the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF: May 2019
WILPF MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all. STIR IT UP–WILPF ON KFCF 88.1 [...] Continue Reading
WILPF: May 2019
WILPF MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all. STIR IT UP–WILPF ON KFCF 88.1 [...] Continue Reading
Urgent Forestry Report (Pine Pitch?)
By Jem Bluestein (Author’s note: Many thanks to Tom Frantz for all his great work on behalf of our ecosystem and its human dependents. I have submitted a supplemental analysis of my own.) What [...] Continue Reading
Urgent Forestry Report (Pine Pitch?)
By Jem Bluestein (Author’s note: Many thanks to Tom Frantz for all his great work on behalf of our ecosystem and its human dependents. I have submitted a supplemental analysis of my own.) What [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Rearguard Action Needed
By Tom Frantz It is a fact that residents in Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties breathe the worst air in the nation. The rest of the San Joaquin Valley is slightly better. This pollution [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Rearguard Action Needed
By Tom Frantz It is a fact that residents in Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties breathe the worst air in the nation. The rest of the San Joaquin Valley is slightly better. This pollution [...] Continue Reading