By Mike Rhodes The Fresno City Council voted, at its last meeting in 2018, to do a financial audit of the money it is spending on homeless services. Council members Steve Brandau, Paul [...] Continue Reading
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King Matters
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor The City of Fresno, like many other cities and communities across the nation, will celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 18–21 and pay tributes to [...] Continue Reading
King Matters
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor The City of Fresno, like many other cities and communities across the nation, will celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 18–21 and pay tributes to [...] Continue Reading
Say Her Name: Jakelin Caal Maquin
By Stan Santos For a few days in December 2018, the newsgroups announced again and again variations of the lead “Migrant child dies in custody,” “7-year-old migrant girl” or, simply, “Guatemalan [...] Continue Reading
Say Her Name: Jakelin Caal Maquin
By Stan Santos For a few days in December 2018, the newsgroups announced again and again variations of the lead “Migrant child dies in custody,” “7-year-old migrant girl” or, simply, “Guatemalan [...] Continue Reading
Local AM Station Brings Hate Speech to Drive Time
By Bob McCloskey and Linda Tubach On Oct. 25, the Fresno Bee reported that the syndicated “Alex Jones Show,” as well as a live local show called “Frontline America with Ben Bergquam, have been [...] Continue Reading
Local AM Station Brings Hate Speech to Drive Time
By Bob McCloskey and Linda Tubach On Oct. 25, the Fresno Bee reported that the syndicated “Alex Jones Show,” as well as a live local show called “Frontline America with Ben Bergquam, have been [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Responds to War and Famine in Yemen
By Camille Russell Local Response More than 75 people in Fresno fasted during December to bring attention to the famine and humanitarian crisis facing people in Yemen due to war. Yemeni children [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Responds to War and Famine in Yemen
By Camille Russell Local Response More than 75 people in Fresno fasted during December to bring attention to the famine and humanitarian crisis facing people in Yemen due to war. Yemeni children [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – December 2018
WILPF MEETINGWILPF will meet Thursday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. The second Thursday meetings are open to all.STIR IT [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Mary Nichols, please help us!
By Tom Frantz In 1989, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) placed an air quality ozone monitor on the east side of Arvin. It was built into a shipping container and placed in the yard of the [...] Continue Reading
Do We Play a Game with People’s Lives?
By Paul Thomas Jackson According to Marx, capitalist society consists of two parts: the base and the superstructure. The base has the market forces and relations of production and property. All [...] Continue Reading