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
Activism
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
Women’s Services for the Next Century
By Kayla Moon The third annual Women’s Art and Music Festival of Fresno (WAMFF) is stirring up a lot of attention and excitement. The event will feature a night of educators, entertainers, speakers, [...] Continue Reading
West Fresno
A Community Town Hall was held for West Fresno voters at the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center on Oct. 13. The crowd was addressed by Miguel Arias and Tate Hill, candidates for Fresno City Council [...] Continue Reading
Police Brutality
By Community Alliance Staff The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation held a candlelight vigil on Oct. 22 in Fresno’s Eaton Plaza. Around [...] Continue Reading
Hooray for Us!
By Uncle Bill ’Tis a glorious, florious flag-waving day To remember our heroes who’ve gone by the way. Memorial, Veterans and Patriot’s Day, too Armed Forces, Independence, just to name one or [...] Continue Reading
Effect of 2018 Nobel Prizes on Diversity and Enhancement of Women
By George B. Kauffman The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arthur Ashkin (b. 1922), previously of Bell Laboratories, but now working from his home laboratory; Donna Strickland (b. 1959) of [...] Continue Reading
Business as Usual
By Kevin Hall I would not want to be born today nor would I wish it on anyone. The growing uncertainty around whether the planet’s climate will remain stable through the end of this century is now so [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Open Letter to the Almond Board
By Tom Frantz A letter was recently sent to the Almond Board of California by several Valley groups. These groups include the Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club, the Central Valley Air Quality [...] Continue Reading
What Does Boise Mean for Homeless Advocacy?
By Paul Thomas Jackson A plaintiff’s job of building a lawsuit has been compared to a construction project. The more social or finance significance the suit has, the more demanding the project usually [...] Continue Reading