By Camille Russell and Dan Yaseen On April 26, the Fresno State administration abruptly canceled the university’s months-long search for a faculty member to fill the Edward Said Chair professorship [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Ire for Democrat Who Pulled Plug on California’s Single-Payer Bill
By Jon Queally Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Common Dreams at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/24/ire-democrat-who-pulled-plug-californias-single-payer-bill and is [...] Continue Reading
Legal Defense Funding: In Defense of Immigrants’ Civil Liberties
By Daniel O’Connell In June 2016, Donald Trump launched his bid to be President of the United States with an extraordinary discriminatory anti-immigrant statement: “When Mexico sends its people, [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Resistance Takes on Legal Challenges
By Community Alliance staff On May 11, 2017, a press conference was held outside the Fresno courthouse calling for the city to drop the charges against activists from the group Fresno Resistance who [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – June 2017
By Hannah Brandt As the school year ends, young people have been on my mind. I used to teach high school social studies and have continued to work with teens over the years. Whenever I see [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Science Proves the Benefits of Cleaning Our Air
By Tom Frantz The American Lung Association, in its annual State of the Air report, leaves no doubt that the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley has the worst fine particulate matter (PM2.5) [...] Continue Reading
Advocates Demand Bail Reform
By Zima Creason and Kellen Russoniello Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the ACLU of Northern California and is republished with permission [...] Continue Reading
For “We Are Not Invisible,” Fresno No Longer a Black Hole of “No”
A Conversation with Homeless Advocate Dez Martinez By Hannah Brandt Walking up the front stoop lined with bougainvillea, through the driftwood wreathed door there is a warm glow of hominess. That is [...] Continue Reading
Group Ties Interior Nominee/Westlands Lobbyist to Arctic Refuge Scientific Fraud
By Dan Bacher Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Daily Kos and is republished under its terms and [...] Continue Reading
Exploring the Absence of Asghar Farhadi
By Rubén Casas Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Fresno Filmworks (https://fresnofilmworks.org/blog/exploring-the-absence-of-asghar-farhadi) and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
When Your Tap Water Is Toxic
By Kena Cador Editor's Note: This article was originally published by the ACLU of Northern California and is republished with permission. https://www.aclunc.org/blog/when-your-tap-water-toxic “On [...] Continue Reading