By Daniel O’Connell In the 1930s, union leader A. Philip Randolph came to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to complain that the New Deal was not helping his workers enough and that stronger measures were [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Disabled by Consumer Culture & Dignified Paths to our Fullest Potential
By Brian Jay Snyder I sit with great sadness upon a tree stump beside my home in the mountains of Central California. I see hundreds of tree stumps and multiple log-decks with hundreds of dead trees [...] Continue Reading
Working with Syrian Refugees in Fresno
By Wasan Abu-Baker I was born and raised in Palestine, in a highly-educated household. My father was politically active and outspoken for the civil rights of Palestinians through non-violent [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – March 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday March 9 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 1 (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
The Pachamama Alliance
By Carolyn Murphy With the world and its institutions appearing more unstable every day, it is difficult to find a place to focus our energies with any optimism. The Pachamama Alliance, founded [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC: Power to the People!
-The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC- Note: This is NOT an advertisement for PG&E By Mike Rhodes If everyone reading this issue of the Community [...] Continue Reading
Organize for a Better Future & Women’s March Unite in Fresno
For more photos from January 21, 2017 by Richard D. Iyall go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1548968925132133.1073741852.147659788596394&type=1&l=5767e8c2f1 [...] Continue Reading
The Women’s March: Feminism in Action
By Micaela Cisneros-Nuñez Fifty. I expected maybe 50 women. I wasn’t even sure of that. But if I could get 50 women to march a mile with me, I knew we could get at least a little bit of [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – February 2017
By Hannah Brandt January felt like a tornado hit. In the storm, Barack Obama became the former president, Donald Trump became the current president, and the country commemorated the life of Martin [...] Continue Reading
DARWIN DAY
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Mayor Lee Brand has proclaimed February 12, 2017 to be “Darwin Day in the City of Fresno.” As our nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Wheezing and Choking in Malaga
By Tom Frantz A trip down South Chestnut Ave, in Fresno, will take you past Malaga a half mile north of Highway 99. A little over 200 homes, a school, and a park make up this small, [...] Continue Reading
Ashley Swearengin’s Eight Years of Inequity and Neglect: Part 1
By Kevin Hall The central San Joaquin Valley with its economic base of industrial agriculture has been likened to a modern-day plantation system. As such, north Fresno is one of its antebellum [...] Continue Reading