By Vic Bedoian Over 500 people from around State converged in San Luis Obispo on February 4 and 5 with the goal of halting a project that would bring mile-long oil trains through the heart of that [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Clearing the Air: Dairies and Climate Change
By Tom Frantz Around 3% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy cows. Most of these emissions are from industrial sized milk factories found in the San Joaquin Valley. The emissions [...] Continue Reading
Reclaiming Dr. King and Rally for Justice at Fresno Pacific
By Hannah Brandt and Karen Crozier “Why America May Go to Hell” was to be one of Martin Luther King’s sermon in April of 1968. He gave it as a speech at a march of striking sanitation workers in [...] Continue Reading
“Hey, Hey, LBJ!” Anti-War Performance Comes to Rogue Festival
By Hannah Brandt In 1964, San Francisco native David Kleinberg dropped out of school to travel. He knew something was going on in Vietnam, but wasn’t too worried about being drafted. He thought it [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – March 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, March 10, at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 2, (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Commemorates Dr. King’s Legacy
By Hannah Brandt On Jan 18, 2016 Fresno’s annual March, ‘Mountain of Food’ collection, and Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. began at Fresno City Hall with speeches from local leaders including [...] Continue Reading
Hmongstory40: Valley’s Hmong Citizens Celebrate 40 Years of History
By Vic Bedoian for Pacifica Radio, KFCF Fresno Forty years after immigrating to the United States from Southeast Asia, the Hmong community in Fresno celebrated with the opening of a major multi-media [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Undermining Public Health with Pollution Credits
By Tom Frantz According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) there are hundreds of industries in the valley polluting our filthy air with what are considered [...] Continue Reading
How A Lion Named Cecil Changed The World
By Gary Carter What happened with Cecil the Lion was horrible, but something else happened too. With his poaching, suddenly everyone was painfully aware of the horrors of trophy hunting. In response, [...] Continue Reading
Hillary Clinton & Remembering MLK Jr’s Legacy
By Patricia Brown I’m Pat Brown, a volunteer for Hillary for America Fresno and it’s a privilege to be here today because I believe Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, President Obama is the dream [...] Continue Reading
The Top 11 Reasons Why You Can’t Trust Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy
By Grant Marcus The eleventh reason not to trust Hillary Clinton on foreign policy is how she gave birth to politics, as Arkansas’s regional student coordinator for the Barry Goldwater campaign. For [...] Continue Reading
Discussion at Reedley Peace Center about Israel Palestine
By Hannah Brandt A Fresno State student recently back from Palestine spoke at the Reedley Peace Center on Jan. 15, 2016. She was born and grew up partially in the U.S., living first in New York City [...] Continue Reading