By Gary Lasky Oil trains are rumbling through Fresno. They are dangerous, rolling time bombs. The U.S. Department of Transportation predicts 10 oil train derailments per year over the next decade. In [...] Continue Reading
Activism
What It Looks Like to Live in a Segregated City
By Quentin Savage Fresno is a segregated city. “How?” is a better question than “Why?” but perhaps “Where?” is the most important. Have you seen it? Have you felt it? Would you know what to look for [...] Continue Reading
A Matter of Conscience A HERITAGE OF PACIFISM
By Hannah Brandt My grandfather is 93 years old. Most nights, he forgets to take his medication unless I bug him about it: “Did you take your pills yet?” Somehow, he never manages to miss a minute of [...] Continue Reading
Thousands of Farmworkers Can’t Make a Living
By David Bacon At the end of the 1970s, California farmworkers were the highest paid in the United States, with the possible exception of Hawaii’s long-unionized sugar and pineapple workers. Today, [...] Continue Reading
Freedom School A Positive Outlet
By Reverend Dr. Floyd D. Harris, Jr. It’s the dawning of a Saturday morning. Despite the forecast of triple-digit summer heat, young men and women have gathered anxiously awaiting their chance to [...] Continue Reading
A Century Is a Long Time. It is and it isn’t.
By David Barsamian (Editor’s note: The following poem was read in Ankara, Turkey, on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. April 25, 2015.) It is important to complete the poems and eat the [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Belief & Unbelief by Barbara G. Walker
By George B. Kauffman Despite the Mother’s Day publicity, our country has dropped from 31st in 2014 to 33rd place in the world’s best places to be a mother according to the 2015 Save the Children’s [...] Continue Reading
Nunes Calls for San Joaquin River Salmon to Go Extinct
By Gary Lasky In a lengthy, conspiracy-tinged June 12 letter to Investor’s Business Daily, Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare) gives free rein to his interesting fantasies about the incredible clout of [...] Continue Reading
The Divide in Fresno
By Kathy G. Ayala Inequalities and its history still linger and resonate within our cities and expand globally. In Fresno, we experience a divide—a division cutting through the city horizontally [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Jerry Brown and a Conspiracy to Pollute Groundwater
By Tom Frantz On June 3, 2015, an interesting lawsuit was filed by farmers in Kern County against Governor Jerry Brown, a few regulators and a couple of big oil companies. The lawsuit claims there [...] Continue Reading
The Entire World Asks, “Is the U.S.A. Crazy?”
By George B. Kauffman American TV, the source of “news” for most of us, wastes time on ever-changing polls showing who is ahead in the race for the 2016 election, as if it were a sports game. Failed [...] Continue Reading
Third Annual Chicano History Revisited Symposium
By Eddie Varela and Jose Luis Barraza Concilio de Fresno, Inc., is hosting the Third Annual Symposium of Chicano History Revisited of Fresno County on August 29 at the Sal Mosqueda Community Center. [...] Continue Reading