By Eduardo Stanley Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission and was originally published at www.eduardostanley.com. Despite the government’s promises and laws, indigenous cultures [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Poetry Corner: Compassion Politics
Halima Aquino, M.A., launched the Voter Education and Engagement Project (VEEP) in California to better understand why people register but do not vote. The responses to her survey indicated, among [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Epiphany: Swearengin Video Offers Insights on Racism, White Privilege
By Kevin Hall Stark examples of institutionalized racism and White privilege in Fresno burst out publicly in October like a Charlottesville rally of Trump supporters. The tiki torches illuminating [...] Continue Reading
Harvey Survivors Find Hope: From California to Corpus Christi
By Wasan Abu-Baker Editor’s Note: A version of this article was published in Kings River Life Magazine at [...] Continue Reading
Transgender Malevolence Protest of No Camping Ordinance
By Zoyer Zyndel Trans-E-Motion, a community benefit organization that works to improve the lives of transgender people and their allies through education, support and advocacy in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS: One of America’s Greatest Injustices Continues
By Hannah Brandt In the year since the November 2016 presidential election, many have weighed in on the results of that election and their causes. While no doubt a number of factors contributed, one [...] Continue Reading
Ready for Resistance, Any Day Now
By Rev. Dr. Christopher Breedlove My head is spinning of late, exhausted by the seemingly relentless pace of racists, bigots and gentrification vultures here locally in Fresno. Or, perhaps, the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – October 2017
By Hannah Brandt It is easy for this political moment to feel like the movie Groundhog Day, where you keep waking up expecting it to be a new day only to find it is the same unbearable day every [...] Continue Reading
A Response to Brooke Ashjian Regarding the Armenian and LGBT Communities
By Hanna B. Mardikian Editor’s note: This article was originally published by LGBT Fresno and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
The Story of the Muslim Community in the Central Valley
By Wasan Abu-Baker Muslims are well known for their warm hospitality. Our prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that whoever believes in God and the Day of Judgment, let him honor his neighbor, [...] Continue Reading
Gandhi Birthday Celebration at Peace Garden
The 148th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, apostle of peace and nonviolence, also known as the father of human rights in the 20th century and patron saint of the peace movement globally, will be observed [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Hate Rally
By Loretta Kensinger (This is the speech given by Loretta Kensinger, Central Valley Progressive PAC Vice President, at the Stop the Hate rally on Aug. 24. The event was held in the Tower District.) [...] Continue Reading