By Hannah Brandt June 2017 was a big month for firsts in the Central Valley. The first Gay Pride Parade in Fresno was held in the Tower District in 1991. Now called the Rainbow Pride Festival and [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
The Lazy Universe
By George B. Kauffman The Lazy Universe: An Introduction to the Principle of Least Action. By Jennifer Coopersmith, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK; New York, NY, 2017, xii + 267 pp., hardcover, [...] Continue Reading
Tapped Out: Whose Reality?
By Michael D. Evans Valley PBS aired a documentary miniseries titled Tapped Out: The History and Battle over Water in California’s San Joaquin Valley during May. The four-part series examined the [...] Continue Reading
Alice’s Story: Coming out as Trans and Finding a Role Model in Myself
By Alice Herrera Editor’s note: This article was originally published by We’Ced Youth Media (http://www.wecedyouth.org/2017/06/coming-trans-finding-role-model/) and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
Local Peace Groups Unhappy with Recent Fresno State Decision
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
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
Review of Us and Them: Racism Under Arrest
By Cherylyn Smith Prepare for the genesis of “reality theater.” Unlike reality TV, this genre is not “dumbed down,” as demonstrated in the original play Us and Them by Deshad Cato. (The play is being [...] 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
THE LORD WAS NOT ON TRIAL: The Inside Story of the Supreme Court’s Precedent-Setting McCollum Ruling
By George B. Kauffman The Lord Was Not on Trial: The Inside Story of the Supreme Court’s Precedent-Setting McCollum Ruling. By Dannel McCollum, Americans for Religious Liberty, Box 6656, Silver [...] 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
Trans-E-Motion Activism and Outreach Grows in Fresno
By Hannah Brandt Fresno nonprofit organization and advocacy group Trans-E-Motion has been busy lately. On April 15, the community celebrated the annual Transgender Day of Visibility. When interviewed [...] Continue Reading
Fundraiser 2017: Growing Community Alliance
Mandolinist Eva Scow performed during the happy hour before the program. Editorial board member Sandra Celedon-Castro was the emcee for the event. Hannah Brandt gave an editor’s update. Executive [...] Continue Reading