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From the Editor – May 2017

By Hannah Brandt On April 9, we held our annual fundraiser. This year’s theme was Growing Community Alliance. Here is the editor’s update I presented that night. Thank you all for coming! It’s so [...] Continue Reading

Ancient Myth and Modern Life

By George B. Kauffman Book Review: Ancient Myth and Modern Life, by Gerald A. Larue, Centerline Press, 2005 Palo Verde Ave., Long Beach, CA 90815; 1988, paperback, $16.95. ix + 230 pp. [...] Continue Reading

Cuba’s Fresh Perspectives

By Bill Braun Twenty-five of us, 19 from the United States, joined together for 10 days during January in Cuba. Billed as “Fresh Perspectives,” our tour was that, plus many entirely new and somewhat [...] Continue Reading

The Great Hollywood Whitewashing

By Raymart Catacutan (Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The kNOw Youth Media: http://theknowfresno.org/04/18/2017/great-hollywood-whitewashing/. Note that the article includes [...] Continue Reading

From the Editor – April 2017

By Hannah Brandt The last few weeks many have been focused on healthcare. In a whirlwind of brutality and incompetence, the GOP health plan/Trumpcare imploded before our eyes. It had some of the [...] Continue Reading

FUNDAMENTALISM ON TRIAL

By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Twelve Claims of the Christian Right Fall under Strict Secular Scrutiny. All are flagrant examples of “cherry picking.”  Abortion: Fundamentalists say that outlawing [...] Continue Reading

EOP-Music Program

By Boston Woodard Over the decades, music programs in prison have been part of the rehabilitation process for many men and women throughout California. It all began in the 1940’s when warden Clinton [...] Continue Reading

Malak: An American Girl and Her Family

By Hannah Brandt Wasan Abu-Baker, content and translation The word malak means angel in Arabic. Malak is also a six-year-old Fresno girl who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 2010. A few months before the [...] Continue Reading