By Hannah Brandt January felt like a tornado hit. In the storm, Barack Obama became the former president, Donald Trump became the current president, and the country commemorated the life of Martin [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Free Speech Victory in Fresno: Proof that You Can Stand Up to City Hall
By Mike Rhodes Conservatives and Republican politicians do a lot of talking about deregulation, being supportive of small businesses and cutting down on government bureaucracy. Why then did [...] Continue Reading
The Cartoon History of Humanism
By George B. Kauffman The Cartoon History of Humanism: Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment. Words by Dale DeBakcsy, Art by Count Dolby von Luckner, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2015, paperback [...] Continue Reading
10 Years Later: Fresno Politicians Still Toying with Black History and Nobody Cares!
By Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. (Editor’s Note: The first part of this article was written in December 2006, the latter part written in January 2017. It has been edited for clarity.) December 19, 2006: [...] Continue Reading
All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight
By Rubén Casas Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at Tropics of Meta as part of Fresno State's Valley Public History Initiative All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona [...] Continue Reading
Police Violence Is Brutal Repression
By King David “The public execution has a juridical-political function. Its aim is not so much to reestablish a balance of justice as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between [...] Continue Reading
Universal Heart | A profile of Muralist Mauro Carrera
By Hannah Brandt If you search Creative Fresno’s innovative and extensive Digital Mural Map of Fresno, Mauro Carrera’s Fulton Street work is called Universal Heart. The artist, who began making murals [...] Continue Reading
WINDOWS TEN
By Uncle Bill Windows Ten, Windows Ten Go away, don’t come again! Each new system drives me mad! What’s wrong with keeping what we had? Each “feature” complicates the mess. I find I can do less and [...] Continue Reading
Transparency & Accountability In Policing: Strengthening Trust between Fresno PD & the Public
By Laura Garcia, Michael Ballin, Carlene Merino, and Matthew Fosberg Recent National Attention on Police-Community Relations Highly publicized events in 2014 exposed significant fractures in the [...] Continue Reading
Nature’s Hidden Force
By George B. Kauffman Nature's Hidden Force: Joining Spirituality with Science by George Land and Beth Jarman, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2014, paperback $14.99. ISBN 978-0-931779-49-7 In its [...] Continue Reading
Proposed Newsstand Ordinance a Concern for Independent Print News
By Editor-in-Chief If you listen to the Community Alliance version of Stir it Up on KFCF 88.1 every month, you may have heard me talk a few weeks ago about the proposed newsstand ordinance for the [...] Continue Reading
Joint Statement from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and National Indigenous Congress
Translated By Jonathan Luevanos (Author’s note: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist political group formed by indigenous people from the Lacandon Jungle in [...] Continue Reading