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
Arts & Culture
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
KFCF BANQUET 2016
Free Speech Award recipients 2016 are Justice Rene Medina and Juan Rafael Avitia. Programmer of the Year Award recipient is Tom Willey for “Down on the Farm.” Photos by Richard D. Iyall, Cowlitz and [...] Continue Reading
Wicked Gods
By George B. Kauffman Wicked Gods by Eilis Leyne, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2013, paperback $18.95, ISBN 978-0-931779-45-9 While recent authors like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and [...] Continue Reading
Tower District Pooch Parade
Images by Joel Perez It’s a Halloween event just for dog-lovers! The Tower District hosted the 10th annual Whitie’s Pets Pooch Parade, Canine Carnival & Costume Contest. This doggie to-do took [...] Continue Reading
SATIRE: Alex Jones Eat Your Heart Out, The Real Truth Behind Hillary Clinton
By Jacob Clark (Author’s Note: This Is Satire) We all know that this election is unlike any other before it. What we have now is not a normal election between two candidates but a battle between good [...] Continue Reading