By the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies The Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies (CLAS) has announced the second annual Latin American Film Festival. The mission of the [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Indigenous Migrants Celebrate Their Guelaguetza in Fresno
By Erika C. Encinas As summer is ending and the color of trees is changing, indigenous communities are getting ready for their annual festival in Fresno. Every September, the Binational Center for [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Reel Pride Hosts 25th Annual Film Festival
By Justin Kamimoto It was 25 years ago this fall that Fresno State student organization GLBSA (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Student Alliance) participated in the third annual National Coming Out Day (NCOD). [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – September 2014
Edited by Richard Stone Bob Navarro is well-known in our community as a lawyer active in civil rights affairs and as a Film Works Board member. Who knew he is also a poet—though I do remember he [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: The Communal Mind and the Master Artifice
By Alex Vavoulis The Communal Mind and the Master Artifice by Helen Sullivan. 2009. It is impossible for someone to read this remarkable book without thinking about the contemporary scene in [...] Continue Reading
Mideast Extremism Requires New Progressive Response
By Paul Pierce, Patience Milrod and Darrow Pierce As we write this, it is Saturday evening, July 26. Earlier today, Israel extended a 12-hour ceasefire by four hours. Hamas has responded by firing [...] Continue Reading
Hobby Lobby Caught Hobnobbing with SCOTUS Elite While the Bill of Rights Was Left Out in the Cold — Progressive Religion August 2014
By David E. Roy At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark 5-4 ruling that determined it was the “right” of the owners of the “closed corporation” Hobby Lobby to choose not to [...] Continue Reading
Digital Cheese
By Will Durst Plenty of people had good reason to be in a foul mood back in 2012. The Detroit Tigers. Members of the Romney family. And, after making the acquaintance of a windy lass named Sandy, [...] Continue Reading
Summer of Brown Boi
By Erica Woodland Just four years ago, the Brown Boi Project, a community of people of color organizing across race and gender to challenge and transform dominant understandings of gender and [...] Continue Reading
Health Disparities Among Uninsured LGBTQ and Undocumented Communities in Fresno
By Oday Guerrero Although the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medi-Cal have increased the level of coverage for those living in California and most of the United States, there are many [...] Continue Reading
About the Cover: A Life in Print
By Ernesto Saavedra You’ve come across them at some point in your life. Posters, postcards and shirts. They decorate our walls, our bodies and our minds. Seldom is there much thought as to how these [...] Continue Reading
Freedom According to the Zapatistas
By Patricia Wells Solorzano (Author’s note: In August 2013, after years of little news from the Zapatistas, the Escuelitas Zapatistas (little schools) took place in Zapatista territory. Some people [...] Continue Reading