By Dante Bellota Rainbow Pride means many things to me as a gay man. When I was a youth coming to grips with my sexuality, I knew nothing of the context of Pride. Pride was not talked about as I was [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
About the Cover: The Personal Is Political
By Ernesto Saavedra Arts and culture have always played a critical role in shifting the mind-set of the masses in a way that crosses all barriers. That visual aspect of the movement brings the [...] Continue Reading
What’s News?
See your name in print! In this new feature, edited by Richard Stone, we will publish several reader-written responses to each month’s question. Responses should be no more than 150 words and sent to [...] Continue Reading
Excerpt from Expanding the Yaqui Religious Experience (1989)
By Jesse C. Gonzales “In the beginning...God,” to those who follow Judeo, Christian and Islamic beliefs, that passage is an introduction to the answers that can satisfy many questions concerning [...] Continue Reading
The Barrio Art Collective Manifesto
Editor’s note: This is a public service announcement from the Barrio Art Collective, which is dedicated to all of the people in the struggle in the barrios, alleys and marginalized areas in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – June 2014
Edited by Richard Stone Alex Vavoulis, former professor at Fresno State and a founding father of KFCF, offers us a poem written in 1966 by his longtime friend Thanasis Maskaleris. Vavoulis writes, [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion is Not and Oxymoron: Part II: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy Introduction to Part II Last month in Part I, the focus was primarily on the foreground battles progressives are fighting on numerous fronts to vocally “stand our ground” against the [...] Continue Reading
Undocu-Queers: The Invisible Intersection between Immigrant and LGBTQ Rights
By Grisanti Valencia Undocu-queers have been at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement fighting for all immigrant families. Their stories have inspired all of us in many ways. An undocu-queer [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers: When There’s a Need We Must Act
By Gloria Hernandez with Rosemary Moreno and Irene Serrano (Editor’s note: Back in the early 1990s, there were a lot of droughts that disproportionately affected a lot of the campesina/o communities, [...] Continue Reading
A Student’s Voice Heard
By Cheyann Wakefield As a senior at Fresno High, I look forward to what my future holds and I reflect on my experience as a Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) student. I think about what I’ve been [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Trona, Bloody Trona
By Mike Rhodes I meet a lot of lawyers who work on social and economic justice issues but have never met one quite like Paul Henry Abram. Abram, who lives in Bass Lake and has an art gallery in [...] Continue Reading
Fist Up Film Festival 2014
By Analicia Mia Rangel-Garcia The 5th Annual Fist Up Film Festival will be coming to the Central Valley from April 29 to May 3. Last year, I was able to attend the film festival in the Bay Area and [...] Continue Reading