By Cecile Lusby In 1952, we moved to our grandfather’s ranch on South Fruit Avenue outside Fresno. Will Main and his wife had taken the train from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they saw fruit box labels [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
DOMA Struck Down: Celebrating Today’s Victory While Looking Ahead
By Kaylia Metcalfe In a move that pleased LGBT groups across the country, on June 26, 2013, the US Supreme Court struck down (in a 5 to 4 vote) a key part of DOMA (The 1996 Defense Of Marriage [...] Continue Reading
The Campaign against Legalized Loan Sharking
By Rev. Booker T. Lewis II, Rev. Chris Breedlove, Dr. Don Simmons and Andy Levine A casual drive through Fresno can quickly turn into a case study in poor city planning. If you’re driving through [...] Continue Reading
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – July 2013
By John Crockford Spying on Everyone: Much Ado about Nothing!?! The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF; www.eff.org/), an organization that battles for digital freedom in the courts, has published [...] Continue Reading
Futurism, Shakespeare, Sierra Vocal and B.H.
By Alfonso C. Hernandez Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his “Manifesto of Futurism” (1909) published in Paris’ Le Figaro on Feb. 20 wrote the major principles of futurism among which were the loathing [...] Continue Reading
The Debate about Freedom and Privacy: What’s the Impact on Social Justice? — Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron – July 2013
By David E. Roy Introduction At this unique point in time, as the magnetic pole of the Fourth of July pulls us closer while we are walking, head down, under the NSA’s watchful cloud, our nation is [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – July 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to positive [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – June 2013
By John Crockford GPS “The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the [...] Continue Reading
Shakespeare, Handel, Goethe and Mahler
By Alfonso C. Hernandez In the current world of music and theater, directors, producers, set designers, costumiers and choreographers appear to think that presenting a work of art as originally [...] Continue Reading
Unitarian Universalist Church Presents ‘Janka’
By Lorenzo Bassman On June 15 at 8 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno presents Janka, a play about one woman’s will to survive the Holocaust. Janka is the compelling and redemptive [...] Continue Reading
Summer Jazz Series
By Community Alliance Staff The 1st Annual Fresno Summer Jazz Series, featuring some of the biggest names in jazz, will take place on Friday, June 14. The venue for this event will be the Woodward [...] Continue Reading