Berta Cáceres was killed on March 3, 2016, one day before what would have been her 45th birthday. Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca woman in Honduras who co-founded the COPINH—Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading
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Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of MLK’s Birth
On Jan. 15, the City of Fresno will celebrate the 95th birth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an uncompromising champion of nonviolence, human rights and social justice. Since 1984, the [...] Continue Reading
Un Nuevo Comienzo
A principios de este año, un restaurante local se vio obligado a cerrar cuando fue bombardeado con acusaciones racistas infundadas. Varios meses después y después de mucha angustia, ha reabierto con [...] Continue Reading
Orden de Captura Contra Otro Implicado en el Asesinato de Berta Cáceres
A Berta Cáceres la asesinaron el 3 de marzo de 2016, un día antes de lo que hubiese sido su cumpleaños 45. Berta Cáceres era una mujer indígena Lenca en Honduras, cofundadora del Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading
Barbed Wire Baseball
It is a date that will live in infamy—Feb. 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It disrupted the lives of more than 120,000 Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Responding Should You Witness a Hate Crime
A diverse group gathered at the Visalia Friends Meeting Hall for a training on what to do if you are in a situation where someone is being harassed because of the color of their skin, their sexual [...] Continue Reading
WWII-Era Internment Camp Unites Asians and Latinos
Mothers and grandmothers clutched children close on trains rolling through this dry stretch of south Texas, not knowing what waited for them at the end of the line. They were Peruvians of Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Campo de Concentración de la II Guerra Mundial une a Asiáticos y Latinos
Madres y abuelas abrazaban a sus niños en los trenes que circulaban por esta zona seca del sur de Texas, sin saber qué les esperaba al final de la línea. Eran peruanos de ascendencia japonesa, [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Indigenous Rights
According to Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias, Fresno is the first city in California to make changes to its Municipal Code that end discrimination against Indigenous people. The amendment also [...] Continue Reading
The “Other” Incarcerated Japanese
During World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were taken by U.S. authorities and placed in concentration camps around the country. The government argued that these Japanese Amercans might [...] Continue Reading
Kidnapping of the Naganuma Family in Peru
“I was 20 months old when I arrived with my family at the Crystal City camp [in Texas], so I don’t remember those events,” said Kazumu Naganuma. “I learned about this experience thanks to my older [...] Continue Reading
Chinatown Needs a Meaningful Vision and Dynamic Leadership
Fresno’s Chinatown is unique among similar historical sites in the state. In the 20th century, it developed as a center of community life, integration and economic development for the state’s central [...] Continue Reading