By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s Note: Part 2 of this article will be published in the June edition) In our present economic system, the dominant element—capital—plays its normal role on the main [...] Continue Reading
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Poetry Behind Bars
The following poems are written by individuals incarcerated in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California. Some of the authors are poetry and drama students from the Alliance for California [...] Continue Reading
Folk
By Tiffany A. Potter I have been listening to a lot of folk music from the “60’s and ‘70’s, lately. I didn’t realize it at first but became more aware of it when I chose to watch my third PBS special [...] Continue Reading
Fresno PD | The Most Dangerous Police Force in America?
By Kayla Moon An activist by the name of John Lang appears to have recently been murdered – his death part of a much larger pattern. Fresno Police Department (FPD) is under investigation by many [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Victory in Kern County
By Tom Frantz Sometimes, in the struggle for environmental justice, there are small victories. Residents of Kern County recently had a big one. About ten years ago, the fossil fuel industry was [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Dairies and Climate Change
By Tom Frantz Around 3% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy cows. Most of these emissions are from industrial sized milk factories found in the San Joaquin Valley. The emissions [...] Continue Reading
My Hustle Hiatus
By Tiffany A. Potter Here’s what I know as fact: I’ve lost my mind. I am knee deep in launching a global company and I can’t even remember my own phone number. I literally had to take a screen shot [...] Continue Reading
Long Time Fresno Activist Says Chief Dyer Has Got To Go
By Ellie Bluestein A reporter from The Fresno Bee asked what I thought about the conclusions of the recent internal report conducted by Michael Josephson Institute at the request of the Fresno Police [...] Continue Reading
Rite of Passage
On November 30, 2014, I received the rite of baptism at Community United Church of Christ in Fresno, CA. It was my third baptism: the first took place at a Methodist church in Illinois when I was an [...] Continue Reading
“Hey, Hey, LBJ!” Anti-War Performance Comes to Rogue Festival
By Hannah Brandt In 1964, San Francisco native David Kleinberg dropped out of school to travel. He knew something was going on in Vietnam, but wasn’t too worried about being drafted. He thought it [...] Continue Reading
Abbot’s Story
By Richard Stone Author’s Note: The following piece is entirely fictional. It is based (in some ways closely) on my direct connection with the mother of a well-publicized real-life murderer, and on [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Undermining Public Health with Pollution Credits
By Tom Frantz According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) there are hundreds of industries in the valley polluting our filthy air with what are considered [...] Continue Reading