Cars, Climate, Clovis: “C” stands for many issues in the emerging debate over priorities for Measure C, our countywide transportation sales tax expiring in 2027. Above all else, it should stand for [...] Continue Reading
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Can We Recover?
Can we recover from the discord, the suspicion, the anger, the fear and such now suffocating our society? We must! But how? How can we restore the meaning of democracy? It’s pandemic. It’s a [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
New Year, New Hope The new year is here with us, and as usual, most people renew their hopes and illusions that things will be better—either at their personal level and/or at a societal [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Smoggies to Be Awarded
Breathers citywide are eager to learn who will take home a coveted golden inhaler—The Smoggie—at this year’s inaugural awards event for Fresno’s worst votes and quotes on air pollution and climate [...] Continue Reading
Adultifying BIPOC Children for Punishment
Many of us already know that there are two legal systems just as classical novels have articulated about the economic and political experiences of communities along race and class lines. One U.S. [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Is Violence Becoming Our Way of Life? Five people were killed and at least 48 more were injured when an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade on Nov 21 in Waukesha, Wisc. This is the last—for [...] Continue Reading
Local High Schoolers Publish an Economics Book
I have always been an avid believer in SIY, or the “Start it Yourself” mentality. This, I believe, derives from my unbounded passion to incite change, namely, on those issues that plague our [...] Continue Reading
Decolonizing Public Safety
Exploring Punishment By Morghan Vélez Young (Editor’s note: “Exploring Punishment” is a new series about the U.S. fixation with punishment that will journey beyond explorations of jails and [...] Continue Reading
Like Lightning: A Book for Our Time and Place
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California by Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters. New Village Press, New York, Paperback, $24.95. In late 1975, I [...] Continue Reading
Labor Rights Caravan Reaches Out to Farmworkers
The Labor Rights Caravan reached the small town of Huron on June 26. Volunteers set up pavilions in the parking lot of a Mexican bakery, the Panadería de Dios. In the 100-degree heat, they met a [...] Continue Reading
New Book Explores Scholars’ Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness
The day is July 13. You can be part of the official launch of the book In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California, co-authored by Daniel J. O’Connell, [...] Continue Reading
It’s Not in the Headlines Any More, but Colombia Is Still Rising in Protest
During May, at least 70 demonstrators were killed in Colombia. On June 9, thousands of people marched, chanting slogans against President Ivan Duque and police brutality, to the Tequendama hotel, [...] Continue Reading