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
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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
You Can “C” Forever from Here
Measure C without end? That’s the recommendation from one consultant: a permanent tax on Fresno County voters—a forever tax—for transportation spending. We all currently pay an extra half cent on [...] Continue Reading
South Fresno Community versus Industrial Pollution
There’s fresh rot at the core of Fresno politics. Sprawl developers have long controlled land-use decisions by simply providing cash to City Council members and candidates, but infection rates in the [...] Continue Reading
A Dull May 1 Celebration
By Eduardo Stanley About 200 people participated in the May 1 Day event, which took place on May 1 in front of the Fresno City Hall. The majority of the participants were activists or members of [...] Continue Reading
Colombian Government Chooses Force over Dialogue as Protests Continue
By Joshua Collins Deisy Paricio lights candles at a remembrance ceremony in the neighborhood of Soledad for those who have died during 10 bloody days of protest in Colombia. “We’re here to denounce [...] Continue Reading
A Transportation “C” Change?
By Kevin Hall A high tide of community leaders swept into the Measure C sales tax renewal debate last month, flooding the island fortress of the status quo that is the Fresno County Transportation [...] Continue Reading
Every Day We Get More Illegal
By Tim Simmers Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, 2020, $10.47 paperback. As a child of immigrant farmworkers who picked crops in the [...] Continue Reading
Why Are We So Punitive?
By William J. Farrell Our Punitive Society: Race, Class, Gender and Punishment in America (2nd ed.) by Randall G. Shelden and Morghan Vélez Young. Waveland Press Inc., Long Grove, Ill. Paperback, [...] Continue Reading
The Community Alliance Stir it Up Radio Show has Returned to KFCF
Amanda Tripp hosts the return of the Community Alliance Stir it Up Radio Show on KFCF 88.1 FM. The first show was on Wednesday, April 7 and featured climate change activist Kevin Hall who [...] Continue Reading
Arias, Perez Shill for Deadly Polluters
By Kevin Hall Warning: The following quote from Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias is hazardous to your health and that of everyone you know: “This agreement is an example that we can [...] Continue Reading