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
Columns
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
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
Make “C” Stand for Climate, Community
By Kevin Hall Twenty years ago, local business and political leaders learned an important lesson at the ballot box: People really want clean air. That’s why in 2002 voters rejected the first [...] Continue Reading
Whitmore Stood at Pinnacle of Mountain Climbing and Conservation
By Vic Bedoian George Whitmore has shaken off his mortal shell and became the stuff of legend for his mountaineering achievements and ceaseless conservation labors. He stood at the pinnacle in both [...] Continue Reading
“Disappointed” Enough for Change?
By Kevin Hall The year 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest in human history. Other new records were set for Arctic heat and wildfires, tropical storms in the Atlantic, and locally, the Creek Fire, the [...] Continue Reading