Whitman Style Free Verse Poem by Richard D. Iyall I am indigenous to this land. Yes, I am. Indigenous I am.I am a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, whose sacred landis under siege in Washington, the [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Tearing Down Monuments
By Robin Maria DeLugan Today, as historical monuments become the sites of protest against police violence and racism, new attention is drawn to the role they play in society. A monument that is [...] Continue Reading
Trabajadores de Cuidado Infantil Enfrentan Serias Dificultades
Por Eduardo Stanley Desde el comienzo de la pandemia —en marzo 2020— unas 5.000 personas dedicadas al cuidado de niños en el estado perdieron sus empleos. A diferencia de otras áreas de la [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta: Tribute to Greatness
By Sudarshan Kapoor On Oct. 2, Fresno State celebrated the 90th birthday of Dolores Huerta (official birthday April 10 ) by planting a peace tree in her honor in the Peace Garden. Dr. Joseph I. [...] Continue Reading
Smoke!
By Tom Frantz We have suffered the effect of smoke on public health due to the wildfires this summer. It couldn’t be more obvious that serious health impairment comes as a result of breathing the [...] Continue Reading
Observing the Observers Preserves Democracy
By Kevin Hall In hyped-up times like these, the two-week lag between deadline and publication stretches out like an eternity of gaslit news cycles. Daily newscasts can barely keep up. So here’s a [...] Continue Reading
Meet Marisol Baca, First Latina Poet Laureate of Fresno
By Tim Simmers When Marisol Baca studied poetry at Fresno State in the early 2000s, she heard few women of color or marginalized voices in Fresno’s fertile poetry scene. Even before she became [...] Continue Reading
In Honor of Maria Telesco
(Editor’s note: Richard Stone wrote this article about Maria Telesco for his Credo series in the Community Alliance and then included it in his book Hidden in Plain Sight. We are bringing this article [...] Continue Reading
Chiapas en el Octubre Descolonizador
Por Juan Trujillo Limones Como reacciones de un proceso social descolonizador, las imágenes del derribo de estatuas de conquistadores, líderes coloniales y esclavistas en Chile y Estados Unidos le [...] Continue Reading
¿Qué defensa tenemos contra las acciones ilegales de la derecha?
(Nota del Editor: El pasado 18 de octubre se realizaron elecciones en Bolivia y el partido MAS resultó ampliamente triunfador. Se ignora si el gobierno de facto actual aceptará entregar el [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Indoor Air Quality
By Tom Frantz How many residents of the San Joaquin Valley live in homes with swamp coolers that suck in outside air through a water-soaked mat of loose fibers and that require at least one window [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s End, Fresno County’s New Era
By Kevin Hall “There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.”—Greta Thuneberg, age 16, 2018 We’re nearing the end of the most disastrous presidential [...] Continue Reading