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
Columns
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
Will the Real State Sponsors of Terrorism Please Stand Up?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba State Sponsor of Terrorism but not Saudi Arabia? The Trump regime placed Cuba on the U.S. State Sponsor of Terrorism list on Jan. 11, just five days after inciting [...] Continue Reading
Final Thoughts
By Tom Frantz This winter will mark the end of one of the worst air quality episodes in the San Joaquin Valley for more than a dozen years. The past summer, fall and now the beginning of winter [...] Continue Reading
Covfefe Affects City Leader Cognition
By Kevin Hall Key terms: COVID19—acronym for COronaVIrus Disease of 2019; covidiots—people who ignore COVID19 safeguards; Covfefe—a gathering of two or more covidiots. A local election night [...] Continue Reading
Countdown to Socialism?
By Michael D. Evans Countdown to Socialism by Devin Nunes. Encounter Books, 900 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, NY10003, Paperback, $9.95. The first takeaway from Countdown to Socialism, the [...] Continue Reading