At a Sept. 23 press conference, City of Fresno officials announced that the City would be aggressively enforcing its harsh new anti-camping ordinance, which calls for arresting unhoused people [...] Continue Reading
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Visalia Confronts Homelessness
On Oct. 4, Community Services Employment Training (CSET) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new Visalia Navigation Center (VNC). The facility is part of an enormous project that aims to [...] Continue Reading
Racism and Class War in Fresno
At a Sept. 23 press conference, City of Fresno officials announced that the City would be aggressively enforcing its harsh new anti-camping ordinance, which calls for arresting unhoused people [...] Continue Reading
“Hated Just for Being Homeless”
In the early morning of Aug. 26, while he was sound asleep in front of Cuca’s Mexican Restaurant on Olive Avenue in the Tower District, an unhoused 47-year-old Latino, Fred “Freddy” F. De La Rosa, was [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Man Attacked in Fresno’s Tower District
"Freddy" De La Rosa, a 47 year old homeless man who was asleep, is brutally attacked in front of Cuca's restaurant in Fresno's Tower District This happened on Sunday, August 18, 2024. He [...] Continue Reading
“Are They Supposed to Kill Themselves?”
Huge Loss at the Supreme Court On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a case challenging a long-standing Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision called Martin [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s MAGA Death Squads
Pro tip: If you’re relying on the Supreme Court’s extreme right-wing majority for guidance, you’re doing it wrong. But that’s exactly what the Fresno City Council and Fresno County Board of [...] Continue Reading
Dyer Emergency, Is Harsh Anti-Camping Ordinance Racist?
“Every unhoused individual out here right now is walking on death row. You have now signed every unhoused individual experiencing homelessness in Fresno city their death certificate.” —Advocate Dez [...] Continue Reading
Where Is Our Humanity?
Record-setting 115-degree heat. It is deadly on the streets of Fresno in the intense heat. It’s also deadly because it is City policy to continue encampment sweeps, harass individuals, confiscate [...] Continue Reading
Law, Dis-Order and Insanity
Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The longstanding and ongoing criminalization of poor people, people with [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Trumpism Is Rebranded Racism! Amid this brouhaha about Trump the loser, Trump the leader, Trump the owner of the Right Wing, etc., etc., etc., the underlying question we are missing is: “What is [...] Continue Reading
$24 Billion Spent and Even More Unhoused People
On April 9, California released an audit of the State’s homelessness funding, including an evaluation of the efforts undertaken by the State to monitor the cost-effectiveness of such spending. The [...] Continue Reading