By: Boston Woodard Every now and then, someone or something comes along bringing hope and beneficial information to thousands of prisoners in California. In the case of a small grassroots newsletter, [...] Continue Reading
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Credo
By: Richard Stone I saw Avatar (at the $3 theater) a couple of weeks ago and was surprised to find below its visual extravaganza a ferociously anti-imperialist and anti-materialist story. It was [...] Continue Reading
Poor Man’s Poison in Benefit Concert for KFCF
By: Rick Flores My personal experience with the Fresno Folklore Society (FFS) goes back to the late 1970s, right out of high school, doctoring my driver's license so I could get into the Wild Blue [...] Continue Reading
Queer Eye
City of Fresno Really Stepped in the Poop! By: Dan Waterhouse Former Fresno fire recruit Michelle Maher told a rapt audience in a Fresno State classroom packed to beyond capacity that she’s gotten [...] Continue Reading
Run to Save Wa-Ha-Lish
By: Vic Bedoian Jesse Morrow Mountain is a unique local landmark. Standing 20 miles east of Fresno, along with its neighbor, Campbell Mountain, it forms the gateway to Kings Canyon-Sequoia National [...] Continue Reading
Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
By: Matthew Rothschild Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. "I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's [...] Continue Reading
SEIU versus NUHW: Who Owns the Union?
By: Mike Parker A federal jury in San Francisco awarded damages to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on April 9 in its suit against the new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). [...] Continue Reading
To Charter or Not to Charter?
By: Ruth Gadebuch "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."-Thomas Jefferson. "Popular government without education is a prologue to a farce or a [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
Video Surveillance Increases with no Accountability By: Mike Rhodes Mayor Ashley Swearengin announced on April 14 that the city has placed an additional 10 video surveillance cameras in downtown [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis From the Grassroots
Planet Earth Volunteers By George Madrid Well my friends of the Keep it Green World, how was your April Volunteer and Flower Walk month? The flowers on the foothills and places like Carrizo Plain, [...] Continue Reading
Feds Bust Waste Management, Inc., for Breaking Hazardous Waste Laws
By: Vic Bedoian Federal investigators have found that Waste Management, Inc., has violated the law by not properly handling the banned chemical PCB at its toxic waste landfill located near the San [...] Continue Reading
The Office of Independent Review: An Early Assessment
By: Richard Stone Eddie Aubrey is the City of Fresno's first occupant of the Office of Independent Review (OIR), also known as the independent police auditor. This article is an effort to survey the [...] Continue Reading