By: Sadie Crabtree After a year of stalling union elections for more than 100,000 of their own members who want to quit SEIU, SEIU officials have cast themselves as champions of democracy in a [...] Continue Reading
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Huge Victory for Kettleman City and Environmental Justice Allies
By: Bradley Angel In a major victory for the residents of the embattled Latino farmworker community of Kettleman City and their environmental justice allies, corporate giant Waste Management, parent [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno Opposes Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
By: Camille Russell On December 1, after three months of deliberation and 10 war councils, President Obama announced an escalation of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a [...] Continue Reading
Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region
By: Lloyd Carter Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty This two-part series shows how a long American tradition of helping small farmers has, in the past few decades in the [...] Continue Reading
SEIU’s Civil War
By: Bill Fletcher American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. (This article was originally published by In These Times at InTheseTimes.com. For [...] Continue Reading
Green Washing the Milk
By: Robert Gammon Editor's Note: This article was originally printed in the East Bay Express The organic dairy industry has fallen on rough financial times in the past year. Small farmers have been [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Melts Down
By: Dan Waterhouse As 2009 draws to a close, some 125 City of Fresno employees know that their New Year’s Eve will not be a joyous one: When they wake up on New Year’s Day, they will be unemployed [...] Continue Reading
The ACLU: Defending Your Civil Liberties
By: Bill Simon It has been a busy month at the Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC. Civil liberties just keep trying to go away! Several members of the Board were present at the Fresno State Study-In [...] Continue Reading
Credo
By: Richard Stone Matthew 25:26 says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” My colleague, Maria Telesco, understands the passage as a pronouncement by Jesus that the redemptive work his life [...] Continue Reading
Locked Up, But Not Forgotten
By: Bill Sanford and Maria Telesco On the wall, a sign said: Goal 3,900. That was the number of Ziploc bags to be filled for the inmates of the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in [...] Continue Reading
Speaking up for the Homeless
Human Rights Day is an international event sponsored by the United Nations. In Fresno, a press conference was held on December 10 where speakers at a gathering of advocates for the homeless lambasted [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading