By Tom Frantz The factory dairies of the San Joaquin Valley contribute more to our air pollution and global warming than any other sector. Their onsite ammonia and VOC emissions plus the thousands of [...] Continue Reading
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What Was Net Neutrality?
By Osiris Godwin Net neutrality seems to be one of those buzzwords that whizzes past us every day. We don’t notice it or pay it much attention; much like a fern in an office, we just assume that it [...] Continue Reading
Engage in January
MLK Weekend Activities “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need [...] Continue Reading
Community Giveback Project
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly and currently incarcerated people and our families. The group fights against the [...] Continue Reading
My Dreams Don’t Have Borders
A faith vigil was held at Rep. Devin Nunes’ office in Clovis on Dec. 20 to support a clean DREAM Act. All photos by Peter Maiden. [...] Continue Reading
A Call to Action: Enough Snowflakes Make an Avalanche
By Daniel O’Connell, Ph.D. A simple test of any strategy is that it directly names its objective. For progressives in the San Joaquin Valley, the goal before us is to transform our region from one of [...] Continue Reading
Elections Report–Cuba
By Leni Reeves I was in Cuba for the Nov. 26 elections there. Of course, you’ve been told all your life that Cuba doesn’t have elections, but it does. In the United States, communist-dictatorship is [...] Continue Reading
Straight Outta Fresno
By Peter Maiden Poppin’, a hip-hop dance related to the Robot, originated in Fresno and traveled up and down the Valley to the Bay Area and Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hmong B-Boys and B-Girls were [...] Continue Reading
Women Usually Clean Up the Big Messes
By Sheila Kennedy Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission and was originally published at https://www.sheilakennedy.net/2017/10/women-are-always-the-ones-cleaning-up/. The [...] Continue Reading
The CVPPAC Supports the Fresno Teachers Association
***The content on this page is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC*** [...] Continue Reading
Traveling Memorial to Victims of War Crimes
By Joshua Shurley On March 24, Fresno will host the My Lai Memorial Exhibit, a traveling interactive display created by the Chicago chapter of Veterans for Peace. It commemorates the My Lai Massacre, [...] Continue Reading
Red to Blue California
“‘President Trump’ are two words that are tough to wake up to every morning,” says Michael Eggman, who ran two insurgent campaigns for Congress as the Democratic nominee in California’s 10th [...] Continue Reading