By Camille Russell and Dan Yaseen On April 26, the Fresno State administration abruptly canceled the university’s months-long search for a faculty member to fill the Edward Said Chair professorship [...] Continue Reading
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Ire for Democrat Who Pulled Plug on California’s Single-Payer Bill
By Jon Queally Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Common Dreams at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/24/ire-democrat-who-pulled-plug-californias-single-payer-bill and is [...] Continue Reading
Opinion: Democrats Challenging Nunes in Danger of Losing Big
By Emily Cameron Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare) will retain control of California’s 22nd Congressional District in 2018 if the Democratic Party on both the national and local levels continue running [...] Continue Reading
Legal Defense Funding: In Defense of Immigrants’ Civil Liberties
By Daniel O’Connell In June 2016, Donald Trump launched his bid to be President of the United States with an extraordinary discriminatory anti-immigrant statement: “When Mexico sends its people, [...] Continue Reading
Would Anyone Else Also Not Believe Trump Under Oath?
By Halima Aquino As Americans, we dare to dream of a better future. Although we often experience grizzly disagreements between and within our political parties, at the root of it all, we share a [...] Continue Reading
Review of Us and Them: Racism Under Arrest
By Cherylyn Smith Prepare for the genesis of “reality theater.” Unlike reality TV, this genre is not “dumbed down,” as demonstrated in the original play Us and Them by Deshad Cato. (The play is being [...] Continue Reading
Dump Nunes!
**The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC** By Mike Rhodes Valley Congressional Representative Devin Nunes’ role as a lapdog for President Donald Trump does not [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Resistance Takes on Legal Challenges
By Community Alliance staff On May 11, 2017, a press conference was held outside the Fresno courthouse calling for the city to drop the charges against activists from the group Fresno Resistance who [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Science Proves the Benefits of Cleaning Our Air
By Tom Frantz The American Lung Association, in its annual State of the Air report, leaves no doubt that the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley has the worst fine particulate matter (PM2.5) [...] Continue Reading
Michegoss: Donald J. Trump
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. American political commentator, talk show host and author Chris Matthews, best known as host of the nightly hour-long talk show Hardball on MSNBC, has characterized [...] Continue Reading
Opponents of Single Payer Think You’re Stupid… But Nothing is Dumber Than a For-Profit Healthcare System
By Pat LaMarche Editor’s note: This article was originally published under a Creative Commons Attribution [...] Continue Reading