By Hannah Brandt Wasan Abu-Baker, content and translation The word malak means angel in Arabic. Malak is also a six-year-old Fresno girl who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 2010. A few months before the [...] Continue Reading
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
By John Else [Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of an article that was originally published on BillMoyers.com and is republished with permission. [...] Continue Reading
Demonstrations and Fasting to Bring Attention to the U.S. Role in World’s Largest, Rapidly Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
By Kathy Kelly [Editor’s Note: This article has been modified from its original version with permission from the author.] On March 14, 2017, internationally renowned peace activist Kathy Kelly, of [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Push for More Oil Extraction on Public Lands Hits Central California
By Vic Bedoian Oil and gas drilling has been halted on federal lands in California during the past four years due to a successful legal action taken by the Center for Biological Diversity. Now the [...] Continue Reading
Another Fresno is Possible
***The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC*** By Mike Rhodes If I’m right about this, we are about to change Fresno into paradise where those living in other [...] Continue Reading
‘NO BAN, NO WALL: SANCTUARY FOR ALL’
Rallies Throughout the Valley and the Nation Protest Trump’s Immigration Policies Fresno Resistance hosted No Ban, No Wall: Sanctuary for All on February 13, 2017. About 500 people of all ages from [...] Continue Reading
Valley Residents Protest Devin Nunes and Trump Over Immigration Stance
By Vic Bedoian Hundreds of Valley residents gathered at the office of Congressman Devin Nunes in Clovis on Wednesday, February 8 to protest his support of President Trump’s executive order banning [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2017
Status Quo at the DNC By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji The expected has happened! Tom Perez was just elected to chair the Democratic National Committee. The earlier re-election of Nancy Pelosi as House [...] Continue Reading
TRUMP: 10 Questions on Science
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Will Trump shape 2027 spending? He must decide whether to weigh in as Congress divides up $1.1 trillion in discretionary spending for the fiscal year that began last [...] Continue Reading
The State of the Union
(26 days into this new administration at the time of writing/deadline) I’m finding it hard to breathe these days. Everything that I was fearful of on Nov. 9th, the morning after our election, [...] Continue Reading
Health and Justice in Water Board’s Hands with Pesticide Byproduct
By Asha Kreiling Twenty-five years ago, the drinking water contaminant 1,2,3-TCP was added to the state of California's list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer. Water contaminated by this [...] Continue Reading
Education: Hanson is Gone, Time for Change
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes On March 28 at 4 p.m. at The People’s Church (7172 N. Cedar Fresno, CA 93720) the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) will be hosting An Education Summit on the Future of [...] Continue Reading