By George B. Kauffman Last month our nation celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, while the entire world celebrated the birthday of Charles Darwin, who is ranked alongside our greatest [...] Continue Reading
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WILPF – March 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, March 10, at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 2, (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
#LoveWins
The hashtag #LoveWins is being used to showcase supporters of marriage equality around the nation and across the world. Our #LoveWins photo shoot put the Valley into the virtual conversation on social [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Commemorates Dr. King’s Legacy
By Hannah Brandt On Jan 18, 2016 Fresno’s annual March, ‘Mountain of Food’ collection, and Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. began at Fresno City Hall with speeches from local leaders including [...] Continue Reading
Hmongstory40: Valley’s Hmong Citizens Celebrate 40 Years of History
By Vic Bedoian for Pacifica Radio, KFCF Fresno Forty years after immigrating to the United States from Southeast Asia, the Hmong community in Fresno celebrated with the opening of a major multi-media [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Undermining Public Health with Pollution Credits
By Tom Frantz According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) there are hundreds of industries in the valley polluting our filthy air with what are considered [...] Continue Reading
How A Lion Named Cecil Changed The World
By Gary Carter What happened with Cecil the Lion was horrible, but something else happened too. With his poaching, suddenly everyone was painfully aware of the horrors of trophy hunting. In response, [...] Continue Reading
Hillary Clinton & Remembering MLK Jr’s Legacy
By Patricia Brown I’m Pat Brown, a volunteer for Hillary for America Fresno and it’s a privilege to be here today because I believe Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, President Obama is the dream [...] Continue Reading
WE WILL BE HEROES
By Christine Saviez We can save them all. I will save them all. I can’t cure cancer. I can’t make a vaccine to stop the spread of HIV. I can’t solve world hunger. But I can save the animals. I can [...] Continue Reading
The Top 11 Reasons Why You Can’t Trust Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy
By Grant Marcus The eleventh reason not to trust Hillary Clinton on foreign policy is how she gave birth to politics, as Arkansas’s regional student coordinator for the Barry Goldwater campaign. For [...] Continue Reading
WANT A MORE PROGRESSIVE FRESNO? …then join the Central Valley Progressive PAC
*** The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC *** By Mike Rhodes The CVPPAC is a local grassroots nonpartisan political group that works to get progressives [...] Continue Reading
Poets Are Passing From Our Lives
By Jemmy Bluestein I have a present to give the English-speaking world. It’s a virtually unknown poem of the late, great Fresno poet and former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine. Though there have [...] Continue Reading