By Tom Frantz Using funds designated to clean our air, local San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) officials went on a political jaunt this September to Washington, D.C. [...] Continue Reading
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Call and Dump Trump
By Marc Keyser Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to build the great Trump Wall across the border with Mexico and begin mass arrests and deportation of some 11 million–12 million [...] Continue Reading
Cuba, a Safe Place
By Leni Reeves One of our Fresno participants in the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba commented about his trip to Cuba: “I’ve never felt so safe.” He was at the Black Lives Matter demonstration on [...] Continue Reading
It Is That Time of Year
By Ruth Gadebusch For all the complaints and criticisms one hears about public education these days, there is still something exciting about the beginning of a new school year. It is a fresh start [...] Continue Reading
Fresno PD Refuses to Enforce Gun Laws
By Lindsey Spec In May 2014, the Fresno Bee covered a story of a 13-year-old student found with a .357 magnum and bullets at Baird Middle School. The gun was owned by the father, a Fresno County [...] Continue Reading
Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System
By Jonathan Luevanos The Community Alliance newspaper recently published an article titled “ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County: Tens of Thousands Go Without Legal [...] Continue Reading
12 Points to Address Police Abuse
By Gloria M. Hernandez Three years ago, families met in Oxnard from throughout the state to share their pain and learn from each other. I went to find others like me who had been in the battlefront [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Real Time “Security State”
By Stan Santos Author’s note: On July 7, reporters gathered at the Fresno Police Department (FPD) headquarters to observe the rollout of the Real Time Crime Center. The Community Alliance covered this [...] Continue Reading
Hopelessness to Hope
By Bev Fitzpatrick and Yellowfeather Noriega (Authors’ note: This story is told by both Bev Fitzpatrick and Yellowfeather Noriega.) Meeting Hopelessness on the Street (Fitzpatrick) Meeting [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Don’t Pollute Our Air to Save the Planet
By Tom Frantz There is a bill before the current legislature in California that is mislabeled as a project appropriate for greenhouse gas reduction funding. This bill is numbered AB590 and is [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2015
PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING WILPF--FRESNO 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND WILPF--INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL Dangerous Women: 50 Years in Fresno, 100 Years Internationally Inspiring historical and educational [...] Continue Reading
Déjà vu All Over Again
By Richard Gomez Has 1968 returned again, hopefully without the killings? Let’s see, President Lyndon Johnson began the year with great anticipation of being reelected. The leadership of both parties [...] Continue Reading