By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: This is one of a series of articles on this subject. Stay tuned for more to come.) There are more people incarcerated in the United States than in any other [...] Continue Reading
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Truth and Reconciliation: Fresno Pacific University Examines Peace and Justice through Theater
By Hannah Brandt For years, American college campuses have lulled themselves into a complacent slumber regarding political activism and social justice. The decades of ambivalence among American youth [...] Continue Reading
We Are All Tired and Can’t Breathe
By Ernesto Saavedra On Dec. 3, 2014, thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered in 43 cities, and more, in response to the missing 43 students (as of Dec. 7, it was 42) from the Raúl Isidro [...] Continue Reading
Here Is How We Are Going to Win
By Mike Rhodes When political commentator Jim Hightower was in Fresno in 2011, he said that “some claim that a populist movement can’t hold together, that it’s like herding cats. But those who say [...] Continue Reading
Fresno to Ferguson
By Hannah Brandt On one of the first cold days of the season, the glow of lights from a TV news crew in the distance amplified the foggy halo around Fresno’s downtown water tower. Eaton Plaza has [...] Continue Reading
Goodbye to the Inanimate
By Leonard Adame How many of us who moved away have come back to Fresno only to discover an almost foreign city? While I was gone for more than 18 years, the city doubled in size, mostly to the [...] Continue Reading
Release of the Cuban 5
By Leni Reeves I did not think I would see this day. The United States has a record of imprisoning prisoners for many years. Examples are Mumia Abu- Jamal, imprisoned after more than 30 years; [...] Continue Reading
Resisting Through Culture and Identity
By Paula Ayala An identity beyond regional or sociopolitical influence is in fact a reality accomplishable. However, the reality is that in the state in which we reside there exist efforts to strip [...] Continue Reading
Against the Fresno Police Department
By Jonathan Luevanos Felix On June 11, Miguel Torres was killed by Fresno Police Department (FPD) officers Colin Lewis (repeat shooter in 2014) and Jordan Wamhoff in what amounted to a total of 17 [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Comes Before Ferguson
By Richard Gomez Peace and nonviolence isn’t just praying and hoping for justice but includes the time when we must roll up our sleeves, get out in the streets and make demands to our duly elected [...] Continue Reading
Something Right in Fresno
By Ruth Gadebusch With so much of the world in turmoil, the beginning of a new year seems a good time to look at what is right (as in correct, not political) in our community. So many harbor [...] Continue Reading
IPCC Issues “Final Word” on Climate Change
By George B. Kauffman On Sept. 21, 2014, more than 400,000 people attended the People’s Climate March in New York City, two days before 120 world leaders, including President Barack Obama, but not [...] Continue Reading