By the October 22 Fresno Committee The 19th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation in Fresno will occur on Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the [...] Continue Reading
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Fireplace Burning: Clearing the Air, October 2014
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (Air District) is contemplating a change this summer to its fireplace rule, which is also known as District Rule 4901. The change [...] Continue Reading
Collaboration and Contradictions: Can Progressive Groups Work Together?
By Richard Stone On Aug. 21, a meeting was co-hosted by the Fresno Partnership and Fresno Metro Ministry to explore possibilities of wider collaboration. An expansive array of groups was [...] Continue Reading
National Chemistry Week
By George B. Kauffman Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and science deniers, the creationists and other fanatics of their ilk are Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno and Palestine Freedom Project Forum
By Stan Santos On Sept. 6, Peace Fresno and the Palestine Freedom Project presented a forum with several speakers including Richard Becker, author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire. Richard [...] Continue Reading
The Children of Conflict: The Ignored History of the Migrant Refugee Crisis
By Matt Ford (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Aug. 25 in CounterPunch. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.) On July 25, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, [...] Continue Reading
Report from Cuba
By Leni Reeves We were a small determined group—the 2014 Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. Our oldest was Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) member Judy Geer from Santa [...] Continue Reading
Water is Everybody’s Business
By Stan Santos (Author’s note: This article is based on research done in July 2014 and presented in the Spanish language section of the August Community Alliance.) In September 2013, a nonprofit [...] Continue Reading
Virak Ou: Fresno’s Adopted Son, Cambodia’s Hope
By Hannah Brandt Most Fresnans do not know that an internationally renowned human rights activist spent many years among us as a classmate, colleague, and neighbor. I certainly did not until I went [...] Continue Reading
A Broken Home
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes In July of this year, a tenant in Fresno woke up to a ceiling partially caving in. This was caused by a leaking swamp-cooler and inflicted injury to the tenant. At this [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Air District Guidance Undercuts Public Health – September 2014
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (Air District) is making a document available to the public called Guidance for Assessing and Mitigating Air Quality Impacts [...] Continue Reading
“CARA: Who Are We?”
By Gene Roza CARA (California Alliance for Retired Americans): Who are we? We are not the AARP, although many of us belong to the AARP. CARA is a statewide organization that unites retired workers [...] Continue Reading