Clarification My letter in the August edition responding to our editor’s July editorial seems to have been open to misinterpretation. I’ve been asked if my partial disagreement with his commentary [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
Obama Goes to War, Again
By Richard Gomez So when is it OK to decide to take arms against the sea of trouble? While we have for a long time sown the seeds that have currently flowered from ally into adversary thus blossoming [...] Continue Reading
It’s Election Time
By Ruth Gadebusch It’s election time, as if you didn’t know! Our phone lines are busy. Our e-mail is jammed full. We are invited to fund-raisers. We are begged to join phone banks. We get pleas to [...] Continue Reading
No Understanding
By Leonard Adame For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. —Romans 15:4 Now these things became [...] 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
Letters to the Editor – September 2014
Commitment to Nonviolence As a Board member of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, I’d like to comment on your August “From the Editor” column. In it, you justified various illegal actions (including [...] Continue Reading
Healthcare Should Be a Right, Not an Option
By Vianey Gomez The lack of affordable healthcare is common in the Central Valley, especially for the immigrant community. My father, an immigrant himself, knows the lack of health resources. He [...] Continue Reading
Still Struggling for Equality
By Ruth Gadebusch With the passage of the Amendment XIX to the U.S. Constitution, women and progressive men celebrated with visions of political power. Alas, it was not to be simple. Almost a [...] Continue Reading
Lest We Forget
By Ruth Gadebusch With women’s rights under such attack these days, it would seem a time to emphasize the motto of the suffragist who led the struggle for the vote for women: “Men, their rights and [...] Continue Reading
Living Through War in Gaza
By Athena A six-year-old child in Gaza will have lived through three wars in their lifetime. This affects me personally because my parents lived through the 1948 war and the 1967 war, and I lived in [...] Continue Reading
Digital Cheese
By Will Durst Plenty of people had good reason to be in a foul mood back in 2012. The Detroit Tigers. Members of the Romney family. And, after making the acquaintance of a windy lass named Sandy, [...] Continue Reading
Brown at Brown: A Chicana’s Story from the Barrio to the Ivies
By Maria Ortega For many of us, obtaining a higher education has become synonymous with great sacrifice. My mom, Patricia, traveled the path thousands prior had paved in order to give her two [...] Continue Reading