(Editor’s note: Reprinted by permission from Rad Rag.) In 2024, Fresno entered into a three-year, $1.6 million contract with Flock Group Inc. Here is what we have learned (so far) about the [...] Continue Reading
Police Accountability
Fresnans for a People’s Budget
Who gets to decide what safety looks like in the city of Fresno and how are taxpayer dollars used to build that? A new advocacy group, Fresnans for a People’s Budget (FPB), formed to bring awareness [...] Continue Reading
The Icemen Cometh
In the 1939 play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill, the “iceman” symbolizes a harsh truth that dispels illusions. In our time, the ICE branch of the federal government, along with the Border [...] Continue Reading
Authoritarian Policing in Fresno and D.C.
A 2025 report titled “Driven by Bias: An Analysis of Police Stops in Fresno” by Catalyst California in partnership with Fresno Building Healthy Communities finds that “the Fresno Police Department [...] Continue Reading
$488 per Minute to Police Fresno
Property taxes ($202.6 million annually) and city sales taxes ($143.8 million annually) comprise the lion’s share of the City of Fresno’s revenue. Perhaps taxpayers should be more concerned about how [...] Continue Reading
Kill the Poor 2.0
“The sun beams down on a brand new day, no more welfare tax to pay, jobless millions whisked away, convinced the liberals it’s okay, so let’s get dressed and dance away while they kill, kill, kill the [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Files Complaint Against the City of Fresno
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint in Fresno County Superior Court seeking records from the Fresno Police Department (FPD) about its use of attack dogs. According to [...] Continue Reading
Law, Dis-Order and Insanity
Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The longstanding and ongoing criminalization of poor people, people with [...] Continue Reading
Remember Her Name
Unless you were a member of Ashli Babbitt’s family, it is easy to forget about the misguided woman who was shot to death during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Babbitt was shot directly in the left [...] Continue Reading
Who Will Stand in Solidarity with These Women?
On May 23, Fresno City Council members heard from three traumatized women who were attacked by an Islamophobic man at Porchfest in the Tower District. (See also “Hate Speech and Crimes.”) Speakers [...] Continue Reading
Hate Speech and Crimes
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone or commit violence against targeted [...] Continue Reading
Attorney General Addresses Activists in Fresno
The United Against Hate summit at Fresno City College on April 6 brought together a coalition of community groups whose goal is to reduce hate crimes in Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley. It included [...] Continue Reading