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Racism and Class War in Fresno

At a Sept. 23 press conference, City of Fresno officials announced that the City would be aggressively enforcing its harsh new anti-camping ordinance, which calls for arresting unhoused people [...] Continue Reading

Kamala Harris on Reparations

The first female vice president of the United States and a well-known member of the Democratic Party thrust into the presidential race, Kamala Harris has made a strong case for racial justice and [...] Continue Reading

What Will Break the Spell?

A spell has been cast over the white evangelical world. What will it take to break the spell? Consistently, white evangelicals are a reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party. No matter how [...] 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

Day of Remembrance

It was an historically ironic location for the Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds, where thousands of American citizens were held for months living in [...] Continue Reading

No Whitewashing the Past

(Editor’s note: This is the story of Vance McKinney, as told to the author. McKinney is a truck driver (who hauls mostly agricultural produce) in a farmworker community. His father was a farmworker. [...] Continue Reading