By Ray McKnight On Feb. 27, 2014, the Fresno City Council voted 5 to 2 to proceed with the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, a plan to turn the pedestrian-only mall into a street. The city has [...] Continue Reading
Economy
Former Migrant to Fresno Advocates for Children in Poverty
By Hannah Brandt Like the migrants and refugees flooding Europe’s shores today, Luan Huynh’s family escaped the ravages of war in Vietnam on a boat. In their case, it was her father’s fishing boat, [...] Continue Reading
Union Brothers
By Leni Reeves Bold Step is the name of an event that will be held on Sept. 5 and 6 in Delano, hosted by the Filipino American Historical Society, honoring the Filipino roots of the Delano [...] Continue Reading
The Continuing Saga of the Trans Pacific Partnership
By Stan Santos The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has reached another milestone in its rush toward implementation of a massive restructuring of the world’s economy. It has forced a series of unusual [...] Continue Reading
Thousands of Farmworkers Can’t Make a Living
By David Bacon At the end of the 1970s, California farmworkers were the highest paid in the United States, with the possible exception of Hawaii’s long-unionized sugar and pineapple workers. Today, [...] Continue Reading
The Divide in Fresno
By Kathy G. Ayala Inequalities and its history still linger and resonate within our cities and expand globally. In Fresno, we experience a divide—a division cutting through the city horizontally [...] Continue Reading
Environmental Justice Bus Tour
By Ernesto Saavedra On May 12, the Fresno Environmental Reporting Network (FERN) hosted an Environmental Justice Bus Tour. This was for various nonprofit and government agencies to gain and share [...] Continue Reading
The Valley Fights the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Stan Santos The authors of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are asking Valley communities to take another leap of blind faith in support of multinational corporations. The TPP would create a [...] Continue Reading
Dakota Eco-Garden to Begin New Phase of Development
By Gerry Bill These are exciting times at the Dakota Eco-Garden (DEG). There are more and more success stories as current and former residents continue to move forward with their lives, and [...] Continue Reading
The Walmart Smartphone Boycott
By Marc Keyser We won the battle for a wage increase for 500,000 workers at Walmart, but that’s only half the war. Now more than ever, we must keep up the fight for healthcare coverage for Walmart [...] Continue Reading
Cesar Chavez Celebration
By Willie Lopez On March 26, the 15th annual Cesar Chavez celebration will take place sponsored by El Concilio de Fresno and the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD), along with the Cesar Chavez [...] Continue Reading