By Mike Rhodes The progressive community in Fresno lost an important voice for peace, social and economic justice last month. Les Kimber passed away on Jan. 10 at the age of 80. While Kimber was known [...] Continue Reading
Economy
Pay Discrimination Is Real
By Aileen Rizo It was July 2012 when one moment I was a math educator who was happy of my 16-year career accomplishments, and the next moment it all seemed to shatter before me. There I was sitting [...] Continue Reading
The Smartphone Boycott of Bank of America
By Marc Keyser Matt Taibbi’s scathing report in Rolling Stone on the monumental corruption of the Bank of America is all the more disturbing because so little is being done to stop it. We the People [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – November 2014
California Prison Officials Retaliate against Inmates Who File Staff Complaints As I’m sure you all know, filing a grievance against correctional officers under the eyes of the law is a form of [...] Continue Reading
California High-Speed Rail at Crossroads
By Stan Santos On Oct. 13, a press conference was held at the West Fresno Family Resource Center with approximately 40 persons in attendance. VOICE (Voice of Including Community Equitably) [...] Continue Reading
Crisis in the Valley of Riches
By Stan Santos In the Central Valley, the “water crisis” has been the focus of increasing debate and calls for action. It is a historic problem dating back generations, and an unfolding drama full [...] Continue Reading
And so Greens Must Carry On and On…
By Richard Gomez “Apathy isn’t it. We can do something. So flower power didn’t work. So what. We start again.” —John Lennon The California Greens continue to run and win local elections—10 out of 19 [...] Continue Reading
The Kochocracy
By Will Durst In the bad old days, medieval German lords figured out how to pocket some quick coin by charging a toll on the primitive paths meandering across their lands. The money wasn’t used to [...] Continue Reading
Income Inequality
By George B. Kauffman Income inequality, both globally in general and in the United States in particular, has been receiving increasingly accelerating attention recently as the disadvantaged 1% [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Progressives: Developing a Unified Voice to Win Political Power
By Mike Rhodes Is it possible to build a movement in Fresno and the Central Valley that amplifies the message of progressives and develops a strategic plan to win local political power? Activists in [...] Continue Reading
The Fulton Mall: It Can Still Be Saved
By Ray McKnight Despite the unfortunate actions by the Fresno City Council on Feb. 27 and the misleading headline the next morning in the Fresno Bee, the destruction of the Fulton Mall is not [...] Continue Reading
May Day Comes Home
By Paul Gilmore Over the past few years, thanks to the immigrant rights movement, May Day has experienced a renaissance. Though they haven’t garnered the numbers and attention of 2006’s millions, [...] Continue Reading