By Miguel Bibanco Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from The Know Youth Media and was originally published at http://theknowfresno.org. Recently, there has been no shortage [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Democrats: To Win, Raise Everyone’s Pay
By Philip Erro To win back the House, the Senate and state legislatures, Democrats need to focus on one thing: higher pay for all workers. Millions of people are working for minimum wage at fast-food [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Epiphany: Swearengin Video Offers Insights on Racism, White Privilege
By Kevin Hall Stark examples of institutionalized racism and White privilege in Fresno burst out publicly in October like a Charlottesville rally of Trump supporters. The tiki torches illuminating [...] Continue Reading
Bottom Line: The Causes of Social Ills in our Communities
By Javier Aguirre Recent headlines in the New York Times reiterate what many legal policy analysts have purported to be the truth, and that is that crime in America is on the rise. The nation [...] Continue Reading
Transgender Malevolence Protest of No Camping Ordinance
By Zoyer Zyndel Trans-E-Motion, a community benefit organization that works to improve the lives of transgender people and their allies through education, support and advocacy in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS: One of America’s Greatest Injustices Continues
By Hannah Brandt In the year since the November 2016 presidential election, many have weighed in on the results of that election and their causes. While no doubt a number of factors contributed, one [...] Continue Reading
Ready for Resistance, Any Day Now
By Rev. Dr. Christopher Breedlove My head is spinning of late, exhausted by the seemingly relentless pace of racists, bigots and gentrification vultures here locally in Fresno. Or, perhaps, the [...] Continue Reading
The DACA Road from Tranquillity to San Joaquin
By Halima Aquino The road to the city of San Joaquin from Tranquillity High School was 105 degrees or hotter on black pavement on Sept. 6 at 12:30 p.m. Beside the fields of nuts and fruit, there is [...] Continue Reading
Westlands Water District Votes No on Delta Tunnels Project
By Dan Bacher Editor’s note: This article was originally published at Daily Kos and is republished under their terms and conditions: [...] Continue Reading
Freedom School Celebrates Summer Harvest Festival
By Floyd D. Harris School’s back in session and the end of summer is here. In preparation to plant their winter crops, student participants from the Fresno Freedom School of Agriculture and Cultural [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – October 2017
By Hannah Brandt It is easy for this political moment to feel like the movie Groundhog Day, where you keep waking up expecting it to be a new day only to find it is the same unbearable day every [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Ozone Implosion
By Tom Frantz As the dust-reddened sun rose over the city, residents reluctantly crawled out of bed shaking off headaches from oxygen deprivation due to a night of breathing dirty air. Talking heads [...] Continue Reading