By Wasan Abu-Baker I was born and raised in Palestine, in a highly-educated household. My father was politically active and outspoken for the civil rights of Palestinians through non-violent [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Mindfulness Walks
Fresno Mindfulness Walks – A Walk Across Fresno In May 2014, Lori Clanton founded Fresno Mindfulness Walks when she woke up on a Saturday morning and decided to walk a neighborhood other than her [...] Continue Reading
Journalism, Fake News, and The First Amendment
By Joshua C. Shurley, Ph.D. Walter Lippman, considered by some to be the "father of modern journalism" famously wrote that "there can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC: Power to the People!
-The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC- Note: This is NOT an advertisement for PG&E By Mike Rhodes If everyone reading this issue of the Community [...] Continue Reading
Organize for a Better Future & Women’s March Unite in Fresno
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The Women’s March: Feminism in Action
By Micaela Cisneros-Nuñez Fifty. I expected maybe 50 women. I wasn’t even sure of that. But if I could get 50 women to march a mile with me, I knew we could get at least a little bit of [...] Continue Reading
Free Speech Victory in Fresno: Proof that You Can Stand Up to City Hall
By Mike Rhodes Conservatives and Republican politicians do a lot of talking about deregulation, being supportive of small businesses and cutting down on government bureaucracy. Why then did [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Wheezing and Choking in Malaga
By Tom Frantz A trip down South Chestnut Ave, in Fresno, will take you past Malaga a half mile north of Highway 99. A little over 200 homes, a school, and a park make up this small, [...] Continue Reading
Ashley Swearengin’s Eight Years of Inequity and Neglect: Part 1
By Kevin Hall The central San Joaquin Valley with its economic base of industrial agriculture has been likened to a modern-day plantation system. As such, north Fresno is one of its antebellum [...] Continue Reading
10 Years Later: Fresno Politicians Still Toying with Black History and Nobody Cares!
By Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. (Editor’s Note: The first part of this article was written in December 2006, the latter part written in January 2017. It has been edited for clarity.) December 19, 2006: [...] Continue Reading
All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight
By Rubén Casas Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at Tropics of Meta as part of Fresno State's Valley Public History Initiative All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona [...] Continue Reading
Police Violence Is Brutal Repression
By King David “The public execution has a juridical-political function. Its aim is not so much to reestablish a balance of justice as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between [...] Continue Reading