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Local & State
‘NO BAN, NO WALL: SANCTUARY FOR ALL’
Rallies Throughout the Valley and the Nation Protest Trump’s Immigration Policies Fresno Resistance hosted No Ban, No Wall: Sanctuary for All on February 13, 2017. About 500 people of all ages from [...] Continue Reading
Valley Residents Protest Devin Nunes and Trump Over Immigration Stance
By Vic Bedoian Hundreds of Valley residents gathered at the office of Congressman Devin Nunes in Clovis on Wednesday, February 8 to protest his support of President Trump’s executive order banning [...] Continue Reading
Health and Justice in Water Board’s Hands with Pesticide Byproduct
By Asha Kreiling Twenty-five years ago, the drinking water contaminant 1,2,3-TCP was added to the state of California's list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer. Water contaminated by this [...] Continue Reading
Education: Hanson is Gone, Time for Change
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes On March 28 at 4 p.m. at The People’s Church (7172 N. Cedar Fresno, CA 93720) the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) will be hosting An Education Summit on the Future of [...] Continue Reading
Housing Code Enforcement: From Protest to Policy
By Daniel O’Connell In the 1930s, union leader A. Philip Randolph came to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to complain that the New Deal was not helping his workers enough and that stronger measures were [...] Continue Reading
Working with Syrian Refugees in Fresno
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
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