"MY SON WAS MURDERED. HE WAS MURDERED. HE WAS MURDERED. HE WAS MURDERED, and the law has not held the officer accountable the way that he should have been held accountable." These are the words of [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
August Poll: Should we target local Congress members to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Please leave your thoughts and views about the ending the wars in Comments below. [...] Continue Reading
The Battle for Kaiser: SEIU Calls for World War III
California Healthcare Workers Showdown The new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has won another stunning victory in its campaign to decertify and defeat the Service Employees International [...] Continue Reading
A Major Pollutant Goes Unregulated
Nearly three decades ago, federal scientists discovered the cause of a massive die-off of fish and birds at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in Merced County, 10 miles north of Los Banos. [...] Continue Reading
The CCAM Report: Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media versus KMJ
Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media (CCAM) is continuing our David-and-Goliath encounter with radio station KMJ. Following the initiation of our ongoing petition drive, the seven [...] Continue Reading
Whose Water? Our Water!
Water Management--or Mismanagement--in Canada and California They say water is the new oil-the likely cause of future wars, and some current wars as well. Everywhere in the world water is an issue one [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Labor’s Civil War in California
Photo above is of the book cover from http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/CalWinslow Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers Rebellion does a phenomenal job of bringing [...] Continue Reading
Punishment by Cold
Just because someone has been in the prison system for an exorbitant amount of time does not mean he or she has "seen it all." The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) [...] Continue Reading
The Living Room to Close
Longtime Fresno HIV/AIDS provider The Living Room will close on June 30 unless a miracle happens. However, director Toni Harrison isn't waiting for that miracle to materialize. She hit the bricks at [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Queer Kids-They Are Here
They don't all leave Fresno for San Francisco or Los Angeles. Among the "unaccompanied youth" and older teens wandering Fresno's streets with nowhere to call home is an undetermined number of gay, [...] Continue Reading
Enriching the Fresno Poetry Legacy
Organizers of the three poetry events in the Fresno Poets' Summer Reading Series 2010, have two motives for their efforts: to support the publication of local poets through the Ash Tree Poetry Series [...] Continue Reading
The American Civil Liberties Union – at Your Service
It was just three years ago, in July 2007, that the new Greater Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC (Northern California) got sufficiently organized to hold its first full agenda Board meeting. Because [...] Continue Reading