By Peter Maiden On July 12, Fresno was one of more than 700 cities around the world holding a “Lights for Liberty” vigil to protest the situation of immigrants. Many, including infants, toddlers [...] Continue Reading
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Disaster Response in Cuba
By Leni Villagomez Reeves In Comunidad Castanedo, Elsida Martinez described surviving the tornado that hit her Guanabacoa home on the night of Jan. 27. “It sounded like a hundred airplanes or [...] Continue Reading
Veteran Legislator Costa Challenged by a Young Latina
By Eduardo Stanley It looks as if Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) is getting seriously challenged from within his own political party. Fresno City Council Member Esmeralda Soria announced recently that [...] Continue Reading
Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Can’t Be Stopped
By Leni Reeves The Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba means solidarity with Cuba and working for change in the United States. It is civil disobedience, which means breaking a law to point out how [...] Continue Reading
America’s Own Death Camps
By Robert Navarro On social media and elsewhere, there is much resort to memes and breathless discussion that compares the complex of camps along the U.S. southern border and prior “camps” as in [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution Project and Gay Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves More than 40 years after the most recent version of the Cuban constitution was written and almost unanimously approved by referendum, Cubans are presently working on a [...] Continue Reading
The Gang That Cannot Shoot Straight Strikes (Out) Again on International Trade
By Daniel Garst “It doesn’t seem like anything was actually agreed to at the dinner and White House officials are twisting themselves into pretzels to reconcile Trump’s tweets (which seem, if not [...] Continue Reading
The Gang That Cannot Shoot Straight Strikes (Out) Again on International Trade
By Daniel Garst “It doesn’t seem like anything was actually agreed to at the dinner and White House officials are twisting themselves into pretzels to reconcile Trump’s tweets (which seem, if not [...] Continue Reading