By Hannah Brandt Wasan Abu-Baker, content and translation The word malak means angel in Arabic. Malak is also a six-year-old Fresno girl who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 2010. A few months before the [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
By John Else [Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of an article that was originally published on BillMoyers.com and is republished with permission. [...] Continue Reading
Demonstrations and Fasting to Bring Attention to the U.S. Role in World’s Largest, Rapidly Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
By Kathy Kelly [Editor’s Note: This article has been modified from its original version with permission from the author.] On March 14, 2017, internationally renowned peace activist Kathy Kelly, of [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Push for More Oil Extraction on Public Lands Hits Central California
By Vic Bedoian Oil and gas drilling has been halted on federal lands in California during the past four years due to a successful legal action taken by the Center for Biological Diversity. Now the [...] Continue Reading
‘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
Letters to the Editor – March 2017
Status Quo at the DNC By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji The expected has happened! Tom Perez was just elected to chair the Democratic National Committee. The earlier re-election of Nancy Pelosi as House [...] Continue Reading
Organize for a Better Future & Women’s March Unite in Fresno
For more photos from January 21, 2017 by Richard D. Iyall go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1548968925132133.1073741852.147659788596394&type=1&l=5767e8c2f1 [...] Continue Reading
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
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS, Part 2
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Technological ingenuity, a traditional asset in the good-ol’-American-tradition, is no longer at the exclusive service of the conquering John Wayne and [...] Continue Reading
When Counting on a President Gets Difficult.
By Richard Gomez You would think that something as basic as counting would be easy as 1, 2, 3… but not so when it comes to elections in the United States, especially one for the office of the [...] Continue Reading
THE TRUMP DISASTER!
By George B. Kauffman When I wrote my last Guest Editorial, “Science Lessons for the Next President,” https://fresnoalliance.com/science-lessons-for-the-next-president December 5, 2016, based [...] Continue Reading