By Ruth Gadebusch This past election produced a nation we thought we had grown beyond. Most of us recognized that the population had not all lived up to the high ideals expressed in that document [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Fidel and Cuba
By Leni Reeves Avoiding cult of personality has been a concern for the revolutionary government of Cuba. There are no statues of Fidel, no schools or hospitals named for him. This may possibly change [...] Continue Reading
The Orange President Cometh and Hope for the Convivial Life | Part 1
By Brian Jay Snyder On November 8, 2016, shortly before political pundits and corporate media correspondents began making their frantic projections as to whether Clinton or Trump would win or lose the [...] Continue Reading
Change and Compromise Through Grassroots Collaboration
By J. D. Montague If the general election’s apathetic turnout is any indication of local political interest, then we have a major problem facing us for the future of our local government, as well as [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS | part 1
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
Joint Statement from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and National Indigenous Congress
Translated By Jonathan Luevanos (Author’s note: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist political group formed by indigenous people from the Lacandon Jungle in [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Leaders Speak Out About Post-Election Immigration Concerns
By Vic Bedoian There are an estimated three hundred thousand undocumented immigrants in the San Joaquin Valley who fear what the future may hold for them if the Trump administration does what they [...] Continue Reading
Mixed Election Results in Fresno County
By Michael D. Evans No doubt everyone was shocked by the outcome of the national election. We will be assessing and analyzing how Donald Trump could possibly have been elected President for [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Native Americans Raise Awareness About the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Hannah Brandt Central Valley tribes held three events in Fresno in November to educate the public about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and support native peoples protecting the land and water at [...] Continue Reading
Thoughts on the 2016 Presidential Election
We have elected a person who is incompetent to perform the duties of the presidency. It is not a matter of partisan politics to observe that Hillary Clinton was probably the most qualified person [...] Continue Reading
#IVoteBecause or #IDoNotVoteBecause
We asked you on our social media pages to tell us why you do or do not vote in national, state, and local elections. We asked if you do not vote to tell us what, if anything, would get you to do [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Votes! Election November 8, 2016: An Interview with Aida Macedo
By Hannah Brandt Aida Macedo is a busy woman. She is a lawyer with a local law firm in Fresno and volunteers doing voting rights work in the Central Valley. She has been doing non-partisan election [...] Continue Reading