By Athena A six-year-old child in Gaza will have lived through three wars in their lifetime. This affects me personally because my parents lived through the 1948 war and the 1967 war, and I lived in [...] Continue Reading
National & International
The Kochocracy
By Will Durst In the bad old days, medieval German lords figured out how to pocket some quick coin by charging a toll on the primitive paths meandering across their lands. The money wasn’t used to [...] Continue Reading
Resistance, Solidarity and Hope
By Leni Reeves For more than 50 years, the United States has maintained a trade, economic and financial blockade against Cuba. We don’t trade with Cuba. We attempt to cut off their access to credit [...] Continue Reading
Brazil’s Preparation for the Global Stage
By Anthony Bencomo As the World Cup approaches and soccer fans grow with anticipation, Brazil’s poorest citizens are faced with the realities of a militarized neighborhood. Similar to what happened [...] Continue Reading
Peace-Making Model Comes to Fresno
By Richard Stone In April, Fresno played host to an artist who constructed a model drone to remind us of the lethal capabilities of these pilotless aircraft. In May, we had the opposite: Jim Fitz, [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion is Not and Oxymoron: Part II: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy Introduction to Part II Last month in Part I, the focus was primarily on the foreground battles progressives are fighting on numerous fronts to vocally “stand our ground” against the [...] Continue Reading
News from Peru
By Ingrid Carmean As a Peace Corps volunteer, I’ve been working in the Santa Cruz area of the town of Cerro Candela, Peru, helping the residents to obtain ready access to water. We have achieved step [...] Continue Reading
Local Efforts to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Stan Santos President Obama Comes to Fresno On Feb. 14, President Barack Obama arrived at the Fresno Airport aboard Air Force One accompanied by Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno). Hundreds of Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Nelson Mandela: A Giant in History – The Prison Press, Feb. 2014
By Boston Woodard Much has been written and said about Nelson Mandela since his passing on Dec. 5, 2013, at 95. President Barack Obama called Mandela “a giant in history” as he talked about the [...] Continue Reading
Occupy Fresno: “Viva Liberté, Viva America!”
By Chip Ashley Mike Rhodes was walking by Courthouse Park on Dec. 12 and noticed Occupy Fresno was no longer there. On closer inspection he saw a notice taped to one of the columns of the “gazebo,” [...] Continue Reading
Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Comes to Fresno
By Chip Ashley On Dec. 20, Fresno has a rare opportunity to meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú at the Ballroom on the Fulton Mall at the Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indígena [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights Commemoration in Fresno
By Sudarshan Kapoor “We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta [...] Continue Reading