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
National & International
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
Fresno Peace Corp Volunteer in Peru
By Ingrid Carmean Surrounded by rich agricultural lands, Cerro Candela is probably the poorest community with whom the Peace Corps Peru environmental group works. Of the three communities I work [...] Continue Reading
Good Will in the Mountains of Chiapas
By Patricia Wells Solorzano (Editor’s note: Patricia Wells Solorzano, a well-known musical artist in the Fresno area, was invited to attend an Escuelita Zapatista in Chiapas, Mexico, in August. About [...] Continue Reading
Government Shutdown: Don’t Get Angry, Go Green!
By Richard Gomez Like Emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, the major political parties play the game until a deal that will appease Corporate America with big wet kisses from our Congress, [...] Continue Reading
Valley, Nation Rally to Quiet the Drumbeat of War
By Mike Bridges As of this writing, we have not yet fired on Syria. Not directly anyway. But for some time now, we’ve already been at war-by-proxy with Syria by giving direct and indirect support to [...] Continue Reading
International Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Start of the Cuban Revolution
By Leni Reeves The Cuban Revolution started 60 years ago, and it was a hard start. In fact, nothing afterward has been easy either. Blockaded and attacked by the most powerful empire in human [...] Continue Reading
I Lost It at Filmworks: On Viewing We Steal Secrets
By Thomas Quinn With eager anticipation I attended the Aug. 9, Fresno Filmworks showing of the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney. About 4/5ths through it I walked out [...] Continue Reading
Ñuu Savi: People of the Rain
By Miguel Villegas Ventura Ñuu Savi = People of the rain Tu’un Savi = Language of the rain Ñani = Brother Ku’va = Sister Ve’e Tu’un Savi = The Academy of the Mixtec Language I would like to [...] Continue Reading
Poison Gas and Arabian Tales: Dispatches from the Edge
By Conn Hallinan “It is not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark. It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack, it is that we are not seeing what we would expect to see from a [...] Continue Reading
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. [...] Continue Reading