By: Dennis Caeton Fresh from the pews of St. Paul Newman Center (a Catholic parish) in Fresno, a few weeks before my birthday, I felt compelled to enter the rare air of the Diocese, the [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Yemen: Terrorist Haven, or Chess Piece?
By: Conn Hallinan “The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability.”— U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “Yemen is a regional and global threat.”—British [...] Continue Reading
Aid to Haiti: Where Does Our Money Go?
By: Patrick Young With over 200,000 dead and a collapsed city, Haiti is desperate for help. The pervasive poverty Haitians have been living with for years is now past the breaking point. With few [...] Continue Reading
Peace & Justice Festival: 9th Annual Rally in the Valley
By: Ken Hudson Be counted for peace at the Peace & Justice Festival: 9th Annual Rally in the Valley on Sunday, March 21, from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Big Fresno Fairgrounds Junior Exhibit [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno Opposes Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
By: Camille Russell On December 1, after three months of deliberation and 10 war councils, President Obama announced an escalation of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a [...] Continue Reading
SEIU’s Civil War
By: Bill Fletcher American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. (This article was originally published by In These Times at InTheseTimes.com. For [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading