Editor’s note: This article was submitted by the Central Valley chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild. On April 17, Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar posted a series of tweets condemning the late [...] Continue Reading
Politics
ARE YOU A CITIZEN?
By Ben Monterroso Among the responsibilities and tasks of a modern state is the collecting and keeping of specific data about the population to be governed. It is important to appropriately implement [...] Continue Reading
TPS and Forced Migration
By Stan Santos A History of Forced Migration The history of immigration to the United States from the south is one of forced migration. Waves of immigrants flee their homes to escape violence and [...] Continue Reading
Disagree versus Disagreeable
By Ruth Gadebusch What a sad state it is when so many seem to think they must be disagreeable when disagreeing. At this time, the focus is on the Fresno State professor who chose to make [...] Continue Reading
Town Hall for Gun Control
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How Cuba Chooses Its Government
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba has a parliamentary system of government: Cuba has worked out a system, no doubt imperfect like all systems, that sets up nominations for delegates to the municipal [...] Continue Reading
TECTONIC FORCES CONVERGE: Walls of Institutional Racism Sway at City Hall
By Kevin Hall A recent unanimous vote by the Fresno City Council threatens to knock the city’s developer-controlled politics right off its old foundations. The legislative temblor struck in late [...] Continue Reading
The Face of Racism
By Kevin Hall A pustule occasionally erupts on Fresno’s complacent face of institutionalized racism. At the Jan. 25 City Council meeting, it was Council Member Steve Brandau’s turn. Again. He [...] Continue Reading
Who Deserves Our City’s Financial Assistance?
By Norman M. Lambert There is an interesting power play going on currently in Fresno. We have criminalized the homeless (the lowest rung on the ladder of life) and subsidized (welfare for the rich) [...] Continue Reading
Government-Provided Amenities
By Andy Hansen-Smith What role should the City of Fresno have in providing amenities to its citizens? Should these amenities have to break even financially? At a recent Fresno City Council meeting, [...] Continue Reading
Connecting the Political to the Personal
By Mai Vang I started my job as Hmong Innovating Politics’ (HIP) Community Organizer nearly six months ago and despite being fluent in Hmong, I’ve had a really tough time trying to explain to my [...] Continue Reading
Pop Culture Invades North Fresno
By Andy Hansen-Smith A music concert called Grizzly Fest in the vein of a smaller Coachella or Napa Valley’s Bottle Rock is scheduled for May 18–19 at Woodward Park but not without controversy. Was [...] Continue Reading