Proposition 13: NO There is no need for a tax break for repairs due to earthquakes in the Central Valley, where earthquakes are few and less destructive than in Los Angeles or San Francisco. The [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
This Is How We Decide? By Ruth Gadebusch The air is alive with sound, and every bare spot is filled with signs. Of course, I refer to all the political advertisements with which we are inundated. [...] Continue Reading
The Debate over Empire and the Feud It Caused
The Fresno Pacific University Web site mentions that Fresno became part of the United States as a result of the U.S.-Mexican War.1 Although not advertised as such at the time, historians now agree [...] Continue Reading
Local Elections: How Should Progressives Vote?
The June 8 primary election features a large field of candidates-from City Council to Congressional races. There are also five state propositions on the ballot. How can progressives get the [...] Continue Reading
SJRA-ADVOCATE ("This little newsletter")
By: Boston Woodard Every now and then, someone or something comes along bringing hope and beneficial information to thousands of prisoners in California. In the case of a small grassroots newsletter, [...] Continue Reading
Run to Save Wa-Ha-Lish
By: Vic Bedoian Jesse Morrow Mountain is a unique local landmark. Standing 20 miles east of Fresno, along with its neighbor, Campbell Mountain, it forms the gateway to Kings Canyon-Sequoia National [...] Continue Reading
Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
By: Matthew Rothschild Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. "I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's [...] Continue Reading
SEIU versus NUHW: Who Owns the Union?
By: Mike Parker A federal jury in San Francisco awarded damages to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on April 9 in its suit against the new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
Video Surveillance Increases with no Accountability By: Mike Rhodes Mayor Ashley Swearengin announced on April 14 that the city has placed an additional 10 video surveillance cameras in downtown [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis From the Grassroots
Planet Earth Volunteers By George Madrid Well my friends of the Keep it Green World, how was your April Volunteer and Flower Walk month? The flowers on the foothills and places like Carrizo Plain, [...] Continue Reading
The Office of Independent Review: An Early Assessment
By: Richard Stone Eddie Aubrey is the City of Fresno's first occupant of the Office of Independent Review (OIR), also known as the independent police auditor. This article is an effort to survey the [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots Profile
By: Richard Stone Kamal Abu-Shamsieh is the current (and first) director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (ICC). With no precedents to draw on, he has been given the opportunity/challenge to [...] Continue Reading