By: Mike Rhodes It is always sad when you see a bully taking advantage of someone who is weak and powerless. It is even more upsetting when that bully is the City of Fresno, whose employees are being [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
When Shoestrings Come Untied
By: Kelly Borkert On February 19, a fund-raiser for Fresno Food Not Bombs will take place at the Full Circle Brewery (620 F Street, just north of Ventura and east of the Highway 99 exit). Blake Jones [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Water Forums: Facts vs. Fictions
Why spend the time to make sense of our water crisis? Because our lives depend on it! On Saturday, March 13, set aside some time to attend the Central Valley Water Forum: Facts vs. Fictions, which is [...] Continue Reading
From the Greenhouse: ‘Feed-in Tariff’
By: Franz Wienschenk If you live in the Central Valley and plan to buy a solar system, on average, the array that will be on your roof will pay for approximately 80% of your monthly electric bill. [...] 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
Latest Stunt at Labor Board Shows SEIU’s Charges Have No Merit
By: Sadie Crabtree After a year of stalling union elections for more than 100,000 of their own members who want to quit SEIU, SEIU officials have cast themselves as champions of democracy in a [...] Continue Reading
Huge Victory for Kettleman City and Environmental Justice Allies
By: Bradley Angel In a major victory for the residents of the embattled Latino farmworker community of Kettleman City and their environmental justice allies, corporate giant Waste Management, parent [...] Continue Reading
Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region
By: Lloyd Carter Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty This two-part series shows how a long American tradition of helping small farmers has, in the past few decades in the [...] Continue Reading
Green Washing the Milk
By: Robert Gammon Editor's Note: This article was originally printed in the East Bay Express The organic dairy industry has fallen on rough financial times in the past year. Small farmers have been [...] Continue Reading
The ACLU: Defending Your Civil Liberties
By: Bill Simon It has been a busy month at the Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC. Civil liberties just keep trying to go away! Several members of the Board were present at the Fresno State Study-In [...] Continue Reading
Locked Up, But Not Forgotten
By: Bill Sanford and Maria Telesco On the wall, a sign said: Goal 3,900. That was the number of Ziploc bags to be filled for the inmates of the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in [...] Continue Reading
Speaking up for the Homeless
Human Rights Day is an international event sponsored by the United Nations. In Fresno, a press conference was held on December 10 where speakers at a gathering of advocates for the homeless lambasted [...] Continue Reading