In April 2020, the Fresno City Council approved the funding and purchase of a mobile restroom and shower unit meant to serve the unhoused community. The funding was provided by federal CARES Act [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Letter to the Editor
Another Unhoused Person Dies in Fresno This is heartbreaking to me because I knew the trauma Jaime went through out there. I first met Jaime when one of my safe camp residents brought her in off [...] Continue Reading
SB 911 Would Drive a Stake in the Heart of Ethnic Media
By Sandy Close and Regina Brown Wilson The California legislature has spent months considering a bill—SB 911 by State Senator Steve Glazer (D–Orinda)—that would dedicate $25 million in state [...] Continue Reading
“What Is the Liberal Agenda?” Revisited
In Dr. Malik Simba’s excellent essay, “What Is the Liberal Agenda?,” published in the June edition of the Community Alliance newspaper, he states that “the new Democratic Party not only embraced the [...] Continue Reading
Fiber Broadband Comes to the Central Valley
The story of broadband technology in Central Valley communities follows historic patterns of privilege and neglect, extreme poverty in a region of extreme wealth. Hundreds of towns, such as Firebaugh, [...] Continue Reading
FUSD Reminds Us of the Punishment-Racism Commitment
The U.S. cultural fixation on punishment relies on major institutions to recycle and recirculate beliefs and practices that make chronic punishment look “natural,” “inevitable” and “timeless.” The [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence
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Dolores Huerta Foundation
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The Unspeakable Happened: Roe v. Wade Overturned
On June 24, the unspeakable happened. A government branch, not elected by the American people, stripped away rights from half the population. Many women feel an overwhelming sense of fear, [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Back to the Dark Ages: Roe v. Wade Overturned On June 24, the Supreme Court produced its much anticipated ruling banning women’s rights to access a safe abortion, upending the landmark Roe v. [...] Continue Reading
Sweeping the Unhoused Out of Sight
On June 2, an encampment sweep at Ashlan and West avenues took place. People were forced to leave with no notice, were not offered shelter and no one knows where they will go next. I called Sarah [...] Continue Reading
Continuum of Cash and Racism by the Numbers
In 2019, from information gathered in the annual federally mandated Point-in-Time Count, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) analysis found that close to 567,000 people experienced [...] Continue Reading