By Sudarshan Kapoor On Oct. 2, Fresno State celebrated the 90th birthday of Dolores Huerta (official birthday April 10 ) by planting a peace tree in her honor in the Peace Garden. Dr. Joseph I. [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
In the Line of Fresno Fire
I. smiley G. Calderon With the recent wildfires blazing around and a pandemic raging within Fresno, you would think that the sanctity of life would be forefront in every Fresnan’s mind. But, [...] Continue Reading
“Level the Playing Field Tour” Comes to Fresno
By Peter Maiden Several speakers came together at a press conference in Fresno for Proposition 16 on October 8, part of the “Level the Playing Field Tour.” Proposition 16 would reinstate [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Tehipite Chapter Endorses Candidates
By Gary Lasky The Sierra Club Tehipite Chapter is organizing its member volunteers to support two San Joaquin Valley Congressional candidates in 2020: TJ Cox and Brynne Kennedy. Cox is a freshman [...] Continue Reading
How We Can End Homelessness
By Mike Rhodes With homelessness increasing in Fresno for the past several years, it is obvious that whatever we are doing, it is not ending homelessness. There are many organizations (West Care, [...] Continue Reading
Does the City of Fresno Have the Political Will to End Homelessness?
By Gerry Bill (Editor’s note. Gerry Bill is responding to Mike Rhodes’ article about ending homelessness, which can be found HERE). What we are doing is not working. Unfortunately, the [...] Continue Reading
14 Million U.S. Children Will Go Hungry This Week
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically heightened ongoing food insecurity: 14 million U.S. children will go hungry in any given week, and parents are increasingly skipping meals [...] Continue Reading
Who Dies and Who Cares
By Leni Villagomez Reeves When Covid-19 began to cause illness and death in the United States, initially people in general perceived themselves as being at risk. They behaved in ways that [...] Continue Reading
Support for ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ grows
Text and Photos by Peter Maiden Despite high heat and smoke from wildfires, drivers turned out for a Caravan to Commit to Equity Monday, August 24th. Around a dozen cars went from the Caltrain [...] Continue Reading
Tulare County During the Pandemic –The Hard Price of Poverty
A photo essay by David Bacon Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged last week that the coronavirus crisis is expanding far faster among eight rural counties in California’s Central Valley than in the [...] Continue Reading
Graciela Martinez —Presente!
By Daniel O’Connell Love cannot be contained, which is why it is revolutionary. Few lived this truth more than Graciela Martinez, a pure soul and ferocious activist, especially for farmworkers, [...] Continue Reading
Graciela Martinez: A Lifetime of Support for Farmworker Rights and Dignity
By Willie Colón (Editor’s note: Longtime activist Graciela Martinez of Tulare County passed on Aug. 1. She was born in Haringen, Texas, on Jan. 29, 1945. Her family later moved to California [...] Continue Reading