By Eduardo Stanley On Nov. 11, well-known immigrant and indigenous people’s rights activist Rufino Dominguez Santos, 52, died in Fresno. Dominguez was the co-founder of the Binational Front of [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Engage in January
MLK Weekend Activities “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need [...] Continue Reading
Community Giveback Project
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly and currently incarcerated people and our families. The group fights against the [...] Continue Reading
My Dreams Don’t Have Borders
A faith vigil was held at Rep. Devin Nunes’ office in Clovis on Dec. 20 to support a clean DREAM Act. All photos by Peter Maiden. [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Protest to Protect Net Neutrality
By Bob Turner The call was sent out over the Internet. “The new chairman of the FCC was a top lawyer at Verizon. Now he’s calling for a vote to kill net neutrality...Join the Protest Dec. 7 at [...] Continue Reading
Straight Outta Fresno
By Peter Maiden Poppin’, a hip-hop dance related to the Robot, originated in Fresno and traveled up and down the Valley to the Bay Area and Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hmong B-Boys and B-Girls were [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights Day in Fresno
By Sudarshan Kapoor “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” Hilary Clinton, then First Lady, on Sept. 5, 1995, said these powerful words during the [...] Continue Reading
People’s Fair Sentencing and Public Safety Act
By Victoria Johnson At the request of the people of California, WeThePeople.org is making a difference in public safety by helping to reduce the drivers of crime: drug addiction, trauma, poverty and [...] Continue Reading
Did I Bring This on Myself?
By Halima Aquino The disturbing revelations I witnessed first-hand, experienced, heard about or gleaned over the years flooded my head as I woke up yet again last week to more “coming out” stories of [...] Continue Reading
Sidebar: Success or Something Like It
By Halima Aquino One of the silent cruelties that is more common than many of us realize and has always bothered me is that the more successful a woman gets, the more sexually “inappropriate [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Report Shows Police Reform Needed in Fresno
Anti-bias and de-escalation training could help reduce officer-involved shootings By Leslie Fulbright The ACLU of California released a report on Nov. 14 that identifies 146 officer-involved [...] Continue Reading
How Many Homeless Shelter Beds Are There in Fresno and Why It Matters
By Mike Rhodes Proponents of the recently passed No Camping ordinance in Fresno claim that homeless people who are sleeping on public and private property are doing so by choice. They say that if [...] Continue Reading