By John Crockford U.S. Postal Service Wants to Verify Who You Are The U.S. Postal Service recently awarded a three-year $15.12 million contract to build a cloud-based authentication exchange. IT [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone The Poetry Corner returns with two contributions from our Visalian friend, Bill Warner. Those of you similarly incited to poetry (having foresworn violence), your submissions [...] Continue Reading
Jesus, Columbus and My Blond Teacher
By Leonard Adame Jesus was always a bearded blond White guy who wore a flowing robe and held up his hand with his index and thumb touching each other. He looked peaceful even to my fourth-grade mind. [...] Continue Reading
An Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere
By Dr. Jean Kennedy Is the system working 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech? Well, let’s see. Today, taxpayers pay more than $70 billion per year to warehouse more [...] Continue Reading
ACLU: Because Freedom Can’t Defend Itself
By Bill Simon It’s the time of year again for the Fresno Area Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to celebrate—the beginning of its seventh year as a chapter. On Sept. 9, from 5:30 [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno Membership Drive and Annual Elections Meeting
By Beverly Fitzpatrick September is a busy month for Peace Fresno, as it has been since 2001. Today, Peace Fresno continues to speak out against war and oppose injustice. Soon in your mailbox you [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – September 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press — Within Spartan Cells: Security Housing Unit Anguish
By Boston Woodard It should be noted that all prisoners involved with the mass hunger strike in California’s security housing units (SHUs) are not the irretrievable miscreants (“gang members”), as [...] Continue Reading
Reopen and Reassess Chicano History in Fresno
By Jose Luis Barraza The Chicano History: Revisited in Fresno County Committee has been formed to develop a multimedia documentary to honor the history of unsung heroes who were committed to the [...] Continue Reading
California Inmates’ Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement Spreads
By Eduardo Stanley (Editor’s note: This article was originally published by VOXXI (www.voxxi.com/calif-hunger-strike-solitary-confinement/)). About 500 people recently traveled from all over [...] Continue Reading
The Fungus Among Us
By Maria Telesco At the time of this writing, a serious medical crisis is looming in two California prisons. Valley fever, which is caused by the sometimes-lethal aspergillus fungus, may be [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press: Conversation with David Carpenter, aka “The Trailside Killer”
By Boston Woodard Editor’s note: This extraordinary interview of David Carpenter by prisoner/journalist Boston Woodard is remarkable, not only for its insight into this fascinating and ongoing story [...] Continue Reading