The traveling exhibit “Americans and the Holocaust” comes from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It is circulating among only 50 libraries in the United States. Two are in California: the [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Good News for Local Independent Media
Radio Bilingüe (KSJV 91.5 FM) has received a $2 million check for a much needed new facility in Fresno. Presenting the check on Nov. 8 was Assembly Member Joaquin Arambula (D–Fresno). Radio [...] Continue Reading
Barbed Wire Baseball
It is a date that will live in infamy—Feb. 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It disrupted the lives of more than 120,000 Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
December 2023 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence Sponsored Page
December 2023 [...] Continue Reading
Responding Should You Witness a Hate Crime
A diverse group gathered at the Visalia Friends Meeting Hall for a training on what to do if you are in a situation where someone is being harassed because of the color of their skin, their sexual [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Susan Rowe
The Central Valley lost a political icon on Nov. 16 with the passing of Madera County Democratic Central Committee Chair Susan Rowe. She was also active in the Rural Caucus of the California [...] Continue Reading
WWII-Era Internment Camp Unites Asians and Latinos
Mothers and grandmothers clutched children close on trains rolling through this dry stretch of south Texas, not knowing what waited for them at the end of the line. They were Peruvians of Japanese [...] Continue Reading
FCNV: A Lamp Has Been Lit
BY ANGELA PRICE AND JOSHUA SHURLEY As we celebrate three decades of service to the Central Valley by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence (FCNV, or the Center), our mission of fostering peace requires [...] Continue Reading
Everybody Is a Star Rising Above Their Social Condition
Some homeless man says, “You label me, you negate me,” echoing the premier Existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard. He articulates, “You may be tempted to hate me for being homeless and since my [...] Continue Reading
Some Questions about Fresno’s Growth Plan
BY MATTHEW ARI JENDIAN, SIMON BIASELL, JIM GRANT AND AKIKO MIYAKE-STONER Been in Fresno long? Ever notice how the city has grown (mostly northward) and what has happened in the wake of that growth [...] Continue Reading
Campo de Concentración de la II Guerra Mundial une a Asiáticos y Latinos
Madres y abuelas abrazaban a sus niños en los trenes que circulaban por esta zona seca del sur de Texas, sin saber qué les esperaba al final de la línea. Eran peruanos de ascendencia japonesa, [...] Continue Reading