The Autumn of Awakening By Wendy Russell We moved from Fresno to Costa Rica (a country that has had no army since 1948) for many reasons, but paramount for me was the feeling that our beloved United [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
The Power of Prisoners: The Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
By Catherine Campbell This summer, prisoners in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) came together and began a hunger strike that at its peak spread throughout the California prison system to [...] Continue Reading
$54 a Month for Water You Can’t Drink
By David Bacon When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only four other families still living in this tiny, unincorporated community in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, halfway [...] Continue Reading
Our Stone-Age Supervisors Out To Save Us Again
By Catherine Campbell The Needle Exchange has been ongoing in Fresno for almost two decades, providing clean needles to drug users to prevent the spread of numerous diseases. Hepatitis C and HIV are [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor: October 2011
I want to first thank Mike Rhodes for taking the time and dedication to allow the community to read about what’s being overlooked everyday. People allow themselves to be blindfolded to the truth. [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
We are proud to announce the publication this month of Boston Woodard’s first book, Inside the Broken California Prison System, which is based on a series of articles written for the Community [...] Continue Reading
A Tour for California Health Care Justice
By Judy Hess With the attacks on healthcare for indigent people in Fresno, on unions and their health benefits everywhere, with the current attempt to savage (and privatize) the U.S. Postal Service [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots: Profiles of Local Activist Leaders
By Richard Stone At 32, Hector Cerda still sees himself as a young activist, just coming into his own as an organizer and thinker. And at the center of his agenda is the sacredness of water. When [...] Continue Reading
Fire Bombing Police Cars Affects Us All
By Mike Rhodes Fresno progressive activists are known for protesting at Shaw and Blackstone (Peace Corner), petitioning their government for grievances, or even establishing alternative institutions [...] Continue Reading
“You Are My Other Me”
By Stan Santos I Remember the Boot… I remember the boot on my face, as I lay on my back in an alley, hands cuffed behind me. I remember the feel of the gravel stuck to the bottom of the boot, as it [...] Continue Reading
Can They Say That?
By Richard Stone A panel discussion on “Media Responsibility, Ethics and Civility” will be held on Oct. 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Peters Education Center adjacent to the Save-Mart Center on the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading