By Camille Russell Local Response More than 75 people in Fresno fasted during December to bring attention to the famine and humanitarian crisis facing people in Yemen due to war. Yemeni children [...] Continue Reading
War & Peace
Fresno Responds to War and Famine in Yemen
By Camille Russell Local Response More than 75 people in Fresno fasted during December to bring attention to the famine and humanitarian crisis facing people in Yemen due to war. Yemeni children [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – December 2018
WILPF MEETINGWILPF will meet Thursday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. The second Thursday meetings are open to all.STIR IT [...] Continue Reading
Hooray for Us!
By Uncle Bill ’Tis a glorious, florious flag-waving day To remember our heroes who’ve gone by the way. Memorial, Veterans and Patriot’s Day, too Armed Forces, Independence, just to name one or [...] Continue Reading
Armistice and Its Aftermath
By Joshua Shurley Veterans Day, Nov. 11, is just around the corner. This year, the holiday is officially observed the following Monday, Nov. 12. One of the largest Veterans Day parades in the country [...] Continue Reading
Amid Endless War, Let’s Reclaim Armistice Day
By Dr. Joshua Shurley “Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want [...] Continue Reading
Locals Turn Out to Support International Call for Peace
By Community Alliance Staff Every year on Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace is observed around the world. It was established in 1981 through a unanimous UN resolution and declared by the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno in Solidarity with Women’s March
By Ken Hudson In solidarity with the national Women’s March on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 20, Fresno will hold a demonstration on the sidewalks in front of River Park the same day, [...] Continue Reading
Where is the Freedom in this Land?
By Richard D. Iyall, Cowlitz Why was this country formed, this country called United States? Did not the founders seek their freedom and their independence from a king who ruled its people with an [...] Continue Reading
March for Our Lives Die-In
By Community Alliance Staff At least a half dozen children, teenagers and adults lay motionless outside the Clovis office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare). No, it was not another mass shooting, [...] Continue Reading
Deported Veterans
By Rico Franco Imagine sitting at the San Ysidro, Mexico, border crossing peering over the horizon. One side is Mexico. One side is California. There is a constant stream of cars and people on foot [...] Continue Reading