By Athena A six-year-old child in Gaza will have lived through three wars in their lifetime. This affects me personally because my parents lived through the 1948 war and the 1967 war, and I lived in [...] Continue Reading
War & Peace
WILPF – August 2014
WILPF ANNUAL RETREAT Saturday, August 23, at Jennifer Williamson’s home. See the article below, and watch for additional details on the listserv. Open to all WILPF members and potential [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – July 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, July 10, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK July 2 (first [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – June 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet on Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK June 4 (first [...] Continue Reading
Peace-Making Model Comes to Fresno
By Richard Stone In April, Fresno played host to an artist who constructed a model drone to remind us of the lethal capabilities of these pilotless aircraft. In May, we had the opposite: Jim Fitz, [...] Continue Reading
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
By Dan Yaseen Following Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald has produced [...] Continue Reading
Return of the Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone Our poet this month is Alfonso Hernandez of Three Rivers. He writes, “The inspiration came from the violent situation in Mexico where many people are killed every day either [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – May 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday May 8, 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK May 7, first Wednesday of each [...] Continue Reading
The Drone Memorial
View from “The Drone Memorial” project, as captured by Community Alliance photographer Richard Iyall. Under way since March 16 and led by artist Joseph DeLappe, the participatory memorial [...] Continue Reading