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War & Peace
All We Want for Christmas…Are No More Drones!
By Bev Fitzpatrick Wouldn’t no more drones be a great gift? Unfortunately, that gift will have to be unwrapped in the future as our reelected President, the U.S. military and the CIA continue drone [...] Continue Reading
Does Peace Have a Chance?: Reporting on a Panel Discussion about Kashmir
By Richard Stone In a world that often seems dominated by rancor, an opportunity to have even-tempered discussion on a controversial issue is itself a cause of hope. So what to think when such an [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – November 2012
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING November 8, 7 p.m. at the Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (2nd Thursday of most months; no December business meeting). This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN [...] Continue Reading
Revolution, A Love Story
By Beverly Fitzpatrick Revolution, A Love Story is the title of Cindy Sheehan’s new book. This book is about her interviews with Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela. Sheehan brings the message home [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2012
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING Thursday Sept 13 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK September 5, first Wednesday of each month at noon [...] Continue Reading
Occupy Fresno Perseveres
By Jesse Franz On Nov. 14, after a week of nightly arrests by sheriff’s deputies, Occupy Fresno, a group that has continuously encamped at Courthouse Park since Oct. 15, filed a lawsuit in federal [...] Continue Reading
Listening to the Ghosts of Fresno
By Paul Gilmore “Every city is full of ghosts, and learning to see some of them is one of the arts of becoming a true local.”—Rebecca Solnit Why in the last couple of months have thousands of people [...] Continue Reading
Occupy America
By Michael Parenti (Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission of the author.) Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major [...] Continue Reading
The Occupy Movement Comes to Fresno
By Jesse Franz Since its beginning on Sept. 17, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to more than 100 cities around the country, from New York to California and Seattle to Miami. On Oct. 9, [...] Continue Reading
Peace Fresno Activists in D.C.
By Bev Fitzpatrick, Ed Castro, Nancy Waidtlow and Camille Russell Following 10 years of the immoral, unnecessary war on Afghanistan, four Peace Fresno members went to Washington, D.C., for [...] Continue Reading
50 Years of Catch-22: Now Spot Fresno’s Saroyan
By Tom Moradian Published in 1961, Catch-22 sold 10 million copies by 1968. The novel’s dark humor fed the bitterness many felt about the Vietnam War. Today, many feel the same about senseless wars [...] Continue Reading