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Hmong Speak Out About Community Garden (video/mp4 81.0MB) Below is video from the Press Conference held at the Hmong Community Garden on Monday, October 20. Speaking first is Summer Vue, a spokesperson for the Hmong gardeners. This is followed by several of the gardeners explaining, in their own words, why they don’t want to move. They also say that they did not make an agreement to move the garden to Melody Park. The video is 11 minutes long....
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 6:51am PDT
Summer Vue (video/mp4 38.3MB) Summer Vue, a participant at the march, explains why she was there. The video is 3:16 minutes....
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 1:08pm PDT
9:18 minute video (video/x-ms-wmv 32.9MB) This Press Conference was held on August 21, 2008. Video and photos by Mike Rhodes. The text (above) is from Anayma DeFrias at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 4:02pm PDT
West Fresno City Council Member Speaks out About the Frank Ball Center (video/x-ms-wmv 5.5MB) The 1:29 minute video below is Fresno City Council member Cynthia Sterling explaining her position on the Frank Ball Community Center....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 6:06pm PDT
West Fresno Victory - Press Conference (video/x-ms-wmv 41.9MB) The Rev. Floyd D. Harris held this press conference before the Community Forum at the Frank Ball Center. The video is 11:24 minutes long....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 9:40pm PDT
Residents Speak Out at the Frank Ball Community Center (video/x-ms-wmv 53.8MB) 14:41 minute video of the meeting at the Frank Ball Center on July 19, 2008...
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 8:53pm PDT
Sparks Fly in West Fresno Community Meeting (video/x-ms-wmv 55.4MB) Residents in West Fresno are concerned that the city wants to convert the Frank Ball Community Center into a Police Activity League (PAL) facility. A community meeting, which many people were only given hours notice of, erupted into a “lively” dialog as residents confronted city staff....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Standing up for Justice (video/x-ms-wmv 24.1MB) 5:54 minute video of the lead attorneys in this case discussing the victory....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 5:46pm PDT
Press Conference video (10 minutes) (video/x-ms-wmv 42.2MB) Video and all photos by Mike Rhodes...
Posted: Sat, May 31, 2008 5:16pm PDT
Kraz-Business Man By Luke Scarmazzo (video/x-flv 12.1MB) This is a video we did on our own with a company called FCM. We are trying to bring a new sound and different view to music and hip hop. you cant achieve any ki...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 10:21pm PDT
Standing Up to the Madness (video/x-ms-wmv 39.5MB) Amy Goodman, independent journalist and host of Democracy Now! was in Fresno on April 29, 2008. She spoke at the Unitarian Church as a part of her “Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times” tour. The event was a benefit for radio station KFCF 88.1 FM www.kfcf.org . This is a 10:55 video of the first segment of her talk....
Posted: Sun, May 11, 2008 5:09pm PDT
National Day of Prayer at Fresno City Hall (video/x-ms-wmv 15.3MB) The conservative power structure in Fresno attempted to have a “Christian Only” prayer service at City Hall as a part of the National Day of Prayer. Their exclusionary event was thwarted when members of the Interfaith Alliance of Central California showed up holding signs saying One Nation/Many Faiths. See and hear what the mayor, city manager, police chief, and Kamal Abu-Shamsieh of the Islamic Cultural Center had to say in the videos below....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 3:15pm PDT
May Day in Fresno - The Video (video/x-ms-wmv 20.7MB) 5:11 minute video from the 2008 May Day Immigrant Rights March in Fresno....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 12:12pm PDT
Medical Marijuana Case Now in Federal Court (video/x-ms-wmv 28.3MB) The 7 minute video (below) is an interview with Luke Scarmazzo and Monica Valencia. Both Scarmazzo and Valencia were arrested in the September 2006 raid of a medical marijuana dispensary in Modesto California. The case, which is being heard in Federal Court, started this week in Fresno....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 12:24pm PDT
Safe Neighborhoods Act (video/x-ms-wmv 58.5MB) The Runner Initiative (the Safe Neighborhood Act) takes aim on gangs and crime. Opponents say more resources should go to education, job training, and community-based crime prevention programs. The author of the initiative (Three Strikes and Your Out) Mike Reynolds, turned in over 700,000 signatures today to get the proposal on the November 2008 ballot....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 6:45pm PDT
Fresno Police Kill Student at Local High School (video/x-ms-wmv 61.0MB) The Carrisalez family and their supporters held a press conference today to discuss the shooting of Jesse Carrisalez at Roosevelt High School by a Fresno Police Department officer. Elisa Ortega, Jesse’s sister, said “my brother shouldn’t have died. He was too young. He was a good kid that wanted to live.” A 14:43 minute video of that press conference is below....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2008 3:29pm PDT
Mayor Admits City’s Homeless Plan is a Failure (video/x-ms-wmv 10.3MB) Below is a 2:48 minute video of mayor Alan Autry of Fresno explaining how his policy on homelessness has been a failure....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 6:40pm PDT
Task Force members introduce themselves (video/x-ms-wmv 11.4MB) 3:04 minute video...
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 6:40pm PDT
May Day March in Fresno (video/x-ms-wmv 21.5MB) This 5 minute video (in Spanish and English) announces the Fresno May 1, 2008 march for immigrant rights. A press release from the group organizing the march is below....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 3:05pm PDT
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