Radio Free Fresno
By SouthofShawMedia
Radio Free FresnoOct 18, 2021
I am La Malinche-Magnet School to the Wyte Left
Part I: Who was La Malinche: aztec origin story, aztec imperialism, race traitor, etc
Part 1.5: I am La Malinche from school to thinking I could help a revolution NOT started in my own neighborhoods.
Part 2: My complicity with a racist classist magnet school system, etc.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/fresnos-segregation/567299/
https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/06/west-fresno-racism-black-communities/
https://projects.propublica.org/miseducation/district/0614550
https://newrepublic.com/article/152789/americas-socialists-race-problem
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/environmental-justice-movement
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/environmental-justice-movement
https://www.historyonthenet.com/overview-of-the-aztec-empire
(northern mexico back then was also part of the USA as it exists today)
American Verdict
Guilty on all 3 counts. Chauvin in handcuffs, led from courtroom. Unicorn Riot on the streets livestreaming the George Floyd case verdict. Guilty. All 3 counts.
[Below written while waiting for the verdict to be read, earlier today]
American Verdict or AmeriKKKan Verdict?
America, we have a constitution, yet it has never been fully enforced. Will it be enforced today in the verdict of the kkkop Chauvin in his murder of George Floyd, a Black unarmed man who cried for his mother as the crowd begged the police to stop murdering him in cold-blood? Is today the day an American verdict will be read? Or is it another AmeriKKKan verdict, read by cold, cruel, uncaring, genocidal mouths?
Adventure Church, Tower Theatre, and the Proud Boy Cop in Fresno, CA
It’s a story of a historically inclusive, friendly, nightlife hub in Fresno, symbolic of more than just a really old building that stands very tall among the other Tower District buildings, it’s the spot where Pride Parade stops and starts and it has hosted the Reel Pride Film Festival for decades now—Tower Theatre is also an icon of LGBTQIA civil rights in Fresno, and the diversity of people in Tower spans class, race, gender, sexuality; Tower Theatre is in the one single most diverse and inclusive neighborhood in Fresno and that is what it symbolizes: equality, equity, love.
It’s also a story about right wing agitators and harassment, of weekly Sunday rallies by the LGBTQIA community, allies, and Tower District residents, of Officer Fitzgerald, the cop with Fresno PD seen participating in the harassment of LGBTQIA activists at their Sunday rallies while off duty and was revealed to be an extremist proud boy, punisher cosplayer, kids’ ‘mentor’, and founder of a militia-esque Sons of 1776 right wing group.
Leftists and BIPOC in Fresno have long known that there was one overtly fascist far right cop serving on the Fresno pd. At a livestream event held in downtown Fresno back in January 2020, a livestream was uploaded to facebook showing a low resolution livestream of a group of proud boys with at least one man in an American Guard hoodie, chatting with and embracing a Fresno police officer in full uniform (the star on the upper arm is visible at times). While it is very low res, the livestreamer follows the man hugging the far right people and then walking to the fresno squad car. He then gets inside, does a U-turn, slows down near the livestreamer as she gets closer, and turns on his siren lights before speeding off. It is obvious a member of law enforcement spent quite a lot of time on the side being friendly with the Proud Boys and American Guard before walking to, entering, and driving his squad car. https://youtu.be/y7vxG_4nPyo [livestream copyrights acquired by United Leftist Coalition from original livestreamer]
https://kmph.com/news/local/religious-leaders-gather-in-support-of-save-the-tower-theatre-movement
(audio heard in this podcast is from this gv wire episode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2DVHrnFL4
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article249939048.html
https://abc30.com/fresno-police-proud-boys-tower-protest/10418161/
Atlanta Incel Shooting & FOSTA/SESTA in SW
The Atlanta shootings are currently being investigated as both a potential hate crime and as an act of sexist killings by an incel (although acting out on violent fantasies about women is generally more of a darkcel thing to do, as per their sexist ideology on being ‘red pilled’ versus being ‘black pilled’).
From the Redpill Handbook, a collection of reddit incel essays being distributed as a kind of incel manifesto, to incelese, a coded dialect of English (includes words like “mogged”, i.e. "that chad wrist mogged me”), incels have built an ideology, an internet presence, and now, a death count.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/how-the-alleged-murder-of-a-blogger-has-revealed-the-dark-reality-of-incels
Is it really new though, or is it a reactionary take on traditional patriarchy? Or is it an extremist form of patriarchy? The kind of unspoken message sex workers get when they start is, “if you leave the kitchen, anything that happens to you out there is your own fault because you never should have done sex work. You should’ve found a mate and reproduced and made your husband tortillas for life. If you had done that, you would be safe. If you refuse, you are fair game.” And by ‘fair game’ they mean it in the Most Dangerous Game way, the serial killer murder for sport way.
Sex workers have usually been the first victims of serial killers. They have limited rights, both as human beings in regards to assault and theft, as well as limited labor rights to organize, to unionize, to protect themselves. FOSTA/SESTA is a bill that was passed in the name of sex traffic victims, yet it is the one bill that has endangered sex workers and victims of sex trafficking across the board due to the inability of sex workers to use the internet to vet clients with each other. Without that, many sex workers went back to working without any way to ensure their safety.
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5598&context=flr
From an academic study entitled, “FOSTA: A Hostile Law with a Human Cost” by Chamberlain (Fordham Law Review, 2019):
“Street work is more dangerous than indoor work and can even be lethal.269 Rape and assault are prevalent and seen as inevitable, and workers are at risk of violence from clients and law enforcement alike.270 As the internet became a ubiquitous utility, sex workers were able to move the negotiation and solicitation stages of their business to online forums that did not demand physical presence.271 Sex workers gained the means to create an electronic record of client communications,272 screen potential clients,273 and communicate with one another about dangerous clients, safe spaces, and other industry-specific health and safety tips.274 The shift online revolutionized the industry, imbuing sex work with a previously nonexistent level of safety and decreasing the need for third parties as security or advertisement intermediaries.275 The effect was striking: a 2017 study found that “from 2002 to 2010, when Craigslist’s erotic-services site was active and solicitation moved indoors, the female homicide rate fell by seventeen percent.”
We should not ignore how society, how congress, how our legislation, worked to create dangerous conditions for sex workers in America, especially FOSTA/SESTA. Sex workers are treated like the lowest caste of society, they are perceived as morally depraved, as lesser than other workers, as less worthy of justice in the even they are harmed, and the advent of OnlyFans becoming a somewhat socially acceptable thing in modern times, has done little to remove the stigma and risk of doing in real life sex work. We need to change how society and the law treats sex workers.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/us/shooting-atlanta-acworth
What is Fascism? Interview w/Dr. Maischak pt 2
Join me as I interview Dr. Lars Maischak, history PhD and CSU lecturer, as we discuss the definition of fascism; who it applies to and who it does not. Dr. Maischak's background as both a history doctorate specializing in comparative American history, and his life experiences as a German émigré whose family was split between the Nazi side and the leftist, anti-Nazi side, gives the audience a deep, thorough, and historically accurate description of what defines fascism, and how it expresses itself in America during modern times. #fascism #America #nazi #history #AmericanHistory #currentevents #PhD #interview #GermanHistory #leftism #TheLeft #socialism #FascisminAmerica #podcastSeries #Fresno #RadioFreeFresno #southofShawMedia
Story of Dr. Maischak's Exile At Hands of Fascists
In 2017, Dr. Lars Maischak, a professor of history at #CaliforniaStateUniversityFresno, tweeted about how history shows us Trump is a fascist, and that, historically, fascists must hang for fascism to die. Dr. Maischak is no stranger to fascism--his family was German leftists during #WWII......his tweets reflected his life experience, his academic research, and his personal ethics. Not only was he attacked by Breitbart and the alt-right over the tweet, but he was also railroaded by the university system and suspended from his professorship. The university rejected his first amendment rights and accused him of inciting violence (although the secret service investigated, they found no evidence that Dr. Maischak had or intended to incite violence, contrary to CSU Fresno's stance). They further blamed Dr. Maischak for the controversy, saying he 'should've known better, he does. He knows better than them. Still, despite being proven right after the atrocities Trump committed since 2017, Dr. Maischak's life continues to be upended and his employer, a public university, has refused to support him and continues to insist they were in the right to punish him. Never punish a historian for giving a historically accurate analysis of the past, present, and future. You should be taking notes, not censoring him.
Links to Move On petition
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/california-faculty-association-take-a-stand-against-neo-mccarthyism
Link to saved emails
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B0VnAfIlTqE6Z4NmzlMelf9NAm-rJqnP
Attack on the Capitol-Sierra Unified School District's Meeting on James Hoak Trustee
Content warning: contains justification of capitol attack, and encouragement for repeated attacks against those who oppose the attacks and/or the the employment of James Hoak as Sierra Unifed School District board of Trustees member *(18 minutes and on) "[Samantha]: you guys are all subject to what's going on. And if you don't think that they're coming for you-they're coming for you.")
#JamesHoak was elected to the school board of trustees for Sierra unified in CA recently and attended / was approving of the attack on the Capitol during the January attack. Not surprising to Latinx people in Fresno, CA--quite a bit aways from the Sierra Foothills, yet Fresnans are oddly the people closest to Hoak's radical politically ideologies--a frequent agitator and disrupter of cultural events and non-cultural political events in Fresno, CA, he was seen to be advocating for and explaining the actions of a mob of MAGA attackers beating police with sticks/metal pipes/etc during his zoomed in 'reporting' of events on his now deleted video *video here:
https://www.facebook.com/EattherichStirfried/posts/1752950961539632
More about Hoak here: https://abc30.com/sierra-unified-capitol-protest.../9570956/
JamesHoak, #capitol attendee and trustee of the #sierraunifiedschooldistrict is no stranger to immigrant rights activists in Fresno. Traveling from his home city, where he is now a #SierraUnified school district trustee, he was a frequent MAGA livestreamer known to antagonize, disrupt, and livestream the faces and personal identities of local immigrant rights activists in Fresno.
Going as far back as 2018, as seen in this video, James Hoak would use inflammatory language against #immigrants and was one of a group of #proudboys from the #centralvalley who were listed during this news story on a pro-migrant caravan rally (crashed by proud boys, including James Hoak) as a "self-proclaimed" Nationalist (a common dog whistle for white supremacists who believe in an ethno-state of Whites only).
Hoak can be seen being interviewed in this local news story from 2018 around the 30 second mark, his name clearly visible, and the reporter quotes them at the end saying they are nationalists.
Migrant caravan immigrant rights rally, Fresno, CA, 2018, crashed by proudboys, including James Hoak interviwed by reporter with name disclosed:
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/migrant-caravan-supporters-and-protesters-rally-at-a-busy-fresno-intersection/1618119313/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KSEE24_News&fbclid=IwAR0F5jzqYf_Aj2UerZxG-ATO3d-nTwKcPLV_zodCtUXRQgVAQajQQ7JNEO0
Mayday cultural event personal livestream where Mr. Hoak is seen mid-video up close to be livestreaming immigrant people's face before organized activist Latinx members approach and block his view of immigrant bystanders. Host takes the video, host is not affiliated with the event--this was supposed to be a cultural dance and music event celebrating workers for mayday. This event was not political, it was a cultural dance/music event that quickly soured after MAGA hats appeared and began to film an elderly lady in a veil sitting alone on a cement bench that is seen at the start. Towards the end, Host sent a proxy to film up close to the MAGA hats, and James Hoak is clearly the one in the blue shirt. Please skip towards the end to see the blue shirt up close for identification purposes. Thank you. host.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2226409804112738&ref=watch_permalink
Two Sides of the Same Capitalist Coin-History PhD Interview (F.I.A. Series)
F.I.A. Podcast Series with Dr. Lars Maischak - Episode 1: Two Sides of the Same Capitalist Coin
This is the first podcast in a series of interviews with Dr. Lars Maischak, a history PhD from Germany who lectures at California State University, Fresno. This series is entitled, “Fascism in America” (F.I.A. Series) and looks at America through historical context, modern day events, and the lived experiences of Dr. Maischak, both his German lived experience, as well as his experiences recently in America.
Our first episode is called “Two Sides of the Same Capitalist Coin” and Dr. Maischak explains how both conservatives and neoliberals play a role in fascism gaining power—using the example of German merchants from the 1800’s as a means to explain how this came to be. Contrary to popular belief, conservatives and neoliberals hold the same capitalist ideals, and we look at how these ideals play out on the global scale, as well as what that means to American modern day events and political ideologies.
This is the link to the book discussed in this episode by Dr. Lars Maischak:
People who don't want to or cannot spend $30 on the full length book, can read an older manuscript (Dr. Maischak’s dissertation) that is available for free (but has stuff missing compared to the book:
https://csufresno.academia.edu/LarsMaischak
Stay tuned for more of this series, Fascism in America, with lecturer of history, Dr. Lars Maischak! Only on Radio Free Fresno, an op-ed project of South of Shaw Media!
Extra Body Bags and No Quarantine Enforcement-Now in Fresno, CA
The city of Fresno has received a large shipment of extra body bags in anticipation of a spike in COVID deaths. Businesses and large gatherings are largely vectors for rapid infection in a city, yet Sheriff Mims has formally pledged to not obey California state mandate laws and will not enforce penalties against businesses that do not follow state mandated mask policies and shut down orders. Meanwhile, the oversaturation of neighborhoods south of Shaw Avenue by police continues---disproportionate traffic stops, gang profiling, and racial profiling all continue regardless of the pandemic. This unequal policing between North Fresno and South of Shaw Avenue, and between affluent Fresno business owners and low income Fresnans, exacerbates a long standing and deep seated division in the city of Fresno, with its roots in racism and classism stemming from the Jim Crow era, and the official and then unofficial redlining of Fresno. The results of which, might lead to negligent or wrongful deaths that could have been prevented had Sheriff Mims obeyed the California mandate regarding COVID shut-down measures.
I talk vaccine myths and debunk the likelihood that the vaccine can mind control you. I also debunk the conspiracy that the vaccine is a toxin or poison and not a vaccine. If you’re high risk, please do consider taking the vaccine!
Lastly, I briefly touch on the next upcoming podcast: a multi-segment podcast series on Fascism in America with an interview between Host and Dr. Lars Maischak, a History PhD whose specialization is in American history.
Extra body bags for Fresno:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/california-coronavirus-deaths-body-bags-morgue
Mims says no COVID shut-down enforcement:
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Freedom or Enabling Negligent/Wrongful Deaths?
https://www.i-lawsuit.com/can-you-sue-for-negligence-or-wrongful-death-from-coronavirus/
vaccine
https://abc30.com/kaiser-covid-vaccine-fresno-doctor-tears/8856707/
mind control debunked – myths of the COVID vaccine
water supply and debunking poison in the vaccines conspiracy theory
flint water
fresno water environmental racism
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-018-0442-6
https://mytapwater.org/pws/ca1010007/city-of-fresno/fresno-ca/
Sheriff Mims' Quarantine Revolt and Our New Chief of Police from Oklahoma City
Sheriff Mims previously refused to obey the CA mandate on COVID quarantine measures. I ask why she ignores a literal public health concern while ignoring another public health concern: overpolicing in areas south of Shaw ave, police brutality during traffic stops, and why businesses flouting the law with no fines while the rest of us get fined for a broken taillight is a type of class privilege. Also, Fresno's New police chief is from Oklahoma City. I recount what little I've seen of our new police chief through his youtube talk about low income families and their lack of family and church (his words, NOT mine). Frankly, coming to fresno and assuming we don't nurture our family members is not a good start to his tenure as fresno police chief, although he will do amazing with the Dyer stans.
Link to new chief of Fresno police talking about child development: https://youtu.be/ew3JSjUvhFU
Link to sheriff Mims refusing to comply with CA mandate regarding COVID prevention measures: https://youtu.be/JQ5CyrQ1ppY
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be a Part of Your Revolution: On Activism, Burn-out, and Art
After briefly talking about electoralism, I go into why I think art is essential for activism; it serves as a vent for the overburdened activist to get some respite from the grave and troubling issues they deal with on a daily. The title is a quote from anarchist Emma Goldman, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of your revolution." That is pretty much the theme of the podcast for today.
I chat about Asco, the Chicano art collective from decades ago that fought gentrification by tagging a museum that refused to show Latinx artists. I discuss the pain of activism and why having a creative expression is important--it anchors our anger at the current situation to a future of hope and change. If there be a curriculum for activism, it needs at least a one separate book on activism and art as a form of both self-care and activism in action.
On Asco: https://eastofborneo.org/articles/your-art-disgusts-me-early-asco-1971-75/
https://www.kcet.org/socal-focus/1970s-la-chicano-conceptual-art-group-gets-its-due
On Emma Goldman: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
On Chicano Protest Art : https://bmoreart.com/2017/12/from-grape-boycotts-to-the-border-wall-a-history-of-chicano-and-latino-art.html
Academic study on activist burn-out: http://www.edchange.org/publications/Activist-Burnout-Chen-Gorski.pdf
Are Fresno Gang Injunctions Just Stop and Frisk with Extra Steps? Interview with a Victim
For this podcast, I will be talking to a man who alleges he was falsely accused of being in a gang. Sadly, this is not uncommon, as the ACLU has found. Several cities in America have already banned gang injunctions in the courts due to unconstitutionality and civil rights violations. Not so in Fresno, where half the city feels unfairly profiled and targeted for gang injunctions (South of Shaw) and the other half feels that the cries of racial profiling, false allegations, and excessive force coming from the South of Shaw do NOT outweigh their perceived benefits of gang injunctions, and want to continue to use gang injunctions. Interview and full podcast coming soon! Support SOS Media on Patreon to get early access for as little as $3/month! Support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/southofshawmedia
Citations:
On the Shooting of Isiah Murrietta-Golding:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/25/police-shooting-video-isiah-murrietta-golding-fresno-california
K. Babe Howell, Gang Policing: The Post Stop-and-Frisk Justification for Profile-Based Policing, 5 Univ. Denver Crim. Law Rev. 1 (2015)
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=cl_pubs
Thomas A. Myers, The Unconstitutionality, Ineffectiveness, and Alternatives of Gang Injunctions, 14 MICH. J. RACE & L. 285 (2009).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol14/iss2/4
Owens et al., How Valuable are Civil Liberties? Evidence from Gang Injunctions, Crime, and Housing Prices in Southern California. Feb.2019
NOTE: While the Owens’ study was not about the violation of civil liberties, but on the impact on housing prices in adjacent areas, there were sections that made reference to the fact that gang injunctions are not proven to work to significantly reduce crime.
ACLU FAQ on Gang Injunctions:
https://www.aclunc.org/article/gang-injunctions-fact-sheet
Gang Injunctions Banned in LA [2018]:
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/court-issues-historic-ruling-against-gang-injunctions-la
Gang Injunctions Banned in North Carolina [2019]:
https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/press-releases/court-agrees-end-unconstitutional-wilmington-gang-injunction
The Atlantic, an Article on the Historical Bias in Fresno Policing [2018]:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/crime-in-fresno/567931/
Police, A Field Guide, written by David Correia and Tyler Wall. [2018, Verso Books]
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police / PREDICTIVE POLICING: “Councilman Clinton J. Olivier, a libertarian-leaning Republican, said Beware was like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel and asked Dyer a simple question: “Could you run my threat level now?” Dyer agreed. The scan returned Olivier as a green, but his home came back as a yellow, possibly because of someone who previously lived at his address, a police official said. “Even though it’s not me that’s the yellow guy, your officers are going to treat whoever comes out of that house in his boxer shorts as the yellow guy,” Olivier said. “That may not be fair to me.” He added later: “[Beware] has failed right here with a council member as the example.”” [2016]
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html
After Getting Flagged, City Council Says No to Purchase of BEWARE [2016]:
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article69337677.html
Study on predictive policing: https://www.upturn.org/reports/2016/stuck-in-a-pattern/
The Guardian article on predictive policing [2016]:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/us-police-data-analytics-smart-cities-crime-likelihood-fresno-chicago-heat-list
COVID-19-Transparency in Jails Needed, Help the Homeless, Fresno Mutual Aid Group, and more on Four Thieves Vinegar
Today on Radio Free Fresno, the host asks questions about how we can keep our community safe if there is little transparency for those being detained. Particularly, we should reinstate video conferencing visitation rights for inmates in the Fresno County Jail. Host also talks about the homeless in Fresno being forced to move around south Fresno as Fresno police do sweeps on their encampments in the middle of the Corona virus outbreak. Also, more on Four Thieves Vinegar, including what a main rep for them advised Fresno can do to help the homeless stay healthy.
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Fresno Jails Shut Down In Person and Video Conferencing Visitations for Inmates:
https://kmph.com/news/local/no-visitation-allowed-at-fresno-county-jails-due-to-coronavirus
SOS Media post on Fresno County Jail Mumps Outbreak earlier in 2020:
https://kmph.com/news/local/no-visitation-allowed-at-fresno-county-jails-due-to-coronavirus
Main site: https://www.fourthievesvinegar.org/
PDF for free download: https://archive.org/details/2019ncov/mode/2up
Homeless in Fresno on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HIF559/
March 14th Homeless in Fresno facebook post about the homeless being moved off their space by Fresno police:
Fresno DSA Mutual Aid Network:
https://twitter.com/dsa_fresno/status/1239765897624997890?s=20
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EP 5: The Shelves Are Empty and The Schools Are Closed-Fresno and the Corona Virus
Yesterday, March 13th, 2020, marked the closure of all schools, colleges, and universities in Fresno, CA due to the Corona virus. FUSD shut down classes through mid-April at the earliest. Fresno State switched to online classes (news links in caption on South of Shaw Media's channel on anchor.fm). It also marked a city-wide shopping frenzy that resulted in empty shelves in many stores across Fresno. Listen to Radio Free Fresno's host as she sips on 4 loko, tokes, and talks why NOW is the time for mutual aid and compassion!
Four Thieves Vinegar collective and their guide to living through the corona virus:
Main site: https://www.fourthievesvinegar.org/
PDF for free download: https://archive.org/details/2019ncov/mode/2up
Si no tienes insurancia ni papeles, todavia puedes ir a Clinica Sierra Vista. Alli, no importa si no tienes dinero ni papales. Es “sliding scale” para pagar, y so no tienes dinero, mucho veces no te cobran.
https://www.clinicasierravista.org/
Schools closed:
Fresno Jails Shut Down In Person and Video Conferencing Visitations for Inmates:
https://kmph.com/news/local/no-visitation-allowed-at-fresno-county-jails-due-to-coronavirus
SOS Media post on Fresno County Jail Mumps Outbreak earlier in 2020:
https://southofshawmedia.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/outbreak-of-11-mumps-cases-in-fresno-jail/
Bolsonaro and Conflicting Reports Regarding his Corona Virus Test Results:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro-will-be-tested-for-coronavirus-again/
The reality of the situation then dawned on the people of Fresno and by 8 pm, the store shelves were emptied across Fresno, from Wal-Mart to the Mini-Marts, of toilet paper, rubbing alcohol, cough and cold medicine, bleach, and other goods.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article241034651.html
What we can do is keep each other healthy—not just ourselves.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/index.html
If someone needs cough medicine, and you have a stash of 10 bottles in your cupboard from frenzy shopping, consider giving them some cough medicine. Remember, we live in a herd, and it behooves us to keep the entire herd healthy.
Now is the time to practice mutual aid!
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Corona Virus Now in Fresno County-Crisis Capitalism, Immigration, and Medicare4All
Corona Virus (COVID-19) in Fresno County
https://abc7news.com/health/health-officials-confirm-first-case-of-coronavirus-in-fresno-county
Capitalism, immigration, Fresno, and Medicare4All—what do all of these things have in common?
The corona virus will spread faster and do more damage in Fresno due to “crisis” capitalism (that type of especially malevolent capitalism that feeds off manufactured scarcity during catastrophes), and the way the undocumented are being treated in Fresno county. We need Medicare4All.
We have already seen price gouging on things like hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohol, and cough and cold medicine. Capitalism loves itself a crisis—nothing like infinite demand to rake in the $$$$$.
We have already seen the White House implement prohibitions on using public health services if one is not a full citizen. So, many undocumented people end up paying the full cost out of their own pocket.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/factors-government-will-consider-under-new-public-charge-rule
In Fresno county, many of our undocumented community members work in the fields, picking fruits and vegetables. Their wages are incredibly low, many will not be able to afford an out-of-pocket doctor’s visit. We have a huge chunk of our population unable to access medical care before it becomes severely symptomatic.
For those who continue to repeat the heartless motto of “why should they get healthcare and why should I have to pay for it?” ---well, if they don’t get healthcare, you will still have to pay for it; possibly with your own (and all of our) health. #Medicare4All
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Are Fresno Gang Injunctions Just Stop and Frisk with Extra Steps?
This short monologue podcast is a trailer for an upcoming full length podcast on the topic of Fresno Gang Injunctions. This trailer is a brief background of gang injunctions and police predictive software. For the upcoming podcast, I will be talking to a man who alleges he was falsely accused of being in a gang. Sadly, this is not uncommon, as the ACLU has found. Several cities in America have already banned gang injunctions in the courts due to unconstitutionality and civil rights violations. Not so in Fresno.
Citations:
Academic Studies on Gang Injunctions: K. Babe Howell, Gang Policing: The Post Stop-and-Frisk Justification for Profile-Based Policing, 5 Univ. Denver Crim. Law Rev. 1 (2015) https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=cl_pubs
Thomas A. Myers, The Unconstitutionality, Ineffectiveness, and Alternatives of Gang Injunctions, 14 MICH. J. RACE & L. 285 (2009). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol14/iss2/4
Owens et al., How Valuable are Civil Liberties? Evidence from Gang Injunctions, Crime, and Housing Prices in Southern California. Feb.2019 NOTE: While the Owens’ study was not about the violation of civil liberties, but on the impact on housing prices in adjacent areas, there were sections that made reference to the fact that gang injunctions are not proven to work to significantly reduce crime.
Other Sources Used: ACLU FAQ on Gang Injunctions: https://www.aclunc.org/article/gang-injunctions-fact-sheet
Gang Injunctions Banned in LA [2018]: https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/court-issues-historic-ruling-against-gang-injunctions-la
Gang Injunctions Banned in North Carolina [2019]: https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/press-releases/court-agrees-end-unconstitutional-wilmington-gang-injunction
The Atlantic, an Article on the Historical Bias in Fresno Policing [2018]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/crime-in-fresno/567931/
Book Quotation from: Police, A Field Guide, written by David Correia and Tyler Wall. [2018, Verso Books] https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police
PREDICTIVE POLICING: “Councilman Clinton J. Olivier, a libertarian-leaning Republican, said Beware was like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel and asked Dyer a simple question: “Could you run my threat level now?” Dyer agreed. The scan returned Olivier as a green, but his home came back as a yellow, possibly because of someone who previously lived at his address, a police official said. “Even though it’s not me that’s the yellow guy, your officers are going to treat whoever comes out of that house in his boxer shorts as the yellow guy,” Olivier said. “That may not be fair to me.” He added later: “[Beware] has failed right here with a council member as the example.”” [2016]
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html
After Getting Flagged, City Council Says No to Purchase of BEWARE [2016]: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article69337677.html
Study on predictive policing: https://www.upturn.org/reports/2016/stuck-in-a-pattern/
The Guardian article on predictive policing [2016]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/us-police-data-analytics-smart-cities-crime-likelihood-fresno-chicago-heat-list
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Chat with a Marxist on the Fresno Race/Class Divide & #Moms4Housing
Now on Radio Free Fresno: listen to Host chat with a mArXiSt (spongebob font to mock the red scare crowd). We talk capitalism, socialism, and how it relates to the Fresno Shaw Avenue race/class divide that splits the haves from the have-nots. We also talk about Oakland's hero moms, #Moms4Housing, who occupied a house to protest house flipping, gentrification, and to demand housing as a human right. Support S.O.S. Media on patreon for early access and more perks!
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On the Fresno Divide:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/unequal-fresno/568558/
On city council member, Gary Bredefeld, crying about "class warfare" in 2019 after more low income community members began attending meetings to air grievances about the lack of funds going to south of Shaw avenue communities: https://faithinthevalley.org/social-justice-groups-are-changing-fresno-and-some-key-politicians-arent-taking-it-well/
Moms4Housing: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/09/new-policies-could-shake-up-some-bay-area-housing-markets/
end song by Manu Nadine: https://manunadine.bandcamp.com/
*audio recorded back in January. End song by Manu Nadine with S.O.S. Media Music, used with permission.
Bless This Podcast, Santa Muerte (short intro/trailer)
Welcome to Radio Free Fresno, coming to you from the South of Shaw! In this episode, we're blessing our podcast by discussing the background of La Santisima Muerte, Santa Muerte, La Nina Blanca, Saint Death. She was originally for anyone, and was especially adored by those who were excluded from the Catholic church in Mexico. She has worldwide popularity, and I will be discussing her origin story before giving a brief overview of the aim of this podcast!
*South of Shaw refers to an academically researched and statistically proven race and class divide in Fresno, CA. North of Shaw avenue is predominantly affluent. South of Shaw avenue is predominantly low income, with many of us being from communities of color. We are the "wrong side of the tracks", so to speak. However, despite our bad rap, South of Shaw is vibrant and cultured with the best taco trucks and Pho shops in town.
Below is a quick link for more info on this divide. Radio Free Fresno is a take on Radio Free Albemuth, a novel by science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick! A message from the underground to spotlight different issues from a "South of Shaw" perspective.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/fresnos-segregation/567299/
More on encroaching gentrification in Fresno, CA: https://www.fresno.gov/darm/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/2019-Downtown-Displacement-Report-Draft_english.pdf
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