Calen James, an organizer of Expression Not Supression and a board member of GSA Network, took a few minutes to share his story with The kNOw’s Christina Tran.
WeConnect, an event held on Feb. 16 at the Fresno Fairgrounds, helped people with health care enrollment and it was also a resource fair. Many families came out to the event to learn more about health care changes and get resources like tax preparation and flu shots.
Watch youth leaders from Fresno and Merced share their work in a half-hour special on Kids Count, a program on Valley PBS. SUCCESS youth share their work to improve Fresno schools in the first part of the show, and We’Ced Youth Media’s young leaders explain their role as Merced’s youth journalists in the second half.
On October 23, 2012 I departed to Mexico. We traveled to visit family and celebrate the day of the dead- el Dia de Los Muertos.
On January 30, 2013 Hadiya Pendleton was shot when an individual jumped a fence and opened fire on her and a group of her friends. For some reason, when I heard that Hadiya was killed, the news didn’t hit me as hard as when I heard of shootings in the past. The shooting epidemic sweeping our nation makes me fear desensitization to gun violence is becoming the norm for our country.