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By Rick Flores
Local musicians are devoting their talents in a fall fund-raiser fittingly called Newzapalooza for local alternative/progressive media: the Community Alliance newspaper and radio station KFCF 88.1 FM. The event is scheduled for Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church (2672 E. Alluvial Ave., Clovis).
Headlining the show will be Agustin Lira, Patricia Wells Solórzano and Jemmy Bluestein, all of whom are passionate about the importance of both the Community Alliance and KFCF in a media terrain otherwise dominated by mass communication conglomerates wielding a corporate agenda.
As Solórzano puts …[Read the details]
Dr. Jean Kennedy
By Dr. Jean Kennedy
I recently interviewed a young woman on my radio show heard on KFCF 88.1 FM. I met Star Brown through her brother, who took my women’s studies class. Star approached me to help work on a health concert to promote organ donors. We both know people on waiting lists for kidneys, so I invited her to come on my show and share her music.
I found out that this young lady, who works for an airline, is a pretty good hip-hop artist and writes her own lyrics to …[Read the details]
By Community Alliance staff
One page from Soul Calling.
Heyday books is about to release Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey through the Hmong Diaspora. This book by local writer and photographer Joel Pickford is the first intimate photographic look into the world of the Hmong.
Here is what Blong Xiong, Fresno City Council member, said about the book: “As part of the first generation of Hmong refugees transitioning into American life, I find in Soul Calling an important reflection of our story. Through an outsider’s eye, Joel has provided us with insights into who we …[Read the details]
By Vic Bedoian
Ultimately, Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that farmworkers can fully assert their rights to protection from abuse. When we eat what farmworkers produce, we must also work to ensure their safety.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and harassment in their workplaces because U.S. authorities fail to protect them adequately. That’s the conclusion of a shocking report released by Human Rights Watch. The 95-page report, called Cultivating Fear (available at www.hrw.org), describes …[Read the details]
By Richard Stone
Ray Appleton is the voice for many right-wing causes such as this 2009 rally at Fresno City Hall to demand more subsidies and welfare for corporate farmers.
(Author’s note: Radio station KMJ is the most powerful and far-reaching station in the area. Ray Appleton is the local face of the station and a full-on participant in the station’s regimen of what some people call “hate radio.” This mean 90-plus hours per week of prime-time programming featuring hosts who unanimously denigrate women, immigrants, gays, ethnic minorities and liberals without regard to fact or …[Read the details]
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