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Please leave your thoughts and views about Proposition 19 and marijuana legalization below, in Comments. Members of Southwest Fresno H.E.A.T. are raising concerns about high-density development, the displacement of longtime residents and the misallocation of funding that was intended to improve their community. Brunette Harris can often be seen at Fresno City Council meetings demanding to know what is being done with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money that she says should be used to help the residents in southwest Fresno, not developers. Earlier this summer, I talked with Harris, Bobbie Parks and Diane Smith, all members of Southwest Fresno H.E.A.T., at one of southwest Fresno’s neighborhood parks. Hyde Park has no picnic tables, …[Read the details] If you’re a local filmmaker and thought it safe to make a film without the City of Fresno’s official approval––even on private property with the owner’s permission––think again. At least that’s what Fresno Film Commissioner Ray Arthur says. In July, Arthur sent out a reminder to the Fresno Filmmakers Alliance (FFA), warning local filmmakers that City Hall “requires a film permit for all productions within the City of Fresno.” This reminder came appended to a posting from the L.A. Film Commission about “the significant personal and financial peril” that guerrilla filmmakers take when ignoring film permit rules. That posting …[Read the details] Mike Rhodes Last month, president Barack Obama and the corporate media cheerfully announced the end of the war in Iraq. The progressive and antiwar movement rejects this declaration and has concerns about the 50,000 U.S. troops still in that country, the increasing numbers of privatized soldiers being used (we used to call them mercenaries) and the ongoing drain on our economy as we continue to pump billions of dollars into this endless war. This month’s Community Alliance has several articles about war-related issues starting on page 4, including information about Peace Fresno’s community dialog about …[Read the details] I just received the article you sent that was in the Fresno Bee, a reprint from the Sacramento Bee by Charles Piller, “The Public Eye: California Prisoner’s Rights Often Trampled.” I did not read the article previously, but I had been told about it. I wanted to comment on Piller’s piece. First off, I think it’s great that a mainstream newspaper just did what the Community Alliance has been doing for years: telling the public about the abuses in California’s corrupt prison system the way its supposed to be done. Let me point out a few things that were …[Read the details] |
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