The story “Fresno, a Hotbed of Radicalism,” written by Mike Rhodes for the May edition of the Community Alliance online sparked lots of commentary on social media. We reproduce some of them [...] Continue Reading
Archives for June 2020
1 de Mayo, Acción Dedicada a los Trabajadores Inmigrantes Esenciales y Primer Rally Virtual en Vivo
Por Stan Santos El 1 de mayo de 2020 la Coalición Primero de Mayo por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes celebró el Día Internacional de los Derechos de los Trabajadores e Inmigrantes de una manera [...] Continue Reading
La conexión de Fresno con Nicaragua
Por Mike Rhodes A fines de la década de 1970, el Comité de Solidaridad con el Pueblo de Nicaragua, de Fresno, recaudó dinero para apoyar a los revolucionarios en Nicaragua. Más tarde, el grupo [...] Continue Reading
1970’s en un rinconcito de mi corazón…
Por Nicolás Mareshall … Sucede que de niño veía a mi madre abrir aquella tienda de abarrotes cuando apenas amanecía, con una sola finalidad, “fiar”, fiar hasta el cansancio —harina, huevos, azúcar, [...] Continue Reading
En Busca del Equilibrio Faltante
Por Francisco Duarte En este momento de nuestra historia pocos negarán la existencia de un desequilibrio global en lo social y económico; desequilibrio de poder que amenaza una paz social muy [...] Continue Reading
Meat Packing and the Coronavirus
Meat packing plants (sometimes described as “disease-ridden flesh factories”) seem to be especially vulnerable to the coronavirus spreading among their workers. It likely has something to do with the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Angry Right Very Wrong
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and [...] Continue Reading
Shelter in place? You mean all of us? Together 24/7? EEK!
By Carrie WiseCrediti, all photos by Carrie Wise As I sit here on our 61st day of Covid-19 “isocation,” I wonder if I will put on proper pants or not and whether I can solve today’s seventh-grade [...] Continue Reading
Growing Up Black in Fresno
By Annette Breazell-Greathouse Born in March 1967, I was the little girl who had everything any young girl could want and desire. The youngest of three, I was loved and spoiled by my hardworking [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Contributor George B. Kauffman Dies at 89
Courtesy of the Kauffman family (Editor’s note: With great sadness, the Community Alliance announces the passing of Dr. George Kauffman, a longtime contributor with dozens of scientific book [...] Continue Reading
Robert Mezey, a Fresno Figure in the Free Speech Movement, Dies at 85
By Community Alliance staff Robert Mezey, award-winning poet, professor and translator, died April 25 from pneumonia at a nursing home in Bowie, Md. He was at 85. Mezey, described as having a [...] Continue Reading
