By Mike Starry Oil, gas and coal interests spent years blaming President Obama for everything and millions to help elect Republicans in 2014. Their use of diversionary tactics, “Look over there!” and [...] Continue Reading
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Resisting Through Culture and Identity
By Paula Ayala An identity beyond regional or sociopolitical influence is in fact a reality accomplishable. However, the reality is that in the state in which we reside there exist efforts to strip [...] Continue Reading
Against the Fresno Police Department
By Jonathan Luevanos Felix On June 11, Miguel Torres was killed by Fresno Police Department (FPD) officers Colin Lewis (repeat shooter in 2014) and Jordan Wamhoff in what amounted to a total of 17 [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Comes Before Ferguson
By Richard Gomez Peace and nonviolence isn’t just praying and hoping for justice but includes the time when we must roll up our sleeves, get out in the streets and make demands to our duly elected [...] Continue Reading
Something Right in Fresno
By Ruth Gadebusch With so much of the world in turmoil, the beginning of a new year seems a good time to look at what is right (as in correct, not political) in our community. So many harbor [...] Continue Reading
Doing What’s Right Despite Retaliation and Indifference
By Judy Tsuchiura-Stumpf I am a 62-year-old, disabled, minority female with more than 35 years as a professional in the nursing profession. In the performance of my duties, I became viewed as a [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take
By Tiffany Potter Hello, lovelies. Welcome to the newest year of our lives and the newest addition to the Community Alliance. This column, my column, will be a regular occurrence and I cannot begin [...] Continue Reading
IPCC Issues “Final Word” on Climate Change
By George B. Kauffman On Sept. 21, 2014, more than 400,000 people attended the People’s Climate March in New York City, two days before 120 world leaders, including President Barack Obama, but not [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Valley Industry Pollutes More than Cars
By Tom Frantz Believe it or not, fewer than 30 large companies in the San Joaquin Valley pollute our air as much as all of the Valley’s approximately 1.3 million personal vehicles driven regularly by [...] Continue Reading
Despite City’s Poor Process, Community Wins Key Victories in General Plan
By Building Healthy Communities Fresno Building Healthy Communities’ leaders are utterly disappointed that the City of Fresno disregarded the community’s request for more time to understand the City [...] Continue Reading
How the “Global” Affects Our “Local”
By Edgar Reyna-Estrada From Venice to Amsterdam, from London to New York City, metropolitan areas have been breeding grounds for the accumulation and reproduction of capital for many centuries. [...] Continue Reading
Move To Amend: Taking Back Our Democracy
By Anthony Yang, Jamaica Scott and Andres Martinez The conception of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was to protect the rights of people—not businesses and corporations. Furthermore, these [...] Continue Reading