By Yenedit Valencia In the Central Valley, and throughout California, we have a large population of indigenous communities. Most often, these communities go unnoticed. As the Senate takes on [...] Continue Reading
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The Way to Town
By Cecile Lusby In 1952, we moved to our grandfather’s ranch on South Fruit Avenue outside Fresno. Will Main and his wife had taken the train from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they saw fruit box labels [...] Continue Reading
Answer to Woody’s Question, 65 Years in the Making
By Tim Z. Hernandez When Woody Guthrie asked the question, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” I wonder if he ever thought someone 65 years down the road would attempt to answer [...] Continue Reading
DOMA Struck Down: Celebrating Today’s Victory While Looking Ahead
By Kaylia Metcalfe In a move that pleased LGBT groups across the country, on June 26, 2013, the US Supreme Court struck down (in a 5 to 4 vote) a key part of DOMA (The 1996 Defense Of Marriage [...] Continue Reading
Measure G Results Reveal Pathway to Future Opportunities
By Michael D. Evans “Ours was a unique coalition—Republicans, Democrats, business and labor—all working for a better Fresno. We hope to keep that spirit alive.”—Randy Ghan The City of Fresno’s [...] Continue Reading
The Campaign against Legalized Loan Sharking
By Rev. Booker T. Lewis II, Rev. Chris Breedlove, Dr. Don Simmons and Andy Levine A casual drive through Fresno can quickly turn into a case study in poor city planning. If you’re driving through [...] Continue Reading
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Family Will Get Their Day in Court Against Fresno Police After All
By Daniel Luna Contrary to the apparent wishes of Federal District Court Judge Lawrence J. O’Neil, the circumstances of the murder of Stephen Willis by Fresno police officers Greg Catton and Daniel [...] Continue Reading
Let’s Take Back Calwa Park: A Story of Corruption and Gross Mismanagement
By Sandra Celedon In May, the Trust for Public Land released its annual ParkScore index, which analyzes how well the 50 largest cities across the nation are meeting the need for parks. To no one’s [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – July 2013
After decades of mismanagement of the city budget by a series of Republican mayors, Ashley Swearengin planned to balance the budget by throwing our award-winning sanitation workers under the bus. The [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – July 2013
Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable Bravo for the riveting Special Edition of the Community Alliance, and hats off to Mark Arax and his students for muckraking work of the highest [...] Continue Reading
Guest Editorial: Unions Fight to Take Democracy Back from Billionaires
By Art Pulaski California’s century-old ballot initiative system is broken. Ballot measures are supposed to be tools of participatory democracy that give everyday citizens a voice in our process. But [...] Continue Reading