Community Alliance Writer Thrown in the Hole (Again) By Mike Rhodes Days before going to press we learned that our colleague Boston Woodard has been put into solitary confinement. Woodard, who writes [...] Continue Reading
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The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain (Folk)
By Amy Goodman As Spain’s prime minister announced deep austerity cuts in order to secure funds from the European Union to bail out Spain’s failing banks, the people of Spain have taken to the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2012
I consider myself to be pretty observant about media issues both locally and nationally. That is why I was surprised to read in the New Yorker (June 25, 2012, issue) about a development that could be [...] Continue Reading
July 2012
You can read the .pdf version of the July 2012 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
June 2012
You can read the .pdf version of the June 2012 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
Punishing Fresno’s Most Vulnerable
By Mike Rhodes Two days after the final assault on homeless encampments by the City of Fresno and Caltrans, Rose and her daughter were trying to find someplace where they could sleep. When I found [...] Continue Reading
Occupy Fresno Perseveres
By Jesse Franz On Nov. 14, after a week of nightly arrests by sheriff’s deputies, Occupy Fresno, a group that has continuously encamped at Courthouse Park since Oct. 15, filed a lawsuit in federal [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Our Voice from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex A lot has happened in the past several months that prevented me from submitting articles to the Community Alliance about life behind prison walls [...] Continue Reading
Listening to the Ghosts of Fresno
By Paul Gilmore “Every city is full of ghosts, and learning to see some of them is one of the arts of becoming a true local.”—Rebecca Solnit Why in the last couple of months have thousands of people [...] Continue Reading
Occupy America
By Michael Parenti (Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission of the author.) Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots: Profiles of Local Progressive Activists
By Richard Stone Spending time at the Occupy Fresno encampment in Courthouse Park in mid-November, a visitor might have been surprised at how serene and congenial the atmosphere was. It felt more [...] Continue Reading
Two Tales of a City
By Richard Stone A visit to Fresno’s homeless encampments, like the ones being dismantled by the City this week as I write, is eye-opening. It is a world of its own. The structures are ramshackle, [...] Continue Reading