By: Stan Santos On May 1, 2006, I stood on a corner near downtown Fresno and looked east. I was suddenly moved to tears by the sight of a river of humanity flowing down Ventura, formerly Cesar Chavez [...] Continue Reading
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Queer Eye
The Coming Out of Senator Ashburn By: Dan Waterhouse Bakersfield state senator Roy Ashburn, who has a deplorable voting record on queer issues, thought he could keep his public life public and his [...] Continue Reading
New Times Coming
By: Moises Lucas Sierra The March 4th Day of Action was a collective of students, faculty, staff and concerned citizens. The objective of the demonstrations was to highlight awareness of the state's [...] Continue Reading
Vouchers, Charter Schools and Public Education
By: Ruth Gadebusch Charter Schools are the latest panacea for the "failing public schools," or so the self-anointed critics of public education would have us believe. Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
2010 Fresno Film Festival
By: Jefferson Beavers One man risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan in Vietnam. A novelist and his wife openly spar over the ideal notions of sex, love and commitment. The families of a [...] Continue Reading
What Do Teachers Make?
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…is not an Oxymoron
Does Our City Council Have a Prayer? By: David Roy I’d like to slip a few words into the verbal and legal dustup over prayer at Fresno’s City Council meetings. Let me start with the fact that, in the [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING 4th Thursday of each month. April 22, 7p.m. Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 North Van Ness. Open to all members. Please join us. "STIR IT UP" ON KFCF 88.1 FM Wednesday, [...] Continue Reading
The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar
Saturday, April 3 10:30 to 1:30 - Women of Wisdom: Gathering Spiritual Leadership at the Unitarian Universalist Church. 2672 Alluvial, Clovis. Sister Veena Kapoor, Rev. Natalie Chamberlain, and Abbess [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
New Nukes in Fresno Would Endanger Public Health Joseph Mangano The recent agreement between the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group and the French company Areva SA is a step towards building new nuclear [...] Continue Reading
Outrage of the Month
By Mike Rhodes Peace Fresno organizers wanted to hold a march on the sidewalk from Roosevelt High school to the Fairgrounds just prior to the March 21 Peace Festival. They were told by the City of [...] Continue Reading
Autocratic Dregs (Abusing Power)
By: Boston Woodard (Editor's note: This is the first article Boston Woodard has sent to the Community Alliance since he was put into solitary confinement in Solano State Prison in July 2009. Since [...] Continue Reading