By: Vic Bedoian Jesse Morrow Mountain is a unique local landmark. Standing 20 miles east of Fresno, along with its neighbor, Campbell Mountain, it forms the gateway to Kings Canyon-Sequoia National [...] Continue Reading
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Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
By: Matthew Rothschild Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. "I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's [...] Continue Reading
SEIU versus NUHW: Who Owns the Union?
By: Mike Parker A federal jury in San Francisco awarded damages to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on April 9 in its suit against the new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). [...] Continue Reading
To Charter or Not to Charter?
By: Ruth Gadebuch "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."-Thomas Jefferson. "Popular government without education is a prologue to a farce or a [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
Video Surveillance Increases with no Accountability By: Mike Rhodes Mayor Ashley Swearengin announced on April 14 that the city has placed an additional 10 video surveillance cameras in downtown [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis From the Grassroots
Planet Earth Volunteers By George Madrid Well my friends of the Keep it Green World, how was your April Volunteer and Flower Walk month? The flowers on the foothills and places like Carrizo Plain, [...] Continue Reading
Feds Bust Waste Management, Inc., for Breaking Hazardous Waste Laws
By: Vic Bedoian Federal investigators have found that Waste Management, Inc., has violated the law by not properly handling the banned chemical PCB at its toxic waste landfill located near the San [...] Continue Reading
May Website Poll: Comments
Our online poll question for May is: "Do you support the demands of the May 1 Immigrant Rights March, that President Obama and the U.S. Congress pass comprehensive and humane immigration reform [...] Continue Reading
The Office of Independent Review: An Early Assessment
By: Richard Stone Eddie Aubrey is the City of Fresno's first occupant of the Office of Independent Review (OIR), also known as the independent police auditor. This article is an effort to survey the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Earth Day 2010: What’s the Big Deal with Earth Day?
By Jessica Mast Words from a friend’s grandfather can be disheartening but somehow utterly hilarious at the same time: “What is the big deal with Earth Day? The Earth has been around for millions of [...] Continue Reading
Hanson’s Charter School – Steering Our Community into Dangerous Waters
By: Greg Gadams February 10, 2010, is a day that will live in infamy in the eyes of local educators. It was the day that Superintendent Michael Hanson and the Board of the Fresno Unified School [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
By: Mike Rhodes Progressive Fresno activists are working for social change on many fronts. In these pages, you will see the Community Alliance newspaper reporting on these struggles, celebrating the [...] Continue Reading