By Community Alliance Staff Thank you to all who came out to Bitwise Industries on Oct. 26 for the first ever fund-raiser to benefit Alianza Comunitaria, the Spanish section of the Community Alliance. [...] Continue Reading
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West Fresno
A Community Town Hall was held for West Fresno voters at the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center on Oct. 13. The crowd was addressed by Miguel Arias and Tate Hill, candidates for Fresno City Council [...] Continue Reading
Police Brutality
By Community Alliance Staff The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation held a candlelight vigil on Oct. 22 in Fresno’s Eaton Plaza. Around [...] Continue Reading
Cold Fighting Strategies
By Jeanette Nishimori A little morning chill tells us fall will soon bring relief from the sloughing, ominous Fresno summers. We also know that winter and the equally sloughing and ominous cold season [...] Continue Reading
For My Father Leonard Adame By Maria M. Adame Time has slipped through like film through a projector; the clock’s hand bangs every mocking minute. I still see your last moments. Your eyes squeezed [...] Continue Reading
My #MeToo Experience
By Stan Santos For many years, I wondered where my childhood went. We were all children of the 1960s. We rode bikes and watched It’s a Wonderful Life and the Wizard of Oz on a black-and-white [...] Continue Reading
Hooray for Us!
By Uncle Bill ’Tis a glorious, florious flag-waving day To remember our heroes who’ve gone by the way. Memorial, Veterans and Patriot’s Day, too Armed Forces, Independence, just to name one or [...] Continue Reading
Effect of 2018 Nobel Prizes on Diversity and Enhancement of Women
By George B. Kauffman The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arthur Ashkin (b. 1922), previously of Bell Laboratories, but now working from his home laboratory; Donna Strickland (b. 1959) of [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Fantasyland
By George B. Kauffman Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen, Random House Trade Paperback, New York, 2018, $18.00. ISBN 9780812978902. Donald J. Trump is not sui [...] Continue Reading
Business as Usual
By Kevin Hall I would not want to be born today nor would I wish it on anyone. The growing uncertainty around whether the planet’s climate will remain stable through the end of this century is now so [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Open Letter to the Almond Board
By Tom Frantz A letter was recently sent to the Almond Board of California by several Valley groups. These groups include the Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club, the Central Valley Air Quality [...] Continue Reading
What Does Boise Mean for Homeless Advocacy?
By Paul Thomas Jackson A plaintiff’s job of building a lawsuit has been compared to a construction project. The more social or finance significance the suit has, the more demanding the project usually [...] Continue Reading