Dear Reader, I know that for many of you who voted, organized, mobilized and stayed plugged into political news this year, it goes without saying that Christmas arrived early when Congress reached a [...] Continue Reading
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Do We Play a Game with People’s Lives?
By Paul Thomas Jackson According to Marx, capitalist society consists of two parts: the base and the superstructure. The base has the market forces and relations of production and property. All [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – December 2018
What Is Christmas? By Richard D. Iyall, Cowlitz Christmas is the time of year to be with those you love; for sights and smells, for jingle bells; the shining star above; for ice and snow, for [...] Continue Reading
Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Peter Maiden About 50 people gathered on the corner of Blackstone and Nees avenues for a Transgender Day of Remembrance rally and protest on Nov. 20. Trans-E-Motion organized the sunset gathering [...] Continue Reading
Women’s Services for the Next Century
By Kayla Moon The third annual Women’s Art and Music Festival of Fresno (WAMFF) is stirring up a lot of attention and excitement. The event will feature a night of educators, entertainers, speakers, [...] Continue Reading
Local Sports
By Community Alliance Staff Oct. 13 was the final game of the Fresno Foxes’ first season, against Real Monarchs, who came from Utah. The Foxes lost 1-0, and overall for the season they won 9 games, [...] Continue Reading
Noche de Calaveritas: Thank You!
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
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