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
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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
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