By Hannah Brandt It is December 8, 2016. A woman says she has been living without heat for weeks, harassed by a landlord who is evicting her even though she pays her rent. Leticia Valencia, a Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Civil Rights Groups Sue Caltrans to Stop Illegal Raids Against California’s Homeless
By Bethany Woolman December 13, 2016: According to a lawsuit filed today by civil rights groups, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is violating the constitutional rights of [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited, part 3
By Richard Stone "The Hidden War" is the U.S.'s intensive campaign waged in Laos and Cambodia during the Viet Nam War era that was never sanctioned by Congress or acknowledged by the Johnson [...] Continue Reading
Transparency & Accountability In Policing: Strengthening Trust between Fresno PD & the Public
By Laura Garcia, Michael Ballin, Carlene Merino, and Matthew Fosberg Recent National Attention on Police-Community Relations Highly publicized events in 2014 exposed significant fractures in the [...] Continue Reading
Fidel and Cuba
By Leni Reeves Avoiding cult of personality has been a concern for the revolutionary government of Cuba. There are no statues of Fidel, no schools or hospitals named for him. This may possibly change [...] Continue Reading
The Orange President Cometh and Hope for the Convivial Life | Part 1
By Brian Jay Snyder On November 8, 2016, shortly before political pundits and corporate media correspondents began making their frantic projections as to whether Clinton or Trump would win or lose the [...] Continue Reading
Nature’s Hidden Force
By George B. Kauffman Nature's Hidden Force: Joining Spirituality with Science by George Land and Beth Jarman, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2014, paperback $14.99. ISBN 978-0-931779-49-7 In its [...] Continue Reading
Change and Compromise Through Grassroots Collaboration
By J. D. Montague If the general election’s apathetic turnout is any indication of local political interest, then we have a major problem facing us for the future of our local government, as well as [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS | part 1
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
Don’t Mourn, Organize!
By Mike Rhodes Now that the transition is under way to install a right-wing Republican narcissist who has the potential to alter the political landscape into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, we [...] Continue Reading
Proposed Newsstand Ordinance a Concern for Independent Print News
By Editor-in-Chief If you listen to the Community Alliance version of Stir it Up on KFCF 88.1 every month, you may have heard me talk a few weeks ago about the proposed newsstand ordinance for the [...] Continue Reading