Book Review By George B. Kauffman The Outcast Oracle by Laury A. Egan, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2013, paperback $13.95. ISBN 978-0-931779-36-7 This entrancing novel, full of irony, humor, [...] Continue Reading
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Finally
By Tiffany A. Potter Well, kids, we made it. We are finally at the finish line of this 16-month race that will produce our next president, and I, for one, am exhausted. I’m exhausted from [...] Continue Reading
Maria Telesco, Prison Volunteer and Advocate Against the Death Penalty: An Interview with Father Jim
Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from an interview that was originally published in Central Valley Catholic Voice, Vol. 18, N. 4, February 2016. It is republished with permission. Fr. Jim: [...] Continue Reading
From Stop Gap to Locked Up: Solutions to Combat Homelessness
By Paul Thomas Jackson Homeless advocacy may be divided into two categories: Intervention and prevention. Governmental and nonprofit organizations and church groups with a culinary flair, as [...] Continue Reading
North Dakota Judge Throws Out Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman
The Democracy Now! host is free but a documentary maker who was also arrested for committing journalism faces a potential 45 years in prison. By John Light | October 17, 2016 (Editor’s Note: This [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited, part 1
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
The State of Funding for California’s Public Schools
By Barbara Thomas, District #3 Trustee Fresno County Board of Education California cannot expect to compete in the global economy when it fails so miserably to provide educational resources [...] Continue Reading
Recommendations from the Green Party of Fresno County
Although some of these measures are better than not, a vote for Jill Stein will allow for policies to make them even better and safer. Proposition 51 - NO School Bonds Funding for K-12 School and [...] Continue Reading
FTA Attempts Public Forum for Bargaining, FUSD Refuses It
By Hannah Brandt On Thursday, September 29, just days after the October edition of Community Alliance was published, I attended the public bargaining meeting for the Fresno Teachers Association. [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – November 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday Nov 10 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all. WOMEN IN BLACK Nov 2, (first Wednesday of each month) [...] Continue Reading