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
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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
Review of the film No Màs Bebés
By Kathy Ayala Director: Renee Tajima-Pena Producer: Virginia Espino A film screening for No Màs Bebés premiered at Fresno State on October 13, 2016, shedding light on a heinous period of time in [...] Continue Reading
Walk Like a Slut
By Linda Kobashigawa & Amanda Tripp As if its name isn’t provocative enough, imagine hundreds of women and men dressed in as a little as possible carrying hand-written signs exclaiming that “rape [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC – November 2016
This November we have a chance to elect people that will move public policies in favor of working people and support of human and civil right and sustainable development. When we wake up on November [...] Continue Reading
The Elephant in the Room
By Mike Rhodes There has been a right-wing, conservative Republican in the Fresno mayor’s office since 1993. If you like business as usual and want more of the same, Lee Brand is your guy in the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Rallies in Solidarity with Standing Rock Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Hannah Brandt One of the largest demonstrations by indigenous peoples in recent U.S. history has been taking place in North Dakota over the last several weeks. The activists prefer to be called [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – Oct 2016
By Hannah Brandt My dad died of pancreatic cancer 12 years ago last month. I know he’s in a better place now. If he was suddenly given the ability to come back to life in the U.S. today, I’m not 100 [...] Continue Reading