WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday Oct 13 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Oct 5, (first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
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Central Valley Progressive PAC is Proud to Endorse the Following Candidates
- sponsored page- 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 [...] Continue Reading
Against the Odds: Community Alliance Celebrates 20 Years
By Hannah Brandt According to former editor Mike Rhodes, it is amazing this newspaper he helped create and guided through many changes over nearly two decades is alive today. Indeed, he believes it is [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: September 2016
By Hannah Brandt It’s been twenty years of Community Alliance! Can you believe it? There have been many twists and turns in the story, shown so vividly by the tapestry of past covers that our layout [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2016
Why I Am Not a Patriot By Jacob Clark In America, especially during an election year, there is major pressure to be patriotic. The loudest and most bellicose patriotic noise tends to come from the [...] Continue Reading
Medi-Cal expansion prompting closer look at hurdles to rural health care
By Hannah Esqueda While Medi-Cal expansion has helped provide first-time health insurance to residents throughout the Central San Joaquin Valley, patients living in rural communities still face [...] Continue Reading
First Muslim Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed H. Zewail Dies at 70
By George B. Kauffman Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail of Caltech died unexpectedly on Tuesday, August 7 in Pasadena, California at the age of 70. He had recently recovered from a cancerous tumor [...] Continue Reading
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One girl’s journey through conscious living. By Tiffany A. Potter I began my column over a year and a half ago with a promise to myself that I would not hold back or shy away from being as [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Global Warming and Pizza
By Tom Frantz There is an important bill in the state legislature this year, SB 1383, which would mandate a 40% reduction of methane from dairy sources by 2030. If passed and signed, the California [...] Continue Reading
My Mission
By Cecile Lusby In late 1954 Mama was unemployed for a few weeks; The Cudahy slaughterhouse, her former employer, was now closed and shuttered. She found work as a bookkeeper at Roos Brothers in [...] Continue Reading
Mediator Mentors and the Bigger Picture of Restorative Justice in Our Schools
By Amanda Tripp “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world” -Malala Yousafzai In recent years we have become frustrated and even outraged by traditional methods of punishment [...] Continue Reading