By Gerry Bill Trying to paint an accurate word picture of Cuban society is very much like trying to paint a ballerina’s pirouette— one can capture a point in time image, but dynamics of the move are [...] Continue Reading
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The Road Ahead
By Mike Rhodes Loretta Kensinger is the vice president of the Central Valley Progressive PAC and has led some of the discussions within the group about developing a local electoral strategy around [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – October 2015
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK Oct. 7 (first [...] Continue Reading
POLICING IN FRESNO: Community Town Hall on Solutions
By Community Alliance Staff On Aug. 25, citizens from throughout Fresno gathered in west Fresno for a community town hall on discrimination in policing. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, State Attorney [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Air District Asks Feds for Permission to Harm Public Health
By Tom Frantz Using funds designated to clean our air, local San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) officials went on a political jaunt this September to Washington, D.C. [...] Continue Reading
People Are Stupid!
By George B. Kauffman (Editor’s note: The sources for the information in this article are documented in the online version of the article, which is available at www.fresnoalliance.com.) People are [...] Continue Reading
Call and Dump Trump
By Marc Keyser Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to build the great Trump Wall across the border with Mexico and begin mass arrests and deportation of some 11 million–12 million [...] Continue Reading
La Caña
By Ernesto Saavedra This past summer, I was invited to check out a mural some friends of mine were working on located on the outskirts of the Tower District, specifically, on Olive between Arthur and [...] Continue Reading
The Trauma of Slavery and Paper Dolls
By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: Leading up to Fresno’s Downtown and Tower District monthly ArtHop events, Kezia Harrell, an artist attending San Francisco’s Art Institute with roots in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading
Cuba, a Safe Place
By Leni Reeves One of our Fresno participants in the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba commented about his trip to Cuba: “I’ve never felt so safe.” He was at the Black Lives Matter demonstration on [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
By Ernesto Saavedra Being the editor has been quite an experience. In the beginning, I had no idea what I was doing. I made mistakes along the way, but I was up for the challenge. Inheriting nearly 20 [...] Continue Reading