By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji As progressives, we should lead and not resort to compromising our principles. The strength of our convictions and not political expediency should drive our campaigns. What a [...] Continue Reading
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Together We Thrive
By Ruth Gadebusch This month I return to my advocacy for one community working together. What is so difficult about working together? We occupy one small segment of this planet most assuredly [...] Continue Reading
Memoirs of Colonial Trauma
By Ana Pano The wounds of historical oppression and trauma have affected countless groups throughout time globally. Historical trauma, also known as soul wound and colonial trauma, has been [...] Continue Reading
The Beaver, Tonto and Gibbs
By Leonard Adame In the mid-1950s, when we finally bought a TV (no remote, three channels), I quickly explored the channels. I found the Mickey Mouse Club (I still love Annette), Lassie (Annette’s [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: Fox Hole
By Tiffany A. Potter Thus far, in our months together, I have not officially explained what I do in my professional life and only alluded to it, but I will tell you now. I own my own consulting firm. [...] Continue Reading
ERRATA: An Editor’s Correction
Editor’s note: The following section of the article “Cap and Trade + High-Speed Rail = Environmental Disaster,” by Cherylyn Smith (Community Alliance, April 2015) contained some editorial errors. The [...] Continue Reading
Climate Science Shortchanged in TV Coverage of California Drought
By George B. Kauffman California, in its fourth year of an unprecedented drought, with no end in sight and water reserves dwindling, is exactly the type of scenario that climate scientists have [...] Continue Reading
Rainmaker
By Stephen Barile from Tulare Lake To stave off a drought in 1924, Wheat farmers in the Tulare Lake bottom Hired Hatfield the Rainmaker man And paid him a hefty fee, For he was in demand throughout [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – MAY 2015
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday May 14, 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 May 6 (first [...] Continue Reading
My 10 Years with the Community Alliance
By Boston Woodard Ten years ago, I was given the opportunity by Mike Rhodes, former editor of the Community Alliance, to correspond as a journalist from behind state prison walls. Because of Ernesto [...] Continue Reading
