John McCutcheon was last in Fresno on September 2nd for the memorial service for the “Deportees” at HolyCrossCemetery with the Archbishop Armando X. Ochoa presiding. These victims of the 1948 airplane [...] Continue Reading
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What Is the Central Labor Council? – Jan. 2014
By Stan Santos (Editor’s note: This month, the Community Alliance newspaper welcomes our union brothers and sisters and begins carrying a regular labor column written by local union members, focusing [...] Continue Reading
Migrant Voices: A Journey of Hope and Struggle
Celebrate International Migrants Day by attending a fundraiser for migrant student scholarships & the Community Alliance newspaper, scheduled 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, at the Anvil Art [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Groups Support Drug Law Reform
By Pam Whalen After a hard-fought battle in the State Assembly, SB 649, authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D–San Francisco) is now headed for the Governor’s desk. SB 649 will, if signed by Gov. Jerry [...] Continue Reading
Crockford Files – October 2013
By John Crockford U.S. Postal Service Wants to Verify Who You Are The U.S. Postal Service recently awarded a three-year $15.12 million contract to build a cloud-based authentication exchange. IT [...] Continue Reading
Organizing for Action
By Keith A. Jones After working for 44 years in the newspaper business, I found myself retired and wondering what to do with my spare time. And I have a lot of spare time, believe me. I tried [...] Continue Reading
Privilege
By Kaylia Metcalfe You can’t have a conversation about racism without coming across the phrase “White privilege.” You can’t have a conversation about gender roles without getting hit by the concept [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Great False Air Alert of 2013
By Tom Frantz Central Valley ozone sometimes reaches extreme health-endangering levels in late summer when school starts. These spikes in one-hour ozone levels have been part of the reason that [...] Continue Reading
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
By Dan Yaseen What Is Obamacare? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone The Poetry Corner returns with two contributions from our Visalian friend, Bill Warner. Those of you similarly incited to poetry (having foresworn violence), your submissions [...] Continue Reading
City of Fresno Destroys Downtown Homeless Encampments
By Mike Rhodes The City of Fresno followed through on their threats to destroy homeless encampments in the downtown area last month by bringing in bulldozers, garbage trucks and sanitation workers [...] Continue Reading
Wilde, Williams, Guiraudi or Hermeneutics, Style and Bareback Sex
By Alfonso C. Hernandez In a seminar on Marcel Proust at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, one of the participants asked if the reason why Proust was able to write his masterpiece, Remembrance of [...] Continue Reading