By Ernesto Saavedra All right, I know what might be going through your head, “Now who’s this new person trying to be the editor for the Community Alliance? What happened to so and so? Where’s Mike [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor – May 2014
“Wild West” Justice in Fresno Recently, my dear friend, Michael R. Stauff, was murdered in the Fresno jail. He had be held there for over a year without a conviction or even a day in court. [...] Continue Reading
A Student’s Voice Heard
By Cheyann Wakefield As a senior at Fresno High, I look forward to what my future holds and I reflect on my experience as a Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) student. I think about what I’ve been [...] Continue Reading
Imagine a Better California: Vote Green Party
By Richard Gomez “Imagine a California where there is no more poverty, no more failing prison system, no more poisoning of our eco-system, free healthcare for all, free quality education and art, [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Ozone From China and Emission Reduction Credits
By Tom Frantz Sometimes you just have to laugh when you read about San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (the Air District) attempts to pass the blame for our air pollution onto sources [...] Continue Reading
Covered California Promotes Voter Registration
By Community Alliance Staff Covered California is sending voter registration cards to nearly 4 million California residents who enrolled in healthcare through them. The National Voter Registration [...] Continue Reading
Help Preserve Our Water!
By Jean Hays It has been four years the Valley Water Consortium’s last water forum in Fresno, and still, the waters are, indeed, troubled. Adding to existing problems is the simple fact that now [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Trona, Bloody Trona
By Mike Rhodes I meet a lot of lawyers who work on social and economic justice issues but have never met one quite like Paul Henry Abram. Abram, who lives in Bass Lake and has an art gallery in [...] Continue Reading
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
By Dan Yaseen Following Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald has produced [...] Continue Reading
Fist Up Film Festival 2014
By Analicia Mia Rangel-Garcia The 5th Annual Fist Up Film Festival will be coming to the Central Valley from April 29 to May 3. Last year, I was able to attend the film festival in the Bay Area and [...] Continue Reading
Return of the Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone Our poet this month is Alfonso Hernandez of Three Rivers. He writes, “The inspiration came from the violent situation in Mexico where many people are killed every day either [...] Continue Reading