Edited by Richard Stone Alex Vavoulis, former professor at Fresno State and a founding father of KFCF, offers us a poem written in 1966 by his longtime friend Thanasis Maskaleris. Vavoulis writes, [...] Continue Reading
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A Student Movement for Student Voice
By Saa’un P. Bell On May 8, about 50 student leaders across California assembled to urge the State Board of Education for greater student participation in the state’s new school funding law, known [...] Continue Reading
Peace-Making Model Comes to Fresno
By Richard Stone In April, Fresno played host to an artist who constructed a model drone to remind us of the lethal capabilities of these pilotless aircraft. In May, we had the opposite: Jim Fitz, [...] Continue Reading
Charlie’s Story Part I
By Grid Margraf The place reeked of cigarettes; everyone smoked. There was no ventilation, not even windows in the concrete walls. This was Nevada County Jail, 1984, and windows like doors were a [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion is Not and Oxymoron: Part II: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy Introduction to Part II Last month in Part I, the focus was primarily on the foreground battles progressives are fighting on numerous fronts to vocally “stand our ground” against the [...] Continue Reading
Undocu-Queers: The Invisible Intersection between Immigrant and LGBTQ Rights
By Grisanti Valencia Undocu-queers have been at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement fighting for all immigrant families. Their stories have inspired all of us in many ways. An undocu-queer [...] Continue Reading
May Day Comes Home
By Paul Gilmore Over the past few years, thanks to the immigrant rights movement, May Day has experienced a renaissance. Though they haven’t garnered the numbers and attention of 2006’s millions, [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers: When There’s a Need We Must Act
By Gloria Hernandez with Rosemary Moreno and Irene Serrano (Editor’s note: Back in the early 1990s, there were a lot of droughts that disproportionately affected a lot of the campesina/o communities, [...] Continue Reading
San Joaquin River Tops List of Most Endangered Rivers
By Vic Bedoian The conservation group American Rivers in April released its annual list of the nation’s most endangered rivers, and topping that list is our very own San Joaquin River. American [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
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
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