By Georgette Carrillo Walmart, America’s super discount store, had a rollercoaster year in 2013. If you’re a Walmart investor, you can’t complain given that it had excellent profits largely to due [...] Continue Reading
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The Great Beauty Sure to Delight Audiences
By Roque Rodriguez The Great Beauty is filled with beautiful people doing beautiful things in a beautiful city. At no point does the film let excess get in the way of telling its compelling story, [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – Jan. 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday January 9, 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK January 1, first Wednesday of [...] Continue Reading
The Bitter Reality for Farmworkers
By David Bacon (Editor’s note: Reprinted from New America Media, Nov. 27, 2013. Reference http://newamericamedia.org/2013/11/the-bitter-reality-for-farm-workers.php.) As families prepare to [...] Continue Reading
For All Who Care About the Future: The California Green Party
By Richard Gomez The California Green Party has endorsed four candidates for the June 3 Primary Election: Luis Rodriguez for Governor, Ellen Brown for Treasurer, Laura Wells for Controller and [...] Continue Reading
The Road to Equality, Full of Potholes
By Kaylia Metcalfe June was six months ago. The Supreme Court struck down DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) and paved the way for full equality for same sex couples—but that equality is sometimes slow [...] Continue Reading
Is Climate Change the Worst Thing?
By Leonard Adame Our society is on the verge of creating self-aware robots (Datas?), cars that can drive themselves and spaceships that will soon take colonizers to the moon and Mars. Technology has [...] Continue Reading
No Simple Answers
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, the idea of dividing the Fresno Unified School District is in the air as the answer to all the woes. Alas, it is not as simple as that. We don’t need any more [...] Continue Reading
John McCutcheon to appear in Fresno Jan. 23
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
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