Por: Leoncio Vásquez Santos, Director Ejecutivo de Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño—Miembro activo de la Coalición Primero de Mayo por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes. La [...] Continue Reading
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From the Editor – June 2013
In the middle of May, the Community Alliance newspaper published a Special Edition about the barbaric treatment of the mentally ill in the Fresno County Jail. We have reprinted “Freefall into Madness” [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – June 2013
Fresno County Jail’s Barbaric Treatment of the Mentally Ill (Editor’s note: These are some of the comments that we received in the first two days following the distribution of our Special Edition, [...] Continue Reading
The Office of Independent Review: Up for Review
By Richard Stone Author’s note: Fresno’s current police auditor, Rick Rasmussen, released his second quarterly report in early April. On May 7, he held an open house to answer questions from the [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – June 2013
By John Crockford GPS “The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press– Brown’s New Prison Plan: Same ol’ Same ol’
By Boston Woodard On May 2, Gov. Jerry Brown filed a new prison population reduction plan that suggests, among other proposals, ways to decrease prisoners’ sentences and modify the use of private [...] Continue Reading
How Not To Fight Climate Change: Clearing the Air – June 2013
By Tom Frantz Our lungs are being violated by misguided climate change action in Sacramento. Simultaneously, our Valley Air Board is facilitating this environmental injustice. First, some [...] Continue Reading
Wal-Mart Distribution Center to Proceed Despite Environmental Flaws
By Tom Grave After a three-year legal battle, Walmart can now proceed with building a 1.1 million square foot distribution center on 230 acres within the city of Merced. This massive project will [...] Continue Reading
Shakespeare, Handel, Goethe and Mahler
By Alfonso C. Hernandez In the current world of music and theater, directors, producers, set designers, costumiers and choreographers appear to think that presenting a work of art as originally [...] Continue Reading
Unitarian Universalist Church Presents ‘Janka’
By Lorenzo Bassman On June 15 at 8 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno presents Janka, a play about one woman’s will to survive the Holocaust. Janka is the compelling and redemptive [...] Continue Reading
Summer Jazz Series
By Community Alliance Staff The 1st Annual Fresno Summer Jazz Series, featuring some of the biggest names in jazz, will take place on Friday, June 14. The venue for this event will be the Woodward [...] Continue Reading
Free Cell Phones for the Homeless
If you are homeless and living in Fresno (or anywhere in California), you are probably eligible to receive a free cell phone as part of a program run by the state Public Utilities Commission. If you [...] Continue Reading