By Community Alliance Staff Since 1980, California has built 20 new prisons, and only one new university. It’s time to rethink California’s priorities! Join us as we engage in conversation and [...] Continue Reading
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno Hires New Interim Minister
By Community Alliance Staff The Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno unanimously moved to hire the Reverend Sofia Betancourt as its interim minister. Reverend Betancourt [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – June 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to positive [...] Continue Reading
A Gift of Life for Caroline
By Steve Malm It is to the enduring credit of the Community Alliance newspaper that its focus has always been equity, justice, and compassion. It is in that sense we make an appeal for the gift of [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – June 2013
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING June 13, Thursday, 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK June 5, first Wednesday of each month at noon [...] Continue Reading
Grand Challenges in Science Education
By George B. Kauffman Science magazine, the weekly flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ran a free special issue (April 19, 2013) featuring “Grand Challenges [...] Continue Reading
That School Board in the Capitol
By Ruth Gadebusch In his latest proposal for school finance, Governor Jerry Brown has again stirred the pot. Such a major portion of the state budget being for education will always keep the pot [...] Continue Reading
The Cost of Wrongful Convictions
By Bruce Kanter Can we afford to let wrongful convictions go uncorrected and to continue happening? Society is greatly affected when an innocent citizen is unjustly convicted and imprisoned. The [...] Continue Reading
A New Reality in Pleasant Valley: This Voter Block Could Be Historic First
By Christian Williams Detainee Americans for Civic Equality (DACE) at Coalinga State Hospital is a newly organized group of politically active residents at the 1,500-bed mental health facility in [...] Continue Reading
Freefall into Madness: The Fresno County Jail’s Barbaric Treatment of the Mentally Ill
Reported and written by Fresno State journalists Sam LoProto, Damian Marquez, Angel Moreno, Jacob Rayburn, Brianna Vaccari, Liana Whitehead and their professor Mark Arax. For the past six years, in [...] Continue Reading
Peace Activists Light Up San Diego
By Beverly Fitzpatrick On April 4–7, peace activists from California and Arizona joined San Diego peace groups and Code Pink for the National Anti-Drone Days of Action demonstrations in the San Diego [...] Continue Reading