By Dan Yaseen On Aug. 4, the Peace and Freedom Party nominated Roseanne Barr for President and Cindy Sheehan for Vice President. Barr’s campaign states: This is an exciting time for us to vote our [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – September 2012
By John Crockford Education Opportunities Online Coursera (www.coursera.org/) is “a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for [...] Continue Reading
Arguably the Most Important
By Ruth Gadebusch Buried deep in the ballot coming to you in a few weeks will be school board elections. Don’t be misled by that placement or by the many who belittle that job as of little [...] Continue Reading
Corporate Wealth Trashing Vital Human Needs
By Doug Page On Aug. 9, the Fresno County Planning Commission voted 6-1 to approve a corporate agribusiness application that will permanently destroy 880 acres of peach and nectarine farm in the [...] Continue Reading
State-Sanctioned Torture in Pelican Bay SHU
By Daniel Treglia Located just a few miles from the Oregon border is a prison tucked into the redwood forest known as Pelican Bay. It’s said that Pelican Bay was designed to house the “worst of the [...] Continue Reading
Can We Predict the Global Future? Part 1
By Alexey V. Byalko and George B. Kauffman The humorous statement, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” including its numerous variants, has been ascribed not only [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with Dr. Jean Kennedy: Don’t Count Me Out – September 2012
By Dr. Jean Kennedy I recently interviewed a young woman on my radio show heard on KFCF 88.1 FM. I met Star Brown through her brother, who took my women’s studies class. Star approached me to help [...] Continue Reading
Accion Deferida: Preguntas Frecuentes
El 15 de junio del 2012, el Presidente Barack Obama anunció una directiva al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) llamado “acción diferida”. A ciertos jóvenes indocumentados quienes son elegibles [...] Continue Reading
Peace and Dignity Runners to Arrive in Fresno
By Hector Cerda August 2012 edition of the Community Alliance newspaper The Peace and Dignity Journeys runners will arrive in Fresno for the fourth time in 16 years on Aug. 14. They are on their [...] Continue Reading
Death Without the Possibility of Parole
Community Alliance Writer Thrown in the Hole (Again) By Mike Rhodes Days before going to press we learned that our colleague Boston Woodard has been put into solitary confinement. Woodard, who writes [...] Continue Reading
The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain (Folk)
By Amy Goodman As Spain’s prime minister announced deep austerity cuts in order to secure funds from the European Union to bail out Spain’s failing banks, the people of Spain have taken to the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2012
I consider myself to be pretty observant about media issues both locally and nationally. That is why I was surprised to read in the New Yorker (June 25, 2012, issue) about a development that could be [...] Continue Reading