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
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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
July 2012
You can read the .pdf version of the July 2012 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
June 2012
You can read the .pdf version of the June 2012 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
The Power of Prisoners: The Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
By Catherine Campbell This summer, prisoners in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) came together and began a hunger strike that at its peak spread throughout the California prison system to [...] Continue Reading
$54 a Month for Water You Can’t Drink
By David Bacon When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only four other families still living in this tiny, unincorporated community in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, halfway [...] Continue Reading
Our Stone-Age Supervisors Out To Save Us Again
By Catherine Campbell The Needle Exchange has been ongoing in Fresno for almost two decades, providing clean needles to drug users to prevent the spread of numerous diseases. Hepatitis C and HIV are [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor: October 2011
I want to first thank Mike Rhodes for taking the time and dedication to allow the community to read about what’s being overlooked everyday. People allow themselves to be blindfolded to the truth. [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
We are proud to announce the publication this month of Boston Woodard’s first book, Inside the Broken California Prison System, which is based on a series of articles written for the Community [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Kevin Hall The No Spin O-Zone Readers of the Fresno Bee were greeted to an amazing front-page headline a few weeks back, one that must have had many thinking they’d awakened in a parallel [...] Continue Reading