By Community Alliance Staff Community and religious leaders came together on March 11 to pray for the preservation of the Tower District amid the fight over the sale of the historic Tower [...] Continue Reading
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Talking Points #6: A New Beginning
By Joel D. Eis This is the sixth contribution in a series of op-ed pieces that can provide talking points to strengthen the information base and action decisions of those who seek to make others [...] Continue Reading
Arias, Perez Shill for Deadly Polluters
By Kevin Hall Warning: The following quote from Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias is hazardous to your health and that of everyone you know: “This agreement is an example that we can [...] Continue Reading
Appeal for Understanding and Reconciliation from the Gandhi-King Global Network
By Jonathan D. Greenberg and Sudarshan Kapoor On Jan. 26, the Republic Day of India, a bronze statue of Mohandas K. Gandhi that had been given to the City of Davis as a gift by the government of [...] Continue Reading
Kern County Decides to Ramp Up Future Oil Production
By Vic Bedoian The Kern County Board of Supervisors (BOS) has adopted a controversial ordinance allowing oil companies to expand production and bypass full environmental analysis, despite years of [...] Continue Reading
This Is Democracy?
By Ruth Gadebusch When asked if this nation was a republic or a democracy, Benjamin Franklin is said to have answered, “A democracy if you can keep it.” Winston Churchill is known for telling us [...] Continue Reading
Ecuador Election: Reversing a Betrayal and Restoring the Country
By Leni Villagomez Reeves First round victory—What’s next? The first round of elections in Ecuador was Feb. 7, and running mates Andrés Aráuz and Carlos Rabascall, running on a platform of largely [...] Continue Reading
Student Debt Robs Young People of Their Dreams
By Jenny Manrique Five years after graduating as an audiovisual technician from SAE Expression College in Emeryville, Gabriel Stewart has $52,000 in outstanding student loans. Promised a [...] Continue Reading
For Christ’s Sake, What the Hell Are You Thinking, Adventure Church?
By I. smiley G. Calderon By now, every Fresnan has already heard the horrible news that our city’s dear iconic Tower Theatre is being sold to a church. Who could have thought the sale of a [...] Continue Reading
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
The Consequences of Selling the Tower Theatre to a Church
The sale of the historic Tower Theatre, built in 1939, to a Christian church (Adventure Church), unleashed a battle not only in the Tower neighborhood but also throughout the city of Fresno. If the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2021
Addressing Islamophobia Recently, the Sacramento Bee and the Fresno Bee published an article in which a Muslim student recounted her experiences with anti-Muslim bias at Fresno State, including an [...] Continue Reading