A “Fire Dyer” rally was held on Aug. 1 to mark Fresno Police Department (FPD) Chief Jerry Dyer’s 11th year. According to a press release from the Brown Berets, the group that organized this event, [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Prison System Punishes Community Alliance Writer
By Mike Rhodes Boston Woodard, who has been writing for the Community Alliance newspaper for the last seven-plus years, has been put in solitary confinement in a California state prison. This is [...] Continue Reading
Exonoree Says “Death to the Death Penalty”
By Richard Stone Sabrina Butler has the dubious honor of being the only American female “exonoree”—a death row inmate who has later been found not guilty of the crime she was incarcerated for and [...] Continue Reading
Fresno City Council Takes Next Step Toward Privatizing Residential Garbage Collection
By Stan Santos On Aug. 16, the Fresno City Council approved a motion to hire a consultant, identified as Robert Hilton, to prepare a Request for Proposal (RFP) that would open residential garbage [...] Continue Reading
McKinney-Vento Turns 25 and Homelessness Continues to Grow
By Paul Boden Passed in 1987, the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act was intended to address the emergency needs of homeless people while the federal government worked to restore the funding that [...] Continue Reading
SaveFTA Seeks Justice in Union Election
By Jerome Rice On May 29, the ballots were counted in the runoff election for president of the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA). Mai Summer Vue defeated Eva Ruiz by 51 votes (more than 5% of the [...] Continue Reading
Smog Alerts Too Little, Too Late
By Kevin Hall Health advocates with the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition (CVAQ) responded critically last month to the San Joaquin Valley Air Board’s announcement of its second year of the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2012
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING Thursday Sept 13 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK September 5, first Wednesday of each month at noon [...] Continue Reading
Hard Work Makes You Rich, Don’t It?
By Leonard Adame The first Labor Day in the United States was held on Sept. 5, 1882. Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and union leader, first proposed the holiday to New York’s Central Labor Union in [...] 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