By: Lloyd Carter Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty This two-part series shows how a long American tradition of helping small farmers has, in the past few decades in the [...] Continue Reading
Activism
SEIU’s Civil War
By: Bill Fletcher American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. (This article was originally published by In These Times at InTheseTimes.com. For [...] Continue Reading
Green Washing the Milk
By: Robert Gammon Editor's Note: This article was originally printed in the East Bay Express The organic dairy industry has fallen on rough financial times in the past year. Small farmers have been [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Melts Down
By: Dan Waterhouse As 2009 draws to a close, some 125 City of Fresno employees know that their New Year’s Eve will not be a joyous one: When they wake up on New Year’s Day, they will be unemployed [...] Continue Reading
Credo
By: Richard Stone Matthew 25:26 says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” My colleague, Maria Telesco, understands the passage as a pronouncement by Jesus that the redemptive work his life [...] Continue Reading
Locked Up, But Not Forgotten
By: Bill Sanford and Maria Telesco On the wall, a sign said: Goal 3,900. That was the number of Ziploc bags to be filled for the inmates of the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in [...] Continue Reading
Speaking up for the Homeless
Human Rights Day is an international event sponsored by the United Nations. In Fresno, a press conference was held on December 10 where speakers at a gathering of advocates for the homeless lambasted [...] Continue Reading
Know Your Rights: What To Do if You Are Stopped by the Police
To fight police abuse effectively, you need to know your rights. There are some things you should do, some things you must do and some things you cannot do. If you are in the middle of a police [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading
Housing is a Human Right
By: Nigel Medhurst Homeless advocates believe that housing is a human right. On December 10, International Human Rights Day, a press conference was held at the Pam Kincaid Neighborhood Center in [...] Continue Reading
Archive: Articles on Homelessness in Fresno
(Articles on homelessness in Community Alliance in chronological order) updated April 8, 2018 City of Fresno Criminalizes Poverty Monday, Sep 23rd, [...] Continue Reading
August 2004
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the August 2004 Community Alliance. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. [...] Continue Reading