By Jonathan Luevanos In the wake of the controversial presidential election of Donald Trump, many cities across the nation have recently addressed the threat of an ensuing anti-immigrant reality. [...] Continue Reading
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WILPF – December 2016
WILPF ANNUAL PEACE CRAFTS FAIR Saturday, December 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Fresno City College Cafeteria, near the corner of East Weldon and College Ave. See details below. WILPF BUSINESS [...] Continue Reading
Ooooby & Food Commons Fresno Focus on Sustainability
By Camille Russell Beets from Belgium. Strawberries from Chile. Apples from New Zealand. Crazy! Madness! We live in the richest, most productive agricultural region in the world. Yet, many of the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Rich vs Poor | Air Quality and Environmental Justice
By Tom Frantz According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District web page, the Valley has reduced the average number of days a resident experiences ozone levels above the national [...] Continue Reading
Maria Telesco, Prison Volunteer and Advocate Against the Death Penalty: An Interview with Father Jim
Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from an interview that was originally published in Central Valley Catholic Voice, Vol. 18, N. 4, February 2016. It is republished with permission. Fr. Jim: [...] Continue Reading
North Dakota Judge Throws Out Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman
The Democracy Now! host is free but a documentary maker who was also arrested for committing journalism faces a potential 45 years in prison. By John Light | October 17, 2016 (Editor’s Note: This [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited, part 1
By Richard Stone "The Hidden War" is the U.S.'s intensive campaign waged in Laos and Cambodia during the Viet Nam War era that was never sanctioned by Congress or acknowledged by the Johnson [...] Continue Reading
FTA Attempts Public Forum for Bargaining, FUSD Refuses It
By Hannah Brandt On Thursday, September 29, just days after the October edition of Community Alliance was published, I attended the public bargaining meeting for the Fresno Teachers Association. [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – November 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday Nov 10 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all. WOMEN IN BLACK Nov 2, (first Wednesday of each month) [...] Continue Reading
Review of the film No Màs Bebés
By Kathy Ayala Director: Renee Tajima-Pena Producer: Virginia Espino A film screening for No Màs Bebés premiered at Fresno State on October 13, 2016, shedding light on a heinous period of time in [...] Continue Reading
Walk Like a Slut
By Linda Kobashigawa & Amanda Tripp As if its name isn’t provocative enough, imagine hundreds of women and men dressed in as a little as possible carrying hand-written signs exclaiming that “rape [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Rallies in Solidarity with Standing Rock Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Hannah Brandt One of the largest demonstrations by indigenous peoples in recent U.S. history has been taking place in North Dakota over the last several weeks. The activists prefer to be called [...] Continue Reading