By David E. Roy In last month’s Community Alliance, there was a passionate article about religion that echoed some of the themes I have pursued for the past six years. While the author, Norman [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
We Are All Tired and Can’t Breathe
By Ernesto Saavedra On Dec. 3, 2014, thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered in 43 cities, and more, in response to the missing 43 students (as of Dec. 7, it was 42) from the Raúl Isidro [...] Continue Reading
Fresno to Ferguson
By Hannah Brandt On one of the first cold days of the season, the glow of lights from a TV news crew in the distance amplified the foggy halo around Fresno’s downtown water tower. Eaton Plaza has [...] Continue Reading
Goodbye to the Inanimate
By Leonard Adame How many of us who moved away have come back to Fresno only to discover an almost foreign city? While I was gone for more than 18 years, the city doubled in size, mostly to the [...] Continue Reading
Introducing the new Layout Designer
By Community Alliance Change can be a happy and scary time depending on who you ask. One thing is for sure, it’s inevitable and opens up opportunities to grow in a variety of different directions. [...] Continue Reading
Resisting Through Culture and Identity
By Paula Ayala An identity beyond regional or sociopolitical influence is in fact a reality accomplishable. However, the reality is that in the state in which we reside there exist efforts to strip [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Comes Before Ferguson
By Richard Gomez Peace and nonviolence isn’t just praying and hoping for justice but includes the time when we must roll up our sleeves, get out in the streets and make demands to our duly elected [...] Continue Reading
Justice for Our Lives
By Oree Originol Justice for Our Lives is a series of designs portraying people from marginalized communities who have lost their lives due to state violence and hate crimes. These images call [...] Continue Reading
How to Make Wheat Paste
By Abigail Janzen Wheat paste is a simple nontoxic adhesive that has been used through the ages. An alternative to the liquid adhesives you might get at the store (e.g., Elmer’s, Gorilla Glue), wheat [...] Continue Reading
Organized Religion and the American Empire
By Norman Lambert In David E. Roy’s article, “The Story of How Jesus Was in Opposition to the Empire” (Community Alliance, December 2014), the point seems to be that Jesus was the original “freedom [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: The Terrorism Trap
A Review by Alex Vavoulis In 2002, after the tragic event of Sept. 11, the renowned author Michael Parenti wrote The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond. It should be required reading for anyone [...] Continue Reading
Native American Identity, Culture and Education
By Ernesto Saavedra & Jennifer Vargas Before highways, government buildings and shopping centers littered the San Joaquin Valley, the Yokut and Mono tribes populated the Valley and surrounding [...] Continue Reading