Edited by Richard Stone Alex Vavoulis, former professor at Fresno State and a founding father of KFCF, offers us a poem written in 1966 by his longtime friend Thanasis Maskaleris. Vavoulis writes, [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Progressive Religion is Not and Oxymoron: Part II: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy Introduction to Part II Last month in Part I, the focus was primarily on the foreground battles progressives are fighting on numerous fronts to vocally “stand our ground” against the [...] Continue Reading
Undocu-Queers: The Invisible Intersection between Immigrant and LGBTQ Rights
By Grisanti Valencia Undocu-queers have been at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement fighting for all immigrant families. Their stories have inspired all of us in many ways. An undocu-queer [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers: When There’s a Need We Must Act
By Gloria Hernandez with Rosemary Moreno and Irene Serrano (Editor’s note: Back in the early 1990s, there were a lot of droughts that disproportionately affected a lot of the campesina/o communities, [...] Continue Reading
A Student’s Voice Heard
By Cheyann Wakefield As a senior at Fresno High, I look forward to what my future holds and I reflect on my experience as a Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) student. I think about what I’ve been [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Trona, Bloody Trona
By Mike Rhodes I meet a lot of lawyers who work on social and economic justice issues but have never met one quite like Paul Henry Abram. Abram, who lives in Bass Lake and has an art gallery in [...] Continue Reading
Fist Up Film Festival 2014
By Analicia Mia Rangel-Garcia The 5th Annual Fist Up Film Festival will be coming to the Central Valley from April 29 to May 3. Last year, I was able to attend the film festival in the Bay Area and [...] Continue Reading
Return of the Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone Our poet this month is Alfonso Hernandez of Three Rivers. He writes, “The inspiration came from the violent situation in Mexico where many people are killed every day either [...] Continue Reading
Prisoners and Shadows Draining Like Slow Water: On the Film Cesar Chavez
By Leonard Adame I’d never heard of Cesar Chavez when I was 15 and driving bobtails stacked with cherry tomatoes from Dinuba to Orange Cove. I was happy the little truck had a radio and often [...] Continue Reading
The Conscience of a Bully
By Community Alliance Staff One year has gone by since Sarah Reyes, regional program manager of the Central Valley for the California Endowment, invited Patricia Wells Solórzano and Agustin Lira [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy, Ph.D. Most progressives are beyond tired of hearing how bad old government only interferes with universally good business, the boon of humankind. The opposition, ostensibly [...] Continue Reading
The Drone Memorial
View from “The Drone Memorial” project, as captured by Community Alliance photographer Richard Iyall. Under way since March 16 and led by artist Joseph DeLappe, the participatory memorial [...] Continue Reading