By Tom Frantz As the new year begins, residents of the San Joaquin Valley continue to gasp air permeated with pollution levels well above national and world health standards. During the winter, high [...] Continue Reading
Columns
25 Months
By Tiffany A. Potter Well, loves, this month marks our 25th month together. Three Januarys ago was my first column, my very first foray into being a columnist. I had no idea what I was doing, probably [...] Continue Reading
Fidel and Cuba
By Leni Reeves Avoiding cult of personality has been a concern for the revolutionary government of Cuba. There are no statues of Fidel, no schools or hospitals named for him. This may possibly change [...] Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone
By Tiffany A. Potter Two days post-election at the time of writing… For the record, I believed I was done writing about this election last month, but the truth is I’m still reeling. I don’t [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Air Quality & Trump
By Tom Frantz The regressive policy proposals of Donald Trump will almost certainly be implemented during his first year in office. These will likely include federal changes weakening low-income [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited part 2
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
Fresno Votes! Election November 8, 2016: An Interview with Aida Macedo
By Hannah Brandt Aida Macedo is a busy woman. She is a lawyer with a local law firm in Fresno and volunteers doing voting rights work in the Central Valley. She has been doing non-partisan election [...] Continue Reading
ALEX VAVOULIS: A PORTRAIT
By George B. Kauffman Alex Vavoulis, the founder of free speech radio and a frequent contributor to these pages, needs no introduction to Community Alliance readers (Figure 1.) However, [...] 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
Finally
By Tiffany A. Potter Well, kids, we made it. We are finally at the finish line of this 16-month race that will produce our next president, and I, for one, am exhausted. I’m exhausted from [...] 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
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