By Bev Fitzpatrick and Yellowfeather Noriega (Authors’ note: This story is told by both Bev Fitzpatrick and Yellowfeather Noriega.) Meeting Hopelessness on the Street (Fitzpatrick) Meeting [...] Continue Reading
Columns
There’s Never Going to Be Another Alfonso
The Community Alliance On Aug. 21, the Dickey Youth Center, known by many as the Chicano Youth Center, building was named the Alfonso Hernandez, Jr., Building in honor of Alfonso Hernandez, Jr., who [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Don’t Pollute Our Air to Save the Planet
By Tom Frantz There is a bill before the current legislature in California that is mislabeled as a project appropriate for greenhouse gas reduction funding. This bill is numbered AB590 and is [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Grand Deception | Drought and Air Quality
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district), and the local Air Board that controls it, has a problem. The No. 1 air quality issue in the San Joaquin Valley is [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: Protect Those Dreams
By Tiffany A. Potter This is what I have learned the hard way, dreams are scary to people who have never been taught how to, or given permission to, think big. Whether they were never afforded the [...] Continue Reading
The Importance of Building a Labor/Community Alliance
By Mike Rhodes If progressives want to win political power in Fresno and beyond, we must build a coalition that includes both organized labor and grassroots community groups. A big leap forward in [...] Continue Reading
Ghetto by the Sea: A POPS the Club Anthology
By Boston Woodard Ghetto by the Sea is the second anthology by some extraordinarily talented teenagers and young adults at Venice High School in Los Angeles County. These writers, poets, artists and [...] Continue Reading
In This Space
By Steve Umfrid They whys of it all escape me As I lay here on my side, Arms raised in front of my face A shield to block the constant light. Cold seeps through the concrete Chilling my forearms, [...] Continue Reading
A Matter of Conscience A HERITAGE OF PACIFISM
By Hannah Brandt My grandfather is 93 years old. Most nights, he forgets to take his medication unless I bug him about it: “Did you take your pills yet?” Somehow, he never manages to miss a minute of [...] Continue Reading
TIFFANY’S TAKE: Derby
By Tiffany A. Potter Until two weeks ago, I was a derby virgin. And now, much like my sex life in my early 20s, I wonder what took me so long. Roller derby is a team skating competition on roller [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Jerry Brown and a Conspiracy to Pollute Groundwater
By Tom Frantz On June 3, 2015, an interesting lawsuit was filed by farmers in Kern County against Governor Jerry Brown, a few regulators and a couple of big oil companies. The lawsuit claims there [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC: Here Is How We Are Going to Win Political Power in Fresno
By Mike Rhodes Welcome to the first monthly sponsored one-half page in the Community Alliance newspaper by the Central Valley Progressive Political Action Committee (CVPPAC). We are excited to share [...] Continue Reading