By Doug Page On Aug. 9, the Fresno County Planning Commission voted 6-1 to approve a corporate agribusiness application that will permanently destroy 880 acres of peach and nectarine farm in the [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
State-Sanctioned Torture in Pelican Bay SHU
By Daniel Treglia Located just a few miles from the Oregon border is a prison tucked into the redwood forest known as Pelican Bay. It’s said that Pelican Bay was designed to house the “worst of the [...] Continue Reading
The Greek Debt Crisis
By Dr. Alex Vavoulis Writer N.J. Slabbert, creator of the multimedia Sword of Zeus ProjectTM about Greece's role in WWII, says the Greek debt crisis is not only an economic event but also has [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Our Voice from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex A lot has happened in the past several months that prevented me from submitting articles to the Community Alliance about life behind prison walls [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis From The Grassroots
Mixed Emotions and Painful Choices By Ruth Gadebusch Without a doubt, Occupy Wall Street, the 99%, our own Courthouse Park campers or whatever the title, have legitimate causes; however, difficulties [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
The Autumn of Awakening By Wendy Russell We moved from Fresno to Costa Rica (a country that has had no army since 1948) for many reasons, but paramount for me was the feeling that our beloved United [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor: October 2011
I want to first thank Mike Rhodes for taking the time and dedication to allow the community to read about what’s being overlooked everyday. People allow themselves to be blindfolded to the truth. [...] Continue Reading
El Dorado Park: Revitalization or Gentrification?
By Dan Waterhouse On the heels of three people being shot by party crashers at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house across the street from Fresno State in July, students are taking on the campus area [...] Continue Reading
Queer Eye: Vigilantes in the Tower?
By Dan Waterhouse Down in Fresno’s Tower District, the words hipster and Tower rat are becoming synonymous with scumbag. And a vigilante movement to eject “undesirables” from the neighborhood is [...] Continue Reading
Love Is Our License: The 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba
By Leni V. Reeves We were about 100 people, mostly from Canada and the United States, later to be joined by about a dozen Mexican companeros, in 12 buses, traveling routes throughout Canada and the [...] Continue Reading
9/11: Black Op by Rogue Network within the Military/Industrial Complex
By Carl Bosco When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it was immediately evident that several shooters had done the job, not just Lee Harvey Oswald and his cheap rifle with the twisted sight. [...] Continue Reading
Dollars and Cents Sense
By Ruth Gadebusch How did we become a society of dollars for one segment and mere cents for the larger? When did we turn our priorities topsy-turvy? Making it worse, the dollars are going to the [...] Continue Reading