Community Alliance
The Voice of the Progressive Movement since 1996
By Hannah Brandt While most four-year-olds are preoccupied identifying barnyard animals, learning the alphabet and playing patty-cake, Floyd Harris III accompanied his father, Rev. Dr. Floyd [...] Continue Reading
By Michael D. Evans What a weird year that we just completed. It was unlike anything we could have imagined. Truth really is sometimes stranger than fiction. But then again, the line between truth [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt “Your attendance is your support,” says Zoyer Zyndel, Trans-E-motion chair and emcee at the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) at Fresno State on Nov. 20. Trans-E-motion is a local [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt This month, it is hard to write this. That is not only because I happen to be sick as a dog as I do so, but as many of you know, this is my last month as editor. Even when one [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt Three years ago, the hashtag #YesAllWomen went viral on social media as women confronted the world with their stories of sexual abuse and assault. The aim was to make people listen [...] Continue Reading
By Boston Woodard During my youth, I was no doubt the poster child for irredeemable miscreants. I was a young thug running wild, unchecked, with no respect for others. I was a criminal. In 1973, I [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt In the year since the November 2016 presidential election, many have weighed in on the results of that election and their causes. While no doubt a number of factors contributed, one [...] Continue Reading
By Floyd D. Harris School’s back in session and the end of summer is here. In preparation to plant their winter crops, student participants from the Fresno Freedom School of Agriculture and Cultural [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt It is easy for this political moment to feel like the movie Groundhog Day, where you keep waking up expecting it to be a new day only to find it is the same unbearable day every [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt August was another exhausting and often discouraging month. From the Fresno City Council passing the ban on homeless dwellings in Fresno to the White supremacist attacks in [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt Many questions and concerns emerged on July 20 from the first public steering committee meeting of the Fresno Transformative Climate Communities Collaborative (FTCCC) at the [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt A community screening and discussion of the film The Battle for Matheny Tract took place in August at Fres.Co, a downtown Fresno meeting place next to the Crest theater. “Fres.Co is [...] Continue Reading
