By Justin Kamimoto It was 25 years ago this fall that Fresno State student organization GLBSA (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Student Alliance) participated in the third annual National Coming Out Day (NCOD). [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Crafts
Poetry Corner – September 2014
Edited by Richard Stone Bob Navarro is well-known in our community as a lawyer active in civil rights affairs and as a Film Works Board member. Who knew he is also a poet—though I do remember he [...] Continue Reading
About the Cover: A Life in Print
By Ernesto Saavedra You’ve come across them at some point in your life. Posters, postcards and shirts. They decorate our walls, our bodies and our minds. Seldom is there much thought as to how these [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Border Patrol Nation
By David E. Roy The title of the book Border Patrol Nation, written by Todd Miller and just published, is an apt description of what has happened since 9/11, most of it out of view. Here are a few [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – August 2014
Edited by Richard Stone This month, we have two poems written by John Auer. I met John early in my sojourn in Fresno, in his then-capacity as minister of Sierra Vista Methodist Church, and I was [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner
Edited by Richard Stone Ebony Monique Easter is a survivor of child abuse and psychiatric abuse. This piece is a reflection on the periodic perception of herself as a result of these traumas she has [...] Continue Reading
The Barrio Art Collective Manifesto
Editor’s note: This is a public service announcement from the Barrio Art Collective, which is dedicated to all of the people in the struggle in the barrios, alleys and marginalized areas in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – June 2014
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
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
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
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