By Micaela Cisneros-Nuñez Fifty. I expected maybe 50 women. I wasn’t even sure of that. But if I could get 50 women to march a mile with me, I knew we could get at least a little bit of [...] Continue Reading
National & International
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS, Part 2
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Technological ingenuity, a traditional asset in the good-ol’-American-tradition, is no longer at the exclusive service of the conquering John Wayne and [...] Continue Reading
When Counting on a President Gets Difficult.
By Richard Gomez You would think that something as basic as counting would be easy as 1, 2, 3… but not so when it comes to elections in the United States, especially one for the office of the [...] Continue Reading
THE TRUMP DISASTER!
By George B. Kauffman When I wrote my last Guest Editorial, “Science Lessons for the Next President,” https://fresnoalliance.com/science-lessons-for-the-next-president December 5, 2016, based [...] Continue Reading
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR NATION?
By Ruth Gadebusch This past election produced a nation we thought we had grown beyond. Most of us recognized that the population had not all lived up to the high ideals expressed in that document [...] 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 Orange President Cometh and Hope for the Convivial Life | Part 1
By Brian Jay Snyder On November 8, 2016, shortly before political pundits and corporate media correspondents began making their frantic projections as to whether Clinton or Trump would win or lose the [...] Continue Reading
Change and Compromise Through Grassroots Collaboration
By J. D. Montague If the general election’s apathetic turnout is any indication of local political interest, then we have a major problem facing us for the future of our local government, as well as [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS | part 1
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
Joint Statement from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and National Indigenous Congress
Translated By Jonathan Luevanos (Author’s note: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist political group formed by indigenous people from the Lacandon Jungle in [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Leaders Speak Out About Post-Election Immigration Concerns
By Vic Bedoian There are an estimated three hundred thousand undocumented immigrants in the San Joaquin Valley who fear what the future may hold for them if the Trump administration does what they [...] Continue Reading
Mixed Election Results in Fresno County
By Michael D. Evans No doubt everyone was shocked by the outcome of the national election. We will be assessing and analyzing how Donald Trump could possibly have been elected President for [...] Continue Reading