Rock the Vote: The Central Labor Council registered voters in Tower and Lowell Districts and held a rally at Ted Wills Community Center on May 14. Community Alliance newspaper had a table at the [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Green Party Primary 2016
By Richard Gomez A person who has taken a bold step forward and out of the wreckage that is considered politics by registering with the Green Party generally identifies with Green values. That person [...] Continue Reading
Voting Progressive in the California Presidential Primary
By Yezdyar “Yez” Kaoosji By the time this newspaper is distributed readers will have barely a week left to vote for a truly progressive candidate in the California Presidential Primary. So, where [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC – June 2016
**This Content is Paid for By the Central Valley Progressive PAC** CVPPAC Endorses Perea for Mayor After decades of Republican mayors in this city, we have the highest concentration of poverty in the [...] Continue Reading
Stand with Students
By Community Alliance Staff Throughout this school year, the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) has organized community meetings in the residential districts within Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Homeless Forsaken By Those in Power, part 2 |
By Paul Thomas Jackson The civil rights of people—whether homeless or stably housed—are also at stake in encounters and detentions by police, whose duties are ever more burdensome. As of 2016, the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – June 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday June 9, 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK June 1, first Wednesday of each [...] Continue Reading
Before You Vote on June 7
By Chip Ashley We are in the midst of a historic presidential campaign, and the commercial media focus mostly on Donald Trump, the latest circus in the “bread and circuses” offered up as “news” to a [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC Endorsement Meeting
*** The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC *** City of Fresno - Mayor and City Council County of Fresno - Board of Supervisors Fresno County Democratic Party [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Homeless Forsaken By Those in Power
By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s Note: Part 2 of this article will be published in the June edition) In our present economic system, the dominant element—capital—plays its normal role on the main [...] Continue Reading
PHOTO OF THE MONTH
FROM THE WATKINS PHOTO ARCHIVES--25 YEARS AGO [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – May 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING May 12 (second Thursday of each month), 7-9 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. Meetings are open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK May 4 [...] Continue Reading