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Politics
Measure Z Goes Rogue: Cost Overruns, Closed Door Meetings, Soaring Payroll
By Kevin Hall Ten years ago, Community Alliance readers read the first and only warnings about Measure Z: $100 million in taxes slated to be controlled by a private corporation not subject to [...] Continue Reading
Collaboration and Contradictions: Can Progressive Groups Work Together?
By Richard Stone On Aug. 21, a meeting was co-hosted by the Fresno Partnership and Fresno Metro Ministry to explore possibilities of wider collaboration. An expansive array of groups was [...] Continue Reading
National Chemistry Week
By George B. Kauffman Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and science deniers, the creationists and other fanatics of their ilk are Although the right-wing climate change, evolution and [...] Continue Reading
Virak Ou: Fresno’s Adopted Son, Cambodia’s Hope
By Hannah Brandt Most Fresnans do not know that an internationally renowned human rights activist spent many years among us as a classmate, colleague, and neighbor. I certainly did not until I went [...] Continue Reading
“CARA: Who Are We?”
By Gene Roza CARA (California Alliance for Retired Americans): Who are we? We are not the AARP, although many of us belong to the AARP. CARA is a statewide organization that unites retired workers [...] Continue Reading
How Fresno Became a World Class City
By Mike Rhodes In the not too distant future (or maybe a parallel universe)... Ashley Swearengin, Lee Brand and Steve Brandau were defeated but not surprised as they fell from political power. The [...] Continue Reading
Mideast Extremism Requires New Progressive Response
By Paul Pierce, Patience Milrod and Darrow Pierce As we write this, it is Saturday evening, July 26. Earlier today, Israel extended a 12-hour ceasefire by four hours. Hamas has responded by firing [...] Continue Reading
Freedom According to the Zapatistas
By Patricia Wells Solorzano (Author’s note: In August 2013, after years of little news from the Zapatistas, the Escuelitas Zapatistas (little schools) took place in Zapatista territory. Some people [...] Continue Reading
And so Greens Must Carry On and On…
By Richard Gomez “Apathy isn’t it. We can do something. So flower power didn’t work. So what. We start again.” —John Lennon The California Greens continue to run and win local elections—10 out of 19 [...] Continue Reading
Local Progressive Activists Targeted by the Fresno Police Department
By Mike Rhodes Sergeant Robert Dewey, with the Fresno Police Department (FPD), has produced a PowerPoint presentation that identifies Chris Breedlove of the College Community Congregational Church as [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Slaughter
By Ernesto Saavedra It’s June 16, 4 p.m., I’m on my bike and I’m running late. I’m pedaling like I’ve never pedaled before, ignoring my aching thighs and sweat in my eyes. I get a rush as I approach, [...] Continue Reading