By: Lloyd Carter Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty This two-part series shows how a long American tradition of helping small farmers has, in the past few decades in the [...] Continue Reading
Politics
SEIU’s Civil War
By: Bill Fletcher American workers need a labor movement grounded in social justice, not fractured, fighting unions. (This article was originally published by In These Times at InTheseTimes.com. For [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Melts Down
By: Dan Waterhouse As 2009 draws to a close, some 125 City of Fresno employees know that their New Year’s Eve will not be a joyous one: When they wake up on New Year’s Day, they will be unemployed [...] Continue Reading
The ACLU: Defending Your Civil Liberties
By: Bill Simon It has been a busy month at the Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC. Civil liberties just keep trying to go away! Several members of the Board were present at the Fresno State Study-In [...] Continue Reading
Credo
By: Richard Stone Matthew 25:26 says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” My colleague, Maria Telesco, understands the passage as a pronouncement by Jesus that the redemptive work his life [...] Continue Reading
Speaking up for the Homeless
Human Rights Day is an international event sponsored by the United Nations. In Fresno, a press conference was held on December 10 where speakers at a gathering of advocates for the homeless lambasted [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading
Housing is a Human Right
By: Nigel Medhurst Homeless advocates believe that housing is a human right. On December 10, International Human Rights Day, a press conference was held at the Pam Kincaid Neighborhood Center in [...] Continue Reading
2010 Election Information for Fresno County
Important Dates Candidate Filing: Feb. 16–March 12 Candidate Extension Filing: Ends March 17 Mailing Vote by Mail Ballots: May 10 Last Day to Register to Vote in the June 8 Primary Election: May [...] Continue Reading
Archive: Articles on Homelessness in Fresno
(Articles on homelessness in Community Alliance in chronological order) updated April 8, 2018 City of Fresno Criminalizes Poverty Monday, Sep 23rd, [...] Continue Reading
February 2009
About this capture Community Alliance NewspaperFebruary 2009 IN THIS ISSUE: The Rogue Festival The Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama From the Editor Unions Need [...] Continue Reading
August 2004
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the August 2004 Community Alliance. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. [...] Continue Reading