By: Franz Wienschenk If you live in the Central Valley and plan to buy a solar system, on average, the array that will be on your roof will pay for approximately 80% of your monthly electric bill. [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Aid to Haiti: Where Does Our Money Go?
By: Patrick Young With over 200,000 dead and a collapsed city, Haiti is desperate for help. The pervasive poverty Haitians have been living with for years is now past the breaking point. With few [...] Continue Reading
Latest Stunt at Labor Board Shows SEIU’s Charges Have No Merit
By: Sadie Crabtree After a year of stalling union elections for more than 100,000 of their own members who want to quit SEIU, SEIU officials have cast themselves as champions of democracy in a [...] Continue Reading
Huge Victory for Kettleman City and Environmental Justice Allies
By: Bradley Angel In a major victory for the residents of the embattled Latino farmworker community of Kettleman City and their environmental justice allies, corporate giant Waste Management, parent [...] Continue Reading
Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region
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
Green Washing the Milk
By: Robert Gammon Editor's Note: This article was originally printed in the East Bay Express The organic dairy industry has fallen on rough financial times in the past year. Small farmers have been [...] 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
Locked Up, But Not Forgotten
By: Bill Sanford and Maria Telesco On the wall, a sign said: Goal 3,900. That was the number of Ziploc bags to be filled for the inmates of the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in [...] 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
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
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