By Mike Rhodes The Fresno City Council voted, at its last meeting in 2018, to do a financial audit of the money it is spending on homeless services. Council members Steve Brandau, Paul [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
King Matters
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor The City of Fresno, like many other cities and communities across the nation, will celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 18–21 and pay tributes to [...] Continue Reading
King Matters
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor The City of Fresno, like many other cities and communities across the nation, will celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 18–21 and pay tributes to [...] Continue Reading
Local AM Station Brings Hate Speech to Drive Time
By Bob McCloskey and Linda Tubach On Oct. 25, the Fresno Bee reported that the syndicated “Alex Jones Show,” as well as a live local show called “Frontline America with Ben Bergquam, have been [...] Continue Reading
Local AM Station Brings Hate Speech to Drive Time
By Bob McCloskey and Linda Tubach On Oct. 25, the Fresno Bee reported that the syndicated “Alex Jones Show,” as well as a live local show called “Frontline America with Ben Bergquam, have been [...] Continue Reading
Do We Play a Game with People’s Lives?
By Paul Thomas Jackson According to Marx, capitalist society consists of two parts: the base and the superstructure. The base has the market forces and relations of production and property. All [...] Continue Reading
Police Brutality
By Community Alliance Staff The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation held a candlelight vigil on Oct. 22 in Fresno’s Eaton Plaza. Around [...] Continue Reading
What Does Boise Mean for Homeless Advocacy?
By Paul Thomas Jackson A plaintiff’s job of building a lawsuit has been compared to a construction project. The more social or finance significance the suit has, the more demanding the project usually [...] Continue Reading
Mike Rhodes Recognized
By Community Alliance Staff Two recognitions have been added to the lengthy list of achievements of Community Alliance co-founder, former editor and author Mike Rhodes. His lifelong fight for social [...] Continue Reading
Rural Legal Access Summit
By Ali Huda and Andrew Kucera On Oct. 12, the San Joaquin College of Law (SJCL) will host the Second Annual Rural Legal Access Summit. The Summit brings together professors, students, lawyers, [...] Continue Reading
A Workable Plan to End Homelessness
By Nancy Waidtlow I receive desperate calls from people who are homeless or on the verge of homelessness almost every day. In my post-retirement second career with the Dakota EcoGarden, I have learned [...] Continue Reading
Are You a Good Neighbor? Ask Homeless Advocates
By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s note: This is the first article of a two-part series.) “As our Nation struggles to build friendship among the peoples of this world, we are mindful that the noblest [...] Continue Reading