Which side are you on? The Community Alliance is at a crossroads and what you (our readers) do will determine our fate. There are two paths that are possible now as we face the biggest threat to [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
$50 and Clothes in a Cardboard Box
By Camille Russell On March 20, 2017, after serving 38 years in California’s prisons, Community Alliance writer Boston Woodard was paroled. However, he had a 45-year-old parole violation in [...] Continue Reading
$50 and Clothes in a Cardboard Box
By Camille Russell On March 20, 2017, after serving 38 years in California’s prisons, Community Alliance writer Boston Woodard was paroled. However, he had a 45-year-old parole violation in [...] Continue Reading
Boston Woodard Joins Life on the Outside and Visits Fresno
By Peter Maiden “Wow man, I’m not surprised. But amazed!” Boston Woodard had been looking out the window of Mike Rhodes’ car at scores of homeless people passing the day in a southwest area of [...] Continue Reading
Boston Woodard Joins Life on the Outside and Visits Fresno
By Peter Maiden “Wow man, I’m not surprised. But amazed!” Boston Woodard had been looking out the window of Mike Rhodes’ car at scores of homeless people passing the day in a southwest area of [...] Continue Reading
Ban Chlorpyrifos: Babies’ Brains Are at Stake
By Nayamin Martinez and Robbie Edwards We shouldn’t even be discussing the dangers of brain-harming chlorpyrifos, but the Trump administration has twice stopped it from being banned in the United [...] Continue Reading
Ban Chlorpyrifos: Babies’ Brains Are at Stake
By Nayamin Martinez and Robbie Edwards We shouldn’t even be discussing the dangers of brain-harming chlorpyrifos, but the Trump administration has twice stopped it from being banned in the United [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Through March and Rally
By Community Alliance Staff Around 1,500 people marched from St. John's Cathedral to Fresno City Hall, where there was a rally, and then to Veterans' Memorial Auditorium for speakers, as part of a [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Through March and Rally
By Community Alliance Staff Around 1,500 people marched from St. John's Cathedral to Fresno City Hall, where there was a rally, and then to Veterans' Memorial Auditorium for speakers, as part of a [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Ends Homelessness: Here Is How It Happened
By Mike Rhodes (Author’s note: This fictional account illustrates the events, policy changes and political will it would take to end homelessness in our community.) The New Year started off [...] Continue Reading
The Privilege of Being Polite
By Carli White-Morgan I’ve been thinking a lot lately about politeness, as people decry the lack of it in public. Have you ever known someone who was always polite? Then one day they just snap and [...] Continue Reading
The Privilege of Being Polite
By Carli White-Morgan I’ve been thinking a lot lately about politeness, as people decry the lack of it in public. Have you ever known someone who was always polite? Then one day they just snap and [...] Continue Reading