DANGEROUS WILPF WOMEN IN ACTION By Joan Poss On Oct. 9, the first Wednesday of this month, Ingrid Carmean, Sue Kern and I were holding our silent vigil against all wars. At about 12:30 p.m., I noticed [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Perspectives on the Criminalization of Homelessness in Fresno
By Jonathan Luevanos On the other side of the railroad tracks, west of downtown Fresno, there is an area that is socially and culturally independent of all of the other communities in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading
AB 953: “We Are Not Targets” March on Sacramento
By Hannah Brandt At 6 a.m. on Sept. 2, a charter bus pulled up to the St. Rest Baptist Church in west Fresno to meet 40 bleary-eyed passengers headed to a rally in the state capital to promote AB [...] Continue Reading
Disability Rights 25 Years and Counting
By Shannon M. Mulhall Picture a person with a disability. Did you picture a person using a wheelchair? Were they playing basketball, a kid in an afterschool program or advising at high levels of [...] Continue Reading
John Lewis and Selma in Fresno
By Hannah Brandt Congressional Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis (D–Ga.) was a guest at the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno on Aug. 19. A discussion with Lewis' Central Valley [...] Continue Reading
The Idolatry of Whiteness
By Bryson White (Author’s note: The following is an excerpt from a sermon delivered at the First Mennonite Community Church on Sept. 20.) In Jeremiah 8, the “wise leaders” of the nation are [...] Continue Reading
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and He’s Counting on You for Help
By Maria Telesco For the past 14 years, women incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla have received a holiday gift bag, courtesy of the prison’s Inmate Family [...] Continue Reading
OPEN LETTER TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Dear Board of Supervisors: I, Hazel Grace DeRossett, am the Mother of Shemaiah Lindsey, an inmate in the Fresno County Jail. History is repeating itself. I respectfully request the Board pass some [...] Continue Reading
POLICING IN FRESNO: Community Town Hall on Solutions
By Community Alliance Staff On Aug. 25, citizens from throughout Fresno gathered in west Fresno for a community town hall on discrimination in policing. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, State Attorney [...] Continue Reading
Disrupting White Supremacy
By Ernesto Saavedra (Editor’s note: On Aug. 10, Fresno community members blocked traffic outside of the Robert E. Coyle Federal Building in downtown Fresno during the lunch rush. At the end, two of [...] Continue Reading
Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System
By Jonathan Luevanos The Community Alliance newspaper recently published an article titled “ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County: Tens of Thousands Go Without Legal [...] Continue Reading
12 Points to Address Police Abuse
By Gloria M. Hernandez Three years ago, families met in Oxnard from throughout the state to share their pain and learn from each other. I went to find others like me who had been in the battlefront [...] Continue Reading