By Richard Stone (Author’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book Incarnation: Coming to Life in Mind and Body.) A person-to-person encounter takes place, and the gist of it is magically [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
November is Native American Month
By Pepper Heredia Red Fox James stands, holding his horse’s reins, on a cold December day in Washington, D.C. He’s just ridden 4,000 miles, the newspapers say, from either Sheridan, Wyoming or the [...] Continue Reading
Journey to Freedom
By Maria Telesco What would you do if your sister was convicted of murder and sentenced to death? If there was no body found, no blood, no “missing person” report, no evidence that a murder had even [...] Continue Reading
Police Auditor Hired: How Good Is Half a Loaf?
By Richard Stone As reported in our local daily on Sept. 4, the City of Fresno officially hired Rick Rasmussen as head of the Office of Independent Review (OIR) aka the police auditor. The good news [...] Continue Reading
Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey through the Hmong Diaspora
By Paul Gilmore Over the years—from the time I was a kid in Baraboo, Wisc., to just last week at the bar—I’ve run across a great many people whose formative experiences had something to do with what [...] Continue Reading
The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar – Oct. 2012
Compiled by Susan Orovitz Tuesday, October 2–Saturday, November 10 Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists. The Jewish Federation of Central California and Temple Beth Israel invite you to attend a [...] Continue Reading
“Fire Dyer” Rally Aug. 1
A “Fire Dyer” rally was held on Aug. 1 to mark Fresno Police Department (FPD) Chief Jerry Dyer’s 11th year. According to a press release from the Brown Berets, the group that organized this event, [...] Continue Reading
Prison System Punishes Community Alliance Writer
By Mike Rhodes Boston Woodard, who has been writing for the Community Alliance newspaper for the last seven-plus years, has been put in solitary confinement in a California state prison. This is [...] Continue Reading
Exonoree Says “Death to the Death Penalty”
By Richard Stone Sabrina Butler has the dubious honor of being the only American female “exonoree”—a death row inmate who has later been found not guilty of the crime she was incarcerated for and [...] Continue Reading
State-Sanctioned Torture in Pelican Bay SHU
By Daniel Treglia Located just a few miles from the Oregon border is a prison tucked into the redwood forest known as Pelican Bay. It’s said that Pelican Bay was designed to house the “worst of the [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with Dr. Jean Kennedy: Don’t Count Me Out – September 2012
By Dr. Jean Kennedy I recently interviewed a young woman on my radio show heard on KFCF 88.1 FM. I met Star Brown through her brother, who took my women’s studies class. Star approached me to help [...] Continue Reading
Death Without the Possibility of Parole
Community Alliance Writer Thrown in the Hole (Again) By Mike Rhodes Days before going to press we learned that our colleague Boston Woodard has been put into solitary confinement. Woodard, who writes [...] Continue Reading