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DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous support we have received from our wonderful readers, 
 we have been able to print the May 2019 issue of the Community Alliance 
 newspaper. If you appreciate this newspaper and want to see it printed for 
 the rest of the year, we need you to continue the momentum as we make our 
 financial situation more sustainable.\n\nWe are asking you to subscribe, 
 become a monthly sustainer and/or to make a donation. You can do that right 
 now at https://fresnoalliance.com/subscribe/ or clip and mail in the 
 subscription form in this issue of the newspaper.\n\nYou understand why we 
 must keep free speech alive and thriving in Fresno. This newspaper does 
 such a good job of giving a voice to the voiceless, informing readers about 
 important events in the community and sharing a progressive narrative on 
 issues ranging from environmental justice to ending homelessness that 
 without it the political landscape in Fresno and the surrounding areas 
 would be forever changed.\n\nIf you don’t want to see builders, 
 developers and conservative politicians dancing for joy in the street, you 
 need to dig a little deeper and support this paper.\n\nIn addition to this 
 plea asking you to contribute, we are also planning a major fund-raiser. 
 The event will be held on June 15 starting at 5 p.m. at the Unitarian 
 Universalist Church (2672 E. Alluvial Ave.). The Keep Free Speech Alive 
 fund-raiser will feature Boston Woodard as our keynote speaker.  
 \n\nWoodard was a jailhouse journalist. He was released from prison in 
 November 2018 and is currently on parole in San Jose. During the 38 years 
 of his incarceration he became a writer, musician, literacy tutor, event 
 organizer and prisoners’ rights activist. His articles have appeared in 
 the Community Alliance for more than a decade.\n\nWoodard has been writing 
 about the prison system’s failures and abuses for nearly three decades in 
 both free world and prisoner publications. Woodard’s writing embarrassed 
 and angered prison officials who all too often operate without public 
 oversight.\n\nFor exercising his First Amendment right to define his 
 surroundings he was put in the hole/solitary confinement (administrative 
 segregation), had his mail tampered with, was subjected to verbal threats, 
 had his personal property stolen or destroyed, and was illegally and 
 adversely transferred from prison to prison. Still, Woodard refused to be 
 intimidated.\n\nWoodard has been a contributing writer to the Community 
 Alliance since 2005. He is the author of Inside the Broken California 
 Prison System. The book will be available for purchase at the June 15 
 fund-raiser and is available at Amazon.com. He is currently working on a 
 second book that will be published later this year.\n\nJoining Woodard on 
 stage will be Marvin Mutch, a formerly incarcerated prison reform activist 
 and co-founder of both My Brother’s Keepers and the Men’s Advisory 
 Council, a prisoner advocacy group first established inside San Quentin to 
 represent the collective needs and grievances of California’s prisoners. 
 Mutch served 41 years of an indeterminate seven-year to life sentence for a 
 wrongful conviction suffered in 1975. He was freed in February 
 2016.\n\nToday, Mutch is a criminal justice reform lobbyist, director of 
 advocacy at the Prisoner Reentry Network and associate director of the 
 Humane Prison Hospice Project. After a lifetime of experience in the foster 
 care, juvenile justice and adult correctional systems, Mutch is applying 
 his deep understanding toward advancing the human rights of system-affected 
 children and incarcerated people everywhere.\n\nTickets to the fund-raiser 
 are $40 and can be purchased at 
 https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4229826 , by mail at Community 
 Alliance, P.O. Box 5077, Fresno, CA 93755, from Community Alliance board 
 members, staff and volunteers. Or you can buy them at the door for 
 $50.\n\nThe future of progressive journalism is in your hands. As we know 
 you don’t want to see a gaggle of fat cats dancing in the street, we are 
 waiting anxiously to see how much you value this local, independent and 
 alternative publication. Send in your contribution today, and join the 
 heroes and heroines pictured on this page.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/23/18823585.php
SUMMARY:Keep Free Speech Alive
LOCATION:The event will be held on June 15 starting at 5 p.m. at the Unitarian 
 Universalist Church (2672 E. Alluvial Ave.) in Fresno.
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