Recortes a Medicaid devastadores para California
Los líderes estatales están en alerta máxima ante la amenaza de los recortes federales que podrían acabar con la cobertura de Medicaid para millones de personas en todo el país. California se [...] Continue Reading
Peace & Social Justice Calendar August 2025
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Fresno Arts & Culture Calendar August 2025
Fresno Art Museum BY JAMES MENDEZ The Fresno Art Museum will open five new exhibits on Aug. 9, which will remain on display until Jan. 11, 2026. “Come and see amazing things,” says the [...] Continue Reading
Arte y Cultura de Fresno Calendario Agosto 2025
Museo de Arte de Fresno POR JAMES MENDEZ El Museo de Arte de Fresno inaugurará cinco nuevas exposiciones el 9 de agosto, que permanecerán en exhibición hasta el 11 de enero de 2026. “Vengan a ver [...] Continue Reading
A Rocky Road to Equity
Community advocates scored a major victory in June in their fight for fairness and inclusion when the Transportation for All coalition gained 12 seats on the Measure C transportation sales tax renewal [...] Continue Reading
Hypocrisy on the Immigration Issue
The controversy surrounding Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias and his comment about a possible ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raid on a flea market last month is further evidence of [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
(Editor’s note: The two letters below are in response to a July 2025 letter from Rachel Youdelman, which was, in turn, a response to “The Catastrophe Continues” in the June 2025 issue of the Community [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Government Repeatedly Attacks Mexican-Americans
Farmworker labor and community organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino came to the United States as a child and had applied for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). In March 2025, he was [...] Continue Reading
Silencing Due Process Is Here and Now
There are many expressions of resistance to the authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. It is happening through demonstrations large and small, with investigative reporting, displayed in [...] Continue Reading
Budget Battles and Culture Wars
Recent meetings of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors have introduced new local policies and sparked intense political clashes. On the policy front, ordinances targeting the theft of copper wire [...] Continue Reading
Good Trouble Lives On in the Central Valley
On July 17, community members gathered and echoed comments of the acclaimed activist and former Congressional member John Lewis. The event enlightened the community on the importance of searching for [...] Continue Reading
California Democrats’ Collapse
With Governor Gavin Newsom firmly in the lead, the Golden State’s Democratic Party is collapsing faster than an alpine glacier. Buried beneath the landslide of their servile politics are homeless [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth: Striving to Thrive
As in most small towns, Allensworth’s children are at the heart of community life. Whether it is the school play, sporting events or holidays, kids bring people together as a community. Families [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth: Buscando la Prosperidad
Como en la mayoría de los pueblos pequeños, los niños de Allensworth son el centro de la vida comunitaria. Ya sea en la obra de teatro escolar, eventos deportivos o días festivos, los niños unen a la [...] Continue Reading
New West Fresno Park Named for Dolores Huerta
On June 30, the City of Fresno broke ground for a new park in West Fresno, named for the iconic farm labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who traveled up from Bakersfield with her daughter [...] Continue Reading
Artist Spotlight on Aideed Medina
(Author’s note: In the June issue of the Community Alliance, we introduced you to Fresno’s newly appointed 2025–2027 poet laureate, the provocative local Chicana artist Aideed Medina, and her emerging [...] Continue Reading
Agustín Lira: Music and Theater for the People
Agustín Lira will be inducted into the Valley Music Hall of Fame on Sept. 17. It is not the first honor for the singer-songwriter-organizer-director, who has previously been honored as a National [...] Continue Reading
UN Report Confirms Israel’s Economy of Genocide
On July 3, the UN High Commission on Human Rights issued a press release entitled “Forever-Occupation, genocide and profit: Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of [...] Continue Reading
Republican Budget Is Immoral
“In virtually every single area, this bill takes us in precisely the wrong direction.” —Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) On July 4, America celebrated its independence from the harsh and [...] Continue Reading
Inconvenient Truths About Homelessness
In There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America, Brian Goldstone follows the struggles of five Atlanta families who are trying to keep a roof over their heads. Their stories are gripping [...] Continue Reading
Ending the Delusion of Nuclear Weapons
While listening to John F. Kennedy’s July 25, 1963, radio and television address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I couldn’t help but think back on a time when I was only eight [...] Continue Reading
80th Commemoration of Atomic Bombings
A clear and beautiful blue sky, cicadas singing and a peaceful morning, broken by the detonation of an atomic bomb dropped high above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another morning was [...] Continue Reading
Immigrants’ Concerns
(Editor’s note: The following story is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) Undocumented, low-income immigrants in California who are covered by Medi-Cal [...] Continue Reading
Deconstructing the Kremlin’s Information Warfare
As Russia wages hybrid war against Ukraine and the wider democratic world, information manipulation remains one of its most powerful weapons. The Kremlin deploys propaganda to confuse international [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Building Tomorrow’s EMS Workforce EMS Corps Fresno is a new, high-impact program launched under the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board. This initiative is preparing the next generation of [...] Continue Reading
