Responding to the threat of fascism!
The Community Alliance newspaper is your local, progressive independent newspaper and we are celebrating 28 years of publishing. Join us on November 30 as we face the new political challenges [...] Continue Reading
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2024 General Election Endorsements
The Community Alliance does not make political endorsements, but we do provide a grid showing who other groups have endorsed. This gives our readers the information they need to help them decide how [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture Calendar
(English) You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Arts & Culture page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Hopefully, on Nov. 6 We’ll Feel Relieved The possibility of Donald Trump winning the Nov. 5 election is chilling. According to press reports, he promised a position to billionaire Elon Musk, who is [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Why Rudy Salas Is the Leader Latinos Need As Latinos in California, we know what it means to fight for our families, dignity and future. We work hard, show up for each other and push for [...] Continue Reading
Clovis Ends Century-Old At-Large Voting System
(Editor’s note: This article is reprinted by permission of Fresnoland.) In a contentious decision that has divided the community, the Clovis City Council voted last month to abandon its at-large [...] Continue Reading
Dockworkers’ Strike
In early October, there was a short-lived strike by about 45,000 dockworkers of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). The ILA had been negotiating since May 2024 [...] Continue Reading
Hotel Fresno Grand Opening
The recently renovated Hotel Fresno on Broadway Plaza downtown had a grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 3. Mayor Jerry Dyer, City Council Member Miguel Arias and Assembly Member [...] Continue Reading
Pereas Push Pollution, Attack Advocates
Tower District voters’ favorite daughter-father political team joined forces publicly last month to advocate for continued toxic diesel exhaust exposure in Fresno and beyond. Annalisa Perea represents [...] Continue Reading
Creek Fire Survival
Standing next to Woodland Road just off Highway 168, Jem Bluestein looks downslope into the Jose Basin. “It just came up here, up the canyon. It just came up here like a thousand freight trains, this [...] Continue Reading
Implementing Pesticide Regulation
In 2018, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) proudly rolled out a new protection for children at schools from exposure to nearby agricultural pesticides. “These rules will help to [...] Continue Reading
Global Solidarity and Local Resistance through Art
“Zein was the youngest member of the al-Najar family. They lived in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. On Oct. 10, 2023, 18 members of the family, including five children and three women, were [...] Continue Reading
Dialectics of Black Ideology in Age of White Reactionaries
Soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, a number of American Blacks emigrated to Bolshevik Russia, the new pro-worker state. One noted emigre was a Minneapolis postal worker named Homer Smith Jr., [...] Continue Reading
Kamala Harris on Reparations
The first female vice president of the United States and a well-known member of the Democratic Party thrust into the presidential race, Kamala Harris has made a strong case for racial justice and [...] Continue Reading
WILPF Sponsored Page
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CVPPAC SPONSORED PAGE
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Sierra Club Sponsored Page
November 2024 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. This is a .pdf of the November 2024 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the [...] Continue Reading
Central Labor Council Sponsored Page
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Central Valley Fuego FC Updates
Fuego Coach Jermaine Jones Suspended by United Soccer League The United Soccer League Players Association, a union of professional soccer players, filed a labor complaint with the National Labor [...] Continue Reading
The New Apostolic Reformation: All in for MAGA
In the early 2000s, I worked for a Christian publishing house that championed “church growth” and marketed books by New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leaders. I’d like to share some insight and [...] Continue Reading
Why Isn’t an Armed Attack on the Cuban Embassy Called Terrorim?
On April 30, 2020, Alexander Alazo, a Texas resident and Trump supporter—he wrote Trump 2020 on a Cuban flag—took an AK-47 and fired 32 shots at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. He didn’t hit [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Clean Energy Development In September, AB 2661 was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. AB 2661, introduced by Assembly Member Esmeralda Soria (D–Fresno), advances clean energy development [...] Continue Reading
When the Sky Kills: Metal Birds Hunt Kherson
On Oct. 7, four aerial bombs struck residential areas in the city of Kherson in Southern Ukraine, injuring 20 civilians, including two children, two and four years old. At one of the sites, across [...] Continue Reading
La Desinformación Sobre Inmigración Apunta al Decisivo Voto Latino
Si no se contrarresta, la desinformación dirigida a los inmigrantes y los latinos será decisiva en este 5 de noviembre. Aunque el uso político de la inmigración como chivo expiatorio del odio no es [...] Continue Reading
Visalia Navigation Center, un Esfuerzo Comunitario Para Enfrentar la Indigencia
El 4 de Octubre, Community Services Employment Training (CSET) llevó a cabo una ceremonia de inauguración del nuevo Centro de Navegación (VNC) en Visalia. El centro es un proyecto enorme que tiene [...] Continue Reading
Arte Y Cultura De Fresno
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Fuego del Valle Central Vence a Spokane Velocity, 1-0
Fue la noche de la Herencia Hispana en el partido de Fuego contra Spokane Velocity el 9 de octubre. Había bailarines de mariachis dando lo mejor de sí en el carril que conduce desde el estacionamiento [...] Continue Reading
Sobrevivir al Incendio Creek
Jem Bluestein y yo estábamos parados junto a la carretera Woodland, justo al lado de la autopista 168, mirando hacia la cuenca de Jose. “Simplemente subió aquí, por el cañón. Simplemente subió aquí [...] Continue Reading
“Lo Que La Constitución Significa Para Mí”, en Fresno
Directamente desde Broadway, la innovadora obra de la dramaturga Heidi Schreck insufla nueva vida a nuestra Constitución e imagina cómo moldeará a la próxima generación de estadounidenses. Heidi, [...] Continue Reading