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The March 2026 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
I was with the mailing crew for the newspaper in the office of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence on Van Ness Avenue last month when an anti-ICE protest march of students from Fresno High School came [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Hurtado Should Resign State Senator Melissa Hurtado posted on Facebook that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “focused on the issues and the importance of unity” during his remarks at the Munich [...] Continue Reading
March 2026 Peace & Justice Calendar
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March 2026 Arts Calendar
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What’s Wrong with Fresno!?
By asking this question some might think this is to be a bash piece against Fresno. In truth, it is quite the opposite. This is not a feel-good piece either. I ask the question because I truly [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers of the Central Valley
In December 1990, record freezing temperatures destroyed most of the citrus crop in the Central Valley. More than 30,000 farmworkers had no work, and their more than 100,000 family members had no [...] Continue Reading
Road Rage: Driving County Policy Off a Cliff
Nuts and Bolts What nuts-and-bolts tasks has the Fresno County Board of Supervisors managed to accomplish within the past month? Routine administrative actions include staffing the Office of [...] Continue Reading
Memorial Bike Ride for Alex Pretti
BY BEN MAIDEN Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed on Jan. 24 by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, loved mountain bike riding. More than 200 memorial rides took place to honor him across [...] Continue Reading
Rogue Festival Continues
Fresno’s internationally famous Rogue Festival continues through March 7. Shows occur at several venues throughout the Tower District. Each show has a different fee, ranging from $10 to [...] Continue Reading
Haiku
Spring Haiku 2026Meditation inBonsai Garden in Spring BloomReflections on Life Wakanda Warrior 2025Admiral HosleyFall Wakandian WarriorA Man of Honor Who Is the True American Patriotic Hero [...] Continue Reading
Noses to the Grindstone
“I don’t want to live in a California run by Republicans,” says Amy Wilkinson, a delegate to the California Democratic Party state convention from Kings County. “The one thing keeping me sane right [...] Continue Reading
Embezzlement Allegations at the Fresno Arts Council
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization.) During an urgently scheduled Feb. 6 noon meeting between the Fresno Arts Council and Fresno City [...] Continue Reading
Musical History in a Song
Fresno resident Jim Bedoian, the brother of Community Alliance reporter Vic Bedoian, has a collection of 6,000–8,000 78 rpm records. The 78s are discs with one song on each side, each side holding a [...] Continue Reading
Tribal Nations Fight for Water Rights
Recently, the State Water Resources Control Board held comprehensive hearings on the update of the Bay Delta Plan that governs how much water flows from the state’s rivers though the largest estuary [...] Continue Reading
Standing Up for Environmental Justice
BY ANGEL GARCIA Nearly a decade after community members first took a stand against the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for its handling of the cancer-causing fumigant [...] Continue Reading
Heroes and Stories: Building a Better System
The system is rigged. It’s a sentiment that’s been bandied about a lot in recent years. But what exactly is this system? How did it emerge, and can something be done to reform it? Robert [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom March 2026 Sponsored Page . There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the [...] Continue Reading
Building Healthy Communities
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Building Healthy Communities Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. [...] Continue Reading
Frente a un Tsunami Financiero que Amenaza el Acceso a la Atención Médica
Los líderes del sector salud en la zona central del Valle de San Joaquín temen que los recortes federales a Medicaid y las reducciones estatales a los beneficios de Medi-Cal representen un tsunami de [...] Continue Reading
Resistencia en el corazón del valle
POR VIC BEDOIAN El condado de Kings no es un lugar donde la mayoría de la gente esperaría encontrar mucha resistencia a las políticas y acciones ilegales e inmorales de la administración Trump. [...] Continue Reading
Valley Wolf Ruge Desde Modesto
La banda musical Valley Wolf está haciendo ruido del bueno con su combinación de ritmos de rock psicodélico, soul y más recientemente quebradita, lo que “genera algo primal en las personas que las [...] Continue Reading
Africans Sold Africans—Myth or Reality?
The transatlantic slave trade remains one of the most devastating systems of exploitation in human history. Among the most persistent and controversial claims surrounding this history is the assertion [...] Continue Reading
Symbolism of the Asian Dragon
I recently purchased a leather journal from The Brass Unicorn, Tower District, which had an Asian dragon on it. I did some research on the Internet and to my amazement I learned that the dragon on the [...] Continue Reading
The Black Past in American History: Then and Now
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new monthly column. In the current political climate, Black history is contested terrain.) When one reflects upon American colonial history, one [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Moving Forward Together In recent months, thousands of Fresno County taxpayers shared what they want from a transportation plan: A historic transportation improvement plan has been shaped [...] Continue Reading
Promise and Hope
BY RUTH GADEBUSCH Another Women’s History Month and still no Equal Rights Amendment! Why do we need separate months for women and the just completed February one for Blacks? Aren’t we all part of [...] Continue Reading