Thoughts on the 9/11 Tragedy
The tragedy of 9/11 has come, been acknowledged with great ceremony, and gone. But not the aftereffects. Slightly less than 3,000 lives were lost on that momentous occasion. As a direct result of this [...] Continue Reading
Stir it Up
Listen to the September 2022 Community Alliance radio show, Stir it Up, with guest Camilla Chavez, Executive Director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Chavez talks about her life growing up - [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading
State AG Tells Environmentalists He Has Their Back
California Attorney General Rob Bonta made a whirlwind visit to Fresno on Aug. 9 to hear from residents living in communities that are environmentally and economically stressed. What he heard were [...] Continue Reading
No New Oil and Gas Leasing on Our Public Lands
By Cesar Aguirre and Nayamin Martinez A major victory occurred on Aug. 1 when a federal judge accepted an agreement between environmental justice organizations, conservation groups and the U.S. [...] Continue Reading
The September 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the August 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Is Our Democracy Working? President Biden finally decided to help millions of college graduates stranded by thousands of dollars in debt. Those who owe money they borrowed to pursue an education [...] Continue Reading
Bill Simon ¡Presente!
Bill Simon, of Fresno, passed on Aug. 17 due to complications from diabetes. He was 79. Simon was raised in the Chicago area and served as a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago. After leaving the [...] Continue Reading
San Joaquin: An American Dream Turned into a Nightmare
The City of San Joaquin, a small incorporated city in west Fresno County, has been openly accused multiple times by various residents of scamming them. Buying your own home is part of the classic [...] Continue Reading
Rehabilitating the Finances of California Incarceration
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), the Transformative In-Prison Workgroup (TPW) and many more community-based organizations and coalitions are shining a light on taxpayer funds that [...] Continue Reading
The Dog Whistler
Most of you have heard of a horse whisperer, who can calm horses and build trust. Well, Oakhurst and the Madera County Supervisorial District 5 race have a dog whistler. Candidate Mark Reed has [...] Continue Reading
Greening of a House on McGee Street
Shauna and Mark, both retired software engineers, live in a small two-bedroom house on McGee Street in Berkeley. The house was built in 1907. In 2022, they gave it a “greening.” We sat and talked [...] Continue Reading
C Stands for Community-Labor Coalition
Breaking News - Friday, September 2 Measure C Update: Lawsuit Filed By Kevin Hall Members of the Vote No on Measure C Committee filed suit in Fresno County Superior Court today. They’re [...] Continue Reading
One Fresno. Not.
Fresno’s mayor and City Council have coined the term One Fresno even though, according to a 2019 Urban Institute report, Fresno ranks No. 59 of 59 cities in California for economic inclusion and [...] Continue Reading
Brilliant African Diaspora Culture in Cuba
Creating universal literacy and an environment where education is universal and free and accessible at all levels leads to a cultural flowering so extensive and deep as to be perhaps better [...] Continue Reading
Christian Nationalism Is a Perversion of Faith
Lately, we have been hearing politicians and preachers telling us that we need to embrace “Christian nationalism.” Superficially, the language and purported motives of Christian nationalism might [...] Continue Reading
Afro-Centric Legacy of Dr. James Turner
Dr. James Turner, the founder of Africana studies, has passed away at the age of 82. He was the founding director of Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a professor emeritus [...] Continue Reading
Peace & Social Justice Calendar
September 2022 Sponsored by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence Note: Contact the organizer for up-to-date information on whether meetings are in person or via Zoom. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER [...] Continue Reading
Now Is Not the Time to Drop Our Guard on Covid
Health experts say that even as more people are vaccinated and boosted, the coronavirus is here to stay. And they warn that future variants will likely keep medical practitioners and researchers on [...] Continue Reading
Freedom Demands Responsibility
With so many demands in the name of freedom from those who seemingly interpret freedom as letting them do anything and everything that they choose, it is time to think of just how that attitude works [...] Continue Reading
Streets of Laredo versus Today’s Streets of Outlaw Culture
It’s strange that Gunsmoke’s U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon did not require all the rough-and-tumble cowboys arriving in town from cattle herding to turn in their guns at Dillon’s office before going to [...] Continue Reading
Una Marcha Por Sus Derechos
Un grupo de jornaleros agrícolas marchó 335 millas desde la sede del Sindicato de Campesinos (UFW por sus siglas en inglés), cerca de Delano, hasta el Capitolio, en Sacramento. La marcha de tres [...] Continue Reading
Residentes Acusan a la Ciudad de San Joaquín de Estafarlos
Comprar su propia casa es parte del clásico “Sueño Americano”. Es un signo de estabilidad económica y una inversión en la que sus hijos pueden confiar una vez que los padres hayan fallecido. Pero al [...] Continue Reading
La falsedad Republicana se Hace Noticia
Al iniciarse el conteo regresivo para las elecciones intermedias del 8 de noviembre de 2022, las campañas de desinformación en plataformas sociales—e incluso en medios tradicionales—florecen como [...] Continue Reading
El proyecto de ley de comida rápida de California podría vincular a las corporaciones con el robo de salarios y otras violaciones laborales
Los legisladores de California están considerando este mes un proyecto de ley de comida rápida que cambiaría significativamente la relación entre los trabajadores de restaurantes y las cadenas [...] Continue Reading
Los expertos afirman que no es el momento de bajar la guardia con respecto a Covid
Los expertos en salud afirman que, aunque más personas se vacunen con refuerzos, el coronavirus ha llegado para quedarse. Y advierten que las futuras variantes probablemente mantendrán en vilo a los [...] Continue Reading