Marching for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Just a few weeks ago, on Sept. 1, Texas implemented one of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Women are only allowed abortions before a pregnancy hits the six-week mark. By this time, health [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
The Recall Failed: Now What? The “recall Newsom” vote of Sept, 14 failed drastically. “No” won by a big margin, about 62% versus 38%. Curiously, some counties considered conservative voted to keep [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
(Editor’s note: The letters below are in response to “Fourth Grade Student with a History Lesson Confronts School District,” which appeared in the September 2021 issue of the Community Alliance [...] Continue Reading
Another Look at the Afghanistan Problem
By Norman M. Lambert Since the beginning of the airlift of people out of Kabul, there has been a good deal of criticism of President Biden’s handling of the affair. What no one seems to be [...] Continue Reading
What did the United States leave behind in Afghanistan?
By Homer Gee Greene Jr. The United States has exited the long 20-year war with Afghanistan and the Taliban. Over these 20 years, the United States has trained and equipped the Afghan national [...] Continue Reading
Pandemic Continues to Take Major Toll Despite Effective Vaccines
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to take a major toll, despite the availability of proven mitigation measures and effective vaccines, said four subject matter experts from the [...] Continue Reading
Safe Schools in the Covid Era
The beginning of a school year is always a time of excitement but also of stress for schools, parents and students, and this year was not the exception; on the contrary, these emotions were [...] Continue Reading
Robert E. Lee Statue: Art or Propaganda?
By Malik Simba In an ironic twist, on Sept. 8, 2021, a Black construction company dismantled the enormous statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., the capital of the Old [...] Continue Reading
Transparency Needed at City Hall
By Kevin Hall City leaders and staff are in meetings with some West Fresno residents to discuss the 92.5 acres proposed to be rezoned for industrial use along Elm Avenue, and news of the private [...] Continue Reading
Parole Punishes Everyone
By Jaime Leyva and Morghan Vélez Young Exploring the punishment of parole in the United States allows us to identify the ways that the design of parole serves as an arm of the cultural fixation [...] Continue Reading
25 Years of the Community Alliance Celebrated
By Mike Rhodes More than 120 people came together in the magical garden of Pat Wolk and helped us celebrate 25 years of printing the Community Alliance newspaper. Lance Canales and the Flood [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Government Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat in Third Country
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Who is Alex Saab? Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat who was en route from Caracas to Tehran on June 12, 2020, when his plane was diverted to Cabo Verde, a small island [...] Continue Reading
Local High Schoolers Publish an Economics Book
I have always been an avid believer in SIY, or the “Start it Yourself” mentality. This, I believe, derives from my unbounded passion to incite change, namely, on those issues that plague our [...] Continue Reading
Troubling Contradictions
By Ruth Gadebusch Try as I might, I simply can’t understand so many of the right wing’s inconsistent stands. Calling themselves pro life, nowhere is contradiction more true than in their [...] Continue Reading
The Peace and Social Justice Calendar
[...] Continue Reading
Victorioso en las elecciones revocatorias, Newsom vuelve a enfocarse en la crisis de vivienda de California
Por Manuela Tobias El gobernador Gavin Newsom acaba de firmar algunos de los proyectos de ley de vivienda más grandes en años, incluida una medida que permite que se construya más de una casa en [...] Continue Reading
La crisis de la vivienda en California está arraigada en las leyes racistas de la zonificación
Por Mark Hedin En todo el país, con vencimiento el 30 de septiembre de las moratorias estatales y federales sobre el desalojo por no pagar la renta, más de 2 millones de arrendatarios adultos están [...] Continue Reading
Los demócratas deben cumplir en inmigración, pese al NO de la Parlamentaria
Por Maribel Hastings La recomendación de la Parlamentaria del Senado de no incluir lenguaje para la legalización de indocumentados en el plan de gastos que se consideraría mediante conciliación [...] Continue Reading