The June 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Bill McKibben Speech in Fresno
This is an (.mp3) audio file of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence 30th Anniversary held on June 11, 2022 at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Guest Speaker: Bill McKibben. [...] Continue Reading
Madera Candidate Denounces Witches
Mark Reed, who is a candidate for Eastern Madera’s 5th District supervisor, mailed thousands of mailers with inflammatory language, explicitly naming 5 local women, including their first and last [...] Continue Reading
2022 Primary Election Endorsement Grid
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Primary Voting Information
By Community Alliance Staff California’s statewide primary will occur on June 7, but early voting is already under way. Every registered voter should have received a ballot in the mail. You can [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Starbucks Store to Unionize
On May 12, Starbucks workers and their supporters conducted a brief rally in front of the store at Marks and Herndon avenues explaining their desire to unionize. That day, workers announced their [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC
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As Cuba Moves Forward, the United States Moves Backward
In the United States, attacks on reproductive rights and freedoms and other aspects of healthcare for women are increasing sharply, and the courts, which for a brief period provided some protection [...] Continue Reading
A Day Without Childcare
Hundreds of childcare providers around the state stopped working for a day as a protest to demand better working conditions and benefits. “A Day Without Childcare” occurred on May 9. Several of [...] Continue Reading
Endless War and an End to Your Civil Liberties
While the war in Ukraine rages on and U.S. foreign policy might provoke World War III, most Americans seem oblivious to a clear and present danger—the end of all life on the planet. Nuclear [...] Continue Reading
Are Community Needs a Priority?
An impromptu survey of local community leaders revealed the following priorities for our county. Affordable housingClean drinking waterClean air qualityClimate changeEconomic development/career [...] Continue Reading
Ukraine War Raises Threat of Nuclear Conflict
The world is confronting the threat of nuclear-armed conflict the likes of which has not been seen since the end of the Cold War. Although the war in Ukraine has escalated the threat, its antecedents [...] Continue Reading
Catastrophic Climate Change While Being Unhoused
It’s already deadly on the streets of Fresno. It’s deadly, in part, because it is Fresno City policy to continue encampment sweeps and because of its refusal to support safe camps. Women, the elderly, [...] Continue Reading
Systemic Racism on Display
Nothing upsets people faster than to suggest they’re reinforcing institutionalized racism, regardless of their race. Consider the elected officials and community leaders of the Fresno Council of [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
A Victory and a Tragedy In a violent and convulsive world, any good news is welcome. And Fresno got good news on May 17 when Judge Dale Drozd announced his judgment regarding a lawsuit brought by [...] Continue Reading
Fresno-Madera Area No. 1 in the Nation for Worst Air Quality
According to the 2022 State of the Air Report, which is published by the American Lung Association every year, the Fresno-Madera area took the lead as the most polluted city in the country for fine [...] Continue Reading
International Workers Day Celebrated in Fresno
May Day was celebrated in downtown Fresno on May 1. The theme was immigration reform, and about 300 people enjoyed the march, music and camaraderie with family and fellow workers. International [...] Continue Reading
Community Slows Tax Renewals
Sales tax renewal efforts in Fresno and Madera counties hit historic roadblocks in May and have no chance of success at the ballot this year. Running on 20th century plans for the future, the renewal [...] Continue Reading
College Students with Criminal Records
In my recent study of California college students with criminal records (CSCR), we are invited to bear witness to one way that decolonizing practices can unfold in higher education institutions. In [...] Continue Reading
What Is the Liberal Agenda?
When asked why the only Black conservative U.S senator voted not to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Senator Tim Scott (R–S.C.) said, “because she [...] Continue Reading
Abolish the S-Word in Place Names
In 2019, in remembrance of Hanna Harris, the U.S. Senate designated her birthday, May 5, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Harris was just 21 and a [...] Continue Reading
Sheriff’s Department Stole Our Newsstands: What’s Next?
Everyone has heard law enforcement’s slogan that they exist to “serve and protect.” But what happens when law enforcement employees are the thieves stealing your property? We know for a fact that [...] Continue Reading
Ukrainians Gather to Welcome War Refugees
Ukrainians gathered under a canopy-covered matrix of picnic tables at Selma Layne Park in north Fresno on May 14. Some have been living in the Valley for 20 to 30 years. Some are newly arrived. [...] Continue Reading
Roberto De La Cruz Showed Workers How to Change Their Lives
Courtesy of the United Farm Workers It was with profound sorrow that the farmworker movement learned of the sudden passing of lifetime farmworker and union activist Roberto “Bobby” De La [...] Continue Reading
Al Williams, Presente!
By Community Alliance Staff Al Williams passed away on May 1, 2022. Williams spent many years as a homeless person on the cruel streets of Fresno in the Roeding Park, Highway 99 and Olive Avenue [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Fuego Is Back!
The Central Valley’s new United Soccer League (USL) team, Fuego FC, played its first home game on May 7 against Greenville Triumph SC, tying 1-1. Fuego FC steps into the space left by the Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Integrity
Integrity! What a beautiful word. Not the word. Its meaning. Random House Dictionary: “soundness and adherence to moral principle and character: uprightness: honesty.” I believe without integrity [...] Continue Reading
On Ukraine, World Majority Sides with Russia over the United States
The year 2014 saw two pivotal events that led to the current conflict in Ukraine. The first, familiar to all, was the coup in Ukraine in which a democratically elected government was overthrown at [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Holding Supervisors Accountable After years of seeing media go after the City of Fresno, while the [Fresno] County Board of Supervisors has slipped past the radar of the media—and while County [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner
Richard’s Soliloquy (Blank Verse Poem) Sometimes I feel I just cannot go on. I want to stop and let my spirit be. The forces in this world want more and more. They make demands upon my [...] Continue Reading
Mural Unveiled at Jaswant Singh Khalra Park in Fresno
A Sikh man captures a mural being unveiled at Jaswant Singh Khalra Park in West Fresno on May 22. The cost of the mural was covered by the James Irvine Foundation as part of an award package for [...] Continue Reading
Some Thoughts on the Abortion Issue
Basically, abortion or anti-abortion is a religious concept. Many anti-abortionists claim that a soul is present immediately upon conception. Many of those who favor abortion do not believe that there [...] Continue Reading
Estudiantes Pueden Recibir $10.000 Dólares Siendo Voluntarios
El estado de California ofrece una oportunidad única y original para estudiantes universitarios y de colegios comunitarios de recibir $10.000 dólares en un año a cambio de ser voluntarios. Los [...] Continue Reading
Fuego FC Hizo Su Debut
El nuevo equipo de la Liga United Soccer (United Soccer League) del Valle Central, Fuego Football Club, debutó como local el 7 de mayo jugando contra Greenville Triumph SC. El partido terminó con un [...] Continue Reading
Guerra en Ucrania Aumenta la Amenaza de una Guerra Nuclear
Por Peter Schurmann y Jenny Manrique El mundo se enfrenta a la amenaza de un conflicto armado nuclear como no se había visto desde el final de la Guerra Fría. Y aunque la guerra en Ucrania ha [...] Continue Reading
Las Mujeres Luchan por sus Derechos y su Dignidad
Hace casi 50 años, la Corte Suprema dictaminó que las mujeres tenían el derecho fundamental de elección cuando se trataba de abortar. Los abortos no siempre fueron ilegales, de hecho, el primer estado [...] Continue Reading
Un Día Sin Cuidado Infantil
Cientos de cuidadoras infantiles de California decidieron no trabajar por un día como una manera de protestar en demanda de mejores condiciones laborales y beneficios. El día se llamó “Un Día Sin [...] Continue Reading
Fresno: Exigen a la Ciudad Solución a Crisis de Vivienda
La crisis de la vivienda está llegando a límites intolerables: las rentas aumentan incesantemente y hay pocas casas y departamentos accesibles para familias de bajos ingresos—la mayoría de la [...] Continue Reading