Décimo Festival de la Chilena programado para el 18 de septiembre
Por Sandra Martinez-Cortés Los residentes de Madera y de todo el Valle Central esperan con ansias una noche de baile, deliciosa cocina tradicional oaxaqueña y una rica cultura a medida que el [...] Continue Reading
Festival de la Chilena Set for Sept. 18
By Sandra Martinez-Cortes Residents in Madera, and throughout the Central Valley, are looking forward to a night of dance, delicious traditional Oaxacan cuisine, and rich culture as the Festival de [...] Continue Reading
Governor Newsom Stops in Fresno Ahead of Recall Election
By Community Alliance staff On Sept. 9, Governor Gavin Newsom stopped in Fresno as part of his political tour in support of the “No” on the recall election to take place on Sept. 14. He visited the [...] 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
Valley Farmworker Families Sue Chemical Giant Dow
By Vic Bedoian Dow Chemical Company is the target of lawsuits recently filed on behalf of two Central Valley farmworker families over injuries they allege are caused by the pesticide chlorpyrifos. [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Digital Rich and Digital Poor
By Stan Santos In 2019–2020, Fresno County schools enrolled 207,858 students, of which 140,000, or 65%, were Latino and 10,600 were African American. But there are pronounced disparities in the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Leaving Afghanistan Finally, the United States is out of Afghanistan after 20 years of a failed invasion that left about 2,000 American soldiers dead and countless injured. Billions spent—and lots [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Diversity at FUSDI have taught history/social science for 16 years in high school and middle school. This is my 14th year in Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) as a seventh-grade world history [...] Continue Reading
Madera and the Right to a Free Press
By Mike Rhodes The newsstand of the Community Alliance newspaper was removed from in front of the Madera Post Office by order of the Madera Postmaster Henry De La Torre. Of the five newsstands in [...] Continue Reading
Deception Overload: Roads, Dumps and Perea Politics
By Kevin Hall Measure C remains the biggest deception in town, offering a complete look at how greater Fresno’s lesser political culture operates. From transportation agency staff privately setting [...] Continue Reading
Tale of Two Cities: Environmental Injustice in Fresno
By Nayamin Martinez It is well documented that the built environment is a key element of the social determinants of health. Where you live determines in great part your access to multiple basic [...] Continue Reading
Native American Day
By Richard Iyall In 1939, California Governor Culbert Olson declared Oct. 1 of that year to be Indian Day. That made this state the first to designate a day to honor the indigenous people who were [...] Continue Reading
Who Is Behind David Castillo?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The Murder of Berta Cáceres Roberto David Castillo Mejía, planner and instigator of the murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras, was finally convicted in July 2021, more [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Music and the Cultural War
By Peter Maiden During the Cold War, culture was weaponized. The Bolshoi Ballet built legitimacy for the Soviet Union. The CIA countered by covertly running supposedly independent magazines and [...] Continue Reading
Providing the Homeless with Reliable Covid-19 Information
By Mike Rhodes The Community Alliance has dramatically increased its distribution to homeless people in Fresno. Our goal is to put truthful and reliable information about Covid-19 in the hands of [...] Continue Reading
Equity Now in Redistricting
The redistricting process is well underway for several legislative bodies. At the state level, the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has held several hearings for input on drawing new [...] Continue Reading
Green Raiteros in Huron
By Peter Maiden Facing a woefully inadequate transportation situation in the town of Huron, now Huron Mayor Rey León founded the San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project (Valley [...] Continue Reading
Critical Race Theory and the Many Contradictions about Race in America
By Dr. Malik Simba In 1965, my first job was as a copy boy at the Denver Post newspaper. My father, Theoplis T. Hogue, Sr., was a maître d’ in the Gyro Club, a private club within the segregated [...] Continue Reading
Creating Freeway Protest Signage as a Calling
By David E. Roy Chris Wippern, an amiable man, has realized that his truest calling is being a freeway protest sign creator. Part of his joy stems from realizing recently that he is an artist and [...] Continue Reading
“From the Beginning, I Was Willing to Get Vaccinated”
By Community Alliance Staff Bernandina Hernández was born in Guerrero state, Mexico, and worked in the fields of California for more than 20 years. She now works in a packing warehouse in Sanger. [...] Continue Reading
Decolonizing Public Safety
Exploring Punishment By Morghan Vélez Young (Editor’s note: “Exploring Punishment” is a new series about the U.S. fixation with punishment that will journey beyond explorations of jails and [...] Continue Reading
The Community Alliance Calendar
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Like Thunder: Merrill Goodall’s Part in the Struggle
By Trudy Wischemann A recent book review, “Like Lightning: A Book for Our Time” (Community Alliance, August 2021), stressed the seminal role of Paul Taylor, the humanist Berkeley economist, in [...] Continue Reading
Neither Rhyme nor Reason
By Ruth Gadebusch How did science get to be held in such low esteem in this nation? I’m not referring to someone on the street with little or no opportunity to be exposed to science as believers [...] Continue Reading
Following the Money for the Unhoused
By Bob McCloskey In one of the hottest summers on record, the City of Fresno continues to fail to provide housing for its most vulnerable citizens. As the mayor and City Council members tout their [...] Continue Reading
Lupita Infante, Nieta Del Ícono Pedro Infante, Se Consolida Como Cantante
Por Eduardo Stanley “La música ha sido una gran parte de mi vida desde pequeña, pero no fui una niña a la que subían al escenario de una forma profesional, pero siempre fue parte de mi historia. [...] Continue Reading
“Desde Un Principio Quería Vacunarme”
Por Alianza Comunitaria Hernández nació en el estado de Guerrero, México, y trabaja en los campos de cultivo de California desde hace más de 20 años, aunque actualmente labora en una empacadora de [...] Continue Reading
EE.UU se vuelve cada vez más diverso
Por Mark Hedin La población de Estados Unidos es más diversa que nunca y cada vez más urbana, según los nuevos datos recogidos en el Censo del 2020. Pero el ritmo del crecimiento de la población en [...] Continue Reading
Elecciones en Madera 2021: ¿Primera Concejal de Origen Indígena?
En las elecciones del próximo 2 de noviembre, Madera decidirá en las urnas quién será el/la representante del distrito #5. Dos mujeres se disputan el puesto que quedó vacante en las elecciones del [...] Continue Reading
Celebrate With Us
The staff and volunteers of the Community Alliance newspaper invite you to join us as we celebrate a quarter century of alternative/independent journalism in Fresno. There will be music, food and [...] Continue Reading
Ricos y pobres en la brecha digital de Fresno
Por Stan Santos Durante el año escolar 2019-2020, las escuelas del Condado de Fresno tuvieron una inscripción de 207.858 estudiantes de los cuales 140.000 ó 65% eran latinos y 10.600 eran [...] Continue Reading
El Regreso de la Comandante Ramona
Juan Trujillo Limones San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, agosto 2021. “Waj’ab’al, es una palabra que camina, es como este tambor y sus sonidos”, explicó en esa tarde fría de otoño afuera de la [...] Continue Reading