Can leaders learn from losses?
Voters rejected four local sales tax measures last month. Millions of dollars later—much of it in public funds—they have perhaps taught local leaders some valuable lessons, at least those who have [...] Continue Reading
The December 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the December 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
To Our Audience On Dec. 3, the Community Alliance will hold its annual fundraiser. See the letter from our executive director and our promotion for the event on this page. This is an [...] Continue Reading
10 Years of Covered California
Ten years ago, Covered California started to enroll people to its wide variety of health insurance options. Called a “market of health insurance,” its originality resides in the chance to shop for the [...] Continue Reading
Hebe de Bonafini, Human Rights Champ, Dies at 93
Hebe de Bonafini was the leader of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo), the group she co-founded in 1977, one year after the bloody military dictatorship took over in Argentina—with [...] Continue Reading
Newsom Suspends $1 Billion in Funding for Homelessness
On Nov. 3, calling the current approach unacceptable, Governor Gavin Newsom immediately halted more than $1 billion in Homelessness, Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grants to local [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Unhoused People Who Died on the Streets
In the mid-1980s—at the start of the country’s current wave of homelessness—advocates in Philadelphia and New York City set aside one day a year to remember the people who died homeless there. They [...] Continue Reading
How This Valley City Plans on Surviving Historic Drought
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland (https://fresnoland.org/2022/11/14/another-dust-bowl-how-this-california-farmworker-city-plans-on-surviving-historic-drought/), a [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
On Nov. 10, the small town of Orosi in northern Tulare County was the setting as more than a hundred residents from various counties across the San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Fresno, Madera, Stanislaus, [...] Continue Reading
Mykolaiv: Life in a Bunker
Yuri, a small business owner, ran his logistics business and owned a truck and a large garage in Mykolaiv, where he lived with his wife Svetlana, and two daughters, Karina and Alina, 12 and 13, in a [...] Continue Reading
Beyond Racism and Resignations
Recent disclosures that Los Angeles City Council members and a union official racially denounced others compels us to deal with racism, colorism and anti-Blackness interwoven with classism for it [...] Continue Reading
Oaxaqueños Organize Día de los Muertos in Madera
My most vivid moments as a child are of my entire village coming together. A village of approximately 20 families would gather to build, celebrate and mourn. In times of mourning, the community would [...] Continue Reading
Activist Publishes Exposé of Life Inside Radical Valley Politics
“We found ourselves fighting a war at home and became the people our parents warned us against.” The memoir of former Fresno resident and political radical Joel Eis, Standin’ in a Hard Rain: The [...] Continue Reading
Brazil Is Back, Lula Is Back, Marina Is Back
“We are back. We are back to help build a peaceful world order based on dialogue and multilateralism.”—Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] Continue Reading
El conocimiento es poder
“El odio viene en muchas formas. Cuando nuestra juventud no tiene igualdad de acceso a la educación pública, hay falta de equidad y puede oprimir y limitar las oportunidades de movilidad y progreso [...] Continue Reading
Vuelve Brasil, Vuelve Lula, Vuelve Marina
"Estamos de vuelta. Regresamos para ayudar a construir un orden mundial pacífico basado en el diálogo y el multilateralismo.”—Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) El presidente electo de Brasil, Luiz [...] Continue Reading
Cómo Una Ciudad Del Valle Planea Sobrevivir a La Sequía
Esta nota fue publicada en Fresnoland.org Nohemí Ramírez ha trabajado durante más de 14 años en los campos agrícolas y en las empacadoras de los alrededores de Huron, una pequeña ciudad rural [...] Continue Reading
Covered California Cumple 10 Años
Hace diez años, Covered California comenzó a inscribir a las personas en su amplia variedad de opciones de seguro médico. Llamado “mercado de seguros de salud”, su originalidad reside en la [...] Continue Reading
Hebe de Bonafini, campeona de derechos humanos, muere a los 93 años
Hebe de Bonafini fue la líder de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, el grupo que cofundó en 1977, un año después de que la sangrienta dictadura militar tomara el poder en Argentina, con un fuerte apoyo y [...] Continue Reading
Stir it Up – Wednesday, December 7 at 3 p.m.
KFCF 88.1 FM Daren’s guest will be Humberto Gomez, Jr. - CDP Region 8 Director. We will discuss the state of Democratic Politics in the Fresno metro area. This is the Community [...] Continue Reading
Support Local/Independent Journalism
This is a Fundraiser for the Community Alliance newspaper. Follow this link to the Facebook Event page: https://fb.me/e/2V85pC4bI Advance Tickets ($40) are available here: For advance [...] Continue Reading
Support Local/Independent Journalism
The Community Alliance newspaper delivers news and analysis not controlled by corporate interests, the ruling elite and others that put profit before peoples needs. We stand with those fighting [...] Continue Reading