
Progressive, Local/Independent News
// By Community Alliance
The December 2025 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the December 2025 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading

From the Editor
// By Peter Maiden
Hello. I’m Peter Maiden, interim editor of the Community Alliance newspaper. I’m stepping into the big shoes of Eduardo Stanley while the newspaper decides who will be the next editor. We have a [...] Continue Reading

The Authoritarian Graveyard
// By Bob McCloskey
Say Their Names Say the names of some of those that have died in ICE custody this year: Ismael Ayala Uribe, Chao Feng Ge, Isidro Perez, Marie Ange Blaise, Maksym Chemyak, Brayan Rayo-Garzon and [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor
// By Community Alliance
Protect the People or Sell Us Out to CEMEX The proposed Rockfield expansion isn’t just another project, it’s a direct threat to our health and our future. Fresno already has some of the worst air [...] Continue Reading

Tower District Crime Report
// By Mike Rhodes
On Nov. 7, Rych Withers, KFCF 88.1 FM station manager, was dropping off some mail at the Tower District Post Office when he noticed a man taking all the Community Alliance newspapers from the [...] Continue Reading

Sidestepping the Big Questions
// By Rachel Youdelman
At the Nov. 4 Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting, symbolic proclamations, vulgar humor and self-congratulation shared the dais with weightier matters—from homelessness management to executive [...] Continue Reading

Is Zohran Mamdani an African American?
// By Homer Gee Greene Jr.
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani for winning the New York City mayoral election and becoming the first Muslim, first South Asian American and third African American to become mayor of New York [...] Continue Reading

Direct Action Downtown
// By Arthur Utecht
On Nov. 5, a small group of local activists gathered to deliver a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Outside the Attorney General’s Fresno satellite office, they shouted their pleas for [...] Continue Reading

Half of Farmworkers Are Food Insecure
// By JANETTE MEJIA PLAZA
The Central Valley is a fertile farm belt that expands for about 20,000 square miles and supplies one-fourth of the nation’s food. Fresno County alone is considered one of the most agriculturally [...] Continue Reading

Educational Alarm
// By Espi Sandoval
An educational crisis is spreading quietly across Fresno County, and it begins long before high school. The latest 2024–2025 CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) results [...] Continue Reading

Nile Water Disputes and Regional Solutions
// By Debay Tadesse
The Nile River has served as the backbone of life and civilization. Flowing through northeastern Africa, the Nile River is the longest river in the world, spanning approximately 6,650 to 6,850 [...] Continue Reading

Garbage into Gold
// By Maia Ballis
Managing biological waste in a new way that might cost a third less and produce higher value compost could help fight climate change, improve food quality and security, and create increased income [...] Continue Reading

1,3-D Policy Endangers Our Children
// By Cristina Gutierrez
Across California, farmworker communities are sounding the alarm: The state’s regulation of the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D, brand name Telone) is not only dangerously [...] Continue Reading

Utilities Bills Going Higher
// By Emi Yoko-Young
Everyone deserves safe, clean and affordable energy. But right now Fresno residents have the highest utility bills in the United States. And they’re about to get a whole lot higher. On Nov. 7, the [...] Continue Reading

America the Great?
// By Ruth Gadebusch
Almost from its beginning the United States of America has been considered great, the hope of oppressed people on the rest of the planet with the possible exception of the indigenous people of what we [...] Continue Reading

Peace & Social Justice Calendar
// By Community Alliance
Weekly KFCF 88.1 FM: Nuestro Foro (Tuesdays; Spanish) 7 p.m.–8 p.m. News, commentaries and music with a Latino touch hosted by Eduardo Stanley. For more info, visit kfcf.org. Raza Against [...] Continue Reading

DECEMBER 2025 CALENDAR
// By Community Alliance
Weekly Fort Washington Farmers Market (Sundays) 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Fort Washington Shopping Center. Local products. Sunday Jams (Sundays) 4 p.m.–7 p.m. California Catering. Live music. Acoustic [...] Continue Reading

Central Valley Briefs
// By Community Alliance
Latino Voters Speak UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, released its “Bipartisan Poll of Hispanic Voters: The Road to 2026” in early November. Here are [...] Continue Reading

UN Issues a Drone Warfare Warning
// By Zarina Zabrisky
On the surface, a UN investigation into war crimes in southern Ukraine might feel far from Fresno. The cities mentioned in the report are half a world away. The names are not immediately recognized: [...] Continue Reading

Haiku
// By Homer Gee Greene Jr.
Demolition of Freedom 2025 Haiku Fall White House East Wing Demolition Peoples’ House Wrecking Ball Freedom 2025 World Series Haiku Fall’s Best World Series Won By Three Asian [...] Continue Reading

Telling People What They Want to Believe
// By Steven Roesch
The military-industrial-media complex. That’s the terminology Norman Solomon uses in his 2023 book War Made Invisible. According to Solomon’s meticulously documented analysis, “[t]he business of [...] Continue Reading

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
// By Community Alliance
December 2025 Sponsored Page [...] Continue Reading

Sierra Club December 2025 Sponsored Page
// By Community Alliance
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La Alarma Educativa en el Condado de Fresno
// By Espi Sandoval
Una crisis educativa se está extendiendo silenciosamente por todo el condado de Fresno y comienza mucho antes de la preparatoria. Los resultados más recientes del examen estatal CAASPP 2024–2025 de [...] Continue Reading

La Política Sobre el 1,3-D Pone en Peligro a Nuestros Hijos
// By Cristina Gutierrez
POR CRISTINA GUTIERREZ Las recientes regulaciones del Departamento de Regulación de Pesticidas (DPR) permiten que los escolares estén expuestos a 1,3-D 14 veces más que el nivel de exposición [...] Continue Reading

Juan Esparza, Una Vida Dedicada al Periodismo del Valle
// By Eduardo Stanley
Después de casi medio siglo reportando una gran variedad de noticias y aportando punzantes columnas de opinión en inglés y español, Juan Esparza Loera se jubiló de su puesto en el periódico The Fresno [...] Continue Reading

Nueva Encuesta Revela Interés de los Padres por la Educación Bilingüe
// By ESTHER QUINTANILLA
(Nota del Editor: se reproduce este artículo con el permiso de Central Valley Journalism Collaborative) Padres y familias latinas de estudiantes de inglés de K-12 en California participaron [...] Continue Reading

Los lobistas inundan las negociaciones de la COP30
// By Community Alliance
POR PERSONAL DE KICK BIG POLLUTERS OUT Belém, Brasil: Un nuevo análisis revela que más de 1600 lobistas de combustibles fósiles han obtenido acceso a las negociaciones climáticas de la COP30 en [...] Continue Reading

Con Trump, aumenta el costo de la vida
// By Gabriel Lerner
https://hispanicla.com/con-trump-aumenta-el-costo-de-la-vida-aunque-diga-lo-contrario-125521] (Nota del Editor: se reproduce este artículo con la correspondiente autorización de [...] Continue Reading
