We Will Be Prepared
[Editor's note: This interview was held on December 12, just prior to the Trump administration's incursion into Venezuela] An interview with Giselle P in Caracas, Venezuela Leni Villagomez [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
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
Peace & Social Justice Calendar January 2026
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Fresno Arts & Culture Calendar January 2026
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From the Editor
The annual fundraiser for the Community Alliance exceeded our expectations. We raised more than $20,000. There is a story about it by Mike Rhodes—with photos—in this issue. The event came at the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Free Zoe On Dec. 3, convicted felon Zoe Rosenberg was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay over $100,000 in restitution. Her crime was rescuing four dying chickens from a Petaluma [...] Continue Reading
Obituary: Paul Dunham
Paul Dunham, a Fresno activist in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away on Oct. 21 of natural causes during medical testing. He went to Bullard High School and Fresno State. In the late 1960s and early [...] Continue Reading
Haiku
Killing of Charlie Kirk Hate’s White on White Crime Summer’s Guns Killing People Chickens Have Returned Mamdani’s Democratic Goal Mamdani’s Vision Creates Spring Hopeful [...] Continue Reading
Con Trump, aumenta el costo de la vida
(Nota del Editor: se reproduce este artículo con la correspondiente autorización de Hispanicla.com) En las encuestas a boca de urna en las elecciones que la semana pasada dieron la victoria a los [...] Continue Reading
California Values Act and the TRUTH Act
In a Merced Sun-Star interview (Oct. 1, 2025) following his brief presentation (on Sept. 9, 2025) to the Merced County Board of Supervisors, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke dismissed the California [...] Continue Reading
Cambodia-Thailand Conflict
The inaugural Decolonizing Southeast Asia Studies Conference at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 25 concluded with a timely session on the centuries-old border conflict between [...] Continue Reading
“I’m Gonna Make Sure This Fails!”
On Dec. 9, the last Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting of 2025, staff presented an update on Measure C renewal negotiations, also covering what would be required to advance a potential [...] Continue Reading
Nueva Encuesta Revela Interés de los Padres por la Educación Bilingüe
(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
COP30 Outcomes
The United Nations holds an annual Conference of the Parties (COP), where world governments meet to discuss strategies for combating climate change. These conferences promote cooperation by sharing [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Fundraiser a Huge Success
The Dec. 6 Community Alliance fundraiser filled the room with energy, diversity and optimism—and, best of all, raised enough funds to keep the newspaper in print for the foreseeable future. The [...] Continue Reading
The Icemen Cometh
In the 1939 play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill, the “iceman” symbolizes a harsh truth that dispels illusions. In our time, the ICE branch of the federal government, along with the Border [...] Continue Reading
History of the 99 Freeway
[Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization.] A new report from the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies looks at the scale of destruction [...] Continue Reading
Standing Together for Healthier Communities
In 2025, families faced uncertainty, organizers felt exhaustion and frontline communities continued to live with the daily reality of pesticide exposure. Yet even amid struggle, the year reminded us [...] Continue Reading
Progresos en la Prevención de la Violencia de Género en México
El pasado 25 de noviembre se celebró el “Dia Naranja”, un dia dedicado a reflexionar y actuar respecto a la violencia contra las mujeres en nuestra sociedad. Este día fue establecido por la Naciones [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Attack on Black History
During his first term in office, Donald Trump took a tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and was guided by Lonnie Bunch. Bunch is the first Black American [...] Continue Reading
Theft from the People
A House of Dynamite, the latest film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, expertly dramatizes a nuclear attack. The well-researched script depicts just how quickly Armageddon could break out. Early on, [...] Continue Reading
