Stir it Up is the Community Alliance newspapers radio show on KFCF 88.1 FM. On June 5, 2024 Robin McGehee, the LGBTQ Liaison to the City of Fresno was the guest. This is her interview with host [...] Continue Reading
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Stop the Hate Day in Fresno
The City of Fresno declared today (June 7) as the initial Stop the Hate Day. In recognition of the Stop the Hate coalition’s work, City Council President Annalisa Perea, Mayor Jerry Dyer, Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Photos of the Rainbow Pride Parade
Community Alliance newspaper editor Eduardo Stanley took his camera to the event and this is what he saw. [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade
This is a short video clip from the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade today. We think this was the biggest Pride Parade and Festival ever in Fresno. Crowd estimated at about 20,000, 120+ floats and it took [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
June 2024 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. [...] Continue Reading
The June 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Who Will Stand in Solidarity with These Women?
On May 23, Fresno City Council members heard from three traumatized women who were attacked by an Islamophobic man at Porchfest in the Tower District. (See also “Hate Speech and Crimes.”) Speakers [...] Continue Reading
Hate Speech and Crimes
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone or commit violence against targeted [...] Continue Reading
“Outside Agitators” and “Super Citizens”
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an activist, grassroots, social justice organization founded to stop wars. Current campus protests against the war on Palestinians are [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Activist Vickie Fouts
Vickie Fouts, a well-respected and committed local activist, passed away on May 23, “very peacefully with her teddy bear, my brother Preston and I at her side,” wrote her daughter, Natasha Fouts, on [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
November Is Getting Close It’s little wonder so many people are fed up with politicians. And that’s a bipartisan thing. Take, for example, the president’s recent grandiose announcement about [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Not Rocket Science The solution to the immigration problem, if we really want to solve it, is not rocket science. If the immigration problem is caused by political and economic oppression in other [...] Continue Reading