Michael Evans has produced this informative slide show about the Community Alliance effort to serve the rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley. You can see the slide show below. This is a .pdf [...] Continue Reading
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The March 2026 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
ICE Detention Facilities: Barbaric and Negligent
Local and National ICE Out Protests Grow On Jan. 31, thousands of protesters across the United States demonstrated against the federal government’s immigration detention centers, enforcement [...] Continue Reading
Resistance in the Heartland
Kings County is not a place most people would expect to see much resistance to the illegal and immoral policies and actions of the Trump administration. It is home to industrial agriculture, state [...] Continue Reading
Tribus de California Luchan por los Derechos del Agua
Por Vic Bedoian Recientemente, la Junta Estatal de Control de Recursos Hídricos celebró audiencias exhaustivas sobre la actualización del Plan del Delta de la Bahía, que regula la cantidad de agua [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
I was with the mailing crew for the newspaper in the office of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence on Van Ness Avenue last month when an anti-ICE protest march of students from Fresno High School came [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Hurtado Should Resign State Senator Melissa Hurtado posted on Facebook that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “focused on the issues and the importance of unity” during his remarks at the Munich [...] Continue Reading
What’s Wrong with Fresno!?
By asking this question some might think this is to be a bash piece against Fresno. In truth, it is quite the opposite. This is not a feel-good piece either. I ask the question because I truly [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers of the Central Valley
In December 1990, record freezing temperatures destroyed most of the citrus crop in the Central Valley. More than 30,000 farmworkers had no work, and their more than 100,000 family members had no [...] Continue Reading
Road Rage: Driving County Policy Off a Cliff
Nuts and Bolts What nuts-and-bolts tasks has the Fresno County Board of Supervisors managed to accomplish within the past month? Routine administrative actions include staffing the Office of [...] Continue Reading