With Governor Gavin Newsom firmly in the lead, the Golden State’s Democratic Party is collapsing faster than an alpine glacier. Buried beneath the landslide of their servile politics are homeless [...] Continue Reading
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Allensworth: Striving to Thrive
As in most small towns, Allensworth’s children are at the heart of community life. Whether it is the school play, sporting events or holidays, kids bring people together as a community. Families [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth: Buscando la Prosperidad
Como en la mayoría de los pueblos pequeños, los niños de Allensworth son el centro de la vida comunitaria. Ya sea en la obra de teatro escolar, eventos deportivos o días festivos, los niños unen a la [...] Continue Reading
New West Fresno Park Named for Dolores Huerta
On June 30, the City of Fresno broke ground for a new park in West Fresno, named for the iconic farm labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who traveled up from Bakersfield with her daughter [...] Continue Reading
Artist Spotlight on Aideed Medina
(Author’s note: In the June issue of the Community Alliance, we introduced you to Fresno’s newly appointed 2025–2027 poet laureate, the provocative local Chicana artist Aideed Medina, and her emerging [...] Continue Reading
Agustín Lira: Music and Theater for the People
Agustín Lira will be inducted into the Valley Music Hall of Fame on Sept. 17. It is not the first honor for the singer-songwriter-organizer-director, who has previously been honored as a National [...] Continue Reading
UN Report Confirms Israel’s Economy of Genocide
On July 3, the UN High Commission on Human Rights issued a press release entitled “Forever-Occupation, genocide and profit: Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of [...] Continue Reading
Republican Budget Is Immoral
“In virtually every single area, this bill takes us in precisely the wrong direction.” —Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) On July 4, America celebrated its independence from the harsh and [...] Continue Reading
Inconvenient Truths About Homelessness
In There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America, Brian Goldstone follows the struggles of five Atlanta families who are trying to keep a roof over their heads. Their stories are gripping [...] Continue Reading
Ending the Delusion of Nuclear Weapons
While listening to John F. Kennedy’s July 25, 1963, radio and television address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I couldn’t help but think back on a time when I was only eight [...] Continue Reading
80th Commemoration of Atomic Bombings
A clear and beautiful blue sky, cicadas singing and a peaceful morning, broken by the detonation of an atomic bomb dropped high above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another morning was [...] Continue Reading
Immigrants’ Concerns
(Editor’s note: The following story is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) Undocumented, low-income immigrants in California who are covered by Medi-Cal [...] Continue Reading