(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
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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
Deconstructing the Kremlin’s Information Warfare
As Russia wages hybrid war against Ukraine and the wider democratic world, information manipulation remains one of its most powerful weapons. The Kremlin deploys propaganda to confuse international [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Building Tomorrow’s EMS Workforce EMS Corps Fresno is a new, high-impact program launched under the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board. This initiative is preparing the next generation of [...] Continue Reading
