(Editor’s note: Just a few hours into the new Trump administration, the White House announced that Cuba is back on the list of “terrorist countries.”) The U.S. State Department maintains a list of [...] Continue Reading
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Lessons from Nuremberg
(Editor’s note: At press time came the announcement of the Jan. 15 ceasefire and prisoner/hostage exchange between Hamas and the Israeli government. This agreement is welcome, but it remains to be [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Gender-Affirming Surgery Support Trans-e-Motion has reopened its Community Care Grants, which fund gender-affirming surgeries for Central Valley residents, thanks to a $5,000 grant from Equality [...] Continue Reading
Manifestación Contra el Pesticida 1,3-D en Visalia
Trabajadores agrícolas, líderes comunitarios y defensores del medio ambiente se reunieron en Visalia para protestar contra el uso del pesticida 1,3-dicloropropeno (1,3-D o Telone) y exigir [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
February 2025 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. This is a .pdf of the February 2025 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the [...] Continue Reading
A Celebration of Life for Bev Fitzpatrick
Saturday, January 11, 11:00 am, A Celebration of Life for Bev Fitzpatrick will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, 2672 E. Alluvial Avenue, Fresno, CA 93720 Notes and [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The January 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 January 2025 Community Alliance newspaper. There [...] Continue Reading
Bitwise Leadership Sentenced
Courtroom 5 in Fresno’s Robert E. Coyle Federal Courthouse was standing room only on Dec. 17 when former Bitwise CEOs Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin Jr. were sentenced for wire fraud and conspiracy to [...] Continue Reading
Minority Rule: Disastrous and Cruel
As of Dec. 15, 2024, the population of the United States was 346,270,409 according to data collected by the United Nations. The United States has a voting age population of 262,083,034. Seven percent [...] Continue Reading
Fresno City Employees Strike
On Dec, 17, the City of Fresno Professional Employees Association (CFPEA), representing 435 supervisors in all City departments as well as professional positions in the City, such as architects, legal [...] Continue Reading
El Gobernador de California Declara Estado de Emergencia por Gripe Aviar
El gobernador del estado de California, Gavin Newsom, emitió el 18 de diciembre por la tarde un estado de emergencia para acelerar la respuesta del estado a la gripe aviar, también conocida como gripe [...] Continue Reading