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    The Community Alliance is a monthly newspaper that has been published in Fresno, California, since 1996. The purpose of the newspaper is to help build a progressive movement for social and economic justice.

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Digital Cheese

By Will Durst Plenty of people had good reason to be in a foul mood back in 2012. The Detroit Tigers. Members of the Romney family. And, after making the acquaintance of a windy lass named Sandy, [...] Continue Reading

Chicano History: Revisted

From El Concilio de Fresno The Local Chicano Planning Committee was formed by El Concilio de Fresno to coordinate the second symposium event titled “Chicano History: Revisited in Fresno County.” This [...] Continue Reading

Summer of Brown Boi

By Erica Woodland Just four years ago, the Brown Boi Project, a community of people of color organizing across race and gender to challenge and transform dominant understandings of gender and [...] Continue Reading

Crisis in the Valley of Riches

By Stan Santos In the Central Valley, the “water crisis” has been the focus of increasing debate and calls for action. It is a historic problem dating back generations, and an unfolding drama full [...] Continue Reading

About the Cover: A Life in Print

By Ernesto Saavedra You’ve come across them at some point in your life. Posters, postcards and shirts. They decorate our walls, our bodies and our minds. Seldom is there much thought as to how these [...] Continue Reading

Freedom According to the Zapatistas

By Patricia Wells Solorzano (Author’s note: In August 2013, after years of little news from the Zapatistas, the Escuelitas Zapatistas (little schools) took place in Zapatista territory. Some people [...] Continue Reading

Hear the Children Cry

By Grisanti Valencia We can all hear the children cry, we can hear them cry for help, cry for a better tomorrow and are hoping they are granted asylum and not deported to their death from the [...] Continue Reading

Migration Is Not a Crime

By Eduardo Castro In a recent interview by Jeb Johnson, head of Homeland Security, he stated on television that migration is illegal. Our sisters and brothers from Central America and Mexico are [...] Continue Reading

Book Review: Border Patrol Nation

By David E. Roy The title of the book Border Patrol Nation, written by Todd Miller and just published, is an apt description of what has happened since 9/11, most of it out of view. Here are a few [...] Continue Reading