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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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What Happened?

By Ruth Gadebusch Although it has been more than a decade, it seems like such a short time ago that this country had crossed the Rubicon in our race relations. What joy, what hope, what excitement! [...] Continue Reading

Every Day We Get More Illegal

By Tim Simmers Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, 2020, $10.47 paperback. As a child of immigrant farmworkers who picked crops in the [...] Continue Reading

Got Your Vaccine?

By Community Alliance Staff According to most experts, to control the pandemic, about 80% of the population has to be vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19. After a slow, chaotic and confusing [...] Continue Reading

Why Are We So Punitive?

By William J. Farrell Our Punitive Society: Race, Class, Gender and Punishment in America (2nd ed.) by Randall G. Shelden and Morghan Vélez Young. Waveland Press Inc., Long Grove, Ill. Paperback, [...] Continue Reading

Una Historia Familiar en el Holocausto

Por Peter Maiden Soy hijo de una sobreviviente del Holocausto, lo que en parte se conoce como segunda generación. Sea algo natural o adquirido, toda mi vida experimenté un trauma sin saber porqué. [...] Continue Reading

El Migrante y El Arte

Por Francisco Duarte Las noticias sobre los migrantes, convertidas en armas políticas, son continuas. Más de 15.000 niños en centros de  detención  esperan ser relocalizados con sus [...] Continue Reading

La Inmigración Como Problema Mundial

Por César Leo Marcus Por La inmigración no es un problema solo de los Estados Unidos. Las personas están cruzando el mundo en números sin precedentes. En 2019 llegamos a 900 millones quienes [...] Continue Reading