Dolores Huerta Foundation is celebrating the 2020 Census and election victories. The Vecinos Unidos, DHF Youth, staff and volunteers expanded the organizing power of our communities to make real and [...] Continue Reading
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2020 Elections Results: Biden Wins, California Remains Blue
Community Alliance Staff On Nov. 7, 2020, the news arrived early in the morning: America has a new president: Joe Biden. The announcement came right after Biden was declared the winner in [...] Continue Reading
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Rhodes We know about the crisis in the newspaper industry, how the Internet and social media have strangled their primary source of income from advertising and how newspapers all over the [...] Continue Reading
Virus—and Leaders—Wreak Havoc When the Body Is Weak
By Raul Pickett Governor Andrew Cuomo, of New York, recently stated that “leadership matters, and their performance matters. Leaders will be judged on whether they actively promote unity during a [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Commission for Police Reform
Where did it come from? Where is it going? By Gerry Bill Following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and dozens of other men and women of color wrongfully killed by police [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Vows to Take Pandemic and Police Frustrations to the Polls
By Mark Hedin The first Covid-era study of Fresno voters found widespread suffering due to the pandemic, along with frustration over city policing and a strong determination to do something about [...] Continue Reading
I Am Indigenous
Whitman Style Free Verse Poem by Richard D. Iyall I am indigenous to this land. Yes, I am. Indigenous I am.I am a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, whose sacred landis under siege in Washington, the [...] Continue Reading
Chiapas in the Decolonizing October
By Juan Trujillo Limones As reactions to a decolonizing social process, images of the demolition of statues of conquerors, colonial leaders and slaveholders in Chile and the United States have been [...] Continue Reading
What Is the Defense Against Right-Wing Lawlessness?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Why Now for the Bolivian Election? Bolivia went to the polls on Oct. 18. Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca were the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the [...] Continue Reading
Tearing Down Monuments
By Robin Maria DeLugan Today, as historical monuments become the sites of protest against police violence and racism, new attention is drawn to the role they play in society. A monument that is [...] Continue Reading