By Gabriel Lerner California Senator Kamala Harris should be the Democratic vice presidential candidate. An energetic and courageous leader, Harris deserves the support of the Latino community at [...] Continue Reading
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – August 2020
WILPF MEETING Normally we meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all. There will be no [...] Continue Reading
Whoa! Slow Down! Rethink!
By Ruth Gadebusch To you who would tear down statues, rename places and force others out of jobs due to views expressed decades ago: Whoa! Slow down! Rethink all this laundering of history. Are we [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation – August 2020
Defund the Police and Invest in Students In the days leading up to the June 29th Kern High School District (KHSD) Board meeting, the Kern Education Justice Collaborative (KEJC) collected over 1500 [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence – August 2020
We honor and celebrate the 150th year (2019-2020) of Gandhi’s birth the principles of peace and nonviolence sustained by those who are a part of the global struggle for freedom and justice. By [...] Continue Reading
I Am a Book
A Free Verse Poem by Richard Iyall I am peace. I am love. I am the light from high above. I am the light that shines within. I am the spark that makes you grin. I am a book upon on a [...] Continue Reading
Teatro Inmigrante: New Theater Project 2020–21
(Editor’s note: Teatro Inmigrante is the brainchild of Agustín Lira and Patricia Wells, local artists with roots in the farmworkers’ movement originated in the 1960s in the Central Valley.) In [...] Continue Reading
This Is Not Getting Better
By Eduardo Stanley The Covid-19 pandemic is putting us to the test as human beings and as citizens. And the results aren’t good. While Fresno and California were doing well implementing the [...] Continue Reading
The Community Alliance and the Boycott of Facebook Advertising
By Peter Maiden The #StopHateForProfit campaign is calling for a boycott of paid Facebook advertising. The boycott got underway in mid-June and will extend at least until the end of July. The [...] Continue Reading
The Power of Art in Times of the Pandemic
By Community Alliance Staff The “Lift Every Voice” mural project started June 13 on H Street, across from Chukchansi Park, where a group of local artists painted a mural under the theme “Black [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation – July 2020
Dolores Huerta’s ¡Sí Se Puede! at 90 Birthday Celebration raises over $400,000 for Covid-19 Relief Efforts On May 30th, 2020, civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta celebrated her [...] Continue Reading
Justice Denied…
By I. smiley G. Calderon We’ve all heard the common adage and legal maxim, “justice delayed is justice denied,” right? It means, so long as justice is put on hold, it really is injustice, plain and [...] Continue Reading