On June 30, the City of Fresno broke ground for a new park in West Fresno, named for the iconic farm labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who traveled up from Bakersfield with her daughter [...] Continue Reading
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New West Fresno Park Named for Dolores Huerta
On June 30, the City of Fresno broke ground for a new park in West Fresno, named for the iconic farm labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who traveled up from Bakersfield with her daughter [...] Continue Reading
50th Anniversary of the Grape Strike
On Aug. 19, the Chicano Youth Center in Fresno hosted a fundraising event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Farm Workers (UFW) strike in the grape industry. The strike began on April [...] Continue Reading
A Chapter in a People’s History of the San Joaquin Valley
On Oct. 4, 1933, 5,000 cotton workers in Corcoran voted to strike after growers lowered wages below those of the previous season. The strike began at the Tagus Ranch in Tulare County but soon spread [...] Continue Reading
January 2003
You can read the .pdf version of the January 2003 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading
November 2001
Table of Contents Page 1 Collage of Photos by George Ballis Page 2 Doing Democracy Author by Richard Stone Page 2 Greens Gather by Jeff Eisinger Page 2 Credit Union Banks Community [...] Continue Reading