Results of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s menacing immigration policies sparked a coalition of immigrant rights and social justice groups to call a press conference at the federal building in [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Stop the Hate in Action
On Oct. 28, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC; in Topeka, Kan.), “arguably, the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, arrived [...] Continue Reading
Students Rally for Peace
A week before their Thanksgiving break, Fresno City College (FCC) students organized an “End the Genocide” demonstration and rally where they walked through campus holding up signs that read “Free [...] Continue Reading
Central Labor Council Sponsored Page
October 2024 [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
[más abajo en español] The August 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the August 2024 Community [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Lay of the Land Central Valley Matters directly funds several grassroots groups that are active in the Central Valley’s Congressional District 22. All the groups have been vetted for their work in [...] Continue Reading
Never Stop Protesting!
As of June 19, more than 37,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. An article [...] Continue Reading
Climate Profits Prophet
It’s difficult to imagine bringing a child into today’s world, someone destined to live beyond the year 2100; the extreme weather-related risks between now and 2050 worry me enough already. But that’s [...] Continue Reading
Hands Off the Uhuru 3!
Jesse Nevel of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement was the interviewee on the June 12 episode of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence–sponsored Stir It Up on KFCF 88.1 FM. He discussed just the movement itself [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade
This is a short video clip from the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade today. We think this was the biggest Pride Parade and Festival ever in Fresno. Crowd estimated at about 20,000, 120+ floats and it took [...] Continue Reading
“Outside Agitators” and “Super Citizens”
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an activist, grassroots, social justice organization founded to stop wars. Current campus protests against the war on Palestinians are [...] Continue Reading
Sit-in at Fresno State to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Students at Fresno State held a sit-in on campus to focus attention on the genocide taking place in Gaza and to call for an immediate end to the war. More than 150 students, faculty and community [...] Continue Reading