Without U.S. Support It Wouldn’t Have Happened The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Make a Wave For Gaza
On Saturday, October 4, more than two dozen people attended the “Make a Wave for Gaza” event at Broadway Parque, in downtown Fresno. Participants folded and decorated small paper boats, and some of [...] Continue Reading
Protests Are Growing
More Than 7 Million Protest on No Kings Day According to the Oct. 18 No Kings Day organizers, in one of the largest single day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly 7 million people [...] Continue Reading
Keep Us Alive!
The Community Alliance newspaper is in a financial crisis. The worst crisis I have seen in the 28 years that I have been a part of the paper. We have reduced our expenses, staff have taken draconian [...] Continue Reading
Needle Exchange Loses Its County Office
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted on Aug. 19 to stop funding a space for Fresno’s Whole Person Harm Reduction Program in the County Department of Public Health building on Fulton [...] Continue Reading
Intercambio de Agujas Pierde su Oficina en el Condado
El 19 de agosto, la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Fresno votó a favor de suspender la financiación de un espacio para el Programa de Reducción de Daños Integrales de Fresno en el edificio del [...] Continue Reading
Workers over Billionaires
Around 250 protesters gathered at Peach Avenue and Cesar Chavez Boulevard in southeast Fresno on Labor Day, Sept. 1. The theme of the protest was “Workers over Billionaires,” and there were many signs [...] Continue Reading
United for Change
Several recent demonstrations were held in Fresno to lend support to ongoing national boycott efforts against Chevron, for its ongoing logistical support for Israel, and against Home Depot, for its [...] Continue Reading
Valley Solidarity Assemblies
In this moment of rising fascism, where we stand defines our integrity. In our daily lives, we see those willing to step forward, to courageously voice dissent and to enter into solidarity [...] Continue Reading
Good Trouble Lives On in the Central Valley
On July 17, community members gathered and echoed comments of the acclaimed activist and former Congressional member John Lewis. The event enlightened the community on the importance of searching for [...] Continue Reading
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
Community Members Stand By Council Member Arias
On June 26, the May 1 Committee for Immigrant Rights, local community members and human rights advocates gathered in front of Fresno City Hall to “call for a halt to the disinformation campaign [...] Continue Reading