By Mike Rhodes Not long ago, it was possible for a company such as Mid Valley Disposal to make a profit from and pay the city some money for picking up customers’ blue bins. That is no longer the [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Floyd Harris III: Southwest Fresno Student, Activist and Cheerleading Champion
By Hannah Brandt While most four-year-olds are preoccupied identifying barnyard animals, learning the alphabet and playing patty-cake, Floyd Harris III accompanied his father, Rev. Dr. Floyd [...] Continue Reading
2019: Joaquin Murrieta Rides and Immigrants March!
By Stan Santos The 2019 Joaquin Murrieta Ride was held on July 26, 27 and 28, connecting Madera and west Fresno County communities, including Firebaugh, Mendota, Cantua Creek and Three Rocks, in [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Radical Past
By Mike Rhodes Last month, we recovered an amazing period in this city’s past that was almost lost forever. Revealed was a rich tapestry of antiwar and draft resistance actions that shook this [...] Continue Reading
Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Can’t Be Stopped
By Leni Reeves The Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba means solidarity with Cuba and working for change in the United States. It is civil disobedience, which means breaking a law to point out how [...] Continue Reading
Immigrant Advisory Committee
By Samuel Molina It has been more than two years since President Donald Trump took office and began repealing the progress that had been made by immigrant advocates. This has created chaos, [...] Continue Reading
In Crisis: Fresno County Long-Range Planning
By Radley Reep Fresno County 2000–2020 General Plan In the 1990s, dissatisfied with escalating urban sprawl and chronic poverty in the Central Valley, a cadre of concerned citizens—including [...] Continue Reading
America’s Own Death Camps
By Robert Navarro On social media and elsewhere, there is much resort to memes and breathless discussion that compares the complex of camps along the U.S. southern border and prior “camps” as in [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: A Just Transition
By Tom Frantz There is no question the earth is warming rapidly because of human activity. Our inability to fully accept this looming disaster has resulted in insufficient public action to quickly [...] Continue Reading
Public Resists Plans to Drill for Oil on Valley Public Lands
By Gary Lasky and Ron Martin The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this year rolled out its latest proposal to auction off public lands for oil and gas drilling, following a federal court’s [...] Continue Reading
Join Us on June 15 to Help Keep Free Speech Alive
By Community Alliance Staff Community Alliance readers, advertisers, contributors and supporters are invited to join us for a fund-raiser on June 15. As you are aware, we are experiencing a crisis [...] Continue Reading
Sanctions, Embargo, Blockade: Siege Warfare by Another Name
By Leni Reeves The basic concept of siege warfare is to surround a civilian population that has been designated “the enemy” and to prevent supplies, especially of food, from getting in until [...] Continue Reading