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
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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
First Social Justice Scholarship Presented
By Mike Rhodes The first Mike Rhodes Social Justice Scholarship of $1,000 was given to Esmeralda Serapio, who is a student at the San Joaquin College of Law. The scholarship was set up by Howard [...] Continue Reading
The People’s Dispensary Fresno Cannabis Town Hall
By Peter Maiden The Cannabis Town Hall was held at the First Congregational Church in Fresno on May 6, offering perspectives on jobs in the marijuana business, especially for people of color whose [...] Continue Reading
Why We Can’t Wait: Being Black in the Cannabis Industry
By Cesar Casamayor and Gidai Maaza There is unfinished business when it comes to cannabis legalization—the trauma-filled legacy of the War on Drugs within the Black community, especially on young [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: High-Speed Rail Construction Is a Dirty Business
By Tom Frantz Readers may have noticed recent high-speed rail (HSR) construction in various parts of the San Joaquin Valley. The building of bridges over Highway 99 in south Fresno and over the San [...] Continue Reading