By Community Alliance Staff On Aug. 25, citizens from throughout Fresno gathered in west Fresno for a community town hall on discrimination in policing. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, State Attorney [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Clearing the Air: Air District Asks Feds for Permission to Harm Public Health
By Tom Frantz Using funds designated to clean our air, local San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) officials went on a political jaunt this September to Washington, D.C. [...] Continue Reading
Disrupting White Supremacy
By Ernesto Saavedra (Editor’s note: On Aug. 10, Fresno community members blocked traffic outside of the Robert E. Coyle Federal Building in downtown Fresno during the lunch rush. At the end, two of [...] Continue Reading
Fresno PD Refuses to Enforce Gun Laws
By Lindsey Spec In May 2014, the Fresno Bee covered a story of a 13-year-old student found with a .357 magnum and bullets at Baird Middle School. The gun was owned by the father, a Fresno County [...] Continue Reading
Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System
By Jonathan Luevanos The Community Alliance newspaper recently published an article titled “ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County: Tens of Thousands Go Without Legal [...] Continue Reading
12 Points to Address Police Abuse
By Gloria M. Hernandez Three years ago, families met in Oxnard from throughout the state to share their pain and learn from each other. I went to find others like me who had been in the battlefront [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Real Time “Security State”
By Stan Santos Author’s note: On July 7, reporters gathered at the Fresno Police Department (FPD) headquarters to observe the rollout of the Real Time Crime Center. The Community Alliance covered this [...] Continue Reading
Concerns for the California Air Resources Board
By Cherylyn Smith (Author’s note: The following comments were posted on the California Air Resources Board (arb.ca.gov) Web site on Aug. 14. They raise issues that have occurred since my previous [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Don’t Pollute Our Air to Save the Planet
By Tom Frantz There is a bill before the current legislature in California that is mislabeled as a project appropriate for greenhouse gas reduction funding. This bill is numbered AB590 and is [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – September 2015
PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING WILPF--FRESNO 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND WILPF--INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL Dangerous Women: 50 Years in Fresno, 100 Years Internationally Inspiring historical and educational [...] Continue Reading
Union Brothers
By Leni Reeves Bold Step is the name of an event that will be held on Sept. 5 and 6 in Delano, hosted by the Filipino American Historical Society, honoring the Filipino roots of the Delano [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: A Turning Point for Political Action at Last?
By George B. Kauffman Charles D. Keeling (1928–2005) was the first to alert the world to the anthropogenic contribution to the “greenhouse effect” and global warming. In 1958, he set up an infrared [...] Continue Reading