The San Joaquin Valley has been described as the nation’s most transformed landscape. It has been industrialized with agriculture, resource extraction and spreading urbanization. It has been called a [...] Continue Reading
Agriculture
Rural Communities Demand More Pesticide Controls
On July 12, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation conducted a public hearing in Turlock on the notification of the exact locations of pesticide use. Dozens of people attended from [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Children from Pesticide Exposure
Each morning, I help my four children get ready for school and daycare, where I trust that they will be safe. I trust that our teachers and administrators will ensure that children can’t access [...] Continue Reading
Nu’u Yavi: Festival de Comida Oaxaqueña
POR EDUARDO STANLEY En los últimos 20 años aproximadamente, la presencia cultural de Oaxaca en el Valle de San Joaquín se ha vuelto cada vez más evidente, particularmente en Madera y Arvin (condado [...] Continue Reading
No Whitewashing the Past
(Editor’s note: This is the story of Vance McKinney, as told to the author. McKinney is a truck driver (who hauls mostly agricultural produce) in a farmworker community. His father was a farmworker. [...] Continue Reading
Good News from the Pesticide Front
The fight to protect California residents, especially those who live near agricultural fields, from the negative effects of pesticides is far from over, but it is important to pause and take stock of [...] Continue Reading
La Producción Económica de los Latinos en EE.UU Impulsa al País
(Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission from Ethnic Media Services.) El último informe sobre el Producto Bruto Interno (PBI) de los latinos en Estados Unidos da un vuelco a la narrativa sobre la [...] Continue Reading
Tulare Lake Lingers over Industrial Landscape
The emergence of a reborn Tulare Lake, from winter floodwaters that submerged farmland in the San Joaquin Valley, is posing new problems. The lake still covers an extensive landscape, but it is now [...] Continue Reading
How Does the Farm Bill Impact You?
At the “Salt of the Earth Encuentro” hosted by the Pan Valley Institute of the American Friends Service Committee (PVI-AFSC) of the Central Valley, participants visited five small organic farms run by [...] Continue Reading
Water Forum Ponders Valley Water Concerns
There are few places this year where water has been more of a preoccupation than in Kings County. That’s mainly because of a partial rewatering of the historic Tulare Lake, along with flooding due to [...] Continue Reading
An Encuentro About Land, Climate and Food Justice
In April, Madera Community College hosted the American Friends Service Committee’s Pan Valley Institute (PVI) national encuentro, or gathering, titled Salt of the Earth, centering California’s Central [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The May 2023 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 May 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading