Detener el odio es el tema de la reunión comunitaria que se llevará a cabo en Reedley el 30 de junio de 2023. El aumento de los delitos e incidentes motivados por el odio va en aumento y este evento [...] Continue Reading
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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
Racism Depends on Power to Thrive
An African-American girl attending Wilson Middle School in Chowchilla in Madera County is trying her best to stand up against racism, but it seems those in power won’t listen. The father of the [...] Continue Reading
Building Coalitions and Stopping Hate Crimes
With three successful Stop the Hate town halls completed, the San Joaquin Valley Media Alliance and the Community Alliance newspaper are on track to have a fourth event, probably in Reedley, in the [...] Continue Reading
Alfonso Hernandez, Trabajadores and the Chicano Youth Center
In 1977, Alfonso Hernandez, an idealistic social work graduate student at Fresno State, founded Trabajadores de la Raza San Joaquin Valley, or “Workers of the People.” Trabajadores established a [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Supervisors File Frivolous Lawsuit Using Public Dollars
On March 14, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted 3-2 to sue the State of California, using public dollars to favor a racist, sexist, derogatory name. They vote in a closed-door session [...] Continue Reading
Recall Supervisor Nathan Magsig
By Linda Tubach Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig has led the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to decide to sue the State of California to stop the replacement of S— Valley’s racist and [...] Continue Reading
Some Thoughts on the Stop the Hate Campaign
By Alexia Baca Morgan I am a 65-year-old Hispanic female from Albuquerque, N.M., who lives in Fresno. In my childhood, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s, my family and many Black and Brown [...] Continue Reading
Wokeness and the Great Fear of History
While teaching American history survey courses at Fresno State, I handed out questionnaires on the first day of class. Three key questions were 1) How do you view historical events (conservatively, [...] Continue Reading
Hate Is to Be Stopped
On Jan. 25, the Community Alliance newspaper and the San Joaquin Valley Media Alliance held their second “stop the hate” town hall at Central East High School in Fresno. Expert panelists and [...] Continue Reading
Dustup over Naming of Yokuts Valley
It’s the beginning of 2023, and already we’re having a dustup over the new name of Yokuts Valley. But first the good news: On Feb. 2, CalTrans took down two official green highway signs that [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Hate Town Hall in Madera
You are invited to the next Stop the Hate town hall on March 28 at 5 p.m. at the Pan America Community Center (703 Sherwood Way) in Madera. This is the third Stop the Hate town hall in the Central [...] Continue Reading