In early November, on a beautiful Central California afternoon, Peace Fresno led a group of local residents in a peace march and demonstration on the sidewalks at the corner of Blackstone and Nees [...] Continue Reading
Israel and Palestine
Students Rally for Peace
A week before their Thanksgiving break, Fresno City College (FCC) students organized an “End the Genocide” demonstration and rally where they walked through campus holding up signs that read “Free [...] Continue Reading
Global Solidarity and Local Resistance through Art
“Zein was the youngest member of the al-Najar family. They lived in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. On Oct. 10, 2023, 18 members of the family, including five children and three women, were [...] Continue Reading
Military Madness
BY BOB MCCLOSKEY “Military madness is killing your country, So much sadness, between you and me, War, war, war, war, war, war.” —Graham Nash War Abroad and at Home Against the [...] Continue Reading
Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter and Neither Does Yours
As the unabated slaughter continues in Gaza and the threat of regional war looms, the 79th Hiroshima Commemoration was held on Aug. 6 at Fresno State. The event was sponsored by the Human Rights [...] Continue Reading
Protests Continue as Netanyahu Addresses Congress
Erratum: [In the fifth paragraph, in response to a quote from Netanyahu, we had included the parenthetical comment “(It must be noted that Netanyahu s allegations of rape are refuted.)” We believe [...] Continue Reading
Never Stop Protesting!
As of June 19, more than 37,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. An article [...] Continue Reading
Looking for Every Opportunity to Do Evil: H.R. 8771
Something impressive about the U.S. ultra-right is the apparent ability to do a huge number of bad things simultaneously. An example is the State and Foreign Operations and Related Programs [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Spread the Word It’s time to bring back sanity into this 2024 Presidential election. I’m not surprised to hear people saying, “Why should I bother to vote?”Can’t blame them if they feel that they [...] Continue Reading
The June 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
“Outside Agitators” and “Super Citizens”
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an activist, grassroots, social justice organization founded to stop wars. Current campus protests against the war on Palestinians are [...] Continue Reading
Sit-in at Fresno State to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Students at Fresno State held a sit-in on campus to focus attention on the genocide taking place in Gaza and to call for an immediate end to the war. More than 150 students, faculty and community [...] Continue Reading