By Peter Maiden A vigil was held for Lorenzo Perez in Pilibos Soccer Park in southeast Fresno on March 28, drawing 250 people. Perez, a pushcart vendor, was shot to death exactly a week earlier on [...] Continue Reading
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Cuba’s Role in International Health
By Leni Villagomez Reeves When we are immersed in a dysfunctional system that is pretty good at marketing consumer goods (made elsewhere by cheaper labor) giving us the illusion that we are somehow [...] Continue Reading
Got Your Vaccine?
By Community Alliance Staff According to most experts, to control the pandemic, about 80% of the population has to be vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19. After a slow, chaotic and confusing [...] Continue Reading
Tale of Two Cities: The Continuing Saga
These two maps tell the story of last year’s presidential election in Fresno. Map #1, from the Fresno County Registrar of Voters’ office, shows the November 2020 election results in the City of Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Rebuilt Motel Opens as Housing for the Homeless
By Peter Maiden Crossroads Village on Blackstone Avenue, housing for the homeless that was once a motel called the Smuggler’s Inn, had a grand opening with a ribbon-cutting on March 19. The [...] Continue Reading
Following the Money for the Unhoused
By Bob McCloskey In a recent report from the Economic Roundtable, it is predicted that the “Covid-driven loss of jobs and employment income will cause the number of homeless unemployed workers to [...] Continue Reading
Prayer Vigil at the Tower Theatre
By Community Alliance Staff Community and religious leaders came together on March 11 to pray for the preservation of the Tower District amid the fight over the sale of the historic Tower [...] Continue Reading
Kern County Decides to Ramp Up Future Oil Production
By Vic Bedoian The Kern County Board of Supervisors (BOS) has adopted a controversial ordinance allowing oil companies to expand production and bypass full environmental analysis, despite years of [...] Continue Reading
Ecuador Election: Reversing a Betrayal and Restoring the Country
By Leni Villagomez Reeves First round victory—What’s next? The first round of elections in Ecuador was Feb. 7, and running mates Andrés Aráuz and Carlos Rabascall, running on a platform of largely [...] Continue Reading
Air Pollution Trifecta Hits Fresno
By Kevin Hall A trio of life-endangering air pollution events hit Fresno early last month. Unlike the smoke from last summer’s wildfires or this winter’s fireplaces, these threats weren’t found in [...] Continue Reading
El Mallku and Justice in Bolivia
By Juan Trujillo Limones As a result of cardiac arrest, the historic indigenous social leader Felipe Quispe Huanca died at the age of 78 on Jan. 19 in El Alto, Bolivia. The Mallku (community [...] Continue Reading
Preservation of Central Coast Landscapes
By Vic Bedoian Environmental and civic groups in California are moving quickly to pass a bill in Congress aimed at preserving public lands in the Central Coast region of the state. The bill would [...] Continue Reading