By Sunita Sohrabji Domestic violence (DV) has spiked alarmingly as victims are trapped at home with their abusers amid lockdown orders during the Covid pandemic. At the same time, traditional [...] Continue Reading
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Latin America: What’s Going On and What Can We Learn
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Bolivia: It Was a MAS Landslide Yes! Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca as the candidates from the Movement to Socialism (MAS) Party—the party of Evo Morales—won the [...] Continue Reading
Voters of Color Restored Democracy in America
By Sunita Sohrabji and Pilar Marrero In a country that is polarized and hurt by Covid-19 and divisive leadership, a massive turnout of voters resulted in a close election where Democrat Joe Biden [...] Continue Reading
Black Lives Matter in Fresno
By I. smiley G. Calderon On Nov. 14, before Fresno County reverted back to “purple tier” status with regard to the coronavirus, a group of local, passionate activist-artists and community members [...] Continue Reading
Will Communities Hardest Hit Get Covid-19 Vaccines?
By Sunita Sohrabji The United States is weeks away from rolling out Covid vaccines, but pandemic experts say the challenges of vaccinating people will be acute, especially in communities of [...] Continue Reading
Election 2020: Revival and Tentative Enthusiasm
By Michael D. Evans National The Biden-Harris team not only defeated Donald Trump, charitably the worst President ever, but also staved off the demise of democracy at least for another election [...] Continue Reading
2020 Elections Results: Biden Wins, California Remains Blue
Community Alliance Staff On Nov. 7, 2020, the news arrived early in the morning: America has a new president: Joe Biden. The announcement came right after Biden was declared the winner in [...] Continue Reading
Virus—and Leaders—Wreak Havoc When the Body Is Weak
By Raul Pickett Governor Andrew Cuomo, of New York, recently stated that “leadership matters, and their performance matters. Leaders will be judged on whether they actively promote unity during a [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Commission for Police Reform
Where did it come from? Where is it going? By Gerry Bill Following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and dozens of other men and women of color wrongfully killed by police [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Vows to Take Pandemic and Police Frustrations to the Polls
By Mark Hedin The first Covid-era study of Fresno voters found widespread suffering due to the pandemic, along with frustration over city policing and a strong determination to do something about [...] Continue Reading
Chiapas in the Decolonizing October
By Juan Trujillo Limones As reactions to a decolonizing social process, images of the demolition of statues of conquerors, colonial leaders and slaveholders in Chile and the United States have been [...] Continue Reading
Fighting the Historic Creek Fire
By Vic Bedoian The Creek Fire started small on the evening of Sept. 4, the beginning of a Labor Day weekend no one in this region will ever forget. Within two days, the blaze had scorched nearly [...] Continue Reading