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Merced County Falls Short
(Editor’s note: The following article is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, a nonprofit newsroom based in Merced.) During its last meeting of the year, the [...] Continue Reading
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The December 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 December 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
Planada Flood Relief Plan Remains Unfinished
(Editor’s note: The following article is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, a nonprofit newsroom based in Merced.) Planada residents were left feeling [...] Continue Reading
Good News for Local Independent Media
Radio Bilingüe (KSJV 91.5 FM) has received a $2 million check for a much needed new facility in Fresno. Presenting the check on Nov. 8 was Assembly Member Joaquin Arambula (D–Fresno). Radio [...] Continue Reading
Right Wing Spreading
The electoral victory of Javier Milei in Argentina on Nov 19 sparked a feeling of enthusiasm among right-wing activists and demagogues such as Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jair Bolsonaro (the former [...] Continue Reading
FCNV: A Lamp Has Been Lit
BY ANGELA PRICE AND JOSHUA SHURLEY As we celebrate three decades of service to the Central Valley by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence (FCNV, or the Center), our mission of fostering peace requires [...] Continue Reading
What Is Really Going on in Guatemala?
You don’t see the army on the streets, and there are no speeches being delivered by a military “junta” on “CNN en Español.” How could a coup be happening, if the current president, Alejandro [...] Continue Reading
Mexican President Asserts Right to Trade with Cuba
On Oct. 16, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated the right of his country to trade with Cuba and condemned the blockade established by the United States against the island. “We [...] Continue Reading
Republican Jesus
It’s one of George Bernard Shaw’s better-known quotations: “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” Given the divisions that have been festering in our own country [...] Continue Reading
Israeli Flag Raising in Fresno
BY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE STAFF The raising of the Israeli flag on Oct. 12 at Eaton Plaza in downtown Fresno was met with protestors from Peace Fresno, grassroots community activists and [...] Continue Reading
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[más abajo en español] The October 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 October 2023 Community [...] Continue Reading