You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the May 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
News
Court Orders Reconsideration of Cancer-Causing Pesticide Regulation
In early March, the Alameda County Superior Court ruled that a proposed regulation fails to protect farmworkers who labor near fumigated fields from harmful levels of exposure to the cancer-causing [...] Continue Reading
Across the Tracks
Photo Essay by David Bacon (Editor’s note: Photojournalist David Bacon visited Fresno in November 2022. He walked around downtown Fresno and captured some special moments he now shares with us. His [...] Continue Reading
Prodigal/Radical Son Returns to the Big Farm Town
It’s been two generations since I cruised Blackstone Avenue, went to Torquer’s Club dances at the Rainbow Ballroom, made out with a girl in a summer dress parked out in the fig orchards and then [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The April 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 April 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading
The March 2023 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the March 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for [...] Continue Reading
A Government That Contributes to Peace Isn’t Terrorist
The vice-president of Colombia, Francia Márquez Mina, came to Cuba for the 31st Havana International Book Fair, which this year celebrates Colombia as the guest country of honor. In May 2022, [...] Continue Reading
Draft Resistance Leader David Harris Dies
David Harris died on Feb. 6 after battling lung cancer. Harris was a national leader of the draft resistance movement who had strong ties to Fresno. He graduated from Fresno High and returned with his [...] Continue Reading
The February 2023 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the February 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
Religious Freedom in Cuba
On Dec. 2, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a declaration designating Cuba, among other countries, as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly [...] Continue Reading
Hebe de Bonafini, Human Rights Champ, Dies at 93
Hebe de Bonafini was the leader of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo), the group she co-founded in 1977, one year after the bloody military dictatorship took over in Argentina—with [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
On Nov. 10, the small town of Orosi in northern Tulare County was the setting as more than a hundred residents from various counties across the San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Fresno, Madera, Stanislaus, [...] Continue Reading