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
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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
Brazil Is Back, Lula Is Back, Marina Is Back
“We are back. We are back to help build a peaceful world order based on dialogue and multilateralism.”—Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] Continue Reading
The November 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
This is a .pdf of the November 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading
New Guidance County Plans Might Not Help Unincorporated Communities
(Editor’s note: Radley Reep, who for decades has reviewed Fresno County’s General Plan, submitted a letter to the Fresno County Board of Supervisors regarding its new Guidance Document for Community [...] Continue Reading
UN Says “the U.S. Blockade of Cuba Is a Crime That Has to End”
You might be saying, “Wait a minute; the UN General Assembly vote on the blockade this year takes place in early November, and the deadline for this issue of the Community Alliance was mid-October. [...] Continue Reading
The Great Game in Ukraine Is Spinning Out of Control
Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously described Ukraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both U.S. and Russian power. As Russia views its vital security [...] Continue Reading