Cuba finished writing and approving, by referendum, a new constitution in 2019. Now Cuba is creating a legal code that details the rights set forth in the new constitution. The previous Cuban [...] Continue Reading
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DA Biases Unveiled
By Miguel Arias (Editor’s note: At the March 10 meeting of the Fresno City Council, District 3 City Council Member Miguel Arias presented opening comments attempting to hold Fresno County District [...] Continue Reading
2021 Courage Scores Announced
By Community Alliance Staff On Feb. 28, the Courage Campaign announced the 7th Annual Courage Scores. The Courage Score is a tool that helps Californians hold their elected representatives in [...] Continue Reading
March Community Alliance Newspaper
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the March Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Sheriff Mims Retires
By Community Alliance Staff Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced on Feb. 18 that she is retiring. But hold the firecrackers; she will retire when her term ends later this year. She was [...] Continue Reading
There Is Hope for Supervisorial District 4
On Jan 27, Jose Antonio Ramirez, 50, announced his candidacy for the Fresno County Board of Supervisors District 4 seat. He has been the city manager of Orange Cove, Firebaugh and [...] Continue Reading
Angry Youth Protest for Chancellor Castro’s Resignation
Fresno State’s former vice president of student affairs, Frank Lamas, and California State University (CSU) Chancellor Joseph Castro are experiencing extreme heat. Castro allowed Lamas to continue [...] Continue Reading
A Biblical Case for Renaming Squaw Valley
This is an appeal to my Christian brothers and sisters, and anyone else who likes Jesus, to get on board with changing the name of Squaw Valley. The language of the Hebrew Bible is richly [...] Continue Reading
Rural Communities Targeted for Dirty Energy Projects
Mendota is a small city in western Fresno County that is known as the “Cantaloupe Center of the World” and for having some of the best pupuserias (restaurants specializing in pupusas, a traditional [...] Continue Reading
Money for Lawsuits, No Money for Warming Centers and No Empathy
As the City of Fresno continues to break up homeless encampments, refuses to keep warming centers open and fails to provide basic sanitation, the mayor, the City Council and the city attorney are [...] Continue Reading
The Dark of the Valley: Corrections and connections
Regarding the review of the documentary In the Dark of the Valley that appeared in the January 2022 issue of the Community Alliance, Denise Duffield, associate director for the Los Angeles office of [...] Continue Reading
Alicia Jrapko, Rest in Power
Alicia Jrapko, a first-line fighter for a better, more just and equitable world, died on Jan. 11 after a long illness during which she continued to work as much as possible. As leader of the [...] Continue Reading