At a Sept. 23 press conference, City of Fresno officials announced that the City would be aggressively enforcing its harsh new anti-camping ordinance, which calls for arresting unhoused people [...] Continue Reading
Racism
Kamala Harris on Reparations
The first female vice president of the United States and a well-known member of the Democratic Party thrust into the presidential race, Kamala Harris has made a strong case for racial justice and [...] Continue Reading
What Will Break the Spell?
A spell has been cast over the white evangelical world. What will it take to break the spell? Consistently, white evangelicals are a reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party. No matter how [...] Continue Reading
The June 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Who Will Stand in Solidarity with These Women?
On May 23, Fresno City Council members heard from three traumatized women who were attacked by an Islamophobic man at Porchfest in the Tower District. (See also “Hate Speech and Crimes.”) Speakers [...] Continue Reading
Hate Speech and Crimes
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone or commit violence against targeted [...] Continue Reading
Japanese Incarceration Panel Brings History to Young People
On April 24, about 90 people filled the Forum Hall Auditorium at Fresno City College to listen to Dale Ikeda and Marion Masada talk about the Japanese incarceration during World War II. From 1942 [...] Continue Reading
La Discriminación Antilatina Creó la Generación ‘No Sabo’
(Nota del Editor: la siguiente nota se reproduce con el permiso de Caló News) Los latinos en Estados Unidos tienen una identidad cultural que es rica y diversa, con elementos característicos, como [...] Continue Reading
Black Women Reds and Black Women on the Liberal Left
As we left February, which was African American History Month—traditionally referred to as Black History Month—we had Women’s History Month in March. Each month’s purpose is to highlight and celebrate [...] Continue Reading
Marion Masada: Survivor, Historian, Teacher
Marion Masada is a survivor of one of America’s most tragic and misguided actions. As we prepared for our interview, she gently admonished me. “Call it a concentration camp, please,” she advised. This [...] Continue Reading
Day of Remembrance
It was an historically ironic location for the Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds, where thousands of American citizens were held for months living in [...] Continue Reading
No Whitewashing the Past
(Editor’s note: This is the story of Vance McKinney, as told to the author. McKinney is a truck driver (who hauls mostly agricultural produce) in a farmworker community. His father was a farmworker. [...] Continue Reading