Community Alliance
The Voice of the Progressive Movement since 1996
By Hannah Brandt If you search Creative Fresno’s innovative and extensive Digital Mural Map of Fresno, Mauro Carrera’s Fulton Street work is called Universal Heart. The artist, who began making murals [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt “We are not fundamentally a different country today than we were a month ago. . . The same country that elected Donald Trump, elected Barack Obama. . . This election is just another [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt It is December 8, 2016. A woman says she has been living without heat for weeks, harassed by a landlord who is evicting her even though she pays her rent. Leticia Valencia, a Fresno [...] Continue Reading
By Editor-in-Chief If you listen to the Community Alliance version of Stir it Up on KFCF 88.1 every month, you may have heard me talk a few weeks ago about the proposed newsstand ordinance for the [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt Central Valley tribes held three events in Fresno in November to educate the public about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and support native peoples protecting the land and water at [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt At the time I am writing this it has been three weeks since election night. It has been an overwhelming month. I know many people are still in shock from the results. In some ways, it [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt Aida Macedo is a busy woman. She is a lawyer with a local law firm in Fresno and volunteers doing voting rights work in the Central Valley. She has been doing non-partisan election [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt (Trigger Warning for sexual assault and pregnancy loss) It makes you bite your nails. Or tap your foot. Run your fingers through your hair until you pull it out. A lot of times you [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt On Thursday, September 29, just days after the October edition of Community Alliance was published, I attended the public bargaining meeting for the Fresno Teachers Association. [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt One of the largest demonstrations by indigenous peoples in recent U.S. history has been taking place in North Dakota over the last several weeks. The activists prefer to be called [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt My dad died of pancreatic cancer 12 years ago last month. I know he’s in a better place now. If he was suddenly given the ability to come back to life in the U.S. today, I’m not 100 [...] Continue Reading
By Hannah Brandt According to former editor Mike Rhodes, it is amazing this newspaper he helped create and guided through many changes over nearly two decades is alive today. Indeed, he believes it is [...] Continue Reading
