¿Qué hay detrás de la tala en el Parque Nacional Yosemite? Los funcionarios del parque lo anunciaron como un proyecto de reducción de combustible para mejorar la resistencia al fuego en los bosques [...] Continue Reading
Environment
Drinking Water or Lawn Water?
Based on numerous historical studies and predictive climate modeling, climate scientists predict that the future of the American West, and California in particular, will be one of higher daily average [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Explaining Measure C Thanks for the great, informative June issue! The one-page, excellent explanation of Measure C helped many of us realize what a mess all of this and how totally ineffective [...] Continue Reading
Global Warming Producing Multiple Threats to the Valley
Climate activist and author Bill McKibben, in the San Joaquin Valley recently, warned that rising global heat is at the core of California’s increasing droughts, mammoth wildfires and water shortages. [...] Continue Reading
Ticking Bomb in Bakersfield: Abandoned Oil Wells
Imagine that someone knocks at your door and tells you that in a lot next to your home there are abandoned oil wells leaking massive amounts of methane that could be explosive. Or even worse, that [...] Continue Reading
La Guerra Por El Agua en México
La idea de que las guerras del futuro serán por agua ocupa el centro de un imaginario intentado que se basa en la noción de que el agua es escasa y si algo no alcanza para todos, las partes pelean y [...] Continue Reading
The June 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
Bill McKibben Speech in Fresno
This is an (.mp3) audio file of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence 30th Anniversary held on June 11, 2022 at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Guest Speaker: Bill McKibben. [...] Continue Reading
The June Community Alliance is now online
The June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper is being printed today and will be mailed to subscribers this afternoon. You can see the online version here: www.fresnoalliance.com [...] Continue Reading
Catastrophic Climate Change While Being Unhoused
It’s already deadly on the streets of Fresno. It’s deadly, in part, because it is Fresno City policy to continue encampment sweeps and because of its refusal to support safe camps. Women, the elderly, [...] Continue Reading
Fresno-Madera Area No. 1 in the Nation for Worst Air Quality
According to the 2022 State of the Air Report, which is published by the American Lung Association every year, the Fresno-Madera area took the lead as the most polluted city in the country for fine [...] Continue Reading
“Stop Talking to GV Wire”
Them's fightin' words in Fresno, but when the fascists went on a GV Wire–inspired attack at Fresno Unified School District Board meeting in February, Dr. Lars Maischak’s words of warning from a recent [...] Continue Reading