By Peter Maiden Facing a woefully inadequate transportation situation in the town of Huron, now Huron Mayor Rey León founded the San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project (Valley [...] Continue Reading
Environment
Like Thunder: Merrill Goodall’s Part in the Struggle
By Trudy Wischemann A recent book review, “Like Lightning: A Book for Our Time” (Community Alliance, August 2021), stressed the seminal role of Paul Taylor, the humanist Berkeley economist, in [...] Continue Reading
Farmworkers: A Painful Journey during the Summer Months
Driving up and down the Central Valley during the summer months, it is common to see thousands of farmworkers laboring from sunrise to sunset, often tolling for more than 10 hours of hard work under [...] Continue Reading
Giant Sequoias Killed by the Thousands in Castle Fire
By Vic Bedoian The 2020 SQF Complex Fire in the southern Sierras scorched more than 176,000 acres in the Giant Sequoia National Monument and the adjacent Sequoia National Park. Now, a report [...] Continue Reading
Study Makes Big Ag Panic: What do they fear?
Living in Fresno’s countryside is attractive for some who enjoy a slower pace, the greenery of the grapevines or the almond blossoming. But these views come at a high price, especially for those who [...] Continue Reading
City Seeks Polluter Protections
The Fresno mayor and City Council are working to legally bulletproof future industrial development from citizen lawsuits that challenge their dangerous growth plans. Elected officials seek to wrap a [...] Continue Reading
Water and Environmental Justice in the Central Valley
Water is a vital resource for human survival. While we can go without eating for three weeks, we cannot survive without water for more than three or four days. And the quality of the water is equally [...] Continue Reading
Ag Burning Here to Stay for Another Four Years
By Nayamin Martinez At the beginning of March 2021, Laura heard a loud thunder, like the sound of a gun being fired. When she checked where the noise came from, she realized that there were [...] Continue Reading
The Community Alliance Stir it Up Radio Show has Returned to KFCF
Amanda Tripp hosts the return of the Community Alliance Stir it Up Radio Show on KFCF 88.1 FM. The first show was on Wednesday, April 7 and featured climate change activist Kevin Hall who [...] Continue Reading
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: National, State and Local Not on the Same Page
By Nayamin Martinez The Biden administration took two early measures to fulfill its campaign commitments to address climate change: 1) The United States rejoined the Paris Agreement, and 2) the [...] Continue Reading
Make “C” Stand for Climate, Community
By Kevin Hall Twenty years ago, local business and political leaders learned an important lesson at the ballot box: People really want clean air. That’s why in 2002 voters rejected the first [...] Continue Reading