Recent disclosures that Los Angeles City Council members and a union official racially denounced others compels us to deal with racism, colorism and anti-Blackness interwoven with classism for it [...] Continue Reading
The Ineffective Leadership of Fresno
Thanks for the great, informative June issue! On the front page, an excellent explanation of Measure C helped many of us realize what a mess all of this is and how totally ineffective the “leadership” [...] Continue Reading
Community Medical Centers Disinvestment in Fresno
History of Segregation and Disinvestment Fresno was founded in April 1872, when the robber baron (some prefer “captain of industry”) Leland Stanford designated a site for a railway station [...] Continue Reading
A March for Their Rights
A group of farmworkers marched 335 miles from the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) headquarters near Delano to the State Capitol in Sacramento. The three-week march was aimed at pressuring Governor Gavin [...] Continue Reading
Gun Violence in Fresno
The recent mass killings at a parade in Highland Park, Ill.; an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas; and a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., brought increased media and political attention to the [...] Continue Reading
Alianza Comunitaria Gana Premio de Periodismo del Sacramento Press Club
Uno de los trabajos más importantes que tiene un periodista es compartir las historias de los que no tienen una voz. Durante los últimos meses he tenido el placer de trabajar (a través de una beca) [...] 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
March for Our Lives
Over 100 people came out on a hot Fresno day to protest recent gun violence incidents and call for legislation to reduce access to the weapons used in these mass shootings. Chanting “not one [...] 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
The Decay Of FUSD
“I’ve never worked for such inept people before.” “When we got back to school in August [2021], it was as if the administration was making it up as they went along.” “[These days] I go to my job [...] Continue Reading
County Redistricting: Mapping of Systemic Racism as Modern Gerrymandering
By Daniel O’Connell As the redistricting of political districts culminates across the San Joaquin Valley, we are witnessing blatant and explicit examples of gerrymandering and systemic [...] Continue Reading