Kiera Kaiser, an 11-year-old, organized the Kids Rally for Equality on March 11 at the Fresno City Hall so youth could speak their minds on why equality is important to them. Kids and teens [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Fresno Freedom School Summer
By Floyd D. Harris The Fresno Freedom School will host a series of activities for the 2017 school year. Participating youth in southwest Fresno will learn how to prepare the land and plant carrots, [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – May 2017
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday May 11 at 7 PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK May 3 (first Wednesday of each [...] Continue Reading
Working from the “Grassroots Up”
By David Derby My wife and I witnessed something during the first week of the Trump administration that sent us reeling with outrage as we witnessed an evil that some say had constituted the most [...] Continue Reading
Trumpcare scare leads to single payer bill in California
By Emily Cameron On February 17, state senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins introduced SB-562, the Californians for A Healthy California Act, into the California state legislature. The bill is yet [...] Continue Reading
ICE Recruitment at Fresno State Career Fair Prompts Protest
By Community Alliance Staff During the second week of March, the administration of CSU Fresno sent out the following letter to students. From: CSU Fresno President Castro Subject: Border Patrol and [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – April 2017
By Hannah Brandt The last few weeks many have been focused on healthcare. In a whirlwind of brutality and incompetence, the GOP health plan/Trumpcare imploded before our eyes. It had some of the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – April 2017
Ballot Observation News!! Emily Cameron Clovis, CA I started off as a Bernie volunteer with a mission to monitor the Registrar of Voters so our candidate would be treated fairly. What we saw was much [...] Continue Reading
May Day 2017
Immigrants and their supporters continue to reel from the rapid succession of Executive Orders and anti-immigrant measures launched by the Trump Administration. Trump and conservatives in Congress [...] Continue Reading
Immigrant Women Voices of Solidarity
By Brenda Venezia On March 8, International Women’s Day, The Pan Valley Institute of the American Friends Service Committee partnered with several national and local social justice organizations to [...] Continue Reading
California Values Act: It’s About More than Dollars and Cents
By Angélica Salceda While our immigrant communities are living in fear, wondering if immigration agents will come knocking on their doors or if a simple traffic stop might lead to their deportation, [...] Continue Reading
Malak: An American Girl and Her Family
By Hannah Brandt Wasan Abu-Baker, content and translation The word malak means angel in Arabic. Malak is also a six-year-old Fresno girl who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 2010. A few months before the [...] Continue Reading