By Hannah Brandt Unless you have been living under a rock, and perhaps even if you have, you know we are in the final days leading up to the California Primary election to select the Democratic and [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
ROCK THE VOTE
Rock the Vote: The Central Labor Council registered voters in Tower and Lowell Districts and held a rally at Ted Wills Community Center on May 14. Community Alliance newspaper had a table at the [...] Continue Reading
BOYCOTT DRISCOLL’S
Boycott Driscoll’s: Local activists picketed Driscoll’s Berries outside Whole Foods grocery store in Fig Garden on May 14. Images by Hannah Brandt. [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Public Defender’s Office Under Fire from ACLU
By Amanda Tripp A lawsuit accusing the Fresno County Public Defender’s office of providing inadequate defense will continue to move forward; mid-April Judge Mark Snauffer ruled in favor of allowing [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC – June 2016
**This Content is Paid for By the Central Valley Progressive PAC** CVPPAC Endorses Perea for Mayor After decades of Republican mayors in this city, we have the highest concentration of poverty in the [...] Continue Reading
Stand with Students
By Community Alliance Staff Throughout this school year, the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) has organized community meetings in the residential districts within Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
REQUIEM FOR A MALL: The Fulton Mall, Sprawl, and Revitalization
By Jacob Clark The destruction of the Fulton Mall is underway. The sculptures have been uprooted, the trees chopped down, and the ground plowed asunder. The city says this restoration of Fulton [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Homeless Forsaken By Those in Power, part 2 |
By Paul Thomas Jackson The civil rights of people—whether homeless or stably housed—are also at stake in encounters and detentions by police, whose duties are ever more burdensome. As of 2016, the [...] Continue Reading
BOYCOTT DRISCOLL’S | Farmworker Appreciation Day at Fresno State
By Hannah Brandt “Do you have brothers or sisters or someone close to you who is eight-years-old? I’m sure none of us would like a child this age to be lifting fruit for ten hours a day. In San [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance The Next Generation Fundraiser Event
On April 16, 2016, Community Alliance newspaper held a happy hour fundraiser at the Unitarian Universalist church in Fresno. Around 100 people attended. Former editor Mike Rhodes read from and [...] Continue Reading
SHEDDING A TEAR
By Ruth Gadebusch Valuable rain spring has come to Fresno, but there is no joy seeing the chopped up trees and wrapped art pieces being removed from the Fulton Mall. Elsewhere in the city one can [...] Continue Reading
Two Lawyers Walk into a Bar. And Get Kicked Out for Being Black.
By Abre’ Conner and Novella Coleman (Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at ACLUNC. org. It is reprinted with permission from ACLU Northern California) ACLU lawyers are used to [...] Continue Reading