You might be saying, “Wait a minute; the UN General Assembly vote on the blockade this year takes place in early November, and the deadline for this issue of the Community Alliance was mid-October. [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Vivos Se Los Llevaron*
On Sept. 26, 2014, a group of almost 100 student activists from the Ayotzinapa Normal School (a teacher training school) near Tixtla, in the middle of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, headed to Mexico [...] Continue Reading
Thoughts on the 9/11 Tragedy
The tragedy of 9/11 has come, been acknowledged with great ceremony, and gone. But not the aftereffects. Slightly less than 3,000 lives were lost on that momentous occasion. As a direct result of this [...] Continue Reading
Brilliant African Diaspora Culture in Cuba
Creating universal literacy and an environment where education is universal and free and accessible at all levels leads to a cultural flowering so extensive and deep as to be perhaps better [...] Continue Reading
Bucha, Ukraine: Life after Horror, during the War
Paradise Turns to Hell On Feb. 25, glued to the Internet, Nadiya, a long-time Kyiv resident, watched the Russian troops enter Bucha. Russian tanks surrounded her mother’s private boarding [...] Continue Reading
United States Rebuked for Violations of Women’s Human Rights
CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It is an international bill of human rights [...] Continue Reading
EE.UU Condenado por el Comité CEDAW por Violar los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres
Por Leni Villagomez Reeves y Nora Cuello CEDAW es la Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer. Es un tratado internacional adoptado en 1979 por la [...] Continue Reading
Summit of the Américas: U.S. Rejection
While the U.S. government seeks to shape the world for its own financial and political benefit, the oppressed and struggling people within the United States and elsewhere know that they have the right [...] 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
As Cuba Moves Forward, the United States Moves Backward
In the United States, attacks on reproductive rights and freedoms and other aspects of healthcare for women are increasing sharply, and the courts, which for a brief period provided some protection [...] Continue Reading
Ukraine War Raises Threat of Nuclear Conflict
The world is confronting the threat of nuclear-armed conflict the likes of which has not been seen since the end of the Cold War. Although the war in Ukraine has escalated the threat, its antecedents [...] Continue Reading
Can the People and the Environment Win the Election in Colombia?
Unity on the Left The progressive forces in Colombia have come together on the Historic Pact ticket, with Gustavo Petro for president and Francia Márquez as vice president. Polling, and the results [...] Continue Reading