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From the Editor

Hello. I’m Peter Maiden, interim editor of the Community Alliance newspaper. I’m stepping into the big shoes of Eduardo Stanley while the newspaper decides who will be the next editor. We have a [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor

Protect the People or Sell Us Out to CEMEX The proposed Rockfield expansion isn’t just another project, it’s a direct threat to our health and our future. Fresno already has some of the worst air [...] Continue Reading

The Authoritarian Graveyard

Say Their Names Say the names of some of those that have died in ICE custody this year: Ismael Ayala Uribe, Chao Feng Ge, Isidro Perez, Marie Ange Blaise, Maksym Chemyak, Brayan Rayo-Garzon and [...] Continue Reading

Direct Action Downtown

On Nov. 5, a small group of local activists gathered to deliver a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Outside the Attorney General’s Fresno satellite office, they shouted their pleas for [...] Continue Reading

Half of Farmworkers Are Food Insecure

The Central Valley is a fertile farm belt that expands for about 20,000 square miles and supplies one-fourth of the nation’s food. Fresno County alone is considered one of the most agriculturally [...] Continue Reading

MLK and His Legacy in Fresno

The September 2025 issue of Vanity Fair magazine features Bernice King’s essay entitled “The Fight to Protect MLK’s Legacy.” She begins her essay with these words: “…on March 28, 1968, I celebrated my [...] Continue Reading

Protests Are Growing

More Than 7 Million Protest on No Kings Day According to the Oct. 18 No Kings Day organizers, in one of the largest single day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly 7 million people [...] Continue Reading

SOS! SOS! SOS!

Did you hear that glub, glub, glub sound like the last gasp for air before sinking irretrievably under the water? Or was it our forefathers turning over twirling in their graves as the mob’s feet [...] Continue Reading

United for Change

Several recent demonstrations were held in Fresno to lend support to ongoing national boycott efforts against Chevron, for its ongoing logistical support for Israel, and against Home Depot, for its [...] Continue Reading