On May 1, hundreds of community members rallied at Fresno City Hall before marching to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in solidarity with workers and immigrants. “I stand [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
The March 2026 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
ICE Detention Facilities: Barbaric and Negligent
Local and National ICE Out Protests Grow On Jan. 31, thousands of protesters across the United States demonstrated against the federal government’s immigration detention centers, enforcement [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
I was with the mailing crew for the newspaper in the office of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence on Van Ness Avenue last month when an anti-ICE protest march of students from Fresno High School came [...] Continue Reading
Mothers Helping Mothers of the Central Valley
In December 1990, record freezing temperatures destroyed most of the citrus crop in the Central Valley. More than 30,000 farmworkers had no work, and their more than 100,000 family members had no [...] Continue Reading
Memorial Bike Ride for Alex Pretti
BY BEN MAIDEN Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed on Jan. 24 by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, loved mountain bike riding. More than 200 memorial rides took place to honor him across [...] Continue Reading
Tribal Nations Fight for Water Rights
Recently, the State Water Resources Control Board held comprehensive hearings on the update of the Bay Delta Plan that governs how much water flows from the state’s rivers though the largest estuary [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom March 2026 Sponsored Page . There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the [...] Continue Reading
Building Healthy Communities
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Building Healthy Communities Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. [...] Continue Reading
Resistencia en el corazón del valle
POR VIC BEDOIAN El condado de Kings no es un lugar donde la mayoría de la gente esperaría encontrar mucha resistencia a las políticas y acciones ilegales e inmorales de la administración Trump. [...] Continue Reading
The Black Past in American History: Then and Now
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new monthly column. In the current political climate, Black history is contested terrain.) When one reflects upon American colonial history, one [...] Continue Reading
Promise and Hope
BY RUTH GADEBUSCH Another Women’s History Month and still no Equal Rights Amendment! Why do we need separate months for women and the just completed February one for Blacks? Aren’t we all part of [...] Continue Reading