Protecting Indigenous Rights and Stopping Discrimination Based on Caste According to Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias, the City of Fresno is the first city in California to [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Progressive, Local/Independent News
[más abajo en español] The October 2023 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the October 2023 Community [...] Continue Reading
Death and Injustice in Fresno
There is an unequal justice system in Fresno. One for the police and the rich. Another for the poor and working class. For the unhoused of Fresno, there is often no justice. Some recent examples of [...] Continue Reading
Who Chooses Your Children’s Books in Clovis?
It started with a deceptively innocuous Facebook post made by newly elected Clovis City Council Member Diane Pearce. On June 28, toward the close of Pride Month, she warned her constituents, “Might [...] Continue Reading
Social Services Workers Protest Poor Working Conditions
More than 120 Fresno County Department of Social Service (DSS) workers formed an informational picket line on their lunch break on Sept. 13 to protest poor working conditions that result in poor [...] Continue Reading
Can the Police Be Trusted?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta came to Fresno on Sept. 12 and held a forum with Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, a panel of community leaders and several grassroots community groups. The purpose of the [...] Continue Reading
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Suffering by the numbers: In 2022, the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department reported 582,000 unhoused individuals in the United States. Of that number, 233,832 were unsheltered and [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Sponsored Page October 2023 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to [...] Continue Reading
An Infamous Event That Sparked a “Forgotten” Memory
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles regarding the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942–1945. This project is made possible through a grant from the California Civil [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence Sponsored Page
October 2023 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
“First They Came…” Again
We are again in a period of racist ultranationalism and right-wing extremism. It’s not the first one. We can choose to defend those who are under attack now. Or we can wait until the attackers come [...] Continue Reading
Lo Bueno, lo Malo y lo Feo
Las cifras que duelen: en 2022, la agencia federal de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (HUD) informó que había 582.000 personas sin vivienda en Estados Unidos. De esa cifra, 233.832 se encontraban sin [...] Continue Reading