x By Community Alliance Staff On June 3, thousands of local residents attended the 33rd Fresno Pride Parade on the streets of Fresno’s Tower District. After the parade, people enjoyed a [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Huron High School and the Fight Against Institutional Racism
The mayor of Huron sent the Community Alliance this message on June 6: “FLASH***HOT OFF THE PRESS*** CHUSD Board prefers to support separation than a high school. Voiced at tonight’s board meeting.” [...] Continue Reading
Patient Care Crisis
On May 25, a sea of purple engulfed the Capitol in Sacramento. More than 600 healthcare workers, medical assistants, home caregivers, clinic workers, resident physicians and patients wearing purple [...] Continue Reading
False Narrative of Affirmative Action
While teaching at Binghamton University in New York for a number of years and at Fresno State for more than 30 years, the author served on admissions committees at both institutions and was struck at [...] Continue Reading
Improving California Gun Safety
Gun violence makes all our communities less safe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, California had the highest firearm death rate in the United States. Over the past 30 years, California showed the [...] Continue Reading
Celebrating Juneteenth in Madera
BY JOHN TIPTON About 100 people, including many local officials, turned out on June 19 for the third annual Juneteenth celebration at Courthouse Park in Madera. Black Saints United and the City of [...] Continue Reading
How the “Cellephant” Controls Instructional Time
One Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) teacher calls it the “cellephant.” For a significant number of middle and high school students in FUSD, attending classes regularly involves slipping into [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Sponsored Page July 2023 [...] Continue Reading
Maten a Los Pobres
La conocida banda de punk rock, “The Dead Kennedys”, lanzó una canción en 1980 sobre la bomba de neutrones llamada Kill the Poor (Maten a Los Pobres). Parte de la letra dice: Ahora que tenemos la [...] Continue Reading
Fresno se Vuelve Viral
Este mes de Mayo, Fresno se volvió viral, pero lamentablemente no fue uno de sus mejores momentos. Es inusual ver el hashtag #559 en varios videos en Tiktok (TT) explotando con millones de visitas y [...] Continue Reading
Opportunity for a High School in Huron
A high school in Huron would be a huge improvement in the lives of students and the community. No longer would students have to get up before the sun rises and miss extracurricular activities to take [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The June 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 June 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading