August 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
Social Justice
Dolores Huerta Foundation Sponsored Page
August 2023 You can read the print version of the Dolores Huerta Foundation sponsored page below. This is a .pdf of the August 2023 DHF Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to [...] Continue Reading
Prison Industrial Complex Wants Boston Back
(Editor’s note: Boston wrote a series of articles for this paper from 2005 to 2018 when he was serving time for a crime he committed more than 40 years ago. The articles about life on the other side [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The July 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 July 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading
A Ticking Bomb in Arvin-Lamont
On June 13, nine persons from various communities met virtually to hear updates about a project that will help them improve the indoor air quality in their homes. Although getting filters for their [...] Continue Reading
Jack Ortega: Friend, Mentor, Organizer (1929–2023)
Jack Ortega was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 1929. He graduated from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Alameda and went into the U.S. Army, serving in the Korean War as an artillery observer. [...] Continue Reading
San Quentin Plantation Paradigm
BY DONALD RAY YOUNG Using the Norwegian model as a template, San Quentin State Prison wants to be the model gulag for California, the nation and beyond. This comes with a sticker price of $380 [...] Continue Reading
Thousands Participate in Pride Parade
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
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