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
Social Justice
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
Fresno Policy Kills, Say Their Names
Our economic system, with its excessive corporate greed and its concentration of ownership and power, destroys anything that gets in the way of profits. It destroys lives and discards human beings. [...] Continue Reading
Madera Hospital Closure Impacts Communities
(Editor’s note: Reprinted with the permission of Fresnoland.) Madera residents from Punjabi Sikh and Indigenous migrant farmworker communities have been heavily impacted by the Madera hospital [...] Continue Reading
The Invisibility of Asians in America
The Asian American community is one of the oldest in the United States, yet they are still viewed as “foreigners” by many Americans. “Discrimination has always shaped us,” said Dr. Russell Jeung, [...] Continue Reading
Complex Relations Between Browns and Blacks
In October 2022, in a released audio recording, three Hispanic members of the Los Angeles City Council and the president of the L.A. Federation of Labor spewed racist and disparaging comments about a [...] Continue Reading
Racism Is a Virus
When we look at the violence constantly inflicted upon marginalized groups, we have to understand our part. People mistakenly think there are two roles: the perpetrator and the victim. But that isn’t [...] Continue Reading