El mensaje que la joven Xochitl Rodríguez llevó a los concejales de la ciudad de Delano el pasado 3 de abril fue claro, fuerte y conciso: “No quiero tener 27 (años) y vivir todavía con mi [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Comunidad Trans Bajo Ataques Tras Matanza en Nashville
Una vez que se conoció la noticia de que Audrey Hale era transgénero, la comunidad LGBTQIA teme ahora ser el blanco de ataques, en represalia. Audrey Hale, de 28 años, quien al nacer fue registrada [...] Continue Reading
El Racismo Depende del Poder Para Prosperar
Una niña afroamericana que asiste a la escuela secundaria Wilson en Chowchilla, en el Condado de Madera, está haciendo todo lo posible para enfrentarse al racismo, pero parece que los que están [...] Continue Reading
May 1 March in Fresno
By Community Alliance Staff The Coalición 1 de Mayo is organizing a march and rally on May 1 to celebrate International Workers’ Day and to demand an immigration reform. The Coalición will be [...] Continue Reading
State-Sponsored Carnage in California Prisons
“The integrated yard policy (IYP) is per force a staged fight because integrating rival factions will always lead to violence…In my experience, the IYP was always a device used to break the leadership [...] Continue Reading
Hunger Strike at Immigration Detention Centers
On Feb. 26, several detainees at two immigration detention centers in Kern County—the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde—went on a hunger strike to protest inhumane treatment and unsanitary conditions. [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Supervisors File Frivolous Lawsuit Using Public Dollars
On March 14, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted 3-2 to sue the State of California, using public dollars to favor a racist, sexist, derogatory name. They vote in a closed-door session [...] Continue Reading
Fresno: A Tale of Two Cities
Fresno is two cities, like most American cities. It’s a city of haves and have nots. It’s near the bottom of the list in America for income equality. Some of the haves are employers who fail to pay [...] Continue Reading
Some Thoughts on the Stop the Hate Campaign
By Alexia Baca Morgan I am a 65-year-old Hispanic female from Albuquerque, N.M., who lives in Fresno. In my childhood, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s, my family and many Black and Brown [...] Continue Reading
Tools to Defend Ourselves
As a child, I knew what hate incidents and hate crimes felt like even though I didn’t know there were terms for them. I knew that gut feeling—the fear and uncertainty. Was I over-exaggerating? Was [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Scholar Weekend
The Interfaith Scholar Weekend takes place yearly in Fresno. This year marks the return to an in-person format for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. It was held the weekend of March [...] Continue Reading
Reproductive Justice
As noted in last month’s “Abortion Bans an Indicator of Misogyny,” we are reprising women’s struggle to access abortion and other forms of healthcare. Although misogyny has never faced death in the [...] Continue Reading