By Cesar Aguirre and Nayamin Martinez A major victory occurred on Aug. 1 when a federal judge accepted an agreement between environmental justice organizations, conservation groups and the U.S. [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
California to Launch New Hate Initiative with a Focus on Healing
Hate crimes and hate-related incidents have been on the rise in recent years, prompting fear and anger across communities. But according to experts and civil rights advocates, more public [...] Continue Reading
The September 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the August 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
San Joaquin: An American Dream Turned into a Nightmare
The City of San Joaquin, a small incorporated city in west Fresno County, has been openly accused multiple times by various residents of scamming them. Buying your own home is part of the classic [...] Continue Reading
Rehabilitating the Finances of California Incarceration
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), the Transformative In-Prison Workgroup (TPW) and many more community-based organizations and coalitions are shining a light on taxpayer funds that [...] Continue Reading
One Fresno. Not.
Fresno’s mayor and City Council have coined the term One Fresno even though, according to a 2019 Urban Institute report, Fresno ranks No. 59 of 59 cities in California for economic inclusion and [...] Continue Reading
A March for Their Rights
A group of farmworkers marched 335 miles from the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) headquarters near Delano to the State Capitol in Sacramento. The three-week march was aimed at pressuring Governor Gavin [...] Continue Reading
Afro-Centric Legacy of Dr. James Turner
Dr. James Turner, the founder of Africana studies, has passed away at the age of 82. He was the founding director of Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a professor emeritus [...] Continue Reading
Peace & Social Justice Calendar
September 2022 Sponsored by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence Note: Contact the organizer for up-to-date information on whether meetings are in person or via Zoom. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER [...] Continue Reading
Streets of Laredo versus Today’s Streets of Outlaw Culture
It’s strange that Gunsmoke’s U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon did not require all the rough-and-tumble cowboys arriving in town from cattle herding to turn in their guns at Dillon’s office before going to [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation
September 2022 Sponsored Page [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence
September 2022 Sponsored Page [...] Continue Reading