Record-setting 115-degree heat. It is deadly on the streets of Fresno in the intense heat. It’s also deadly because it is City policy to continue encampment sweeps, harass individuals, confiscate [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Progressive, Local/Independent News
[más abajo en español] The August 2024 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 August 2024 Community [...] Continue Reading
Rural Communities Demand More Pesticide Controls
On July 12, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation conducted a public hearing in Turlock on the notification of the exact locations of pesticide use. Dozens of people attended from [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Lay of the Land Central Valley Matters directly funds several grassroots groups that are active in the Central Valley’s Congressional District 22. All the groups have been vetted for their work in [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Guaranteed Basic Income Program
The Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC) will administer a $1 million pilot anti-poverty program by providing 150 qualifying families (75 from Huron and 75 from the city of Fresno) [...] Continue Reading
Never Stop Protesting!
As of June 19, more than 37,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. An article [...] Continue Reading
Conn “Ringo” Hallinan: He Knew Whose Side He Was On
I learned a lot from Conn “Ringo” Hallinan, who passed away on June 19. Ringo had a full life as both a writer and political organizer, and ran the journalism program at UC Santa Cruz for 23 years. [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Hate Day in Fresno
The City of Fresno declared June 7 as the initial Stop the Hate Day. In recognition of the Stop the Hate coalition’s work, City Council President Annalisa Perea, Mayor Jerry Dyer, Fresno Police Chief [...] Continue Reading
Inside the Community Alliance
The Community Alliance newspaper is growing, and beginning in August we will provide readers with more content on arts and culture in Fresno. This is possible thanks to a grant from the Fresno Arts [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
A Good Example of Solidarity By Eduardo Stanley The City of Fresno recently swapped out signs of Ventura and California avenues and Kings Canyon Road for their new name, Cesar Chavez [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Files Complaint Against the City of Fresno
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint in Fresno County Superior Court seeking records from the Fresno Police Department (FPD) about its use of attack dogs. According to [...] Continue Reading
Law, Dis-Order and Insanity
Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The longstanding and ongoing criminalization of poor people, people with [...] Continue Reading