On June 2, an encampment sweep at Ashlan and West avenues took place. People were forced to leave with no notice, were not offered shelter and no one knows where they will go next. I called Sarah [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Continuum of Cash and Racism by the Numbers
In 2019, from information gathered in the annual federally mandated Point-in-Time Count, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) analysis found that close to 567,000 people experienced [...] Continue Reading
Brewery Celebrates Pride Month
Throughout June, Fresno’s LGBTQIA+ community is celebrated with everything from a parade to the raising of the Pride Flag at Fresno City Hall, which occurred for the second year in a row. The team [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Pride
Under a scorching sun on June 10, during LGBTQ Pride Month, the city of Fresno held its second annual LGBTQ+ Pride Flag Raising Ceremony in front of City Hall. The turnout was good, and many city and [...] Continue Reading
Juneteenth, a Celebration to Freedom
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. A memorable act, given the highly separated American society we currently live in. The long sought-after bill [...] Continue Reading
March for Our Lives
More than 100 people came out on a hot Fresno day to protest recent gun violence incidents and call for legislation to reduce access to the weapons used in mass shootings. Chanting “not one more” the [...] Continue Reading
Is It Time to End Abortion, or Is It Time to Abort the Supreme Court?
One definition of abortion, as defined by the Oxford dictionary, is to “end or cause something to end before it has been completed, especially because it is likely to fail.” Teenage girls who [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Sponsored Page in the July 2022 Community Alliance [...] Continue Reading
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Sponsored Page in the July 2022 Community Alliance newspaper [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence
The Fresno Center for Nonviolence Sponsored Page in the July Community Alliance newspaper [...] Continue Reading
Fallo Represivo y Retrógrado de la Suprema Corte
El viernes 24 de junio la Suprema Corte de EE.UU. emitió el fallo más vergonzoso y retrógrado de su historia: declaró que el aborto no es legal en el país. Por 5-4 votos, el fallo llamado “Roe vs [...] Continue Reading
The June 2022 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading