In February 2021, the Community Alliance published an article describing the intensive use of pesticides in California and the efforts that several state entities are undertaking to protect people [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
City and County Have Millions Yet Only Kick People When They’re Down
On Jan. 12, it was a truly dystopian scene at H and San Benito streets in downtown Fresno. Police car lights in the dense fog, the jaws of large heavy equipment scooping up property and debris in the [...] Continue Reading
Solutions for Homelessness Cannot Keep Up
Downtown Fresno holds some of the city’s fastest-growing homeless encampments. Tents, personal belongings and homeless individuals fill the streets. Since 2020, the pandemic has put Americans in [...] Continue Reading
Tell More Black Stories through Film
As we celebrate African-American History Month 2022, let us thank the Black filmmakers who are making films that tell African-American history from different viewpoints. We now have Black directors, [...] Continue Reading
Dolores Huerta Foundation
February 2022 Sponsored Page [...] Continue Reading
Stolen Newsstands and the Struggle for Free Speech in Fresno
The Community Alliance newsstand in front of the Fresno County Jail has been stolen 4 times in the last year. After the second theft, we hid a GPS device inside the newsstand to find out where [...] Continue Reading
The Peace and Social Justice Calendar
January 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. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 Happy [...] Continue Reading
The March for Our Future
By Community Alliance staff On Dec. 4, hundreds marched in Fresno demanding that Boards of Supervisors in Central Valley counties listen to the people regarding new district boundaries. [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Nunes Resignation I just read that our lying, deceitful, racist, simply evil man Devin Nunes is planning to resign, to go work for Trump media. What more evidence do we need to support the [...] Continue Reading
City and County Have Millions While Unhoused Die in the Streets
On Dec. 14, the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART, aka the heartless team) raided a small homeless encampment behind a convenience store during a hard, cold rainstorm. [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights Day Focuses on Voting Rights
On Dec. 11, Human Rights Day 2021 was celebrated with a webinar put on by the Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley called “Voting Rights are Human Rights.” The keynote speaker was Dr. Shirley [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Smoggies to Be Awarded
Breathers citywide are eager to learn who will take home a coveted golden inhaler—The Smoggie—at this year’s inaugural awards event for Fresno’s worst votes and quotes on air pollution and climate [...] Continue Reading