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
Social Justice
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
Adultifying BIPOC Children for Punishment
Many of us already know that there are two legal systems just as classical novels have articulated about the economic and political experiences of communities along race and class lines. One U.S. [...] Continue Reading
Chile: Left-Wing Candidate Wins in a Landslide
Until Sept. 11, 1973, Chile had a long history of democratic elections. Salvador Allende was elected in 1970 (after running unsuccessfully in 1952, 1958 and 1964.) The 1973 U.S.-supported military [...] Continue Reading
NFL, Jon Gruden and Social Justice: It Was All an Illusion
The most famous director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, touring and evaluating southern policing in the 1940s, observed, “There are some trigger-happy policemen down here.” We know now that Hoover’s [...] Continue Reading
Rings Like Silver, Shines Like Gold
Rings Like Silver Shines Like Gold: The Lives of Gene and Ellie Bluestein by Evo Bluestein and edited by Julilana Harris, Independently published (www.evobluestein.com), Fresno, 2021, $24.95 [...] Continue Reading
In the Dark of the Valley
In the Dark of the Valley exemplifies how an actual grassroots movement and campaign can be given life and develop. It is a compelling account of the all-too-familiar smashup between mistreated [...] Continue Reading