A principios de este año, un restaurante local se vio obligado a cerrar cuando fue bombardeado con acusaciones racistas infundadas. Varios meses después y después de mucha angustia, ha reabierto con [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The December 2023 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 December 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
Robin McGehee to Headline Annual Fundraiser
What do you feel passionate about? For some Community Alliance readers, it is immigrant rights. For others, it is treating the homeless with dignity and respect. For our keynote speaker at this year’s [...] Continue Reading
“Americans and the Holocaust” Arrives in Fresno
The traveling exhibit “Americans and the Holocaust” comes from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It is circulating among only 50 libraries in the United States. Two are in California: the [...] Continue Reading
Good News for Local Independent Media
Radio Bilingüe (KSJV 91.5 FM) has received a $2 million check for a much needed new facility in Fresno. Presenting the check on Nov. 8 was Assembly Member Joaquin Arambula (D–Fresno). Radio [...] Continue Reading
Barbed Wire Baseball
It is a date that will live in infamy—Feb. 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It disrupted the lives of more than 120,000 Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
December 2023 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Center for Nonviolence Sponsored Page
December 2023 [...] Continue Reading
Responding Should You Witness a Hate Crime
A diverse group gathered at the Visalia Friends Meeting Hall for a training on what to do if you are in a situation where someone is being harassed because of the color of their skin, their sexual [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Susan Rowe
The Central Valley lost a political icon on Nov. 16 with the passing of Madera County Democratic Central Committee Chair Susan Rowe. She was also active in the Rural Caucus of the California [...] Continue Reading
WWII-Era Internment Camp Unites Asians and Latinos
Mothers and grandmothers clutched children close on trains rolling through this dry stretch of south Texas, not knowing what waited for them at the end of the line. They were Peruvians of Japanese [...] Continue Reading
FCNV: A Lamp Has Been Lit
BY ANGELA PRICE AND JOSHUA SHURLEY As we celebrate three decades of service to the Central Valley by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence (FCNV, or the Center), our mission of fostering peace requires [...] Continue Reading