Just a few weeks ago, on Sept. 1, Texas implemented one of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Women are only allowed abortions before a pregnancy hits the six-week mark. By this time, health [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Jane Addams Commemoration at Fresno State
Near the Jane Addams statue in the Peace Garden at Fresno State on Sept. 14, there was a commemoration of Addams’ life. Addams was born on Sept. 6, 1860. In 1889, she founded Hull House, a “settlement [...] Continue Reading
Robert E. Lee Statue: Art or Propaganda?
By Malik Simba In an ironic twist, on Sept. 8, 2021, a Black construction company dismantled the enormous statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., the capital of the Old [...] Continue Reading
Parole Punishes Everyone
By Jaime Leyva and Morghan Vélez Young Exploring the punishment of parole in the United States allows us to identify the ways that the design of parole serves as an arm of the cultural fixation [...] Continue Reading
25 Years of the Community Alliance Celebrated
More than 120 people came together in the magical garden of Pat Wolk and helped us celebrate 25 years of printing the Community Alliance newspaper. Lance Canales and the Flood welcomed guests with his [...] Continue Reading
Troubling Contradictions
By Ruth Gadebusch Try as I might, I simply can’t understand so many of the right wing’s inconsistent stands. Calling themselves pro life, nowhere is contradiction more true than in their [...] Continue Reading
La crisis de la vivienda en California está arraigada en las leyes racistas de la zonificación
Por Mark Hedin En todo el país, con vencimiento el 30 de septiembre de las moratorias estatales y federales sobre el desalojo por no pagar la renta, más de 2 millones de arrendatarios adultos están [...] Continue Reading
Fourth Grade Student with a History Lesson Confronts School District
It started out as a class project. Malachi Suarez, a smart, curious and articulate fourth grader at James K. Polk Elementary, wants to change the name of his school. In doing so, he sparked a broader [...] Continue Reading
Valley Farmworker Families Sue Chemical Giant Dow
Dow Chemical Company is the target of lawsuits recently filed on behalf of two Central Valley farmworker families over injuries they allege are caused by the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The extensively [...] Continue Reading