On April 28, the Fresno City Council held a workshop titled “Homeless and Housing Strategy” as part of a “special” meeting. The City released the workshop documents just 24 hours before the meeting [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice
Biking for the Homeless
By Community Alliance Staff Gordie Ochinero-Bermudez of Fresno embarked on a special trip May 8–14. She biked from San Francisco to Los Angeles—about 450 miles!—as part of a fundraising effort to [...] Continue Reading
Public Funds to Shelter the Unhoused: Crossroads on the Money Trail
We, the community, are at a crossroads. Do we accept a continued failed effort to “shelter the homeless”? Do we continue to pour millions of dollars into the current system of temporary housing, law [...] Continue Reading
New Murals in Fresno Portray Deported Veterans
By Peter Maiden A mural prepared by the Leave No One Behind Mural Coalition was unveiled March 28 in Homerun Alley, behind the 3 Hermanos Company store that has its storefront at 927 Fulton [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Needs a Right to Counsel for Tenants
By James Mendez There have been several recent articles in the Fresno Bee/Fresnoland on the housing situation in Fresno. More than 50% of Fresno residents are renters. More than 60% of Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Nancy Waidtlow Wins Mr. Rogers “Good Neighbor” Award
By Gerry Bill Nancy Waidtlow is finally getting some of the recognition she deserves for her founding of the amazing project we call the Dakota EcoGarden (DEG). Waidtlow recently received the Mr. [...] Continue Reading
Vigil for Slain Street Vendor
By Peter Maiden A vigil was held for Lorenzo Perez in Pilibos Soccer Park in southeast Fresno on March 28, drawing 250 people. Perez, a pushcart vendor, was shot to death exactly a week earlier on [...] Continue Reading
The Virus of Anti-Asian Racism
By Vanna Nauk and Gaonoucci Belle Vang The South Korean film Parasite made Oscar history when it became the first non-English film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the K-pop [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change – Special Section
The Community Alliance newspaper will print a special section on climate change in April 2021. Climate activist Kevin Hall is putting together articles, photos and other illustrations because, [...] Continue Reading
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
Death, Corruption and Ideology
The community was recently outraged by streaming video of unhoused people being put out in the cold rain on the streets of Fresno as part of the city’s Project Freeway Off-Ramp. Fresno Mayor Jerry [...] Continue Reading
Housing, not Handcuffs
The City of Fresno has a long history of treating homeless people with contempt. Forcing them to move on (with nowhere to go), taking their property and sometimes arresting them for not moving along [...] Continue Reading