The new California state budget — with tens of millions of dollars to restore the Salton Sea and nearby communities — is a "promising step forward in achieving environmental justice for Salton Sea communities."
Read Alianza's full statement.
Univision: "Nuevos Fondos para restaurar el Salton Sea"
The coronavirus pandemic has further highlighted the challenges facing the Coachella Valley’s most economically disadvantaged communities. Along with mobilizing to address the community's immediate needs, Alianza is calling for action to better protect Coachella Valley families in the long run.
Alianza is working with nonprofit partners to deliver food to people who cannot get to distribution sites.
A group of young filmmakers who live near the Salton Sea are raising awareness about the environmental and public health crisis they and thousands of others live around every day.
Alianza Coachella Valley hosted more than 100 guests on Friday, Feb. 7 during the official grand opening of its new office in downtown Coachella.
Higher temperatures, more intense droughts and more damaging wildfires and floods are just some of the climate change effects already being seen in the California desert — and residents of low-income, minority communities in the Coachella Valley are most likely to suffer the consequences of those environmental stresses.
Officials at Coachella Valley Unified School District are supporting efforts to bring restorative forms of discipline to more schools while ending a contract that placed sheriff's deputies in schools."
Alexis Ortego of Palm Springs and Lynne O'Neill of Cathedral City write that as the Desert Healthcare District prepares to transition to zone-based elections, its board must decide how the new zones will be drawn to best represent our communities.
Manuela Ramirez of Thermal writes about why so many of her neighbors in the Eastern Coachella Valley live in fear.
A day before the second annual East Coachella Valley Pride festival, organizers were busy finishing the final preparations.