New nonpartisan coalition in Fresno offers a model for Catholic organizing in a divided country

More than 300 community members from different religious, labor and civic groups came together to ask government officials to help. Organizers asked how many others in the room knew someone who was hurt at the same intersection, and more than 30 people stood up. The problem drew concerned members of the community across nationalities and income brackets. After an accident at another intersection under scrutiny, someone had died.

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