By Sharnjit Purewal M.D. In the August issue of Community Alliance, Sudarshan Kapoor’s article “Anti-Sikh Violence in 1984 in India” was published, providing his perspective on the recent [...] Continue Reading
Columns
I Am Indigenous
Author’s Note: "Native Americans are considered to be the first Americans to live in and populate the United States. By the time the first explorers and settlers arrived from Europe, Native Americans [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor – August 2016
Food Not Bombs Hi, my name is Brittney Fairburn. My boyfriend, Ruben Jimenez, and I have been in charge of running the Sunday Food Not Bombs meals for many years. Food Not Bombs receives donations [...] Continue Reading
Elie
By Tiffany A. Potter Confession: I am finding it hard not to lose faith in humanity at the moment. I’m not proud of it, and I’m sure it will pass though it sometimes doesn’t feel like it will, [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: California continues to heat the planet
By Tom Frantz Now that California has been declared the sixth leading economy in the world, where does it rank in terms of climate disrupting emissions? It turns out that California, in 2014, was the [...] Continue Reading
Vonnegut on Nagasaki
By John LaForge “The rights and wrongs of Hiroshima are debatable,” Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, once said, “but I have never heard a plausible justification of Nagasaki” — [...] Continue Reading
Anti-Sikh Violence in 1984 in India and a Tentative Peace Plan Toward Conflict Resolution
By Sudarshan Kapoor, PhD. In the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two trusted Sikh bodyguards on Oct. 31, 1984, in India, anti-Sikh violence occurred in [...] Continue Reading
Dispatches from the War Zone: A Book Review
By Boston Woodard “Mike Rhodes is the best reporter in America when it comes to covering homelessness,” said Jeremy Alderson, director of the nationally broadcast Homelessness Marathon Road [...] Continue Reading
Because I said so. . .
By Mike Rhodes The video of Fresno police officer Rudy Ruiz denying Jesse Paz and his daughter permission to get on a bus at Manchester Center went viral. Over 100,000 people have viewed the [...] Continue Reading
Howard Watkins Photo of the Month
Muhammad Ali: Jan 17, 1942-June 3, 2016 From Democracy Now! “Thousands gathered in Louisville, KY Friday for the funeral of Muhammad Ali, one of the world’s most iconic figures of the 20th century. [...] Continue Reading
Pulse
My ex-husband once said to me as we were having a conversation about some big life plan I had at the time and my anxiety surrounding it, “Tiffany, you always get everything you want.” And with the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: A Mass Murderer Lurks in the Valley
By Tom Frantz In June of 2016, the United Nations Environmental Director, Ibrahim Thiaw, gave a speech detailing the effects of air pollution on the world’s population. He said, “If air pollution were [...] Continue Reading