The most expensive single sports game on Earth kicked off under unprecedented militarization of the police and the highest levels of inequality since the Great Depression. As the biggest sporting game in the United States, thousands of law enforcement and security personnel from nearly every conceivable agency have converged on…
Hi, I am Patrice! I am currently taking a break from Sonoma State University from majoring in Political science. I was born in San Jose, but have lived in many places including Sacramento, Maryland and South Korea. I would like to help my community and work on the Latin FilmSeries while I am working at the Peace and Justice Center. I have worked with Rotaract Club…
By K. Austria Last Saturday, November 14th, a candle light vigil was held in front of San Jose City Hall to commemorate the lives lost in acts of violence. The vigil did not only pay tribute to victims of violence, but also the families of these victims who were mourning…
The SJPD Drone – Return It and Get Our Money Back! Last November the San Jose City Council authorized the purchase of an $8K drone for the Police Department. This budget item was slipped into the consent calendar and we the people never got a chance to debate whether we…
SJPJC Events and Programming Intern Patrice Halcrombe Over humanity's long history, we have lost our connection with dirt and doing so, we are destroying the very thing that gives us life. Dirt the Movie explores humanity's connection with dirt and how to restore our connection back with dirt. The documentary…
Restrict secrecy more than data collection Spencer Graves Popular US rhetoric supports democracy. However, US actions have often done the opposite and manufactured enemies in the process. Although downplayed by the mainstream media, there is ample documentation that the US helped destroy democracy in several countries and supported tyranny…
International Conference For A WMD-Free Middle East Betsy Wolf-Graves Background Haifa was the unlikely setting for the first multinational conference on Israeli soil to plan the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. The conference was held on December 5-6, 2013. The next day, December 7, Arab…
Let’s be proud of it (even though there is a lot more to be done). By Sharat G. Lin Yes, for the first time in U.S. history, we stopped a war before it could happen! Of course, we had a little help from the Russians and the British…
It’s important for any country to make sense of its past, but it’s especially important for us Americans, if we’re to safeguard what remains of our freedoms, to understand how “our” government works. Or doesn’t. If we hope to learn from tragic experience, we need an accurate understanding of our…
Reports in the US media about either verbal or violent attacks upon the US rarely include background to help a reader to understand what might motivate such attacks. There are hundred, probably thousands, of cases where US government officials have secretly opposed democracy at home and abroad, though you wouldn't…
