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…
An Examination of Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire Agreements Exemplified by Pillar of Cloud, November 14 to November 22, 2012 and the Ceasefire Process Surrounding It by Betsy Wolf-Graves A candid look at the most recent attack by the Israeli Defense Forces on Gaza shows how Israel’s well-oiled propaganda machine manipulates the…
A Palestinian Christian Eyewitness Remembers the Israeli Military Siege of the Church of the Nativity By Sharat G. Lin with Jiries Canavati in Bethlehem Ten years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in response to a rapid succession of suicide bombings by Palestinians inside Israel and against Israeli settlements in the West…
Its time to prepare for spring. The Arab Spring in the Mid East continues to move forward year round. Does the Occupy Movement stand for something positive or something negative ? It depends on the purpose and actions of those who are participating. Is the occupy movement directionless? Maybe. Maybe…
