Exclusive: Data examined by The Bee details who has been arrested and deported by ICE in the Fresno area.

NEW: Central Valley Sikh truckers report spike in harassment after fatal FL crash.

“It’s definitely affecting us,” said Gurjant Singh, whose fleet transports Valley produce to FL-based Publix Supermarkets. Some of his drivers refuse to go to Florida.
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Herby Dufresne. Rodrigue Dor. Faniola Joseph. Families lost loved ones, and their grief deserves our deepest compassion. That should be the focus. Justice. Accountability. Nothing less.

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The enshittification curve of AI about to be steep and fast

ਚਿੰਤਾ ਤਾ ਕੀ ਕੀਜੀਐ ਜੋ ਅਨਹੋਨੀ ਹੋਇ ॥
People become anxious, when something unexpected happens.

ਇਹੁ ਮਾਰਗੁ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਕੋ ਨਾਨਕ ਥਿਰੁ ਨਹੀ ਕੋਇ ॥੫੧॥
This is the way of the world, O Nanak; nothing is stable or permanent. ||51||

Guru Tegh Bahaadur Ji in Salok Mehl 9 - 1429

ਫਰੀਦਾ ਇਕਨਾ ਆਟਾ ਅਗਲਾ ਇਕਨਾ ਨਾਹੀ ਲੋਣੁ ॥
Fareed, some have lots of flour, while others do not even have salt.

ਅਗੈ ਗਏ ਸਿੰਞਾਪਸਨਿ ਚੋਟਾਂ ਖਾਸੀ ਕਉਣੁ ॥੪੪॥
When they go beyond this world, it shall be seen, who will be punished. ||44||

Bhagat Sheikh Fareed Ji in Salok Fareed Jee - 1380

“For me & for many of our South Asian community members, [Jaswant Singh Khalra] is absolutely a person of admiration, because (his life) is a story of loyalty and friendship, integrity, courage & principle,” Naindeep Singh said

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The Indian government has targeted Sikhs across North America with surveillance, censorship, harassment & murder.

Join us for a conversation on how to resist: Tues, Jan 28 at 5:30 pm PST. Link below.

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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now”

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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.

More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.

(Published Jan. 2024)
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Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: https://propub.li/4i01FSv

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

Davis writes in Old Gods that the “classical rank-and-file organizer” didn’t spend the bulk of their time on the shop floor hopping up on soapboxes to deliver rousing speeches that sparked their coworkers to revolt against tyrannical bosses.

Why did Spirit Airlines go bankrupt? Is it because of antitrust? No. It's because of bad management. For example, the CEO got a $3.8 million bonus a week before they declared bankruptcy. What kind of company rewards the person who destroyed it? A bad one.
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Reflecting on 25 years since to have engaged, empowered, and emboldened Sikh youth and Sangats across California and beyond

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ॥ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ॥