Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer invited the family of Balbir Singh Sodhi’s, America’s first victim of hate-crime after 9/11, to her office and vetoed the House Bill number 2230 in their presence which would have removed Sodhi’s name from state memorial built to mark the tragedy of 9/11 and its victims.
The strength and vibrancy of our Sikh community in the UK gives us a special interest in the issue, an insight we can usefully share with our European partners, so we will be doing our best to lead the debate not only with the Commission but with other member states. Achieving the change we need will take time.
The Sikh Film Festival at 17th Punjabi American Festival will be held on May 29th, 2011 at Yuba Sutter Fairgrounds
The Gurdwara has been the focus of a long-standing dispute over recent years which led to congregation members being threatened and windows smashed. PC McNamara regularly attended Darbar to prevent disorder, stepped up local patrols, investigated attacks on the temple, and negotiated mediation between temple officials and suspected troublemakers.
Rana Singh Sodhi said he still opposes Kavanagh's bill, which would require panels on the memorial to be removed by Sept. 11, 2011, the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. By agreeing to introduce follow-up legislation in January to correct the slight against Balbir Singh Sodhi in the original legislation, Kavanagh is admitting the original bill is flawed.
The Sikh Coalition was honored to provide 25 tickets from the White House to Sikh children, their parents and their grandparents, who journeyed to our nation's capital from places around the country, including California, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and the DC area, to represent the community.
Vikram Johal and Raminder Dhaliwal will be completing the Centaur Subaru Half Marathon which is a whopping 21.1 km race. They are calling on the Sikh community to not only come out and support them while taking part in fun activities at Murdoch Park but to also sponsor them for this event as they have both decided to run for a cause.
SikhRI’s BC coordinator Kirpa Kaur said that she felt the way the events were carried off was monumental for the local community. “These events felt like they were a long time coming, and we are so happy to have created the programming to educate not only non-Sikhs, but Sikhs as well, on the significance of Vaisakhi,”..
There they were at the Green Day concert – six pink turbans bobbing up and down in the crowd....Who are these mysterious pink-turbaned giants, and where are they from? Why do they pop up at almost every rock concert held in the region? And most importantly of all, why pink?
Some important artifacts, documents and images relating to the Ranjit Singh period and beyond were up for auction by Mullocks Auctioneers , specialists in Historical memorabilia at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire, UK on the 19th April 2011.