Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund Press Release

http://www.saldef.org/content.aspx?a=1682

Washington D.C., April 11, 2007 -- The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the oldest Sikh American civil rights and advocacy organization in the country, today called upon the Joliet Police Department to investigate the actions of one of its officers when patrolling a local neighborhood.

On Friday March 30, 2007 at around 3:00pm, Mr. Kuldip...

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/69BE3BD1FBBA47B8872572BA00626C02

Tuesday, 10 April 2007 - LONDON: The Sikh community in Bedford has got a new worship place, a spanking new gurdwara, the first to be built in the traditional Sikh style in Britain.

The 4-million-pound gurdwara was the only project to be awarded any money by the Millennium Commission - an independent body established in 1993...

Author: Jia-Rui Chong

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hatecrimes9apr09,1,268076.story

With gold- and orange-fringed parade floats and the sound of harmoniums playing traditional hymns, more than 10,000 members of the Sikh community paraded through downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.

Many participants wore traditional Sikh turbans as they celebrated Baisakhi, a harvest holiday that...

Author: Rachel Ensign

Source: The Cornell Daily Sun

http://cornellsun.com/node/22713

On Saturday, more than 75 people gathered together in Barton hall to celebrate the Sikh holiday of Vaisakhi with a moon bounce, a D.J. and samosas, a popular South Asian pastry.

The event was run by the Cornell United Sikh Students Association. Sikhism is the fifth largest organized religion in the world with 23 million adherents worldwide. The religion originated in northern...

Author: Kim Bolan

Source: The Vancouver Sun

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=f50c1c07-a9be-4a4b-a5d4-6141b8c0165b

SURREY -- Tens of thousands of Sikhs packed the streets of Surrey on Saturday for the eighth annual Vaisakhi parade honouring the religion's holiest day.

Police estimate the celebration brought out close to 100,000.

The parade...

Source: Gulf News

Wire Service: Reuters

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/30/10114611.html

New Delhi: A court sentenced three men to life in prison yesterday for murdering a Sikh constable, his son and son-in-law during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots sparked by the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Nearly 3,000 people, mostly Sikhs, were killed in the riots in New Delhi in retaliation against Gandhi's murder by...

Author: Eric Leach

Source: Los Angeles Daily News

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5624628

More than 10,000 people celebrated the Sikh religious holiday of Baisakhi Sunday and denounced a series of hate crimes against the sect following the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

Sikhs shared food, music and art in the Los Angeles Convention Center and later paraded through the streets of downtown, singing prayers as they marched behind a dozen colorful floats....

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/6530701.stm

One of the largest Sikh temples in Britain is officially opening in Bedfordshire on Saturday.

The new Guru Nanak Gurdwara Building, on Ford End Road in Queens Park, Bedford, will become the centre of the Sikh community in the area.

On Saturday a ceremony will celebrate the completion of this landmark building and will involve taking the Sikh holy...

Author: Simon Khoo

Source: The Star

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Author: Roseanne Pereira

Source: Minnesota Public Radio

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/04/03/sikhfilm/

St. Paul, Minn. -- In September 2001, Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college junior, studying religion and international affairs. She planned to go to India to interview people about religious conflict.

Then, like millions of others, she saw the T.V. images of the world trade towers falling again and again...

Source: Macalester News

http://www.macalester.edu/whatshappening/press/2007/033007.html

St. Paul, Minn. - Macalester College will host the Minnesota premiere of Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, the first feature-length documentary film to analyze the aftermath of 9/11 on South Asian and Arab Americans, at 7:30 p.m., April 3, in the Campus Center’s John B. Davis Lecture Hall.

The film documents hate crimes against Sikhs, Muslims and...

Author: Ian Austin

Source: The Province

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=8f750e98-d245-47d9-90ea-0486baaf1fd8

South Fraser Way was transformed into a sea of saris yesterday.

The busy Abbotsford thoroughfare was shut for seven hours as thousands of Sikhs gathered for the ceremonial reopening of the oldest standing Sikh temple in North America.

Premier Gordon Campbell cut...

Author: David Doyle

Source: Ealing Times

http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1302750.0.thousands_flock_to_sikh_festival.php

AS THE 207 bus edged towards Southall High Street, a river of orange turbans and colourful dress, I started to feel like I was gatecrashing a stranger's party.

Though I have a couple of Sikh friends, in reality I know very little about the faith,...