Written by April Chavez Talon Fisher, among those who attended a lecture on the Holocaust Friday afternoon at Allan Hancock College, said the presentation expanded his understanding of how deeply rooted ideologies of hate can lead to atrocity. “I was interested in exploring a little bit more about the earlier history of the Holocaust and […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller Earth Day belongs to the Central Coast. It began here. When Union Oil’s Platform A blew out on Jan. 28, 1969, and spewed 100,000 gallons of crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, humankind had an epiphany: We realized that this is the only Earth we have, and […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller Auschwitz. The site of man’s greatest inhumanity to man. This is where somewhere between one and one-half million people were murdered. This is where Dr. Josef Mengele did his unspeakable experiments on human beings. This is where slave laborers toiled until they were too exhausted to work another […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller A group of people are gathered around a mud puddle on the path that leads to the shore of Soda Lake. What could be so interesting? A moment later the answer reveals itself. This mud puddle is teeming with life. Within are hundreds of tiny creatures, so small […]

Featuring speakers and presenters from as far away as Berkeley and as close as Santa Maria, and presenting workshops on subjects as diverse as the Nazi Holocaust and Grading for Equity, Allan Hancock College’s DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) Summit on Feb. 7 provided its 200–plus attendees with the widest variety of issues and […]