Christopher Alam
News ProducerChristopher Alam is a writer, journalist, and producer from Fresno, California. He has contributed reporting for KQED, NPR, and Variable West. His fiction has appeared in the Beirut-based literary journal Rusted Radishes. His work engages with structural inequality, immigrant communities, and Arabs/West Asia. When not writing, he is a DJ on internet radio stations LowerGrand and HydeFM, and is a risograph printmaker.
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Seven members of the Golden Gate 26 were sentenced to 30 days in jail on Friday. -
Seven defendants will be sentenced on Friday for charges stemming from a pro-Palestine protest that took place over two years ago on the Golden Gate Bridge. -
CrosscurrentsOne Afghan-American man in the East Bay is trying to save any Afghan music he can get his hands on. But getting those tapes out of Afghanistan is not as simple as an online order… It's an illegal, expensive, and dangerous odyssey. -
Weekly protests outside an immigration court in downtown San Francisco are picking up steam. From our partners at American Community Media, Christopher Alam has more. -
CrosscurrentsThe Oakland Ballet’s newest performance, the “Angel Island Project," hopes to depict the experiences of Chinese immigrants who were victim to discriminatory travel policies. -
A coalition of dozens of local anti-war activists called on Senators Laphonza Butler and Alex Padilla to support efforts to block the sale of US made arms to Israel. -
CrosscurrentsFollowing the death of longtime leader, Reverend Cecil Williams, earlier this year, GLIDE Memorial Church continues his mission of radical love and music. -
CrosscurrentsThe court case for the pro-Palestinian protestors who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge back in April is underway, where some face felony charges. -
A Bay Area-based nonprofit polled 900 Latinos from across the state on their election concerns. -
CrosscurrentsIn 2021, San Francisco declared August as Transgender History Month and invested millions in trans initiatives. This year, California adopted it statewide. But that funding expired in 2023, and it’s unclear when and how that money will be renewed.
