AAU | Dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community “We must look further. We must dismantle our history of economic inequity and racism.” Visit this document for resources on dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community. Vist this document for the full statement, resources to learn more and action items. Sign the petition for Christian Hall Visit this doc for our full statement, resources to learn more, and action items: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ldXQTx5ZcaOt6gIUihfp1slNM1h5uunthlFWvjkmMN4/edit Posted by Asian Americans United on Thursday, March 4, 2021 Missed an event? Check out this website to be more involved in your local city!
Justice For Muslims Collective (JMC) Civic Engagement Campaign Dear Community, We are less than a week away from one of the most important elections of our lifetime. Today, we are thrilled to launch our JMC election brief called, We Count: Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian (AMEMSA) Voters in Virginia. The brief gives an overview of our civic engagement campaign to call 65,000 AMEMSA voters in Virginia, our findings from a survey we conducted with low-propensity working-class voters in Northern Virginia, community reflections on civic engagement campaigns, and resources. Read the full brief here and share it! Overall we found from a survey with 176 voters that: The overwhelming majority of AMEMSA registered voters who took our survey stated a strong yes (86%) to voting in November. A small minority (3%) stated a strong no to voting during this election. Issue Areas and Priorities: The two leading issues our respondents wanted the next President to prioritize were fighting racism and Islamophobia (40%) and expanding access to affordable healthcare (36%). Public Health: The top two public health issues that voters wanted to be addressed were COVID19 (52%) and expanding access to affordable healthcare (39%). Public Safety: The top 3 public safety issues that voters wanted to be addressed were hate crimes against people of color (38%)and police accountability and reform (36%). In addition, 17 percent of voters who took our survey stated government surveillance of mosques and Muslim communities was their number one public safety issue they wanted to be addressed.
Nama-Stay at Home Nama-Stay at Home | Artist: Sanket Deshmukh – “This artwork features the UN ambassador Priyanka Chopra, who has been spreading the ‘namastay’ message to avoid shaking hands with people. It also sends out a ‘Stay at home’ message at the same time, with a south asian design twist.” Submitted for United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives – help stop the spread of COVID-19 View this post on Instagram Namastay home and #flattenthecurve!🙏🏾 @priyankachopra . . . . #covi̇d19 #CovidOpenBrief #uncovid19brief #flattenthecurve #ViralKindness #StopTheSpread #coronavirus #bollywood #graphicart #digitalartist #digitalmedia #artofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #artwork #artfair #artexhibition #covid#procreateart #art #design #artmagazine #artgram #artbringsustogether A post shared by Sanket Deshmukh (@thecreativecub) on Apr 4, 2020 at 9:44pm PDT
COVID-19 & South Asian Americans | Live Interactive Map The news around the COVID-19 pandemic changes by the hour, and it will be a long time before we are able to compose a clear picture of the ways the virus has impacted our lives and world. Thus, in addition to our report, we’re mapping community members’ experiences of the pandemic to help shape that picture as truthfully as possible. SAALT launched its Community Survey in May, collecting nearly 400 responses. As we get more responses and the pandemic changes course, this summary and map will undoubtedly continue to change and grow. This map and story encapsulates what we’ve learned from those responses and from the twenty-plus community members and leaders we interviewed, whose testimonials you can find here in our full report. View the interactive map and story here How to use the map: To move to different parts of the map, click and drag your mouse or scroll up or down with your mouse while hovering on the map to zoom in or out. Click on the symbols on the map to read survey respondents’ and community leaders’ testimonials. Click on the arrows beside the word “Legend” on the upper right hand of your screen to see what the symbols mean. How to access the stories: To navigate the slides, click the grey arrows (either up or down), or click through the grey circles, both on the left hand side of the slide panel. Once you’ve navigated to a new slide, its accompanying map will automatically load, providing specific data analyses related to the slide topic. By clicking points on the map, you can view these data points yourself — or you can read our analysis on the slide. Stars and red points on the map indicate personal testimonials, either from an organizational leader or from an individual survey respondent.
Sexual Violence: Questions or Beliefs? | যৌন সহিংসতা: প্রশ্ন নাকি বিশ্বাস? In response to the resistance of sexual violence led by young women around the country including many South Asian and Indo-Caribbean girls, the Western Queens Ekshate team from Desis Rising Up and Moving wrote an article about how our community, as a whole, can stand with these young women to end sexual violence that has existing in our communities and societies for generations. Note: the article is written in Bengali but the page can be translated using Google Translate. Read the article here
The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity South Asians and African Americans have been standing up for each other for over a century. These are the histories we were never taught. By Anirvan Chatterjee (@anirvan) of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. Read about these histories here: https://blackdesisecrethistory.org/
South Asian Language Translations for Addressing Anti-Blackness and Systemic Racism SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS FOR ADDRESSING ANTI-BLACKNESS AND SYSTEMIC RACISM Now is the time to address anti-Blackness and systemic racism with our families and friends. if you have a language barrier, use the translations provided to begin this conversation. it is our responsibility to educate ourselves and relay information to family/friends with less access. Translations available in tamil, sinhala, urdu, hindi, gujurati, punjabi, farsi, nepali, bengali and telugu. see below to request to add a language. Visit their website here: https://southasiantranslations.carrd.co/
Sujata Strategies | Anti-Racism Resources for South Asians and AAPI Community Compiled by Sujata Tejwani of Sujata Strategies, this document is a list of stand-alone resources and other compilations of many resources to guide work on Anti-racism, Racial Justice and Abolition – especially for the South Asian diaspora and in the region itself. Included are short articles, long articles, graphics, books, movies, TV and podcasts. Many may also focus on ending casteism, colorism, Hindutva and Islamophobia in our communities and in India as these are tightly connected to being Anti-Racist and ending anti-blackness. View the resources document
Chhaya CDC | COVID-19 Relief Fund Our communities are fighting for their lives while losing their livelihoods. All the while rent is due, and children are going hungry. Low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers are at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day we hear harrowing stories from our community members — families grieving the loss of loved ones, standing in food pantry lines for hours, and struggling to pay for basic necessities. In addition to continuing critical services to the community and advocating for relief from government agencies, Chhaya is also responding by bringing cash into the hands of those most in need. With the help of our partners, we have already provided cash assistance to over 200 individuals. Yet, hundreds more have reached out for our help. Through the Chhaya COVID-19 Relief Fund we aim to raise $50,000 to distribute to community members struggling to meet critical needs. Every dollar raised will go directly to someone in need. Please help us reach this goal by making a donation now. For more information, please visit www.chhayacdc.org or email us at [email protected]. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chhaya CDC (@chhayacdc) on Jun 15, 2020 at 2:19pm PDT