This past winter has been brutal — it marked one year since the outbreak of the coronavirus, and it also marked several anniversaries and memorials of pandemic-driven xenophobic violence across the globe.
On the one-year anniversary of the Delhi pogrom, we noted the Modi administration’s role in institutionalizing, facilitating, and…
Welcome to the SAALT’s Voices from the Community series, where we feature posts from community members on key issues and their intersections.
Today we mark the one year anniversary of the pogrom in Delhi. In light of this passage, we’re highlighting a piece by Shivani Parikh, an aspiring movement lawyer…
SAALT and our allies spent 2020 strategizing to combat rising fascism. From Donald Trump’s vitriolic attacks and xenophobic refusal of human rights, to Narendra Modi’s employment of Islamophobic policies and his encouragement of Hindutva violence, right-wing extremism dominated 2020 — all with a global pandemic of unforeseen scale happening simultaneously.
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Welcome to the first of our Voices from the Community series, where we’ll be featuring posts from community members on key issues and their intersections.
Over the past few days, South Asians around the world have organized in solidarity with Punjabi farmers to demand justice and better protections for their…
On November 7, people of color caught their breath as they received news that President Donald Trump would no longer office past January 2021; finally, after four years of increased and public attacks on immigrants, Black Americans, queer folks, and Muslims, we have a moment of respite.
It’s less than two weeks away from Election Day, and racist rhetoric from public officials and hate violence continues to impact communities all over the country.
From the local level to the federal level, candidates from Laura Loomer to Marjorie Taylor Green who have public track records filled with Islamophobic…
This time, four years ago, the U.S. was in the heat of the election cycle. The Trump campaign was regularly using Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric to promise discriminatory policies like the Muslim Ban and a border wall. …
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and continues to claim thousands of lives, hate violence and xenophobic political rhetoric targeting our communities continues without pause. …
On Monday, May 25th, 2020, George Floyd became the 1,014th person to be murdered by the U.S. police force over the last year.
While we focus on hate violence targeting South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities, we must not do so in absence of the larger…
Over the last month, we’ve seen hate and vitriol run increasingly rampant through our communities, at times outsizing the powerful acts of solidarity, unity, and compassion we have also observed during this time of global health crisis.
A national social justice org working on policy analysis/advocacy on issues affecting the South Asian community: immigration, post 9/11 backlash. www.saalt.org
