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South Asian Progressive Collective Gathering

  • How can we develop a vibrant progressive South Asian community in the Bay Area?
  • What would this community look like?
  • What does it mean to be South Asian and Progressive?

Please join us in a community gathering to begin exploring and answering these questions! For the first time, a diverse group of South Asians from the Bay Area will be coming together to explore new ways of working together on issues of social justice pertinent to our community. All South Asians are welcome!

In the last year there has been a compelling need for support and action for our community. A lot of good work has been done, and a lot remains to be done, in such areas as:

  • activism and art
  • gender roles in South Asian cultures
  • post 9-11 hate crimes
  • queer organizing
  • domestic violence in South Asian communities
  • the illegal detention of South Asians
  • labor organizing
  • an impending war on Iraq
  • communal violence in Gujarat
  • and more

Come to speak, listen, and participate! We will be using a flexible form of facilitation where most of the agenda for the gathering will be created by those who come that day.......so consider what you would like to discuss on the theme above, and bring your passion, ideas, and engagement!

You will also have a chance to meet people from a variety of co-sponsoring organizations and better understand what the work of each of these groups is about. We hope to leave the day with a better understanding of each other's work, new ideas about how to collaborate with each other, and action items to make this happen!

Email desicollective@yahoo.com to register if you would like to come

Saturday, January 25th, 9am-5pm (Registration 9-10am)
California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco
1453 Mission St (between 10th & 11th St), 3rd floor (Namaste Hall)

Directions and Public Transit Info

Requested admission (includes lunch): $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Organizations co-sponsoring this gathering:

Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
Coalition Against Communalism
EKTA
South Asian Sisters
Third World Majority
3rd I
Trikone


Saturday, January 25th, 9am-5pm (Registration 9-10am)

California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco
1453 Mission St (between 10th & 11th St), 3rd floor (Namaste Hall)


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