There will be a “Unity March against Anti-Semitism’’ in San Francisco tomorrow. However the last 147 days of genocide in Palestine have made clear that this “unity march” is just a co...
ASATA members joined hundreds of protesters in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco on October 8, 2023. The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action stands in solidarity with the peopl...
DOMESTIC WORKERS’ ORGANIZING IN CALIFORNIA: AN ASATA UPDATE by ASATA Member Preeti Gamzeh Over two million homes across California depend on the essential care provided by more than 300,000 ...
ASATA partnered with APEX Express, a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community, to talk about MANIPUR’S...
Bay Area South Asian Therapist Collective Referral List SOUTH ASIAN THERAPIST COLLECTIVE Many South Asians struggle with mental health, and those who try to work through it using therapy add...
On May 14, 2023 the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) and Arwah Collective presented a screening of BBC’s documentary, India: The Modi Question. This documentary lays out the incr...
Above: ASATA members with Pierre Labossiere of Haiti Action Committee. Below: folks decompress after the conference. Photos courtesy of Sabiha Basrai. The Center for Political Education has co...
DIVERSE AMERICAN COALITION VOWS TO FIGHT HINDU NATIONALISM IN THE US For Immediate Release MARCH 6, 2023 Contact: S. Karthikeyan �...
Preeti, Taz, Sabiha and Haleema came together to discuss the politics and cultural impact of the Disney TV show Ms. Marvel. Check out their discussion which aired on APEX Express on January 19, 2...
The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour , curated by ASATA members Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee, just celebrated its 10th year. They’ve run 227 tours to date—about two t...
Photo courtesy of SFCHRP For over a year, Amazon and Google workers have been organizing to end their companies’ contract with the Israeli military and apartheid government. The message is cl...
ASATA RECENTLY COORDINATED A CLOTHING SWAP! Inspired by the Konmari method and the desire to recycle/upcycle South Asian clothing, ASATA Member Shama/Farhana utilized the ASATA listserv to conn...
ASATA’s Bay Area Solidarity Summer (BASS) program just completed its 12th annual training for emerging South Asian American activists and organizers, ages 18–23. The 2022 BASS cohort includ...
ASATA members gather in Dover Park in Oakland for an Eid Celebration. May 2022. As we continue to deal with the isolation caused by the ongoing pandemic, ASATA looks for ways to reconnect wit...
Authors: Sunaina Maira, Madihah Akhter, Sabiha Basrai We dedicate this article to the memories of inspiring ASATA members, social justice scholars, and dear friends Anantha Sudhakar and Birjinde...
Photo from Anchal Bibra February 28, 2021 — ASATA members joined the Stop Line 3 mural project. Our mural highlights the farmers protests that are taking place in India. Farmers have been cru...
Sunaina Maira read the following statement at the Day of Action for Yemen in San Francisco. Photo by Terry Scussel. __________________________________________ ASATA’s Statement for: DAY O...
ASATA’s coalition partner South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) put out the following statement in response to the January 6th attacks on the Capitol. _______ January 7, 2021 ...
On Saturday, November 7th, 2020, organizers from Stand With Kashmir and Maynmai spoke on a panel hosted by ASATA entitled “Lessons Learned on Resisting Authoritarianism: Kashmiri & Tamil Perspe...
In late 2019, ASATA members were the very first to nominate “Kala Bagai” as the name for a two-block street in downtown Berkeley, a block from UC Berkeley and the downtown Berkeley BART stat...