Pakistan's Judicial Crisis and Remembering Karachi's May 12 Carnage: A Discussion
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tayyab Mahmud
Sunday May 11, 3pm, MILPITAS
The crisis in the Pakistani
judiciary that began over a year ago, with Pervez Musharraf sacking the
Chief Justice on March 9 2007, still continues. In its wake, it has
mobilized lawyers, students and social activists in unprecedented
numbers, challenged the dictatorial and military rule of General
Musharraf, and continues to haunt the political leaders at the helm
today.
A year ago, on May 12, as
the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry tried to make his way in to
Karachi, the city burnt. Supporters of the defiant Chaudhry clashed
with the pro-Musharraf Army and local political parties, leaving over
40 people dead, hundreds injured and a city of over 12 million engulfed
in unprecedented violence. This event is to mark one year of that
carnage, and explore different contexts of the judicial crisis.
The
event will feature a discussion led by Dr. Tayyab Mahmud, Professor and
Associate Dean at Seattle University School of Law, and local panelists
Javed Ellahie, Ijaz Syed and Dabbir Tirmizi. The event will be held at 372 Turquoise Rd, Milpitas, and is co-sponsored by Friends of South Asia, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, and Pakistan American Congress.
For more details visit http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/judiciary
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Protest Dr. Binayak Sen's Unjust Detention
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On May 13th/14th,
2008 Dr. Binayak Sen, an activist with a lifelong commitment to the
issues of community health and human rights, will complete his first
year of unjust imprisonment at the Raipur Central jail in
Chhattisgarh, India. Organizations across the globe will be holding rallis, candlelight vigils, lectures and similar events
on the evening of May 13th, 2008 to mark one year of his
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Turmoil in the Tribal Belt
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Khawar
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SHABNAM HASHMI, Indian Human Rights Activist
Wednesday Mar 12, STANFORD
Thursday Mar 13, BERKELEY
Friday Mar 14, SAN FRANCISCO
Noted
Indian Human Rights Activist, Shabnam Hashmi will be visiting the San
Francisco Bay Area in March 2008. She is the Managing Trustee and
Executive Secretary of Act Now for Harmony
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Founded in
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Hashmi first became involved in activism in 1981 while working on
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AYESHA SIDDIQA AGHA in the SF Bay Area
Thursday Feb 21, 7pm, STANFORD
Saturday Feb 23, 3pm, UNION CITY
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groundbreaking work on the far-reaching economic interests
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Dayamani Barla - Indigenous Journalist and Activist
Fri, Nov 30 - SAN FRANCISCO
Sat, Dec 1 - SAN JOSE
Wed, Dec 5 - BERKELEY
Award-winning indigenous journalist Dayamani Barla will visit the San
Francisco Bay Area in December 2007. Dayamani Barla, a tribal woman
from the Jharkhand region of India, has written about the displacement
of tribal peoples from their native lands by developers. Her work is constantly
guided by her concern for the plight of the weakest and the most
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Stop US Support of Military Rule
Protest at San Francisco City Hall, Sat, Nov 10, 2pm
(more details here)
On Nov 3, 2007, the military dictator of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez
Musharraf, imposed a state of emergency in Pakistan, aborting
the long-awaited return to democracy. With the Provisional
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rule by decree, suspended fundamental rights in Pakistan, and granted
himself unlimited powers. Independent news media has been suspended,
and human rights activists, lawyers and other civilians have been
arrested.
FOSA strongly condemns this declaration of emergency rule in Pakistan.
FOSA joins with all citizens of Pakistan in demanding the release of
all the people arrested under the
emergency rules and the restoration of the constitution and the rule of law. [Read more of FOSA's statement]
We urge everyone to join in condemning this atrocity; providing
soldarity and support to the Pakistani Civil Society, and to pressurize
the US government to end it's tacit support of Gen. Musharraf.
Related Links
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South Asia Citizens' Web page on the Pakistan Emergency featuring statements from various community groups.
For updates, see:
Friends of South Asia Wiki Page on the Emergency
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Urge Indian Govt to stop supporting Burmese Military Junta
Sign the Petition
The past few weeks have seen the Burmese government subjugate
and repress a popular and non-violent movement for democratic rights
within Myanmar (Burma). In this context we have observed with growing
dismay the reluctance of the Indian govt to issue any condemnation of
this brutal and indiscriminate crackdown by the ruling Burmese military
junta. On the contrary, the Indian govt has engaged in selling military
equipment and signing natural gas contracts.
Please sign this petition urging the Indian government to take action.
The petition has been endorsed by ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) and BADA-SF (Burmese American Democratic Alliance)
Rally at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco
Fri 10/12, 2-5pm
540 Arguello Blvd., San Francisco (map)
Oct 12, 2007: Amid persistent downpour, 40 activists with the Burmese American Democratic Alliance and Friends of South Asia
staged a rally in front of the Indian consulate in support of the
Burmese pro-democracy movement, and to protest the Government of
India’s growing ties with the military junta in Burma. South
Asian activists also submitted two petitions to the Indian Consul of
Community Affairs, Mr. Prabhat Kumar Singh, urging the Indian
government to immediately end its ties with the military regime in
Burma and to use its authority in the region to demand that the Burmese
military cease its repressive crackdown on protestors and monks in
Burma. [ Read more... ]
Questions? Please email mail [at] friendsofsouthasia.org
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PAKISTAN - A Wide-Angle View of a Troubled Ally
A talk by Ayesha Siddiqa
UPDATE, Sep 27: Talks cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances
Friday Sep 28, 6.30pm - STANFORD (Event Change - See Below)
Monday Oct 1, 5.00pm - BERKELEY (CANCELLED)
We
regret to inform you that Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa has fallen seriously ill
in New York and will NOT be coming to the Bay Area to give talks at
Stanford (Sep 28) and Berkeley (Oct 1)
Whereas the Berkeley event has been completely called off, FOSA plans on meeting at the Stanford venue on Friday Sep 28, 6.30pm, and read excerpts from Military, Inc., Ayesha Siddiqa's book. We also plan to show a video interview of Ayesha Siddiqa.
Visit the event homepage |
Fourth Annual Literary Evening
& Joint Celebration of Indian and Pakistani Independence Days
Revisiting
Changing Homelands
Saturday, August 25, 2007, 4:30
p.m.
Milpitas Library Community Hall,
Milpitas Library
40 N Milpitas Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
Join local
writers and
poets in exploring themes that mark the times we are living through. For
details on the theme, visit
the Literary
Evening mainpage
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People's Movements for Health and Water Rights in
Western India: A Talk by Dr.
Anant Phadke
Tuesday,
June 12, 6.30pm, San Jose
[San Jose
Peace Center, 48 S Seventh St.]
Learn
how grassroots movements in India's state of Maharashtra have defended
people's rights to healthcare and the rights of farmers displaced by
dams and drought.
Dr.
Anant Phadke is a leader in the People's Health
Movement in
Maharashtra and is active with Shramik
Mukti Dal movement particularly with respect
to water rights (with Bharat Patankar and others).
He is a co-founder of a discussion group called "Samuhik Khoj"
(Collective Search)
The event is co-sponsored by South Asians for Collective
Action, Friends
of South Asia, India
Relief and Education Fund, San Jose Peace Center,
Our
Developing World, and Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, San Jose.
For more details, see event
homepage
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Voices of
Iraqi Workers: 2007 Solidarity Tour
Hashmeya
Mohsen al Hussein, Iraqi
Electrical Utility Workers Union
Faleh
Abood Umara, Iraqi
Federation of Oil Unions
Sunday,
June 10, 2-4pm, San Jose
Laborer's
Hall, 509 Emory St. (at Coleman Ave.)
Hashmeya Mohsen al Hussein
is the first woman to head a national union in Iraq. She was born in
Basra in 1955. Following high school, she went to work at the Southern
Company for Electricity. She is now the President of the Iraqi
Electrical Utility bWorkers Union.
Faleh Abood Umara
is a founding member of the oil workers union and has worked for the
Southern Oil Company in Basra for 28 years. He is now the General
Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions.
This event is a rare opportunity
for people in the US to dialogue directly with Iraqi workers and labor
leaders about current attempts to control Iraq’s oil, women's
issues under the occupation, and the role of unions in creating a
non-sectarian, progressive Iraq. These courageous leaders struggled for
years against Saddam Hussein’s repression. Now they have
stepped forward to organize workers seeking to improve conditions at
their workplaces and in their lives under the difficult conditions of
occupation, sectarian division, and violence. They are fighting not
only for basic labor rights for all workers but also for
women’s equality and against privatization of their national
resources.
The San Jose event is co-sponsored by South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council,
Building & Construction Trades Council, Communications Workers
of
America Local 9423, Plumbers & Fitters Local 393, Laborers
Local
270, California Nurses Association, South Bay Mobilization, San Jose
Peace Center, Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom,
Friends of South Asia, Veterans for Peace, Labor Party, Green Party of
Santa Clara County, Arab-American Cultural Center, Our Developing
World, and Students for Justice-SJSU. Endorsed by Peninsula Peace and
Justice Center.
More information about the San Jose event can be found here
For more details, including background information and a schedule of
the entire nationwide solidarity tour, visit http://www.UsLaborAgainstWar.org
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Narika's Fifteenth Anniversary
Gala
15
Years of Sharing Aspirations, Creating New Visions
Saturday,
May 19, 6-10pm
St
Mary's Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco
With Keynote Speaker: Raka Ray,
Chair, Center for South Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, Live
Performance by Alam Khan of the Ali Akbar College of
Music
Narika is a
SF Bay Area based domestic violence helpline for South Asian women. Narika's first galaevent
on Saturday, May 19 is a celebration of Narika's 15 years serving the
South Asian community. Come for a night of great food, entertainment, a
fabulous
silent auction, and a night of inspiration. We at
Friends of South Asia are proud to be Narika's
networking partner for this celebration.
Narika's mission is to promote the empowerment of women in our
community to confront and overcome the cycles of domestic violence and
exploitation. Narika works to build a movement to end violence against
women
and to actively support women's rights as human rights.
For more information, visit Narika's
gala event page
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Report
Links Campus Student Organization to the
Sangh
Parivar
The Campaign to Stop
Funding Hate
has released a new report titled "Lying
Religiously: The Hindu Students Council and the Politics of Deception" (April
15, 2007). This report lays out the deep connections
between the Hindu
Students Council (HSC) and the Nazi-inspired Sangh Parivar, the
violent, extremist, Hindu chauvinist network of organizations spawned
by the RSS in India . The Sangh Parivar has a long history of carrying
out violent activities in India , including the assassination of
Mahatma Gandhi and the pogroms in Gujarat in 2002 in which more than
two thousand innocent India citizens were murdered.
While laying
out in
detail the close and multi-dimensional relationships between HSC and
the Sangh Parivar, the report also points out how HSC has been
deceptive in its efforts to recruit Indian-American students by hiding
these relationships. "Most of the young desi Americans who join the HSC
have no clue as to the connections between the HSC and the militant and
violent Hindu right wing in India " says Samip Mallick, one of the
campaign coordinators for CSFH. "We fully support the creation and
existence of Hindu student organizations on college campuses, but we
are unable to condone the Hindu Student Council's continued misleading
of college students regarding its ties to the Sangh Parivar," he
continued.
The
"Lying
Religiously" report is available at http://hsctruthout.stopfundinghate.org/
A radio interview with Samip Mallick, a former
HSC member and one of the authors of "Lying Religiously" is available here.
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The
Kashmir Issue
60 Years Later:
Rethinking The Kashmir Conflict
A
conversation with Beena Sarwar and Huma Dar
Tuesday, May 8, 7pm
Room 030,
Bldg 200, Stanford University
Kashmir
has been an ideological and physical battleground for Pakistan and
India since independence in 1947. What is the place of Kashmir in South
Asia, and in the world? What are the social implications of this
conflict? Join us for a discussion with Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar,
currently at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard
University, and Huma Dar,
a South Asian Studies scholar at UC Berkeley.
Event co-sponsored by Pakistanis
at Stanford, Center for South
Asia (Stanford), Sanskriti,
and Friends
of South Asia.
For more information visit the event
homepage |
Imagining
the City: Two Films on Bombay
Saacha (The Loom) and Naata (The Bond)
Directed
by Anjali
Monteiro & K.P. Jayashankar
Thursday,
Apr 26, 6.30pm, STANFORD
Saacha
weaves together poetry, paintings and memories of the city to explore
the modes and politics of representation, the relevance of art in the
contemporary social milieu, and the decline of the urban working class
in an age of structural adjustment, the dilemmas of the left and the
trade union movement and the changing face of a huge metropolis.
Naata
is about Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan who work with neighborhood peace
committees in Dharavi, Mumbai, to promote conflict resolution through
the collective production and use of visual media. When the deadly
riots of 1992-93 tore the city and their community apart, Korde and
Khan were moved to act, working to change both the negative perception
of Dharavi and erase religious and ethnic divisions.
Anjali Monteiro is
Professor, and K.P. Jayasankar is Professor and Chair at the Centre for
Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Jointly they have won thirteen national and international awards for
their films.
This
event is free and open to all.
For further details see event
home page.
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Still Playing With Fire?
Reflections
on NGOs, Empowerment and Activism Through a Journey of
Sangtins
Thursday, Apr 19, 6pm, BERKELEY
Friday, Apr
20, 6.30pm, STANFORD
A
conversation with Richa Singh, Surbala Vaish and Richa Nagar, three of
the nine authors of Playing
with Fire.
Playing With Fire
emerged from close dialogue among eight NGO activists in Uttar Pradesh,
India, and a professor and writer based primarily in the US. PWF
interweaves stories about the
lives of seven village-level NGO activists, beginning with their
collective analysis of poverty, casteism, and communal untouchability
in childhood; the abuses that frequently accompanied their marriages;
to their triumphs as NGO workers; to a critique of this NGO and, more
generally, of donor-driven empowerment. The book was first published as
"Sangtin Yatra" in Hindi in India in 2004, and has subsequently spawned
a social movement in the Sitapur District of Uttar Pradesh.
This
event is free and open to all.
For
further details see event
home page.
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India's Nuclear Ambitions: Who
Pays the Price?
Screening
of film "Buddha Weeps in
Jadugoda"
Discussion
with activists from JOAR (Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation)
Thursday,
Dec 7, 7pm, STANFORD (flyer - html, pdf)
Friday, Dec 8, 4pm, UC BERKELEY (flyer)
Sunday Dec 10, 4pm, SANTA CRUZ (flyer)
India's
emergence in the nuclear energy and nuclear weapons arena comes at a
colossal human cost. Jadugoda, a tribal town in a mineral-rich belt in
Jharkhand, is the only source of Uranium in India, and the indigenous
people of Jadugoda have been paying with their lives - seeing their
community's health destroyed, their environment devastated. To resist the
occupation and devastation of their land by the
uranium mining, the people of Jadugoda have organized themselves
as JOAR--the Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation,
and their demands range from better safety measures against
radiation,
to protection of their environment, to opposition of planned
open-cast uranium mines.
In this event, we will get to watch a ground-breaking documentary that
describes the devastation wrought by decades of uranium mining on this
entire community
We will also get to speak with/hear from Ghanshyam Birulee
and Dumku Murma,
grassroots activists from JOAR, who have been at the forefront of this
decades-long struggle for justice and basic human rights, as well as Shriprakash, the
filmmaker of the above mentioned documentary.
For details, visit event
homepage
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Our
Histories Bind Us
South
Asian-Arab Solidarity Against Israeli Apartheid
Thursday, Nov 16, 7.30pm
Oak Room
East, Tressider Union, Stanford University
Featured Panelists:
Zulfiqar Ahmad (Senior Associate, National Institute)
Khalil Barhoum (Coordinator, Middle Eastern and African Languages and
Literature) Shalini Gera (Friends of South Asia)
Marwan Hanania (Ph.D Candidate, Dept. of History)
Sunaina Maira (Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Davis)
Magid Shihade (Visiting Scholar, Middle East/South Asian Studies, UC
Davis)
Moderated By
Veena Dubal (J.D./Ph.D Student, Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley)
This
diverse panel will speak about the historical connections between India
and Israel, their relationship to the Indian-Pakistani conflict and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the dangerous alliance between two
religious nationalisms - Zionism and Hindutva, and the need for South Asian-Arab
solidarity against Israeli apartheid in the struggle for
justice.
Don't
miss what promises to be a fresh look at the broader implications of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!
For more details, view the event flyer
Presented by Sanskriti -
Stanford University, and co-sponsored by South Asians for the
Liberation of Falastin,
Friends of South Asia, South
Bay Mobilization, Coalition
for Justice in the Middle East (CJME), OASIS
(Organization of Arab Students in Stanford), Pakistanis at
Stanford, Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel, Muslim Student Awareness
Network, Stanford (MSAN).
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Right to
Information (RTI)
A talk
by Magasaysay Award Winner
Arvind Kejriwal
Monday, October 16, 7pm
Milpitas
Public Library Community Room
Arvind
Kejriwal is an Indian social activist and founder of Parivartan, a New
Delhi based citizen's movement working to ensure a just, transparent
and accountable governance. He won the 2006 Ramon Magasaysay Award for
Emergent Leadership, for his role in India's Right to
Information movement,
a campaign aimed to empower its poorest citizens to fight for justice
and against corruption by holding the government answerable to its
people.
Co-sponsored by AID (Association
for India's Development), and Friends of South Asia.
For more details, visit event
homepage
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Ali
Abunimah - One Country
A bold proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian
Impasse
book-reading/discussion
Saturday, October 14, 2pm
St. Paul's Methodist Church
405 S. Tenth St., San Jose
Clear-eyed,
sharply reasoned, and compassionate, One Country
proposes a radical alternative: to revive an old and neglected idea of
one state shared by two peoples. Ali
Abunimah is a prominent Palestinian author, media voice,
and frequent commentator on KPFA.
He is the founder of Electronic Intifada, electronicintifada.net,
an internet gateway about Palestine and the Palestine –
Israeli conflict.
Co-sponsored by South
Bay Mobilization, Friends of South
Asia, South Asians for Liberation of Falastin, and Alliance of South Asians Taking
Action.
For
details, visit event homepage
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Neoliberal
Destructions
A
Talk by P. Sainath and Alexander Cockburn
Monday, October 2, 6pm
370
Dwinelle Hall,
University
of California, Berkeley
P. Sainath
is Asia's leading development journalist, writing frequently about
issues such as poverty and the effects of neo-liberalism on
India.
Through his work on the livelihoods of India's rural
poor, Sainath
has changed the nature of the development debate in his own country and
across the world. Alexander Cockburn
is the co-editor of CounterPunch,
a nationally syndicated
author, and is considered one of the foremost reporters and
commentators on the left.
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