[Peace] Event Announcement from South Asian Collective

[Meridith Kruse]

Hi all, Tulsi from the South Asian Collective asked
me to forward this announcement to you all, Meridith 

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SAC PRESENTS
A panel discussion on crimes/discrimination against Muslims
The event is co-sponsored by the YMCA.

Venue: YMCA Room K1 & K2 (downstairs)
Time: January 30th, 2003 @ 5:00 PM

Speakers:
1. Irfan Ahmad, CIMIC
On the INS "special registration", required of all men of Islamic faith
from several countries. For more on this, please see
http://la.indymedia.org (scroll down to the feature titled "Insane INS")

2. Simona Sawhney: Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature at UIUC
Gujarat retrospective - The politics of Godhra, Hindutva and Modi
A brief account of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom and the year that has gone
by.
For more on the pogrom, please see
http://hrw.org/press/2002/04/gujarat.htm
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/ASA200192002?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRI
ES\INDIA

3. Ra Ravishankar: Graduate Assitant, Electrical & Computer Engineering
On IDRF, a Hindutva fundraiser in the U.S, and the Campaign to Stop
Funding Hate. For details, please see http://stopfundinghate.org/

        A petition to Stop corporate funding of IDRF is available at
        http://www.stopfundinghate.org/cgi-bin/WhyStopIt.pl
        Please consider signing this, and spread the word.

For more on this Campaign, please see
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-12/06prashad.cfm
http://www.counterpunch.org/mahajan1205.html

Note: Hindutva is a violent, sectarian movement based upon the premise
of
Hindu supremacy. Its core ideological organization, the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Corps, abbreviated as the RSS),
was
started in 1925 and has drawn its inspiration and structure from both
Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy
(http://www.stopfundinghate.org/cgi-bin/WhyStopIt.pl)

Please also see "Hindutva, Zionism, India and Palestine"
http://www.geocities.com/virodhi2001/IndiaResistance2001.htm