(December 6, 2011) — Earlier today, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) called on local authorities to initiate a hate crime investigation into the stabbing of a Sikh man at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 10, 2011) — President Barack Obama, on the Anniversary of the Birth of the first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev Ji, sent best wishes to all those observing the special day.

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Health Clinics for the Asian Indian Community
By Mary Tan
AAP Staff Writer

The rising costs of health care are a challenge for every Asian American ethnic group in Minnesota, but one cultural group is trying its best to take care of its own.

SEWA-AIFW is a Minneapolis-based organization that works to serve the health needs of Asian Indian Diaspora from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Gayanese, Trinidad, Tibet and the Carribeans.  Sewa means “to serve” in the Hindi language and AIFW means Asian Indian Family Wellness.  The group’s mission is to provide total family wellness.

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Washington, DC — Earlier this month, The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, partnering with the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund created a one of kind cultural awareness training program tailored to the needs of Las Vegas law enforcement.  The online training module was released in September 2011.

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New York, NY (Sept.14, 2011) — As the Sikh Coalition and America solemnly remembered the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Sikh Coalition also marked its ten-year anniversary. The Sikh Coalition has refrained from publishing information about its ten year anniversary until now, out of respect for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Asian Indian Family Wellness (SEWA-AIFW) is responding to the demand for health needs and services and is extending its Free health Clinic to The Sikh Society of Minnesota.

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Washington, D.C. – The Sikh American community joins the nation in remembering all the victims of the tragic attacks on our country ten years ago on September 11, 2001, and in honoring all those first responders who risked and gave their lives to save others.

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Washington D.C. (April 28, 2011) – Along with thousands of other Americans of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund is demanding that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer veto HB 2230, an Arizona bill that would remove the memorial of a 9/11 hate crime murder victim from the state’s 9/11 memorial and subsequently sell the memorial plaque as ‘scrap metal.’

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Sacramento, Calif. (April 13, 2011) – On the steps of the California State Capitol, dozens of California elected officials, including Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, and hundreds of members of the Sikh American community and greater California community celebrated the first ever American Sikh Day in California.

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Sacramento, Calif. (March 7, 2011) – The Sikh American community of Sacramento together with leaders of local civil rights and interfaith organizations held a press conference Monday, to announce a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooting of two elderly Sikh American men this past Friday in Elk Grove, Calif.

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