WASHINGTON DC (April 30, 2012) – The Sikh Coalition and other prominent national civil rights leaders released a game-changing mobile application that enables users to report instances of airport profiling in real time.
The Monday launch event at the offices of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, D.C. was also streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sikhcoalition.
WASHINGTON — The Sikh Coalition, together with the national civil rights community, will unveil a mobile application that allows users to report instances of airport profiling in real time during a launch event at the offices of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, DC on April 30.
The launch event will also be live-streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sikhcoalition.
WASHINGTON (April 24, 2012) — Over 90 members of the United States Congress, led by New York Congressman Joseph Crowley, have issued a letter to the Justice Department, demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) track hate crimes suffered by Sikh Americans.
The letter, spearheaded by the Sikh Coalition, represents the most extensive show of support ever for Sikhs in a letter from Congress. Although Sikhs continue to experience hate crimes because of their distinct religious identity, the FBI treats all bias crimes against Sikhs as anti-Muslim hate crimes. For these reasons, the federal government has no means of tracking hate crimes against Sikhs.
Washington, D.C. (March 2, 2012) — This past Tuesday, February 28, 2012, a Sikh American family from Sterling, Virginia received a letter containing death threats addressed to ‘Turban Family’.
The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund obtained a copy of the letter and is calling for a federal investigation into a hate crime. The text of the letter reads as follows:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 7, 2012) — Late yesterday, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund called on local and federal authorities to initiate a hate crime investigation into the vandalism and defacing with graffiti of a gurdwara (Sikh congregational place of worship) in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
According to reports directly from the gurdwara management committee, the vandalism happened between the evening of Feb. 5th and the morning of Feb. 6, 2012. The graffiti included vulgar language, racial epithets, the use of what appears to be a cross, a large drawing of a gun, and references to the attacks of Sept. 11.
(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.
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.
Disparities, Health, Indian, Sikh
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.
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.
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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