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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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

Washington, D.C. (December 10, 2010) – In a letter to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the nation’s oldest Sikh American civil rights and advocacy organization, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller has issued an apology and clarification for remarks linking Sikh Americans to terrorism at an intelligence conference in the Fall.

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Sacramento, Calif. (December 3, 2010) – The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Friday joined with Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) the Council on American-Islamic Relations – Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV), and the Asian Law Caucus to thank local and federal law enforcement officials for their swift action in response to the assault of a Sikh American Cab Driver this past Sunday.

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November 29, 2010: Earlier today, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) called on local authorities and the FBI to initiate a hate crime investigation into a vicious attack on a Sikh American cab driver in Sacramento, who was allegedly called Osama bin Laden as he was attacked. Early yesterday morning, 56-year-old Harbhajan Singh, a cab driver in Sacramento, CA, was brutally assaulted after picking up passengers at a local restaurant. Singh believes, if he had not gotten away, the two men who attacked him would have killed him.

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Clute, Texas (October 14, 2010) – The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund collaborated with the Texas Civil Rights Project to help a Sikh American 4th grader and his family overturn a long-standing policy that discriminated against their religion and get their child back into his own local public school and has resulted in a revision of the current dress code for the Brazosport Independent School District.

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The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund announces the summer 2010 intern class. More than 30 students have participated in the SALDEF internship program since 2002. The interns work at SALDEF’s national office in Washington, DC or remotely to gain first-hand experience and knowledge about SALDEF’s programs and campaigns to empower the Sikh American community.

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