India Civil Watch International (ICWI)

The Trauma of Caste: Book Launch!
2022-11-17 20:30 UTC
Equality Labs and North Atlantic Books welcome you to a meeting of minds, hearts, and histories as author and EL’s executive director Thenmozhi Soundararajan is joined by philosopher Dr. Cornel West and Bahujan Activst Prachi Patankar as they celebrate and dig into Thenmozhi’s new book The Trauma of Caste (releasing November 15, 2022).
The Trauma of Caste calls readers to urgent action as it demands an end to caste apartheid through a practise of grounded Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism. It explores how caste ravages many dimensions of the human spirit, and how a global movement rooted in love can be the antidote to this violent system.
Join us for this historic conversation and preorder the book today from Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite book store.
To learn more, visit the book’s website.
REGISTER FOR THE BOOK LAUNCH!

About the Speakers
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Equality Labs is one of the largest Dalit civil rights organizations working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling eons-long systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance.
Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work—research, education, art, activism, and digital security—helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian identity, along with safe spaces from which to honor the stories of these communities. Thenmozhi’s work has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Producers Guild of America Diversity Program, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sorbonne, Source Magazine, Utne Reader, The National Center for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is a frequent contributor on issues related to South Asia, caste, gender, and racial Equity, as well interfaith issues and peace building, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Guardian, ABC, and NBC news. She was also an inaugural fellow of the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist, Atlantic Foundation for Racial Equity, and is a current fellow at Stanford Center for South Asian Studies. You can order her new book The Trauma of Caste from North Atlantic Books to learn more about her work around caste equity, abolition, and healing.
Cornel West
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Dr. West has partnered with MasterClass.com to provide teachings on several influential courses including a class with Pharrell Williams on Empathy, MasterClass’s first-ever multi-instructor class on Black History, Black Freedom & Black Love, as well as Dr. West’s standalone class on Philosophy. Visit www.cornelwest.com and click the MasterClass banner to learn more.

Prachi Patankar
Prachi Patankar: Born and raised in rural India, Prachi was raised by a freedom-fighter grandmother and parents deeply involved in anti-caste, feminist, and peasant movements. Over two decades in New York City, she has been an activist, educator, grantmaker, and writer involved in social movements which link the local and the global, police brutality and war, migration and militarization, race and caste, women of color feminism and global gender justice.
Prachi works as the Senior Program Officer at Foundation for a Just Society, where she leads the program to provide funding to gender justice movements in South and Southeast Asia. Through her work with organizations such as Afghan Women’s Mission, CAAAV and Palestine Education Project, Prachi has been involved in innovative projects to link social justice movements between the United States and the Global South. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Human Rights Funders Network and the Grantmakers for Girls for Color. Prachi believes in the vital power of intersectional and international visions and strategies, which resonate across Dalit rights and Black lives, migrant justice and gender justice, to build bottom-up change from the local to the global.

North Atlantic Books
North Atlantic Books (NAB) is an independent nonprofit publisher committed to a bold exploration of the relationships between mind, body, spirit, culture, and nature. Founded in Vermont in 1974 and operating in Berkeley since 1977, NAB has been at the forefront of publishing a diverse range of original books in bodywork and somatics, ecology and sustainability, health and healing, Indigenous cultures and anthropology, psychology and personal growth, social justice and engaged activism, and spirituality and liminality.

US Congressional Briefing: Protections Against Caste Discrimination Under Attack
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

United Nations Universal Periodic Review of India (Watch-Along)
2022-11-10 08:30 (America/New_York)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/Briefing10November2022

Political Incarceration in India and the United States of America
2022-07-30 11:30 - 14:30 UTC
A talk on political prisoners in the US and India. This event is co-organized by the Jericho Movement and Boston South Asian Coalition www.thejerichomovement.com ; bsac.contactin.bio
[9:30 pm Pakistan; 9:45 pm Bangladesh/Bhutan; 10:00 pm India/Sri Lanka; 10:15 pm Nepal]
Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA
Facebook Event Page: https://fb.me/e/2qLkWVKcI
Facebook Live Page (Hybrid Event): https://www.facebook.com/TheBostonCoalition/
Zoom Registration: www.tinyurl.com/free-dem-all-730

Facebook Live starts: 12 noon EST; 9pm Pakistan; 9:30pm India/Sri Lanka; 9:45pm Nepal; 10pm Bangladesh/Bhutan

The demand to release incarcerated political activists in South Asia and the United States is gaining momentum. The incarceration of Bhima Koregaon 15 (BK 15), the institutional murder of Father Stan Swamy, and recent arrest of Teesta Setalwad and Mohammad Zubair has been condemned worldwide. In the US, the struggle to release the famous political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, who is well known for his powerful struggle against the Philadelphia political machine and analysis of current events.

Boston South Asian Coalition and Jericho Boston’s joint event on July 30th (Saturday) at

11:30am EST will discuss the state of political prisoners in India and the US.

Resisting the Political Incarceration in India

Speakers:

Kavita Srivastava is the national secretary of the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL). She is a dedicated human rights worker, working collectively towards restoring democracy, justice and ending inequalities.
Prachi Teltumbde is a doctor and researcher based in London. She is also the daughter of Anand Teltumbde, a prominent public intellectual and one of the BK 15.

Mumia Abu Jamal’s Monumental Struggle Against Corruption and Empire

Speaker:

Sharik is a member of Jericho Boston, which has been organizing to liberate dozens of US political prisoners.

– Full vaccination and indoor masking will be required for in-person attendees

– Accessibility: The democracy center is a partially accessible space, with a wheelchair ramp in addition to 8 steep steps into the building. There is one gender-neutral bathroom that is not wide enough for wheelchair accessibility on site, with the neighboring building offering a wheelchair-accessible bathroom for use. You can find full details about space accessibility and process of improvement at democracycenter.org. While we will not be burning or spraying anything, we unfortunately cannot guarantee this public event will be fragrance-free.

A Congressional Briefing on HATE SPEECH ON FACEBOOK INDIA: META SUPPRESSES FACT-FINDING REPORT
2022-07-27 12:00 - 15:00 UTC
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/Briefing27July22
On July 14, 2022, Meta released its first-ever human rights report. The company said this report covered the two calendar years of 2020 and 2021.
Immediately, global human rights groups slammed Meta for its failure to acknowledge the severity of hate speech on Facebook in India, especially by Hindu supremacists connected with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP’s Nazi-inspired ideological parent.
Join this briefing to hear globally renowned experts –
Sophie Zhang, whistleblower, US-based data scientist, formerly with Facebook Site Integrity fake engagement team. Zhang has exposed abusive political manipulation and opposition harassment networks in over two dozen countries, including India
Meetali Jain, Deputy Director, Reset.tech, with two decades of experience as a lawyer, academic, and campaigner, in the US and South Africa
Apar Gupta, Executive Director, Internet Freedom Foundation of India, activist for democracy and internet freedom, Ashok Fellow for digital rights
Mohan Datta, Professor of Communications and Director, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research & Evaluation (CARE), Massey University, New Zealand

Anand Teltumbde: Decoding Strategies of Resistance
2022-07-15 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
*National Campaign to Defend Democracy*
invites you to
Anand Teltumbde: Decoding Strategies of Resistance
Date: July 15, 2022
Time: 7 PM
July 15, 2022 will mark the third birthday that Anand Teltumbde will spend in prison.
On the occasion of his birthday, the National Campaign to Defend Democracy invites you for a discussion about his contributions as an activist, scholar and a public intellectual.
Speakers:

Balmurli Natrajan – Anthropologist
Bhanwar Meghwanshi – Author, Activist, Journalist
Rashmi Teltumbde – Daughter of Anand Teltumbde

Moderated by: Meena Kandasamy – Writer, Poet, Activist
Join the Zoom meeting through: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88381851464?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 883 8185 1464
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Or watch the panel discussion on Facebook Live at: https://www.facebook.com/ncddindia2021

Congressional Briefing: NEXT STEPS AFTER US LAWMAKERS, OFFICIALS SLAM ISLAMOPHOBIA IN INDIA
2022-07-13 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Online
Watch live on Facebook!

Join this Congressional Briefing to hear Safa Ahmed and Ajit Sahi of Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and Nikhil Mandalaparthy of Hindus for Human Rights to discuss the significance of the remarks by the lawmakers, Ambassador Hussain and USCIRF’s Turkel and the next steps the US Government should take to check rising Islamophobia in India.

Nikhil Dey - The Politics of India's Welfare State: Can welfare rights win elections?
2022-06-14 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | 16 North Moore Street, Manhattan

Reclaiming India Conference 2022
2022-06-11 - 2022-06-16

Commemorating 50th anniversary of Dalit Panthers and 97th Birth Anniversary of Malcolm X
2022-05-19 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Zoom Link Will be Posted Here!
Topic: Commemorating 50th anniversary of Dalit Panthers and 97th Birth Anniversary of Malcolm X
Speakers: JV Pavar and Cornel West
Moderator: Dr. Jebaroja Singh

Time: 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm ET
Date: May 19, 2022

Journey of Dalit Women in Journalism
2022-04-30 11:00 - 13:00 UTC
Topic: Journey of Dalit Women in Journalism
Speaker: Meena Kotwal,Founder of Mooknayak
Moderator: Dadasaheb Tandale
Time: 11 am ET ( 8.30 pm IST)
Date: April 30, 2022
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mooknayak

Anti Caste Anti Islamophobic Positionality: Contemporary Reflections of a Hijabi
2022-04-28 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Anti-Caste Histories and Solidarities
A lecture series hosted by SASAS Germany and DBAV Women, Trans, Non-binary People’s Collective in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Zainab Amal
Anti Caste Anti Islamophobic Positionality: Contemporary Reflections of a Hijabi
28/04/2022 at 17.00 CET
Moderated by Rupali Bansode
Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d7zJi70vTz2GI3EcfzL6Jg
