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RESOURCES
The
San Francisco Bay Area has a number of youth organizations, some of
which provide radical political education in order to create strong
youth leaders and the next generation of community organizers, as well
as others that organize around specific issues such as juvenile justice
and incarceration, women’s issues, and public education. OY!
complements these programs by focusing specifically on South Asian
youth, and stands fully aligned with the broader aims and objectives of
these groups of empowering youth to effect social change. Some of these
groups are listed below:
- Center for Third
World Organizing, Oakland, CA: CTWO conducts weekend-long
programs that serve as introductions to community organizing, as well
as intensive 6-7 week long programs that provide training and
real-world experience in the theory and practice of building social
justice movements. [website]
- DiversityWorks,
Oakland, CA: DiversityWorks provides workshops and training for
bay-area youth to become peer educators who in-turn, work for social
change. [website]
- SOUL,
Oakland CA: The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) offers training
on organizing for social change. Specifically, SOUL offers a 3-day
workshop called “Training for Trainers”, that helps
community organizers develop their facilitation skills in a
comprehensive way. OY! collective members intend to sign up for this
training. [website]
- STARC Alliance, San Francisco, CA:
Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC) Alliance
offers an intensive 8-week training program for youth and student
activists,
focusing both on anti-oppression analysis and organizing skills. [website]
- Women of Color
Resource Center, Oakland, CA: WCRC offers training and
workshops on globalization and its impacts on women, and publishes the
WeDGE
(Women’s education in the global economy) workbook. [website]
Other
organizations with which we have been actively involved and with whom
we stand in solidarity include, but are not limited to:
- Association for
India’s Development (AID): Formed to support
grassroots efforts for poverty alleviation and sustainable development
in India. [website]
- Campaign to Stop
Funding Hate: Formed to put an end to the flow of money from
the U.S. to Indian groups involved in religious fundamentalism. [website]
- Chaya: Provides resources for
South Asian women facing domestic violence. [website]
- Coalition
Against Communalism (CAC): Works to promote communal harmony
amongst people from the Indian Diaspora as well as in India, and to
respond to the growing influence of religious extremism in institutions
and public
spaces in India and the U.S. [website]
- EKTA: Works to provide a
platform for social change through art, dialogue, and activism. [website]
- Friends of South
Asia (FOSA): Aims to promote peace and demilitarization
between countries in South Asia. [website]
- Ghadar:
A publication of the Forum of Indian Leftists that serves as a medium
for organizing and discussion for left South Asians. [website]
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