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Sabelo Narasimhan | February 11, 2013

It was a beautiful June day in 2012. Thousands of demonstrators participated in a silent march down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police Department’s Stop and Frisk policy. We marched under trees, past the Guggenheim and the Met lined with weekend tourists. We were Quaker activists, Muslim associations, civil rights organizers, labor union members, families from grannies to babies, student groups, queer youth, global coalitions, church leaders, and ethnic, cultural, and racial justice organizations, amongst others. We marched silently, reflecting the growing alliances between these groups, demonstrating the intersectional effects of this destructive policy. 

Bushra Rehman | September 24, 2012

but tonight 

we beat ourselves against the walls, 

for being so broke,

Recent Articles

By: Arjun Ray | Published: Jul 25, 2012

On her new album, Micropixie faces the complications of living among humans with introspection and righteous defiance. It is filled with quick wit, puns, and double entendres together with a variety of approaches to down-tempo electro-lounge emulsified with a thick dollop of soul. 

By: Anantha Sudhakar | Published: Jun 30, 2012

Anantha Sudhakar's "Long-Distance Radicalism: In Conversation with SAMAR’s Virtual Editorial Collective," provides a glimpse of SAMAR's volunteer editorial collective, which has sustained the magazine over the past 20 years and contextualizes SAMAR within South Asian Diasporic progressive activism.

By: Samip Mallick | Published: Jun 18, 2012

In honor of SAMAR's 20th year, we bring you an issue from the past via SAADA, the South Asian American Digital Archives!

By: Junaid Rana | Published: Jun 18, 2012

Junaid Rana gives his take on Vijay Prashad's latest text, Uncle Swami

Radio Samar

Tracks Back Home
Naazneen Diwan, Taz Ahmed

Live reading of poem developed for the South Asians for Justice event "Gujarat Genocide and US Solidarity" in Los Angeles, April 2012

History of Communalism in India
Yasmin Qureshi

History and context of how communalism grew in India (part of SAJ-LA's Gujarat Genocide event)

Cartoon

Khalil Bendib

Visit Our Friends

Disappeared in America A multimedia art project created by the VISIBLE Collective to address the post-9/11 disappearances of Muslims in the US. See also Shobak.org: Outsider Muslims.

South Asian Progressive Action Collective (SAPAC) Chicago-based collective takes up progressive issues pertinent to South Asia and the Diaspora through direct action, creative expression, and discussion.

Ghadar is a forum for Left debate and dialogue through reports on political activism on the ground in South Asia and the diaspora.

Random Five from the Archive

Amna Akbar

Representative Peter King’s (R-NY) first hearing on the radicalization of American Muslim communities exemplified the right wing’s ongoing commitment to constructing the idea of a radical, threatening Islam.  The hearing also exposed what is, at best, liberal acquiescence, and, at worst, liberal partnership in that dangerous agenda.   Most profoundly, the hearing made clear the extent to which the war on terror has robbed public discourse of any meaningful vocabulary for contesting the universe in which Islam poses legitimate concern for the American public.

May 31, 2011
Saba Waheed | Issue 15: Dogmas of War (//)

Monday, October 08, 2001
after arriving home from my weekend upstate, i fell asleep with a sadness that comes when i leave behind the comforts of the sounds of the river and the hikes through the forest. feeling slightly ill, i awoke and checked my email and saw the headline i had been dreading

the one that took me back ten years

we had spent the afternoon celebrating my friend's birthday, we came home and we rang the doorbell and her mother opened the door with tears in eyes, she was crying and she was saying, and i can't remember now, if she said:

Jan 28, 2011
Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani | Issue 19: Relief in a Time of Crisis (1/24/2005)

Two visual artists seek out new ways of engaging with the post-9/11 disappearances in the US

Jan 28, 2011
Rupali Ghosh | Issue 18: Overture to a Long Tomorrow (11/3/2004)

Afghan Refugees Struggle for Justice in Japan

Jan 28, 2011
Saurav Sarkar | Issue 16: South Asians and the Politics of Health (12/16/2003)

The Impact of INS Special Registration

Jan 28, 2011