posted about this earlier, but didn't stress that a socialist alternative member was the driving force
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seattle-becomes-first-us-city-outlaw-caste-discrimination-after-council-vote-2023-02-22/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/2/21/dalits-are-winning-against-caste-discrimination-in-the-us-too
A Seattle City Council resolution against caste discrimination is an important step in this journey.
On Tuesday, February 21, the Seattle City Council will make history if it votes yes to include caste in the city’s non-discrimination policies. Outlawing caste discrimination would be the culmination of years of Dalit feminist research and organising that has exposed caste oppression in the United States and has centred Dalit healing in the battle to end caste discrimination everywhere.
Caste is a hierarchical social system dating back thousands of years and practised throughout South Asia among people of all religions. It negatively affects more than 1.9 billion people worldwide and at least 5.7 million South Asian Americans, degrading their quality of life.
It determines who can worship where, education and career opportunities, and even personal relationships — in essence, caste shapes entire lives. While caste-based discrimination in the US is not as widespread and overt as in India, where it has its roots, it exists here, too.
South Asian immigrants from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Maldives, and indentured communities all report experiencing caste discrimination in the US. The Equality Labs 2016 Caste in the United States survey found that one in four Dalits in the US had faced verbal or physical assault and two out of every three said they had faced discrimination at work.
This data is further supported by a forthcoming report from the National Academic Coalition for Caste Equity and Equality Labs, with the preliminary analysis of a new survey revealing that within US higher education, four in five caste-oppressed students, staff, and faculty reported experiencing caste discrimination at the hands of their dominant-caste peers.
Further, three in four caste-oppressed stakeholders did not report that discrimination in their universities or colleges because caste was not added as a protected category, or because their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments lacked the competency to address their concerns.
This data is backed by troubling testimonies of caste discrimination in workplaces, schools, places of worship and businesses.
It can no longer be denied: caste discrimination exists in the US and must be fought with civil rights enforcement.
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It would really help if they weren't using explicitly concern-troll immediately-antagonizing-and-provoking-people language.
What concern trolling and who is it provoking?
This kind of twitter-type crap where you make some claim that requires like 5 levels of explanation and then not backing it up with a single sentence of explanation despite the fact that you know all it will do is provoke people because you're extrapolating so much. Without providing any reasoning you're essentially just slandering someone.
I’ve explained on here before and don’t really want to get into the crux of it every single time, but here ya go.
Do remember the protests at the airports during trump’s travel ban? There was a mix of organizers and organizations. She’s like the main organizer for SA. There’s this odd cult like following of her so she has more than a heavy hand in telling them what to do when organizing. Well, she decided to tell SA to leave the airport without communicating with the other protesters there and if you know anything about protesting there’s strength in numbers and so when a wave of SA people left. The remaining protesters were brutalized/arrested by the police, a lot of whom were black and brown folx.
Did she explain why they left?
The leaving isn’t the issue. It’s the communication with the people you’re protesting with. Ya know people who are supposed to be your comrades regardless of what org y’all belong to. And this is how SA is ran in general. They don’t care about other orgs. They don’t care about movement building. It’s about them doing what they want when they want. And it’s the worst to try organize with a group like that.
Also, hella odd that that’s your response to what I just told you. Not holy shit that’s awful organizing strategy and a pretty fucked up thing to do.
Yep it was shitty and pretty typical of SA.
Most frustrating thing about them is they're seemingly so close to being a good org but keep faceplanting with unforced errors and alienating people.
Imagine if they just didn't do the offputting stuff.
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"When did you stop beating your wife"
Old but gold.
Here's the context
I think it’s important who we support as leaders in our struggle towards Socialism. Don’t you?
Good advice in general for Internet arguments.
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