Boston South Asian Coalition

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Boston South Asian Coalition We are an inter-generational South Asian-led organizing collective in unceded Wampanoag territory (Boston).

We stand for gender & racial equity, environmental & economic justice, an end to caste
& discrimination and supporting human rights for all

BSAC members joined Divest Cambridge from Genocide rally in front of Cambridge city hall on September 29th. This rally w...
09/30/2026

BSAC members joined Divest Cambridge from Genocide rally in front of Cambridge city hall on September 29th. This rally was organized by Cambridge for Palestine.

Hundreds of activists demanded that Cambridge divest from corporations that have enabled and funded the genocide of Palestinians and have destroyed their land.

BSAC members joined the MGB nurses' rally. The hard working nurses and home care workers mobilized to demand a fair cont...
09/24/2026

BSAC members joined the MGB nurses' rally. The hard working nurses and home care workers mobilized to demand a fair contract from their billionaire bosses.

MNA is calling on the healthcare giant to invest in patients and workers instead of corporate strategies that cut jobs, reduce staffing and increase workloads.

Katie Murphy, the president of MNA, gave a powerful speech, where she also expressed solidarity with all workers who are fighting for a fair contract.

BSAC celebrates the 147th birth anniversary of E.V. Ramasamy, who is popularly and respectfully known as Periyar.He was ...
09/21/2026

BSAC celebrates the 147th birth anniversary of E.V. Ramasamy, who is popularly and respectfully known as Periyar.

He was one of the most powerful leaders of the anti-caste movement in the 20th century. He challenged the brahmanical supremacy and domination in all walks of life.

Periyar along with S. Ramanathan started the Self-Respect movement. All his life he challenged and mobilized people to fight patriarchy and caste discrimination.

He fought for equal access to education and employment. Like Dr Ambedkar, he believed that oppressed castes must educate themselves, organise collectively and struggle for their rights.

Periyar fought for womens emancipation and was an outspoken critic of traditional marriages where they are not treated as equal partners.

"It is wrong to say that women have entered into labor in modern days. They are laboring from the very inception of human beings. In fact, they became 'workers' even before man became so."

Periyar visited the Soviet Union in 1931-1932 and connected the critique of caste with the material and economic conditions in society.

His struggles to dismantle social inequality, brahmanical domination and patriarchy will continue to inspire us.

Event Re-cap:Yogendra Yadav gave an inspiring talk about the state of India and the fervor of resistance movements in th...
09/16/2026

Event Re-cap:
Yogendra Yadav gave an inspiring talk about the state of India and the fervor of resistance movements in the country at CCC on September 14th, 2026.

It was attended by many Southasians, as well as people from US and Latin America. They listened to him with rapt attention.

Although, there is state repression and attempts to polarize people in India along caste, religion, and language, there is also a lot of optimism in the air for change. The movements gained momentum after the students came together to protest the broken education system. Farmers, workers, and oppressed communities are mounting struggles for a renewal of democracy.

BSAC members joined the picket with workers from Encore on labor day. More than 1200 union workers at Encore Boston Harb...
09/09/2026

BSAC members joined the picket with workers from Encore on labor day.

More than 1200 union workers at Encore Boston Harbor have been on strike from September 5th.

The strike started after UNITE HERE Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 failed to reach a new agreement with the casino. The unions represent housekeepers, cooks, servers, warehouse workers, drivers, slot attendants, bartenders and others.

Workers United Will Never be Defeated!

-HERE

Hear from Yogendra Yadav about the fervor of resistance movements, especially after the recent student mobilization in I...
09/07/2026

Hear from Yogendra Yadav about the fervor of resistance movements, especially after the recent student mobilization in India.

Yogendra Yadav is an Indian politician, psephologist, and academic. He combines great knowledge in democratic theory with the study of political elections. He is at the forefront of many mass movements, including the 2011 anti-corruption movement and the 2020-21 farmers' protest. He is the co-founder of Swaraj Abhiyan, which advocates for participatory democracy and farmers' rights in India.

September 14th (Monday) at 6:30pm

Cambridge Community Center
5 Callender Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

The Boston South Asian Coalition (BSAC) strongly condemns the recent appearance of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...
09/07/2026

The Boston South Asian Coalition (BSAC) strongly condemns the recent appearance of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

While presented under the banner of “Universal Oneness Celebration”, the event held on the August 29th, 2026, was an attempt to launder the RSS’ reputation and cannot be separated from its nefarious political project - establishing Brahminical supremacy in India.

BSAC salutes the united efforts of Southasians who rallied together with other justice minded people in New York.

There were powerful speeches condemning the attacks on people of Muslim and Christian faiths as well as oppressed castes under the BJP government headed by Modi, who himself has been a member of the RSS.

BSAC invites you for a Book Talk on:India’s Bangladesh Problem:The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Time...
09/04/2026

BSAC invites you for a Book Talk on:

India’s Bangladesh Problem:The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Times
by Dr Navine Murshid.

How does the figure of the “Bangladeshi infiltrator” shape the marginalization of Bengali Muslims in India?

How do nationalism, neoliberalism, caste, and religion intersect to determine who belongs and who is treated as an outsider?

How to make sense of the India-Bangladesh relationship in the post-July uprising context and how to engage in transnational solidarity against systems of oppression?

Saturday, September 5th at 1pm sharp.

Community Church of Boston
Copley Square
565 Boylston Street
Boston

BSAC commemorates the rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 50th death anniversary. He was one of the most powerful voices...
08/29/2026

BSAC commemorates the rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 50th death anniversary.

He was one of the most powerful voices in Bangla literature. His writings championed socio-economic equality, anti-colonialism and gender justice.

He co-founded the Labor-Swaraj party in 1925. The party fought for complete independence from colonialism as well as social and economic emancipation of women and men.

India’s Bangladesh Problem: The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal TimesBSAC invites you for a Book Talk o...
08/24/2026

India’s Bangladesh Problem: The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Times

BSAC invites you for a Book Talk on India’s Bangladesh Problem:The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Times

by Dr Navine Murshid

- How does the figure of the “Bangladeshi infiltrator” shape the marginalization of Bengali Muslims in India?

- How do nationalism, neoliberalism, caste, and religion intersect to determine who belongs and who is treated as an outsider?

- How to make sense of the India-Bangladesh relationship in the post-July uprising context and how to engage in transnational solidarity against systems of oppression?

When: Saturday, September 5th at 1pm

Where: Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA.
(Copley Square T stop)

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