Photos credits: Anirvan Chatterjee and Sabiha Basrai.
Over the course of Sunday’s Gaza protest in San Francisco some 30 or more South Asians met up in the form of the ASATA /South Asian contingent, including members of ASATA, four BASS alumni, AMEMSA Coalition members, and friends new and old from the community and other allied organizations. The purpose was to express our solidarity with Gaza and our opposition to the ongoing war and occupation there.
The event began with a rally in Justin Herman Plaza and turned into a march that stretched from the Embarcadero to Civic Center.
We chanted “Palestine Zindabad, Occupation Murdabad!” (long live Palestine, down with the occupation) and came up with other chants in English, Hindu, Urdu, and Bengali. After the event, a Twitter conversation led to the creation of a new public Google Doc featuring South Asian Palestine solidarity chants: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JK_XF5b3KXowQ83-i6IH3jq-vqDrHsquYkx0UwaK0zo/edit. Check it out, and add your own!
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ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, is a San Francisco Bay Area all-volunteer group working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.