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SOLIDARITY VIGIL

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SOLIDARITY VIGIL

Join the Sikh community in grief, rage, and love in the wake of racial trauma and violence on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Communities. 

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Thursday, April 22nd at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
One week after #Indianapolis

Join us for a multiracial interfaith vigil to grieve and stand in solidarity with the Sikh community one week after the mass shooting in Indianapolis. This massacre is touching the open wound of decades-long racial trauma. In a time of collective trauma and racial violence on BIPOC communities, solidarity is survival. We will be joined by Sikh community members, faith leaders, artists, and activists. This online event will be a night of testimony, music, prayer, and song. We will gather in grief, rage, and love — and the Sikh spirit of Chardi Kala, ever-rising spirits even in darkness.

#StopAsianHate #StandWithSikhs

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Sponsored by the Revolutionary Love Project and Faith in Action in partnership with: the Sikh Coalition, Harness, Tsuru for Solidarity, IKAR, South Asians for America, IMPACT, and more to come.

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Can your organization support the vigil? Click here to sign-on and join in partnership.

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This workplace massacre doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It happens in the context of longstanding anti-Sikh and anti-Asian hate in the United States. The gunman targeted a facility he knew was heavily populated by Sikh employees. The shooting occurs just a month after the targeting of Asian American spas in Atlanta which left 8 people dead, including 6 Asian women. And it brings back memories of the hate-motivated massacre at the Oak Creek, Wisconsin gurdwara in August 2012.

When our communities experience racial trauma and violence, a way to respond and to provide comfort is to stand together in solidarity. In rising up together, we express our shared grief and moral outrage, and we pledge to call out hate violence in all its forms —in our workplaces, law enforcement, schools, houses of worship, and homes. We pledge to take action to dismantle white supremacy in our institutions and cultures. And when we grow tired, we will remember the faces of those who have been killed and take one another’s hands and continue our labors for safety and justice in their names.

While we are centering Sikh communities during the vigil, we know that many communities of color are experiencing ongoing racial trauma as a result of hate violence and state violence. In a week of racial trauma for many Black and brown communities, this online event will honor the shared experiences of all our communities, and we will recommit ourselves to ending anti-Black racism which has taken the lives of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and many more over the past year.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_button border_width=”0″ link=”url:%23message”]Send a message of love[/vc_button][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_button border_width=”0″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffaithinaction.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_u-Ii0cROTTKpNGj5EkqUfQ|target:_blank”]RSVP to the vigil here[/vc_button][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_button border_width=”0″ link=”url:%23calls”]Read our calls to action[/vc_button][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ back_color=”color-191786″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMG5hbWUlM0QlMjJtZXNzYWdlJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGYSUzRQ==[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]

We will be collecting notes and messages of solidarity during the vigil. We will bind your letters in books and deliver them to the families of the victims as lasting testaments of our solidarity.

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Art: anandpurarts[/vc_column_text][vc_button wide=”yes” border_width=”0″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fctt.ac%2FQ0yGb|target:_blank”]Tweet this now[/vc_button][/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”-1″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Solidarity is survival. In the wake of ongoing racial trauma and violence against BIPOC communities, join us for a solidarity vigil with the #Sikh community. A night of story, music, prayer and song. RSVP: bit.ly/GrieveTogether #StandWithSikhs #StopAsianHate

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Our Calls to Action

We uplift the following asks from Sikh organizations and the Asian American Leaders Table on COVID-19 Racism.

  • We believe it is vital to break the cycle of gun and hate violence targeting communities across our country.
  • We call upon lawmakers and leaders to ensure holistic wrap-around victim assistance services including in-language hate reporting, mental health, comprehensive support, system navigation and advocacy for victims and survivors.
  • We call for violence prevention, crisis intervention and transformative justice programs that are culturally and linguistically accessible and that focus on vulnerable members of our communities including but not limited to working class people, undocumented and immigrant communities, women, LGBTQ communities, people of faith.
  • We call for relief for essential workers and low-wage workers who are confronting the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism.
  • We call on federal and local government agencies to create taskforces with community participation to address the root causes of hate-motivated violence.
  • Beyond these immediate steps, lawmakers and government agencies must invest in our communities with long-term solutions that uplift the lives of everyone. This includes access to a robust social safety net that includes equitable housing, jobs, health care and education while ending policies that lead to the deportation, criminalization, and surveillance of immigrants and communities of color.

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