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Our links with the Subcontinent and the Diaspora |  |  |
The emergence of the Ghadar party in California in fighting against British colonialism demonstrated the power of the Diaspora to make critical interventions and mobilize mass support around issues within the subcontinent. The politics of South Asia as the increase in ethnic and religious tensions, nuclear proliferation, increasing poverty, the privatization of natural resources by multinational institutions are areas of interest that affect the Diaspora as well as the whole world. Despite our specific locations in the U.S., we are still committed to improving conditions in the subcontinent. We also seek to connect with other South Asian diasporic movements that have been faced with similar conditions of discrimination and violence and have found inspiration and creativity to also challenge injustice. For example, the race riots that erupted in Great Britain during the 1980s inspired a whole segment of community organizations, arts and music (like Bhangra) that inspired South Asians in the United States to form their own spaces of empowerment in the 1990s. Not only did this create a new connective identity with the diaspora but also connected other minority communities.
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