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Ingram, Laura, “Hotline offers assistance to South Asian immigrants”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 23, 1997. ‘Raksha’ means “protection” in most South Asian languages. Initiated by an Atlanta attorney for family and mental health law. Three to four calls a week from South Asian immigrants. No budget, dependant on volunteers to staff phones at their homes. Raksha: estimated 30,000 South Asians in the region. Atlanta Regional: estimates 13,000. White, Gayle, “East meets South: Asian Indians transforming religious landscape”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 9, 1997. 22,000 Asian Indian populations in Atlanta. Leaders preparing for the first festival on India’s 50th anniversary of Independence. In the 1960’s Indians went to Emory, Georgia Tech or Atlanta University. Large numbers of people entered the country due to 1965 changes in the U.S. immigration law where preference was given to professionals. India America cultural organization became a gathering ground for Indians. Bazzi, Mohamad and Willen, Liz, “Cabbies Day Off / Strike in Protest of Guiliani’s Tougher Rules”, Newsday, May 14, 1998. By some estimates, 90 percent of the city's 12,000 yellow cabs stayed off the road to protest Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plan to crack down on them with harsher fines and penalties. "Today we have the most successful taxi strike in city history," said an organizer for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Striking cabbies responded that the mayor is turning them into scapegoats for rising traffic accidents and ignoring their difficult work conditions. Scherr, Judith, “Berkeley’s Narika Reaches Out to Battered South Asian Women”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1999. Narika works with women in domestic violence situations; founded in 1992. Sister organization in Sunnyvale is Maitri. Montauk, Iliana, and Greenwell, Megan, “Young Journalists Evaluate How the Media Responded”, San Francisco Examiner, May 10, 2000. Multimillionaire Lakireddy Bali Reddy was accused of bringing at least three young girls from India for sex. Piece written by Berkeley High School students about media coverage (and demonization of Indians) when the Reddy story came out. They had originally uncovered the Reddy story that was later picked up by mainstream press.
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