Source: SAALT

More than 150 individuals working with underserved South Asian community members gathered in Washington D.C. between March 16th and 18th for a national convening of South Asian community-based organizations, advocates and community members cosponsored by South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) and the South Asian Law Students Association at American University, Washington College of Law.

Representatives of nearly 40 organizations providing a range of services, as well as individual advocates from Atlanta, New York, New Jersey,...

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/Sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/DEE5054F9901B93E872572AD00562549!OpenDocument

Dublin, 22 Mar 2007 - Irish Sikh Community displayed their rich cultural heritage this weekend by participating at the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, one of the most celebrated events in Ireland.

The Sikh pageant was organised by Irish Sikh Council. With the theme of the parade being...

Author: Ravinder Singh Robin

Source: Daily India

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/128877.php/Sikh-organizations-give-memorandum-to-UN

Amritsar, Mar 27 : Representatives of nearly 25 Sikh organizations from around the world gave a memorandum to the UN on various international Sikh issues in Geneva on Tuesday.

Nearly 200 members of the various Sikh organizations from 15 countries assembled at Langenthal to...

Author: Scott Jason

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund/Merced Sun

Source: South Manchester Reporter

http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/224/224657_social_club_sued_after_ban_on_sikhs.html

SENIOR members of a private members’ club are being sued for racial discrimination after banning ALL Sikh people.

Darley Lawn Tennis and Social Club took the drastic action after a fight involving a group of Sikh men in which club members were injured.

The punch-up led...

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Cities/Mumbai/Sikhs_ask_cops_to_ban_Sardar_jokes_on_Net/articleshow/msid-1776258,curpg-1.cms

MUMBAI: Buoyed by a successful campaign against a publisher of joke books, members of the Sikh community have now approached the Mumbai police to block any form of humour on the net targeting them.

The cyber cell department of...

Author: SHERRI DAY

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Author: Ryan Sabalow

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Source: Daily News and Analysis India

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1084992

SYDNEY: The Indian community in Queenstown is upset after a Sikh hotel worker was made to get off a Qantas flight last week as some passengers thought he could be a terrorist.

Harminder Singh Mavi had boarded a routine Qantas flight between Queenstown and Auckland on March 7, but was requested to disembark minutes before the flight took off, according to the Mountain Scene...

Source: ABC News

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1871680.htm

Police are continuing their investigations into a vandalism attack at an Indian Sikh temple in Shepparton, in north-east Victoria, on Friday night.

Senior Constable Danny Colliver says racist graffiti was written on the inside and outside walls of the Doyle Road building, which is under construction.

He says the remarks are anti-Muslim, but the temple is actually for the Sikh...

Author: Ryan Sabalow

Source: Redding

http://www.redding.com/news/2007/mar/14/man-arrested-in-temple-damage/

ANDERSON -- A Redding man was arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime early Tuesday after he allegedly rammed a Sikh temple with a stolen 25-ton front-end loader in a drug-fueled rampage.

Shasta County sheriff's Sgt. Janet Breshears said Michael Benjamin Rafferty, 39, had called authorities to report the...

Source: THE MISSISSAUGA NEWS/Torstar Network

http://www.mississauganews.com/mi/news/story/3904903p-4516246c.html

A recent Mississauga rally attracted more than a thousand young people who are worried that Peel's Punjabi community is about to explode in gang violence.

The rally was held at the Dixie Gurdwara, the largest Sikh temple in North America, and the crowd that gathered there were students, many from rival groups.

Many were...

Source: SALDEF

Author: ANDREW LEE BUTTERS

Source: TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1597656,00.html

Every weekday morning, a detachment of Indian soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) embarks on an unusual kind of peacekeeping mission—one that doesn't require guns or ammo, or even shoes. Their focus, in fact, is on promoting inner peace as they operate what must be the first roving yoga ashram...

Author: Laurel Rosenhall

Source: Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/134412.html

A picture of the founder of the Sikh religion in a seventh-grade textbook has reignited what's become a common dilemma for California's education establishment: How much influence should contemporary religious groups have in crafting history lessons for the state's 6.3 million public school students?

The state Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on...