combat communal ideas and actions
condemn communal violence

promote communal harmony and secular values

Recent Press Releases

Statement of Akshardham Attack

Statement on Communalism in Jammu and Kashmir

March for Religious Harmony and Social Justice in Gujarat

Recent activities

August 2002

July 2002

Benefit for the Survivors of Communal Violence in Gujarat: A Tribute to late Ahsan Jafri
featuring Najid Hussain, son-in-law of MP Ahsan Jafri, Gopal Menon's "HEY RAM!! Genocide in the Land of Gandhi", exhibit by Artists Against Communalism, and performances by local artists. Raised $50,000 for rehabilitation work in Gujarat.
May/June 2002
Ad Campaign in NRI Media:
"Did Our Generosity Fund the Carnage in Gujarat?"
May 2002

Ad Campaign in Gujarati and Indian Press:
"Let Us Unite For Communal Harmony"

March 2002
March for Religious Harmony and Social Justice in Gujarat
A protest march against communalism (from Gadar Memorial Hall to the Indian Consulate in San Francisco)



Past activities


1995
  • Co-organised (with IREF) Anand Patwardhan film festival.
  • Co-organised (with IREF) staging of Gursharan Singh plays (in Punjabi).
  • Co-organised (with IREF) Habib Tanvir lecture demonstration on the theatrical traditions of India.

    1994

  • Display of SAHMAT's 27 panel exhibit "Hum Sab Ayodhya" and screening of films "Ayodhya 93" both in Berkeley and Los Angeles.
  • An informational advertisement (with about 9 groups in north America) in India Abroad to combat VHP's Washington DC conference activities.
  • Co-organised (with IREF) Shabana Azmi film retrospective.
  • Talk by Inder Kumar Gujral.
  • Talk by Asghar Ali Engineer.
1993
  • A protest march against communalism (from Gadar Memorial Hall to the Indian Consulate in San Francisco)
  • Talk by Shabana Azmi at UC Berkeley
  • A panel discussion with Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and others.
  • Co-organized (with Indian for Collective Action) staging of "Tumhari Amrita" play with Shabana Azmi & Farooq Shaikh.


Coalition Against Communalism
was formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in December 1992
in the wake of the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya.


 

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