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The campaigns, legal work, testimony gathering, and public education AKSC has taken up since 2016.
14 interventions
Pictured: C. N. Annadurai and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Latest intervention
Legal · August 23, 2025
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A reading list of long-form reporting and analysis on the caste discrimination cases moving through United States courts.
Testimony · May 10, 2023
OngoingAn appeal for accounts of everyday casteism in the USA, the covert practices that produce social segregation without ever being nameable in public.
Education · May 9, 2023
ConcludedPoint-by-point answers to the claims made against California SB 403, from "existing law already covers it" to "it profiles Hindus and Indian Americans".
Legislative · May 7, 2023
ConcludedCalifornia Senate Bill 403 would have added caste to the list of protected categories in state civil rights law. AKSC campaigned for it through both chambers of the Legislature.
Legal · May 30, 2021
OngoingFrequently asked questions about the exploitation of Dalit workers building the BAPS temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, and the charges brought against the organisation.
Education · December 15, 2020
ConcludedA discussion series on the three farm laws passed in September 2020 and the protests that brought close to 300,000 farmers to Delhi.
Legal · August 1, 2020
OngoingA running index of press coverage of the California Civil Rights Department's caste discrimination case against Cisco Systems.
Campaign · July 18, 2020
OngoingAfter California sued Cisco Systems for caste discrimination, AKSC asked media, technology, academic and industry professionals to sign a statement ending caste practices in the USA.
Education · July 16, 2020
ConcludedA discussion series opened by the California lawsuit against Cisco Systems, on how caste is carried into the diaspora and concealed by presenting Indians in the USA as a monolith.
Testimony · July 10, 2020
OngoingAn open call for testimonies, stories and descriptions of the practice of caste in the USA, opened in the weeks after the Cisco lawsuit was filed.
Education · March 30, 2020
ConcludedA ten-session online teach-in by Dr. V. Geetha, using historical and thematic approaches to understand Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's life and work.
Campaign · November 23, 2019
ConcludedAfter the death of Ms. Fathima Lateef at IIT Madras, AKSC set out its demands to the institute's management and to the Ministry of Human Resources and Development.
Campaign · January 17, 2018
ConcludedPeople of Indian descent across the USA, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Oman protested the violence against Dalits who gathered peacefully at the Shaurya Stambha on 1 January 2018.
Campaign · November 6, 2017
ConcludedAhead of the 9 November 2017 public hearing in Sacramento, AKSC mobilised against the attempt to replace Indian history with mythology in California's school textbooks.
