We have a large Sikh community in our metropolitan area (Sacramento). A local racist has decided that Sikhs are the same as bin Laden so he drove his tractor into the local temple's sacred pond. Responsible people are trying to head this crap off. An Islamic and a Sikh leader came to speak at our Central Labor Council. We have had trouble of this sort before with a local rock station disk jockey calling Middle Easterners "camel jockeys" and I had to chew out a Chicano neighbor who thought that yelling "towel head" at strangers on the street was amusing. We have a Unity Council made up of local community leaders and elected government officials. These include a very eloquent spokesperson from the Middle Eastern Islamic community who attend these meetings and speaks at its public events. We have had unity rallies at the State capital and building days to repair 2 of our local synagogues which had been damaged by racist firebombings. We are also trying to deal with the racial profiling actions by our local police and the worse practice by our sheriff department. We had to deal with anti-Asian and antigay remarks made by one of our professional basketball players and tried to prevent anti-Asian backlash after the release of the move, Pearl Harbor. _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
