ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024

The California legislature overwhelmingly voted in favor of SB 403, a bill aimed at explicitly including caste as a protected category. However, it was vetoed by the Governor, allegedly influenced by the financial power of Hindu supremacist groups. A leader of a Hindu PAC claimed that he contacted the vice president Ms. Kamala Harris to intervene against SB 403. Additionally, a prominent Democratic Party donor revealed that Governor Newsom emailed him prior to vetoing the bill.

Brahminical forces, which took anti-race stances during the Black Lives Matter movement, continue to perplex people with their casteist agenda. Recently, Hindu supremacists have been encroaching on political spaces traditionally held by Black communities. For instance, a candidate supported by Hindu supremacists, defeated a Black woman in a congressional district where 44% of the population is Black, in the Democratic primary.

Thus far, Hindu supremacists have successfully masked their supremacist tendencies by leveraging their status as a religious minority, whether by opposing legal protections for those oppressed by caste or by encroaching on political spaces historically held by Black communities.

Against this backdrop, at the 5th conference of AKSC, anti-caste and racially oppressed communities will strategize on how to uproot Hindu supremacists from political and community spaces.

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