About SAS's Political Action Committee
   The political action committee (PAC), created in the 1999-2000 academic year, encourages and proliferates education –and consequently, activism–on current issues affecting South Asians and South Asian Americans.  Its mission is to increase the awareness of and to promote critical thought on these issues.  It achieves this goal through sponsoring discussions that focus around such topics. 
   Political discussions occur throughout the semester, and usually take place at SAS's weekly Wednesday night meetings, so keep track of the calendar for news about discussions and topics.  The PAC Co-Chairs will also send out weekly e-mails providing the details of upcoming events and the status of developing projects.
   PAC works with many Yale groups who share an interest in political issues that relate to South Asia, South Asians, or South Asian Americans.  PAC also is always on the lookout for more people to join the committee and help us increase political awareness in the Yale South Asian community; anyone with ideas on speakers, events, or political issues that we should address is also welcome.  Think. Read. Write. Voice yourself and help us.

Organization
   PAC is committed to sponsoring speakers and organizing panels and conferences that work towards informing the general student body of South Asian Issues.  As part of its purpose, PAC also hopes to promote the South Asian political identity by working towards collective action.  The Political Action Committee will be formally organized at its first meeting (check the SAS calendar), and will evolve continuously. Anyone interested in South Asians and their political role, both in South Asia and America are encouraged and welcome to add their ideas to ours. Currently, the SAS Political Action Co-Chairs are:

Kersi Shroff - BR '09

Atisha Kumar - SC '09

Current efforts
   PAC is working on a number of issues, all of which it would like to address in the coming weeks. Here is a short list of issues PAC seeks to address, and some possible projects that PAC would like to undertake. Please send us your ideas and priorities!

•South Asia Lecture Series

•Domestic Violence Panel

 -collaboration with the Yale Medical School Domestic Violence Group

•Nuclear Peace Treaty Conference - Post G8 Discussion

 -collaboration with Americans for Informed Democracy

•Tsunami Relief Update

 -collaboration with AASA and other Asian groups on campus

 

Political resources
   Coming soon...

 

 

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