On March 6, OFMI launched the following petition: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Publicly reassess Gandhi, President Obama’s admitted hero, as anti-black, anti-woman, and pro-war (title links to whitehouse.gov…
Petition to President Obama calls his hero Gandhi “anti-black, anti-woman, pro-war” View and sign petition here: http://wh.gov/pSLY Washington, DC, Feb. 11, 2013 – President Obama often cites Mohandas Gandhi as…
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 24, 2013 – On Tuesday, South Asians partnered with African-Americans and other community leaders to spearhead a new united front in America’s civil rights movement. The January 22…
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 19, 2013 – Before he gave his life for the liberties of all people to be free, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “An injustice anywhere is a…
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8, 2013 – The murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the New Delhi college student who was kidnapped, gang-raped, and died late last month, represents the treatment of…
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 5, 2012 – A U.S.-based coalition of minorities of Indian origin asked Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday to cancel his planned appearance at a Sacramento rally intended to…
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8, 2011 – A human rights report released Wednesday concludes that Indian police forces encouraged mobs of Hindu supremacists during the 2008 massacre of Christians in Orissa,…
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22, 2011 – Indian police seeking entry to the U.S. should be denied visas based on involvement in the practice of torture, said a human rights group…
FLINT, Michigan, Nov. 15, 2010 – Gandhi expert Col. G. B. Singh (U.S. Army, ret.) will visit the UM-Flint campus on Monday, December 6 for a discussion about allegedly racist…
STOCKTON, Nov. 10, 2011 – Rajwinder Bains, the attorney who achieved justice for murdered Punjabi human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, has received a hero’s welcome during a speaking tour…