Campaign to Stop Funding Hate: Strategy Pictogram

Strategy steps

1. 1992-93: various activists of Indian origin in the US start a web newsgroup/list-serve to talk about politics in India – alt.india.progressive.usnet
   

2. 1995-96: List-serve and news group formally creates an identity: Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL)

3. 1997 – FOIL members in NYC form a youth chapter as a summer based conference to do political education for south asian youth called Youth Solidarity Summer. The FOIL internet based network is enlarging.

4. 2002 – after massacre in Gujarat, the FOIL members discussing actions to take and one group decides to follow the money and form a sub group called the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate. It is a complete internet based research campaign where key members troll internet looking for money and funding links to those responsible for the massacre. Their findings are shocking and they put together report which they release in November 2002.

5. In 2005 the same group is now called the Campaign Against Genocide and they are using the internet to work different angles of the campaign. When the head of the state of Gujarat announces he has been invited to the US, the group decides to try and stop the visit. The ‘Stop Modi Campaign’ begins to use the internet to collect a broad coalition of organizations to participate. They succeed in building a coalition of 42 groups (Muslim groups, Tamil groups, Sikh organizations etc – all US based and all using the internet.) The coalition begins using a list-serve and internet-based conference calling (VOIP) to meet, plan, strategize.

6. 2006: California Text Book campaign.

Listen to Biju Mathew talk about the goals of the campaign.

See profiles of CSFH activists Girish Agarwal and Raja Swamy

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