Join us in transitioning ASATA to new leadership

ASATA focuses on the challenges of racism, exploitation and communalism. Our actions emphasize our connection to the South Asian community, but our vision of change and solidarity is cross-group and communities. Photo by Eric Mar.

If you’re in the SF Bay Area, have any familial, coincidental or other relationship to South Asia, are politically inclined, understand and engage with the haves and have-nots of power, then join us in taking the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) to it’s next phase.  We’re meeting on Sat Mar 28th at 11am, and then again to continue transition conversations on Apr 7th at 7pm.  If you’re interested in joining, re-joining, re-engaging with a San Francisco Bay Area institution – especially if you’ve got some time to devote to a leadership position - drop me a line at miniATbrainbytesDOTcom  

ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, is a San Francisco Bay Area group working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.

Lost Parkway

I’m lost – have they really closed the Parkway Speakeasy? Via Facebook I learned that some of my friends had joined the Save the Speakeasy group. I rarely join groups on Facebook, but this one was a no-brainer. I joined, only to find an image of a poster announcing their last night on Mar 22nd 09.

Even the closure of Stacey’s didn’t hit me like this. The Parkway Speakeasy was something else, not just a cheap movie theater with food and wine, but great vibes, a quintessential Oakland crowd (in it’s variety and unpretentious but hardcore taste) and of course the exceptionally silly, giggle-inducing preview videos from the owners before every show – it made me gloriously happy to just walk in.

I’m truly devastated. I might even use twitter to mourn with those who are in the same hole as me.