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The California Report Magazine Preview: Mapping a Radical Legacy of South Asian Activism in California

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You’ve probably heard of Bobby Seale and The Black Panthers. Or Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement. But what about Kartar Singh Sarabha and the Ghadar movement? Or Kala Bagai and the fight against redlining? We dive deep into some early California activist history you probably haven’t heard about: the hidden history of early South Asian activism in our state. How Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other South Asian immigrants and their children laid the groundwork for social movements that still resonate today in California. Host Sasha Khokha teams up with KQED politics correspondent Marisa Lagos, and they meet a couple obsessed with trying to preserve that history. They created the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, and Sasha and Marisa went to check it out

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