#bass2013

BASS teaches practical skills for tomorrow's activists, leaders, and changemakers. BASS participants learned the basics of organizing, including three exercises to help structure campaigns for social change.

BASS 2013 participants got a chance to take the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, visiting sites associated with 105 years of immigrant activism. To our surprise, we ran across Sharat Lin, one of the activist elders whose story we shared, just as we were finishing our tour; he joined us to tell a few stories, and take a group picture.

At BASS 2013, four superstars of South Asian food justice team up for their first joint training. Amman Desai, Devika Ghai, Seema Rupani, and Navina Khanna drop knowledge on food heritage, the politics of food systems, farmworker organizing, and visions of transformation. Inspired!

On day 3 of BASS, Bay Area artists Nisha Sembi and Amman Desai share their work and lead a hands-on art creation workshop. Some participants stayed up past midnight, creating art using the new techniques they learned!

Day 3 of BASS kicks off with Robin Sukhadia and Chee Malabar's tabla, hip-hop, vocal music making, and writing exercises—our stories and struggles set to words and beats.

What happens to one of us happens to all of us. Day 2 of BASS ends with an exploration of Islamophobia and racial violence, as participants brainstorm how to interrupt and resist systems of hate in their communities.

Electrifying Black and Brown solidarities! Activist elders Ayesha Gill and ericka huggins share stories of the Ghadar Party, the Black Panthers, and beyond, to a transfixed audience. Just another afternoon at Bay Area Solidarity Summer…

BASS 2013 participant, on having BASS as a safe space to speak her truths.