The Coalition

Orig­i­nal­ly formed in 2007 as a net­work facil­i­tat­ed by SAALT to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion across shared South Asian iden­ti­ty, the Nation­al Coali­tion of South Asian Orga­ni­za­tions (NCSO) was once a thriv­ing ecosys­tem of South Asian orga­ni­za­tions in the U.S., work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to devel­op advo­ca­cy strate­gies, pol­i­cy actions, and com­mu­ni­ty enrich­ment opportunities.

In 2020, it became clear that being orga­nized sole­ly on the basis of iden­ti­ty was not suf­fi­cient, and the NCSO was reor­ga­nized to work towards a shared under­stand­ing of the harm­ful sys­tems impact­ing our com­mu­ni­ties, specif­i­cal­ly the caste sys­tem, the prison indus­tri­al com­plex, and colonization.