September Advocate: Join the Movement and Support the First-Ever Sikh American Video Series!
SALDEF and Comcast Announce 1.6 Million Dollar Investment 
This Summer, Comcast re-aired the first-ever Sikh American PSA across 39 states and Washington D.C. for a value over 1.6 million dollars. This is an unprecedented investment towards the visibility of the Sikh American community. The PSA, which was announced by SALDEF Executive Director Jasjit Singh on MSNBC, aired more than 142,000 times, and SALDEF received letters from Americans across the nation, thanking us for introducing them to Sikh Americans and Sikh values. Share the first-ever Sikh American PSA, created by SALDEF and supported through SALDEF’s partnerships with CAAM and Comcast, today! SALDEF Needs Your Help TODAY Today, our supporters can fund the future SikhAmericans.org video series! The future digital home of Sikh Americans, SALDEF’s SikhAmericans.org, will feature a video series with Sikh men and women from a variety of professions, to give every American a chance to get to know a Sikh, our identity, and our values.
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SALDEF Victory Covered By Major Media Outlets Major media outlets across the United States have covered SALDEF’s work to ensure Sikhs can wear their articles of faith in identification cards in the State of Illinois. READ the feature in Fusion: Illinois is taking a step toward preventing Sikh and Muslim discrimination at DMV Learn more about SALDEF’s efforts to secure the Sikh ID in the Asian American Journal, India West, International Business Times, Newsmax, and Sikh Siyasat. 
SALDEF Hosts Department of Homeland Security Roundtable Meeting On August 27, SALDEF hosted a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Community Roundtable meeting in Los Angeles, California. This quarterly meeting is attended by representatives from national agencies like the DHS and the FBI and local law enforcement like the LAPD. This meeting focused on hate groups in America. The DHS discussed their ongoing investigations of white supremacists and other organized crime groups. The meeting was attended by 60 members of 40 different community-based advocacy groups. Orange County Law Enforcement Receives SALDEF Training 
Gurpreet Kaur Singh, a graduate of SALDEF’s Law Enforcement Partnership Program, (LEPP) educated attendees of the Orange County Sheriff’s Academy training on August 24th. There, Gurpreet spoke to more than 45 attendees about the Sikh community, the Sikh articles of faith, and how best to serve local Sikh communities. Attendees included local police officers, sheriffs, firefighters, first responders, and staff in the local District Attorney’s office. At the training, local law enforcement learned about the Sikh community, the Sikh articles of faith, and how best to serve local Sikh communities. In just the past eight months, SALDEF’s LEPP has trained law enforcement in California, New Jersey, Texas, and Amtrak’s headquarters in Washington D.C. Sikh American Filmmakers Introduce Seva to a New American Audience SALDEF congratulates SALDEF SikhLEAD graduates and young Sikh American filmmakers Harnek Singh Neelam and Rasna Kaur Neelam for being finalists in Faith Counts’ Film Your Faith video contest!
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SALDEF, who is a member of Faith Counts, a nonprofit, nondenominational organization of faith communities representing nearly 100 million Americans, awarded the Grand Prize Winner of the Film Your Faith video contest, Carlos Cuervo, at the Religion Newswriters Association’s 2015 Conference Program on August 28. We are inspired by all of the contestants, who are unafraid to share stories of their faith. 
SALDEF Joins ADL’s 50 States Against Hate In an ongoing effort to improve legal responses across the United States, SALDEF has joined the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s coalition, 50 States Against Hate, which aims to work toward the passage of hate crime laws in the five states that do not have them – Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Wyoming – while simultaneously seeking to make existing hate crime laws in the other 45 states more inclusive and comprehensive. Learn more about the initiative via the ADL. SALDEF Joins 81 Groups to Address Illegality of ‘Muslim-Free Zone’ Businesses SALDEF joined 81 civil liberties, human rights, immigrant rights, faith, and cultural organizations in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking her to investigate the growing phenomena of so-called “Muslim-free zone” businesses nationwide. Learn more about this effort to stop hate and bias. Did you remember to join the Sikhs who are supporting the future Sikh American video series housed at SikhAmericans.org? Donate to SALDEF today!