Karthikeyan S

S Karthikeyan is the convenor of Ambedkar King Study Circle (AKSC), California- an organisation whose aim is to challenge caste, class, race, gender and religious oppression and oppressors on ideological, political and social fronts.

As part of ASKC, Karthikeyan has been involved in several local public campaigns in California, such as

• the campaign in 2023 to include caste as a protected category in California.

• the California textbook campaign between 2016 to 2019 to ensure that caste is not whitewashed in history textbooks,

• the campaign against the Sangh Parivar organised World Hindu Congress in 2018 to resist their fascist propaganda, and,

• the campaign for Prop 16 ballot measure to save affirmative action (reservation) in California.

Karthikeyan has also participated in and actively supported the Blacks Lives Matter movement following George Fylod’s murder. He organises local workshops against facism and on other political subjects. He has also written articles published in outlets like The Wire.

Among AKSC’s longest running campaigns is the one to garner public support for caste discrimination case against Cisco. As soon as the case was reported in the Media on Jun 30, 2020, AKSC decided to take it up seriously. AKSC collected testimonies on the practice of caste in the USA. They amplified the case by getting it reported in the Indian and the American media accompanied by the testimonies collected from across the US.