“None of us is free if one of us is chained." – Solomon Burke
Poetic Justice Foundation is focused on collective liberation. We believe that though the individual oppressors may look different, almost all of the systems holding us down are connected. That is why, despite being a Dalit led organization with a foundational commitment to caste abolition, Poetic Justice Foundation is ultimately a platform created to uplift and connect all oppressed people-so that we all experience freedom together.
Our organization is a registered charity in Canada: 74023 4935 RR0001
The Poetic Justice Foundation connects movements, brings South Asian voices to the conversation, and advocates for the freedom of all through collective liberation.
While witnessing mass global protests against inequality, corruption, and government injustices from India to Iran, Lebanon to Peru in 2019— we recognized a void in collective action within our community. Driven by the conviction that everyone deserves to live with dignity and freedom, regardless of race, caste, gender, sexuality, or economic status, Poetic Justice Foundation was created to combat anti-oppression forces and weave together a fabric of resistance and solidarity across movements and borders.
Understanding all systems of oppressions as interconnected, Poetic Justice Foundation serves as a container bringing together multiple movement spaces to build and sustain coalitions that foster social, political, economic, and spiritual transformation. In line with and accountable to the teachings of variously oppressed and resistance traditions like Indigenous, Black, Dalit, Sikh, Muslim, feminist, queer, trans, and the working class, we firmly believe that none of us are free until all of us are free.
Although we started in 2020 to organize and spearhead conversations around caste and caste abolition that have been silenced across the South Asian diaspora, Poetic Justice Foundation since has evolved to confront a wide range of issues. From organizing in solidarity with the farmers and laborers in India in 2020 and 2021 during the Kissan-Mazdoor Andolan, to assembling panels and conversations bridging academic and community to explore questions of anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, caste supremacy, and sovereignty, to curating a traveling anti-caste exhibit to foster accessible and community spaces of learning. The organization serves as a political home from which multi-pronged and segmentally targeted strategies are developed and mobilized.
Our vision is unapologetically ambitious: a world where the chains of oppression are broken, and every individual can thrive without barriers. Through relentless effort, the Poetic Justice Foundation fuels hope and catalyzes change, paving the way toward a future where global collective liberation is not merely an aspiration but a reality.
Anita Lal is a fourth generation settler, born and raised on the traditional territory of Lhtako Dene and Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations. Her Biji, Thakuri Kaur Lal, instilled in her the Sikh values of seva, social justice and advocacy from a young age.
With over a decade of experience in the technology sector, including roles in software development and Internet marketing in California's Silicon Valley, Mo Dhaliwal has made significant contributions to the industry.
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