After Oak Creek: Arno & Pardeep
On August 5th, 2012, six Sikh Americans were shot and killed while preparing for an event at the gurdwara (Sikh house of worship) in Oak Creek. In the years that followed, Pardeep Singh Kaleka—whose father was killed that day—made an unlikely friendship with Arno Michaelis, a former White Supremacist gang leader.
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Read more from Arno and Pardeep here: https://www.lovewi.com/pardeeparno/
Read more about the tragedy at the Oak Creek Gurdwara here: https://rememberoakcreek.org/story-of-oak-creek/
Read more about the history of hate crimes and violence toward Sikh Americans here: https://www.propublica.org/article/sikhs-in-america-hate-crime-victims-and-bias

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Stand Up to Hate
A Mission for Wisconsin
Stand Up to Hate draws on real stories from across Wisconsin to educate Wisconsites about hate and hate crimes in our state. Wisconsin Humanities believes that stories and history have the power to to help people better understand their own communities and imagine possibilities for progress and change.
This project was spearheaded by Community Powered with UW-Extension’s division of Positive Youth Development and We Are Many-United Against Hate. It was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative.
