Browse Exhibits (4 total)
A History of CAAAV's Youth Leadership Project
The Youth Leadership Project (YLP) was a major organizing area of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities from 1995 through the early 2010s. Initiated by CAAAV's Southeast Asian Organizing Collective, the YLP operated in the Fordham area of the Bronx, home to the largest community of Southeast Asian refugees in New York. This exhibit explores the injustices that Vietnamese and Cambodian Fordham residents faced in the 1990s-2000s and the major campaigns developed by Southeast Asian youth organizers to defend the civil and human rights of their families and community.
Mobilizing Justice: CAAAV's Fight for Workers' Rights
This digital exhibition explores some of CAAAV’s involvement in labor/workers’ rights during the late 20th and early 21st centuries through their projects (the Lease Drivers Coalition and the Women Workers Project). It will also showcase the breadth and diversity of labor activism in NYC and spread awareness of unionizing and labor organizing efforts at current organizations such as the NY Taxi Workers Alliance and Domestic Workers United that grew from those initial projects.
NYC Chinatown: A Community Safeguarding Space
For over a century, New York City’s Chinatown has been a vibrant immigrant community, serving as a cultural hub and home for generations of Chinese Americans. However, in recent decades, the neighborhood has faced mounting challenges from gentrification, rising rents, and displacement of long-time residents. This exhibit explores the housing crisis in Chinatown and how community members have organized to safeguard their homes and neighborhoods.
Right to the City: CAAAV's Activism Against Police Brutality
As this digital exhibition demonstrates, NYPD officers often had few reservations using their positions of authority to inflict violence against Asian Americans. At the same time, New York’s Asian communities did not sit back and let these injustices persist without opposition. They were determined to reclaim their right to live in peace in the city they called home. CAAAV’s tireless activism, protest organizing, educational outreach, and coalition building during the late 1980s and 1990s succeeded in galvanizing Asian Americans across New York City to rise up and demand that the safety of their communities be guaranteed by the officers employed to protect it.