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  • Collection: CAAAV Videos

AV_AsiansinAmerica_P1.mp4
Footage of a panel organized by NYU and CAAAV featuring Marilyn Young as the moderator, Risa Morimoto, Una Chaudhuri, Sudipto Chatterjee, Eric Tang (associated with CAAAV), and Cyrus Patel. Topic of panel was Asians in America. Each panelist speaks…

Interviews with people of color from all walks of life discussing the presence of the processed meat SPAM in their lives and cultures. In Asian and the Pacific Islands, SPAM, as an American food, is a delicacy and a status symbol, a fact that,…

On May 26, 1994, Saleem Osman, a community organizer and CAAAV advocate, was beaten and arrested by two plainclothes police officers after attempting to settle a conflict between a white truck driver and a Pakistani cab driver. CAAAV immediately…

channel4news 1994.mp4
Video opens with an advertisement. Report by Gabe Pressman of Channel 4 News, as part of a series on police brutality. Kim Huyn, Chinese-American 17 year old, boarded the bus in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to commute to her high school, when the bus driver…

AV2_1_P1.mp4
In a documentary-style video, the Chinese Staff and Workers' Association (CSWA) showcases striking Asian workers at the Silver Palace Restaurant in Chinatown. The workers organized into a union, but those who had joined were fired and it was not…

Footage shot for DCTV's documentary, Canal Street: First Stop in America. Video has no sound.

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TV segments from multiple news channels covering news related to CAAAV and police brutality. Also present is footage from TV show Law & Order, interspersed with commercials.

AV_DetentionProtest_P1.mp4
Report by Gigi Stone of NY1. Footage of the CAAAV Demonstration at the Wackenhut Detention Center, a private immigration detention facility in Queens. CAAAV member Jane Bai is interviewed, who speaks out against the inhumane treatment of the…

AV3_39_p1.mp4
TV news segment in Chinese about a public hearing on police brutality organized by many New York City social justice organizations. Attendees interviewed in both Chinese and English. Among those interviewed is Hyun Lee of CAAAV.

AV2_9_P1.mp4
TV segment about a multi-issue protest in which CAAAV took part. The protest blocked multiple bridges and was against increases in tuition at state universities, cuts to health care, and police brutality.
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