10 10 805 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/060f4c7a519c16affcae588195d01dc6.jpg 27ded8812482107551b2e5a9a4648a06 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Stop Racist Violence" Description An account of the resource CAAAV participating in an interracial protest against racial violence. Main focus of the image is a large CAAAV banner stating "Stop Racial Violence" with protestors holding it aloft. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Berman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1486 Demonstration Racial Justice Committee Solidarity Work https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/257f9880ce28be815b24fe6732098abe.jpg bfc8da2d9762272e361e00d1b4c0f131 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women Workers' Project-Demonstration for Filipina Workers Description An account of the resource Group demonstrating for the rights of Filipina workers as part of the Women Workers' Project. Large banner features mainly Filipino text alongside English. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Berman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1236 Women Workers Project Workers' Rights https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/1703b108c3effe85f26e14876ee5a55c.jpg e68001859a1bd71b1e9d90455c9d5cd1 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interracial Demonstration Protesting Police Brutality and Violence Description An account of the resource Interracial, political demonstration protesting police brutality and violence against Black and Asian individuals. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Berman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1217 Anti-Asian Violence and Representations Demonstration Police Brutality Racial Justice Committee Solidarity Work https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/584dcf9f8cb6be20af4296f3a751d3a3.jpg 496ea09196b09241d4666ebb0174f5e0 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sign Calling for An End to Racial Violence and Profiling Description An account of the resource Individual holding a sign stating, "Stop Killing Our Black Sons-End Racial Profiling." Likely part of a larger interracial protest for racial justice. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Berman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1226 Demonstration Police Brutality Racial Justice Committee Solidarity Work https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/90fbcb88c32dba17385eaf827ed72813.jpg 0d63bf5da70de7f59639a901e6a35617 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Asians for Racial Justice (Racial Justice Day 1997) Description An account of the resource A group of people at the 1997 Racial Justice Day demonstration for racial justice and against police brutality, holding banners and signs that read "Asians for Racial Justice." The people being shown are mostly cut out of the picture, and only one sign is readable while the others are blurred or partially covered. The picture is in black and white. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 7, 1997 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Camila Aguirre Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1012 Demonstration Police Brutality Racial Justice Committee Racial Justice Day Solidarity Work https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/7b25ffd4ce878139971764d96359bd7a.jpg 4b09167a2e1fba9c4e430fea795c4c10 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CAAAV marches for racial justice at Racial Justice Day 1997 Description An account of the resource Asian members of CAAAV and Black New Yorkers march in protest past the now-demolished Sun Sing Theatre, under the Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan's Chinatown. Protestors hold signs calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality. One sign reads "RACIAL JUSTICE: people unite!" Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 7, 1997 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allegra Favila Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1018 Anti-Asian Violence and Representations Chinatown Demonstration Police Brutality Racial Justice Committee Racial Justice Day https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/c1c58dbc8e986cd874e61589c999553f.jpg 15597d0c8d7a98e50fa4f8ca33f5328b Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Flyer for Eating Welfare: Asians and Welfare in New York City Description An account of the resource In 2000, CAAAV’s Youth Leadership Project (YLP) produced a short documentary entitled Eating Welfare: Asians and Welfare in New York City. Created in the wake of the aggressive welfare reform of the 1990s, the film explores the lives of Southeast Asian residents of the Bronx, New York, and the efforts of the community’s youth to document state-enacted abuse and seek justice for their elders.  The titular phrase “eating welfare”—referring to receiving government benefits—is derived from the Vietnamese and Khmer (Cambodian) language spoken by many of the borough’s residents.<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn1" name="_ednref1">[1]</a> Since the 1980’s, refugees of war-torn Vietnam and Cambodia had been living in a secluded immigrant community in the Bronx, surviving largely on public assistance. According to Eric Tang, scholar-activist and previous director of YLP, approximately two-thirds of the residents were receiving a monthly welfare check during the mid-90s.<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn2" name="_ednref2">[2]</a> When Rudolph Giuliani took office as Mayor of New York City in 1994, welfare reform became a major policy priority. The crux of this reform was a strong emphasis on work requirements, namely mandatory workfare jobs via Giuliani’s Work Experience Program (WEP).<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn3" name="_ednref3">[3]</a> In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in an effort to drastically reduce Americans’ reliance on welfare. The act essentially served to disparage and deny Americans who had, until now, relied on public assistance. As documented in Eating Welfare, the enforcement of the work requirement as a condition for receiving cash benefits pushed huge numbers of the Bronx’s Southeast Asian residents into undesirable and low-paying jobs, such as trash pick-up and hard labor. While the immigrant community suffered—with many unable to speak up against workplace abuses due to limited English—the rest of NYC claimed that “the city [was] getting cleaner, the mayor more popular, and the typical resident more satisfied with city services.”<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn4" name="_ednref4">[4]</a> Witnessing demoralizing working conditions and worsening poverty in their community, young Vietnamese- and Cambodian-Americans organized to document and fight unjust welfare policies in action. Members of YLP, depicted on this postcard advertising the documentary project, developed a “Fair Work” campaign to abolish workfare and expose WEP cases as civil rights violations. One tactic of resistance involved YLP organizers attending their parents’ WEP work assignments and filming the working conditions.<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn5" name="_ednref5">[5]</a> This footage, which is included in Eating Welfare, serves to contextualize YLP’s resistance efforts and put faces and names on disenfranchised welfare recipients.  Eating Welfare reflects CAAAV’s commitment to helping Asian youth challenge harmful actions enacted by the state against the most vulnerable members of their community. Tang, who became director of YLP in 1996, saw tremendous benefit in organizing and training teenagers to become community organizers—with their “bilingual and bicultural” skills, these politically-engaged youths could “turn their individualized efforts into collective action.”<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn6" name="_ednref6">[6]</a> CAAAV’s current Asian Youth in Action initiative continues their efforts to develop the leadership and organizing skills of young people with a vision for social justice.<a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_edn7" name="_ednref7">[7]</a> <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref1" name="_edn1"></a>Notes [1]. Michael Truong, “Welfare reform and liberal governance: disciplining Cambodian-American bodies,” International Journal of Social Welfare 16, no. 3 (July 2007): 262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2006.00479.x.   <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref2" name="_edn2">[2]</a>. Eric Tang, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), 7. <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref3" name="_edn3">[3]</a>. Demetra Smith Nightingale et al., “Work and Welfare Reform in New York City During the Giuliani Administration: A Study of Program Implementation,” The Urban Institute Labor and Social Policy Center, accessed March 16, 2021, http://webarchive.urban.org/publications/410542.html.  <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref4" name="_edn4">[4]</a>. Judith Havemann, “New York's Workfare Picks Up City and Lifts Mayor's Image,” Washington Post, August 13, 1997, A01, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf081397.htm. <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref5" name="_edn5">[5]</a>. “Southeast Asian Women and Welfare Rights,” The Voice 10, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 10, https://caaav.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Voice_Fall_2000.pdf. <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref6" name="_edn6">[6]</a>. Tang, Unsettled, 6. <a href="https://maggie.hosting.nyu.edu/caaav/eating-welfare-asians-nyc#_ednref7" name="_edn7">[7]</a>. “Asian Youth in Action,” CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, accessed March 16, 2021, https://caaav.org/our-work/programs/aya2017. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 2000 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allegra Favila This post was completed as coursework for HIST-GA 3901 Community Archives, taught by Maggie Schreiner, in the Archives and Public History MA program at New York University. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1243 Anti-Asian Violence and Representations CAAAV Youth Immigration Workers' Rights Youth Leadership Project Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CAAAV banner flies during a demonstration Description An account of the resource A large yellow flag bears the words, “CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES NEW YORK CITY,” in painted red, black, and green letters. The flag billows in the wind during an outdoors demonstration. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allegra Favila Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1252 Anti-Asian Violence and Representations Demonstration https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/2b78343052d678ffe529ec448ffcf15c.jpg b18be8e6a8b9c5a92e97cb82412be669 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Demonstration in support of domestic workers in NYC Description An account of the resource Women of color hold signs decrying poor treatment of domestic workers in NYC during a demonstration near the headquarters of the United Nations. Some demonstrators wear t-shirts listing the names of CAAAV and two other social justice organizations: Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers and Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees—these organizations joined under the title Domestic Workers United (DWU), which is also written on demonstrators’ shirts. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 2000–2010 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allegra Favila Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1427 Demonstration Solidarity Work Women Workers Project Workers' Rights https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/9bb19ea44f359d1e1f0dee890db2d1cf.jpg afe02a7f516aa8c718b14fbd1af24997 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Protest in support of Palestine Description An account of the resource At the center of a thick crowd of pro-Palestine protesters, a Black woman holds a tall yellow banner painted with a Black Power fist and the text, “Third World Within NYC.” Behind her, the demonstrators wave signs and Palestinian flags. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 20, 2002 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allegra Favila Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAAAV_1428 Demonstration Palestine Support Rally Solidarity Work