28 10 805 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/dfc1532245627160656ced27e241ec22.jpg a17b1395632cb560ed77169c497fb429 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/d62acb628c1cd5d7886f4f3049218fd5.jpg ac51df6796fdd82d995b8f71d723c937 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/45a86291b9b7b69864698d7f09a9755e.jpg 6dc48841c7c2043da1b1362ff5014386 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 Female workers protesting and picketing Description An account of the resource A group of female workers are protesting and picketing on the sidewalk with banners that read "Stop Exploitation of Workers", "Slavery was abolished in the US", "Stop Bringing Slavers, We Are Watching You Andolan". Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shutong Wu 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 Photo296.tif Photo298.tif Photo299.tif Demonstration Workers' Rights https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/349195ddf7fea4d821fc089d4793111b.jpg 27589e0aef91bb1658bc2f0bfb142f86 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 Filipino Civil Rights Advocates Demonstration Description An account of the resource Two women hold a yellow banner for the Filipino Civil Rights Advocates (FilCRA) demonstration. Members of a marching band are visible to the right side of the image. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Digitized by: Xuan Wang Cataloged by: Mike Rivas Fernandez 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 Photo726 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Demonstration https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/776aae0bd972fb892ab4b214604b1a09.jpg fcf90a486a748777e906710f6b13d0d7 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 Filipino Workers Center Description An account of the resource Demonstrators hold a banner for the Filipino Workers Center. 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 Julia Gatenio 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_999 Demonstration Workers' Rights https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/28f313ff9733cb41a8c2691a647ccaa4.jpg 2fea31999b1bd8edf2d4b47c02fa3255 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 Five Young Women in a Circle Description An account of the resource Five young women walk in a circle at the front of the room. They are holding conical hats and appear to be performing. 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 Jubilee Marshall 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_1096 CAAAV Benefit Event 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 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/8ecd1aac11d965dccdb6bc863a2c5935.jpg 7a3d92072f0c87a7badc9657c3e56c7b 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 Food distribution at a CAAAV event Description An account of the resource Three women helping to run a CAAAV event are visible standing on one side of a table laden with food undertaking its distribution to others, just off-camera. 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 Aliza Hornblass 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_1105 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/50d77995756dba302d0787040ae3c5f5.jpg dba283283931e726cfb75d0c3e427ef1 https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/c02884179574f2315b7d8909a06f5aec.jpg d4e96d57a37e1b37cb7d9ebf5474d581 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 Photo Collection of CAAAV Co-Founder Mini Liu Description An account of the resource Photos collected by CAAAV co-founder Mini Liu Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mini Liu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1986-1996 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 Photographs 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 Forum on killing case of Jian Wan Chen by husband Description An account of the resource In the case of the murder of Jian Wan Chen at the hands of her husband, Dong Lu Chen, the latter was sentenced to five years' probation, setting a new precedent of so-called cultural defense. In this photo, Monona Yin of CAAAV speaks at a forum to discuss with the community how to navigate the criminal justice system's barriers specific to Asian women and the legal precedent of cultural defense. See Voice Fall 1989 for more on the forum, Voice Spring 1989 for CAAAV's initial response to the sentencing. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mini Liu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 27, 1989 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ethan Liang 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 1989_June_Forum on murder by Dong Lu Chen_0001, 1989_June_Forum on murder by Dong Lu Chen_0002 Immigration Memorial https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/f04379d2e1ea131ec24069ec83f2634f.jpg f4be6cd13308a3f64bc58539a957b143 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 Four Speakers at Demonstration Description An account of the resource Four volunteers speak at a demonstration. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1, 2002. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Julia Gatenio 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_973 Demonstration https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/6dc09f586e38ed09317830811cd9d534.jpg ff7bcd12d93fbfecb71d5f04367ddd72 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 Four speakers onstage at event Description An account of the resource Four speakers stand onstage at an event. Middle two are reading from a pink notecard, and a person on the far left holds flags from Ecuador and the United States of America. 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 Will Brown 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_1686 Event https://archives.caaav.org/files/original/f34e5d15d6f52e8a47329ec74f490956.jpg 6c6c38ce891621a5abaa49f5eba67a7b 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 Four Volunteers Description An account of the resource Four volunteers converse outside. Two of them are wearing orange vests. 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 Julia Gatenio 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_1447 Youth Leadership Project