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The news report describes CAAAV’s first Mid-Autumn celebration, which featured martial arts, folk music and dance, and songs performed in both English and Mandarin. To facilitate cultural exchange among different Asian immigrant communities, the…

On October 28th, the Citywide Tenants Coalition organized a demonstration in Harlem, demanding governmental agencies to recognize and remedy the citywide shortage of housing stock, unaffordability for low-income renters, and displacement of small…

This news article reported in English centered on the possible eviction of a Chinatown garment factory (Fortune Gardens), whose owner was sued by landlords for alleged unpaid rent. The factory’s shutdown could result in the unemployment of 40 Chinese…

This news article documents a community panel discussion on Chinatown gentrification hosted by CAAAV’s Youth Leadership Project. The event featured five of the six candidates running for Lower Manhattan’s City Council District 1 seat and centered on…

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Dozens of NYC tenant rights organizations protested at Union Square against the expiration of the state’s rent stabilization laws on June 15. Xian Zhen Li (李贤贞), director of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, emphasized that 70 to…

Protestors in Philadelphia march with signs and shirts that read, “NO STADIUM IN CHINATOWN,” and effigies likely of Mayor John Street, protesting the construction of a baseball stadium for the Phillies near Chinatown. Interspersed are signs that…

CAAAV youth organizers held a banner that depicted city buildings and a statement that read "Hands off Chinatown: No Justice, No Peace" in both English and Chinese. The banner likely hinted at protection of the Chinatown neighborhood against…

At the memorial for Yong Xin Huang at Confucius Plaza in Manhattan's Chinatown, participants hold cardboard tombstones showing Asian American victims of police brutality and/or gun violence across the United States.

This photo is of a rally and memorial for Yong Xin Huang in Confucius Plaza in Manhattan's Chinatown. A red banner reading "CAAAV Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence" and a white banner reading "Parents Against Police Brutality" hang on the fence…

A vacant Dragon Gate Market with empty stalls in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side. Two people walk in the distance. In the back, there is a large mural painted on a brick building that features a dragon in front of a city skyline.…