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A woman speaking at a press conference at City Hall organized by Third World Within to highlight the experiences of immigrant communities since 9-11. Another woman stands behind her with a sign that reads “Third World Within.”

Image showing CAAAV demonstrators protesting the movie Rising Sun in Times Square. One protestor holds a sign that reads "The Protocols of Zion Anti-Asian Style."

A black poster that reads "THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL" in yellow, red, and blue covers the vehicle wrap of an orange pickup truck advertising a rental company.

Tenants and their children talk around a table at a tenants' meeting. Notes about muggings are written on a large paper hanging on a bulletin board.

A large group gathers for a tenants meeting.

A yellow taxi cab drives on a street as part of a large mobile protest led by the Lease Drivers Coalition. The cab displays a sign on the windshield, and another sign on the front of the car which reads, "Stop Police Harassment."

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Members of CAAAV and the family of Yong Xin Huang joined for a memorial march in Manhattan Chinatown the day before what would have been his 17th birthday. Yong Xin Huang was a teenager shot and killed by the police in Brooklyn while playing outside…

On March 13, 1996, twelve demonstrators took over the office of Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes to demand justice for the police brutality cases involving Yong Xin Huong and Anibal Carrasquillo Jr. The sit-in called for Hynes to indict NYPD Officers…

In this photo, Sylvia Rivera and an unidentified woman participate in a march while holding a rainbow pride flag with the S.T.A.R. logo on it. S.T.A.R., or Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, was an organization co-founded by Sylvia Rivera…

A group of men walk down the stairs outside the Manhattan Criminal Court. They are wearing pink and purple striped ribbons pinned to their shirts to show support for Saleem Osman.

Saleem Osman, who coordinated CAAAV's Lease Drivers Coalition, was…