Protestors hold a red sign that reads the "Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence" poster. In the lefthand corner, a poster in the shape of a tombstone with the name Jim Ming Hai Loo.
A girl wearing an orange vest with the word JUSTICE embroidered on it. Below is a patch "NO WAR NO RACISM" and an imprint of Phan Thị Kim Phúc ("Napalm Girl") after being severely burned in a Napalm attack during the Vietnam War in 1972. The young…
This photographs shows a crowded scene in front of a movie theater. On its marquee, adorned in red block letters, is a title: RISING SUN. On the street, members of CAAAV hold signs as tourists pass by, reading “Japanese men sleeping with white women!…
July 30, 1993: CAAAV summer interns Jonathon Sung Bidol, Ginny Moon, and Julia Wang gather over one-hundred demonstrators outside Times Square’s Criterion Theater to protest Philip Kaufman’s racist film, Rising Sun, on its opening day. “Rising Sun!…
In February 1999, dozens of demonstrators gathered at the Dragon Gate Market to protest against the Giuliani administration’s decision to raze the market, which had catered to the Chinatown neighborhood for most of the past decade. Protestors,…
Black and white photograph of three protestors holding signs that protest welfare reform (one poster is partially obscured). The posters read, "WELFARE 'REFORM' HURTS ASIAN AMERICANS" and "SOUTHEAST ASIANS ARE HERE TO STAY."