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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!…

A multiracial coalition of protestors marches down a street, demonstrating solidarity with Asian communities.

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!…

Picture of an apartment building at 123 Baxter Street in Chinatown (Manhattan). A sign on the building reads "DOWNTOWN DEFINED [...] www.123baxterstreet.com."

A young man holds a microphone and reads from a paper at a CAAAV event. Streamers and balloons hang from the ceiling above him.

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…

Protestors holding signs create a circle outside of 401 East 84th Street in New York City.

17 people assembled in matching green shirts. Some are holding orchids

A group of youths pose for a photograph in front of a Confucius Statue located in Chinatown

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.