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Asian American Activists March Down Fifth Ave on Days of Outrage #3
Don Kao (right), director of Project Reach (a youth and adult-run, multiracial, multi-gender, substance abuse prevention, and anti-discrimination training center), pictured with Kazu Iijima (second left), Japanese-American activist and co-founder of…
Asian American Activists March Down Fifth Ave on Days of Outrage #2
Don Kao (second from the left), director of Project Reach (a youth and adult-run, multiracial, multi-gender, substance abuse prevention, and anti-discrimination training center), pictured with other Asian American protesters.
On January 21, 1988,…
On January 21, 1988,…
Asian American Activists March Down Fifth Ave on Days of Outrage
Penny Fujiko Willgerodt (left), coordinator of CAAAV Newsletter Committee, holding banner that says "Stop Racial Violence." Kazu Iijima (right), Japanese-American activist and co-founder of Asian Americans for Action in New York City, which drew from…
Lease Drivers Coalition Protesting Oppressive Workplace Practices #2
Debi Ray-Chaudhuri of the Lease Drivers Coalition in blue coat yelling, pictured with other LDC protesters. CAAAV formed the LDC to organize lease drivers to demand safer working conditions, medical benefits, fair hearings with the Taxi & Limousine…
Protestors at Free Saleem demonstration #3
Saleem Osman was a CAAAV organizer for the Lease Drivers Coalition. In March 1994, he was arrested for confronting the police to advocate for cab driver rights. Police dragged him out from his cab and assaulted him.
This photo features…
This photo features…
Protestors at Free Saleem demonstration #2
Protestors walking and shouting with banners in front of the Chinese American Bank to denounce the arrest of Saleem Osman and police brutality.
Protesters at Free Saleem demonstration #1
Saleem Osman was a CAAAV organizer for the Lease Drivers Coalition. In March 1994, he was arrested for confronting the police to advocate for cab driver rights. Police dragged him out from his cab and assaulted him.
This photo features…
This photo features…
Lease Drivers Coalition Protesting Oppressive Workplace Practices
Debi Ray-Chaudhuri of the Lease Drivers Coalition hold Taxis into Tigers sign, Anu Advani to her left, Gayetri Gopinath behind Debi. CAAAV formed the LDC to organize lease drivers to demand safer working conditions, medical benefits, fair hearings…
Saleem Osman after release
Saleem Osman was a CAAAV organizer for the Lease Drivers Coalition. In March 1994, he was arrested for confronting the police to advocate for cab driver rights. Police dragged him out from his cab and assaulted him.
This photo shows that upon…
This photo shows that upon…
Members of CAAAV and Yong Xin Huang's family at his memorial
Hyun Lee, Alexandra Suh, and Yong Xin Huang's mother and 3 sisters joined for a memorial 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…