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1995_July_Yong Xin Huang memorial march_0004.jpg
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 the 17th birthday of this victim of police brutality. This photo shows protestors with signs representing…

1995_July_Yong Xin Huang memorial march_0005_a.jpg
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…

1994_May_Free Salem demonstration_0005_a.jpg
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…

1992_November_Lease Drivers Coal. at Ratner's garage_0001_a.jpg
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…

1994_May_Free Salem demonstration_0001.jpg
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…

1994_May_Free Salem demonstration_0002_a.jpg
Protestors walking and shouting with banners in front of the Chinese American Bank to denounce the arrest of Saleem Osman and police brutality.

1994_May_Free Salem demonstration_0003_a.jpg
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…

1992_November_Lease Drivers Coal. at Ratner's garage_0002_a.jpg
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…

1987_January_Day of Outrage_0001_a.jpg
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…

1987_January_Day of Outrage_0002_a.jpg
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,…
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