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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…

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

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

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!…

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

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,…

The poster reads "Struggle 4 just & meaningful change"

7 men and women join together for a performance with an assortment of drums

six young children holding charts at the Youth Leadership Project community event in 1998