Browse Items (802 total)
Sort by:
Supporters gather outside the court on Saleem Osman's court day #1
CAAAV and community members gathered outside the Manhattan Criminal Court, listening to someone (likely Saleem Osman) speaking to the crowd. Osman's lawyer Michael Deutsch, and CAAAV organizer Steve Mitra (both center in the background) are present,…
Supporters gather outside the court on Saleem Osman's court day #2
A crowd of CAAAV and community members gathered outside the Manhattan Criminal Court. They are wearing pink and purple striped ribbons pinned to their shirts to show support for Saleem Osman.
Saleem Osman, who coordinated CAAAV's Lease Drivers…
Saleem Osman, who coordinated CAAAV's Lease Drivers…
Supporters walking out of court on Saleem Osman's court day
A group of men walk down the stairs outside the Manhattan Criminal Court. They are wearing pink and purple striped ribbons pinned to their shirts to show support for Saleem Osman.
Saleem Osman, who coordinated CAAAV's Lease Drivers Coalition, was…
Saleem Osman, who coordinated CAAAV's Lease Drivers Coalition, was…
Sylvia Rivera marches with Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) Flag
In this photo, Sylvia Rivera and an unidentified woman participate in a march while holding a rainbow pride flag with the S.T.A.R. logo on it. S.T.A.R., or Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, was an organization co-founded by Sylvia Rivera…
Takeover of Brooklyn DA Office
On March 13, 1996, twelve demonstrators took over the office of Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes to demand justice for the police brutality cases involving Yong Xin Huong and Anibal Carrasquillo Jr. The sit-in called for Hynes to indict NYPD Officers…
Tamina Davar with Yong Xin Huang's Mother and Sisters at a memorial march for him
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 his 17th birthday. Yong Xin Huang was a teenager shot and killed by the police in Brooklyn while playing outside…
Taxi driver participating in Lease Drivers Coalition demonstration
A yellow taxi cab drives on a street as part of a large mobile protest led by the Lease Drivers Coalition. The cab displays a sign on the windshield, and another sign on the front of the car which reads, "Stop Police Harassment."
The…
The…
Tenant Group Meeting
A large group gathers for a tenants meeting.
Tenants Meeting
Tenants and their children talk around a table at a tenants' meeting. Notes about muggings are written on a large paper hanging on a bulletin board.
The People's Tribunal
A black poster that reads "THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL" in yellow, red, and blue covers the vehicle wrap of an orange pickup truck advertising a rental company.