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A Lease Drivers Coalition advertisement orignally placed in CAAAV Voices' Winter 1994 issue on page 7. It is selling t-shirts that would support the group's operation and a growing public awareness.

Report by Gigi Stone of NY1. Footage of the CAAAV Demonstration at the Wackenhut Detention Center, a private immigration detention facility in Queens. CAAAV member Jane Bai is interviewed, who speaks out against the inhumane treatment of the…

Video opens with an advertisement. Report by Gabe Pressman of Channel 4 News, as part of a series on police brutality. Kim Huyn, Chinese-American 17 year old, boarded the bus in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to commute to her high school, when the bus driver…

Bronx 12 Evening Edition news report before YLP Welfare demonstration on August 23, 2000. The demonstration ended in a successful shut down of a major North-Bronx welfare center and over 80 CAAAV members participating.

The video opens with shots…

The image was taken from the CAAAV Voice Spring 1998 newsletter of Bhairavi Desai with a farewell message as she resigned from her position as program coordinator of the Lease Drivers Coalition to found the New York Taxi Worker Alliance.

A woman stands at a microphone on Racial Justice Day in 2001 with a white shirt that reads, “Kops Kourts Korrupt(ion).” The shirt references the Ku Klux Klan and brings attention to racial injustice perpetuated by the police and the judicial system.

The back of a shirt has a red sticker that reads “(THE) UNITED STATES IS CHARGED WITH (MASS) INCARCERATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR,” which was created for Racial Justice Day in 2001.

Taken at a 1997 protest for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Judge Albert F. Sabo is depicted here as Disney’s iteration of Pinocchio, complete with a white wig, robe, and gavel. The Judge’s nose is elongated, pointing to his lack of impartiality and racism during…

A person walks in front of a sign that reads, “STRUGGLE 4 JUST & MEANINGFUL CHANGE” at a demonstration. In the background, there is a sign that reads, “PEOPLES AGEN(DA) / V.F.A / THE VISITING FORC(ES) AGREEMENT MUST BE ENDED,” likely referencing the…