Two young Asian men and a young Asian woman (who is wearing a CAAAV t-shirt) gather around a table to work on making an activist poster. The poster is painted with large Chinese characters, alongside some English text that reads, “HEAR THIS!…
A young Asian man addresses the room, standing next to a poster with text and images about CAAAV. Two of his peers sit in chairs against the wall; above them is a colorful banner bearing CAAAV’s title.
A group picture of nineteen CAAAV members during a meeting in their work space. They are posed in three rows behind a conference table, which is covered in numerous papers and publications.
In 2000, CAAAV’s Youth Leadership Project (YLP) produced a short documentary entitled Eating Welfare: Asians and Welfare in New York City. Created in the wake of the aggressive welfare reform of the 1990s, the film explores the lives of Southeast…