Demonstrators outside the Montefiore Family Health Clinic
description: Demonstrators holding signs in English and Khmer outside the Montefiore Family Health Clinic in the Bronx. The English signs read, "Health care is a human right" and "Protect our rights to equal health care." CAAAV's Youth Leadership Project (YLP) organized actions at Montefiore in protest of the clinic's decision to eliminate Southeast Asian translation services. The rollback of healthcare access at Montefiore, which served a growing Vietnamese and Cambodian population in the Northwest Bronx, came at a time when poor communities of color were already struggling with the consequences of devastating welfare reforms and cuts to public services. See CAAAV Voice Spring 1998 and Fall 1998 for more.
date: May 1998
contributor: Digitized by Arlene Gao Uploaded by Serena Yang
rights: Copyright is held by CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
format: Photograph