Come learn about the latest news in CAAAV and how you can plug in at our monthly Volunteer Happy Hour!

Join us in the launch of CAAAV’s Youth Leadership Project as Mekong! Since last year, we have been working to transition CAAAV’s Youth Leadership Project into an independent organization. On March 29th we will officially launch Mekong, led by former CAAAV staff Chhaya Chhoum as its founding Executive Director. Here is a report we worked[.....]

“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having” ~ Emma Goldman. Saturday, February 4th 10:30pm – 2am PMT Studios 69 West 14th Street, 3rd Floor Please complete the form below to register! If you have any questions, please email justice@caaav.org. How it works: It’s $15 at the door to come dance with us![.....]

On Thursday December 1, 2011, CAAAV released our new report, “Reimagining Rezoning: A Chinatown for Residents is a Chinatown for All.”

See The special homepage and the video made for CAAAV’s 25th Anniversary!

As a member of Peoples’ Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability (PJ), CAAAV collaborated with Tats Cru to paint a “Know Your Rights” mural on our Bronx office.

In late 2007, CAAAV’s Chinatown Tenants Union found out that the East River Waterfront which is at the edge of Chinatown and Lower East Side was slated for redevelopment by the City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) primarily as commercial space. Knowing such plan would further accelerate the process of displacement of low-income communities and gentrification,[.....]

CAAAV’s Youth Leadership project launched its Health Justice Campaign in 2007 to demand improved and expanded health care services for the Southeast Asian community in the northwest Bronx. These demands included language-accessible services in Vietnamese and Khmer; providing alternative modes of treatment; the integration of social services with medical care; and training local clinic staff[.....]

CAAAV has been a member of the Right to the City National Alliance since January 2007, initially serving on the national steering committee. Since then, we have been anchoring the Chinatown Alliance, a space created for organizations working in Chinese communities around issues of displacement and gentrification to come together to share analysis and strategies.[.....]

Initiated by Coalition Against Police Brutality in Spring 2000, Third World Within (TWW) is a network of NYC-based People of Color Organizations that seeks to make connections between People of Color in the U.S. and Third World peoples who struggle against a new global violence characterized by the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund.