CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
New York City
Originally named “Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence”, CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the U.S. to mobilize Asian communities to fight police and other forms of racially motivated violence. Over time, CAAAV has broadened our focus to address the wide array of needs, challenges, and injustices faced by low and no-income New York Asian communities including gentrification, worker exploitation, poverty, the detention and deportation of immigrants, and the criminalization of youth. Today, CAAAV builds the power of Asian immigrant and refugee communities in NYC by providing critical social services, developing leadership, creating alternative models of sustainability, and advocating for their needs. Our strategy is guided by a global analysis of migration, labor, and poverty and how these experiences are shaped in the U.S. by nationality, immigration status, gender, race, and class. Based on the principle that those most directly impacted must lead the process of social change, CAAAV builds the capacity of those whose voices are most often marginalized to promote community empowerment towards long-term institutional change and the creation of community-based alternatives.
Member website: www.caaav.org
Director: Haeyoung Yoon, Executive Director
Donate to CAAAV: http://www.caaav.org/support
Phone: 718-220-7391 ext. 22