A Letter from CAAAV's 20th Anniversary Benefit and Host Committees

Dear Friend,

This year, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities will celebrate its 20th Anniversary. On May 18th, we celebrate 20 years of organizing and movement-buidling in New York City’s low-income Asian immigrant communities. (Click here for more information.)

Some highlights from our work include:

* The Chinatown Justice Project’s fight to protect low-income residents of New York’s historic Chinatown from gentrification and displacement and created the Chinatown Tenants Union as a voice for residents.

* The Southeast Asian Youth Leadership Project is in its 12th year of training youth in the Cambodian and Vietnamese refugee community of the northwest Bronx in organizing and are working on an oral history project to raise awareness about the community’s experiences with war, migration and persistent poverty.

* The Women Workers Project continues to advocate and organize with Filipina domestic workers for justice, respect and dignity on the job. Their organizing has led to the creation of Domestic Workers United, now an independent organization of Caribbean, Latina and African domestic workers organizing for respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end oppression.

We believe this work, and the lessons that have come from doing this work are more than cause to celebrate. We hope that you will join us, along with our lineup of talented artists and performers including Vienna Teng, Aileen Payumo, Gamelan Dharma Swara and many others, for this very special evening.

Purchase your tickets now, before they sell out!

With many thanks for your support for this important work over the years,

The 20th Anniversary Host and Benefit Committees