Community Announcements
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CWG Full Monthly Meeting: Chinatown Working Group Full Group Meeting
- Usually meets every first Monday of the month, 4-6pm.
- American Legion, 191-193 Canal Street, Floor 2.
- (212) 442-4008 / info@chinatownworkinggroup.org.
CWG Steering Committee Meeting: Chinatown Working Group.
- Usually meets every second Wednesday of the month, 4-5:30pm.
- Community Board #1, 49-51 Chambers St, Rm. 709.
- (212) 442-4008; info@chinatownworkinggroup.org.
Financial Literacy and You: Forum for NYC High School and College Students.
- Sponsored by McGraw Hill and Standard & Poors.
- Thursday, Nov 4 3:30 – 6pm.
- Standard & Poor, 55 Water St, Bayview Room, 37th Fl.
- Registration is required. Refreshments will be served.
- Contact: Sunny Moy, moys@emigrant.com, 917-971-6868;
- Paul Gong, paulgong1@msn.com, 917-414-3440.
Health and Mental Health Committee Meeting: Community Board 7 (Sunset Park).
- October 26 at 6:30pm,
- Community Board Office, 4201 4th Avenue (entrance on 43rd Street)
Full Board Meeting: Community Board 8 (Flushing Suburban; Flushing Heights).
- November 10 at 7:30pm,
- Hillcrest Jewish Center, 18302 Union Turnpike.
Full Board Meeting: Community Board 7 (Most of Flushing).
- Usually meets every second Monday of the month.
- (718) 359-2800; qn07@cb.nyc.gov.
Full Board Meeting: Community Board 11 (East Flushing).
- November 8 at 7:30pm,
- MS 158, 46-35 Oceania St. (auditorium).
About Open City
Open City: Blogging Urban Change is an interdisciplinary neighborhood blog and community project coordinated by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Five commissioned writers, called Organizing Fellows, are working with community organizations and neighborhood folks in Manhattan’s Chinatown/Lower East Side (LES), Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn to collect oral histories and interviews, offer commentary about gentrification, neighborhood change, and produce new creative work around these themes. Read more.
Featured Profile
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities was formed in 1986 (formerly known as the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) as a response to an increase in anti-Asian hate crimes both in New York City and around the country (which included violence by police officers against Asians).
They have two offices – one in Manhattan’s Chinatown (which houses the Chinatown Tenants Union, and the new Asian Youth in Action organizing project) and the Youth Leadership Project office in the Bronx – and have members from all over the city. Over the years, CAAAV’s main campaigns have focused on community-based organizing work rooted in Asian immigrant and refugee communities. Although their advocacy and organizing work is focused mainly in Manhattan’s Chinatown and the northwest Bronx, CAAAV’s work also touches upon larger issues (such as affordable housing, war, and immigration) shaping communities all over the world: “Our work is primarily centered around issues facing New Yorkers, but always with a global analysis.”
CAAAV’s mission is to organize and build the power of working-class Asian immigrants, refugees, and youth to change concrete conditions and participate in a broader social justice movement. In the past, CAAAV’s work included organizing South Asian taxi drivers, Korean women workers, and Filipina domestic workers. Several of these organizing projects have gone on to become their own organizations, such as the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Domestic Workers United. CAAAV’s current work focus on three different program areas: Read more.
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