Spring at CAAAV!

*CAAAV June Membership Assembly

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Good morning!

This coming SATURDAY, 6/2, will be our Members (and Volunteers)
Assembly where we will be kicking off our voter reg work!

It will be 12-3PM, at the CAAAV OFFICE (46 HESTER STREET). Lunch
provided. These assemblies are only three times a year, and one of the
few times different parts of CAAAV get together. Please RSVP with
Helena (hwong@caaav.org) so we have a good headcount.

Thanks!

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All Out for May Day!

Dear friends and supporters,

There is a tremendous amount of activity happening tomorrow during May
Day! CAAAV will be Occupying the RGB (see below). But there will be
actions across the City throughout the day. Of course, May Day is just one
day. Please consider supporting the work we do every day
here.

Check out the events we’re checking out below:

*1) Occupy the RGB!*

On May 1, the day when the Rent Guidelines Board will vote on its
preliminary rent increases for rent stabilized tenants, residents from
around New York City are coming together for a Tenants’ General Assembly.
Join us!

Every year, the RGB - a board of nine people appointed solely by the Mayor
- votes to increase rents for the millions of people who rely on (less and
less) affordable rent stabilized apartments. This year, we are holding our
own “People’s RGB” outside of Cooper Union’s Great Hall (where the vote is
happening) to highlight how the RGB is, in essence, a sham process that
caters to the powerful landlord lobby.

Come share your stories and hear from others how rent increases affect them
and their families. Show the Rent Guidelines Board what grassroots
democracy looks like! Come Occupy the RGB and stand with working-class
tenants who make our city great! If you are going to the May Day rally and
march starting at Union Square, this protest would be a great place for you
to stop for a little bit. :)

*Time: 5 to 7 pm (starting closer to 5:30 pm)
Where: outside of Cooper Union, East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues
*
To RSVP, email Esther at ewang@caaav.org or RSVP at our fb event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/227452254027439/

*2)* *99 Pickets! (http://99picketlines.tumblr.com/)*
CAAAV volunteer, Nikki Dunham-Hoshida, is leading one of the pickets at 280
Park Avenue, from 12-1pm!

*3) * *Join DRUM’s Queens May 1st Action:** Immigrant Workers Mass Petition
for Rights & Justice!*
As communities set to march across the nation for an end to criminalization
and a renewed call for legalization, South Asian and Muslim immigrant
workers will hold a day of mass community education and action in Queens.

In 2012, DRUM > along with the Urban Justice
Center>will launch the first ever New
York City wide
*South Asian Workers **Report *on the wages and conditions faced by
thousands of South Asian domestic workers, taxi drivers, retail and
restaurant workers, and day laborers across the city.

Workers, mostly women, in many businesses in Jackson Heights are calling
for better wages, conditions, and respect. Join us to collect thousands of
community signatures to call for justice for immigrant workers in Jackson
Heights and across the country!

*When:* Tuesday, May 1st from 6pm
*Where:* 74th Street & 37th Avenue area, Jackson Heights
(Meet at DRUM for flyers & petitions- 72-18 Roosevelt Avenue)
*What: * Mass flyering & petitioning for immigrant workers rights in
Jackson Heights businesses
*Who:* Worker members of DRUM, youth, community residents, & allies

Find our more about DRUM’s >South Asian Workers
Center.
For more information, call DRUM at 718-205-3036
To endorse or support the South Asian Workers Report & campaign, email
ayesha@drumnyc.org»

CAAAV Workshops at Left Forum- this weekend!

If you’re planning on going to Left Forum, be sure to check out CAAAV’s
workshops!

Multiple Displacements: Neoliberalism, Gentrification, and Resistance in
China, Chinatown and Beyond (Part 1 of Organizing Asian Communities Track)

Session 6 Rm: W503 Sun 12:00pm -
01:50pm
*Moderator:* Laurel Mei Turbin
*Speakers: * Esther Wang, Ellen David Friedman, Peter Kwong, Pengfei Li *
*
Panel Proposal Information
Abstract:
The left frequently refers to gentrification in the context of
neoliberalism and the housing crisis in United States. However, land grabs
are occurring all over the world for the purpose of “economic development.”
This panel will explore how local processes of gentrification interconnect
with neoliberal capitalism by making connections between struggles against
displacement in Chinatown of New York City and in China, looking at issues
such as labor, housing, and migration in a global context. This is Part 1
of a two-part panel on Organizing Asian Communities, organized by CAAAV.

Organizing Asian Communities (Part 2 of Organizing Asian Communities Track)

Session 7 Rm: W503 Sun 03:00pm -
04:40pm
*Moderator:* Laurel Mei Turbin *Speakers: * Helena Wong, Yoko Liriano,
Laurel Mei Turbin
Panel Proposal Information
Abstract:
In this conversation, the speakers will address questions around strategy,
best practices, and challenges for organizing in Asian communities in New
York City. This is Part 2 of a two-part panel on Organizing Asian
Communities, organized by CAAAV.

*What is Left Forum? * Check it out at www.leftforum.org. A unique
phenomenon in the U.S. and the world, Left Forum convenes the largest
annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive
intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested
public. Conference participants come together to engage a wide range of
critical perspectives on the world, to discuss differences, commonalities,
and alternatives to current predicaments, and to share ideas for
understanding and transforming the world. The conference is held each
spring in New York City.»

THIS WED. 10/5: Join CAAAV as we stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street!

Hi CAAAV,

Haven’t had a chance to check out Liberty Square yet and what’s happening at Occupy Wall Street? Have you been but want to go again? Then join us this Wednesday as we show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street! If you want to march with the CAAAV contingent, please email me and let me know, or meet us at 4:30 at City Hall Park (look for our banner). 

If you want to read some really good and thoughtful analysis of Occupy Wall Street, here’s an article from Organizing Upgrade - http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2011/09/a-response-to-sally/

And more here - http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2011/09/what-do-you-think-about-occupy-wall-street/

Hope to see you Wednesday!

COMMUNITY/LABOR MARCH TO WALL ST. against corporate greed and the Big Banks. 

Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker’s pay their fair share of taxes. 

Let’s march down to Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the media the face of New Yorker’s hardest hit by corporate greed. 

It’s time to stand together, and continue what started in Wisconsin!