Right to the City – March In Miami

On June 20th, CAAAV joined the Right To The City Alliance in a BIG march in Miami. As a youth organizer of CAAAV, I also joined the march. One of the goals of the march, was to show the mayors from all the major cities around the country, that we, as the people in the [...]

East River Waterfalls

Have you noticed the four waterfalls around East River Waterfront? The waterfalls were up since June 26th, 2008. These four waterfalls cost 15.5 million dollars. The money could have been put towards education, housing or other things. From my own perspertive, the private corporations that spent 15.5 million on the waterfall was [...]

RGB meeting

The Chinatown Tenants Union went to the Rent Guidelines Board meeting on May 26 around 6pm. We saw a lot of people saying they want higher rent and higher costs. This year, they decided that rent will increase 4% for one year leases, and two year leases would be increased by 8%. Plus, if you’ve [...]

Exchange in San Francisco

We had a great time doing an exchange with other organizations from different parts of the country. These organizations are all doing organizing work in various Asian communities. During the exchange, we learned about the structure of each organization and came up with some possible solutions to address the problems that we faced. [...]

May 25 – Family Day on the East River Waterfront^_^

The Chinatown Tenants Union brings you….
Chinatown and LES
Family Day
On the Waterfront!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
12 noon to 4 p.m.
At the Amphitheater on the East River Waterfront
Across the footbridge by Cherry Street over the FDR Drive
Join us for fishing, food, and to learn about our waterfront campaign!
The event is free!  Bring your family, friends and a dish [...]

Our Event Last Summer

Gentrification is growing bigger and bigger in Chinatown each and every day, and most of the tenants in Chinatown don’t even know, so as an community organization in Chinatown, we try to educate people about their own rights and let them know more about gentrification. So last summer our youth decided to make a [...]