The following post is written by Helena Wong, Executive Director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), a pan-Asian social justice organization based in New York City. Throughout the past two decades CAAAV has worked on the issue of police violence. Currently they are part of the city-wide campaign, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR). Campaigns that put racism front and center are not popular these days. Just ask Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He recently claimed that the New York Police Department stops whites “too much” in reaction to two pieces of legislation aimed at putting Read more »
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