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April 23, 2008
Chinatown
Justice Project:
Summer Youth
Program
Now accepting
applications for
our 2008 Summer
Youth Program!
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Do you live
and/or work and
play in
Chinatown?
Do you speak
English and
Mandarin,
Fujianese,
Cantonese, or
another Chinese
dialect?
Want to learn
more about Asian
American issues?
Want to help out
your community?
Want to fight
gentrification
and keep
Chinatown a
place for
Chinese people
and immigrants?
Want to meet new
people and have
some fun?
Then take part
in the Chinatown
Justice
Project's Summer
Youth Program!
The deadline
to apply is May
23, 2008. If
you have any
questions,
please email
cjp@caaav.org
or call
212-473-6485.
What is CJP's
Summer Youth
Program?
CJP's Summer
Youth Program is
a unique
seven-week
community-based
summer program
that develops
the skills of
youth to create
positive change
in their
communities!
The purpose of
CJP's Summer
Youth Program is
to:
-provide
awareness about
low-income
housing
conditions in
Chinatown;
-learn how to
protect
low-income
residents from
gentrification
and
displacement;
-meet with other
youth groups and
learn about the
work they do in
their
communities;
-provide
leadership
skills through
skill training
workshops;
-raise awareness
about
local/global
issues through
political
education
workshops;
-develop youth
leaders and
organizers in
Chinatown; and
of course
-spend time and
have fun
outdoors during
the summer with
other youth!
Participants
will learn about
how low-income
tenants are
being affected
by
gentrification,
do outreach
together, meet
other youth
groups, and work
collectively on
anti-gentrification
projects
throughout the
summer.
What is CAAAV's
Chinatown
Justice Project
(CJP)?
Since 1999,
CAAAV's
Chinatown
Justice Project
has worked to
fight poverty,
gentrification,
and the targeted
practices and
policies of the
city and police
directed at
Chinatown.
CJP currently is
made up of two
anti-gentrification
projects: the
Chinatown
Tenants' Union (CTU),
which organizes
low-income
tenants in
Chinatown, and
the Summer Youth
Program, which
trains and
organizes youth
to protect
low-income
tenants against
gentrification.
CAAAV:
Organizing Asian
Communities
(formerly known
as the Committee
Against
Anti-Asian
Violence) was
founded by Asian
women in 1986 as
one of the first
organizations in
the United
States to
counter
anti-Asian
violence. By
organizing
across diverse,
low-wage, and
poor Asian
communities in
New York City,
CAAAV exposes
and struggles
against violence
with the goal of
building
community
capacity to
exercise
self-determination.
For more
information,
please visit
www.caaav.org
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