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"Support Our Fight" Sign
Photograph from the Lease Drivers Coalition's first ever action in August 1997. Lease Drivers Coalition members formed a motorcade from 14th Street to City Hall in protest of Mayor Giuliani's actions against taxi drivers. An estimated 2,000 cabs participated in the action.

Lease Driver Coalition Letter
Letter announcing the formation of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance from the Lease Driver Coalition.

Lease Driver Coalition Letter to Giulliani
Letter to Mayor Rudy Giuiliani from the NYTWA announcing the first of three strikes and list of demands.

New York Taxi Workers Alliance Bulletin
Early bulletin from the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA).

NYTWA Strike Flyer
Flyer announcing the second of three strikes in 1998.

DRUM Beat (Winter 2006)
The Winter 2006 issue of Drumbeat (Vol. 3, No. 1), the official organ of the New York-based DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving) organization. Articles from the issue focus on issues of immigrant rights, as well as drawing connections between movements in Palestine and along the US-Mexico border.

Photograph from DRUM's First Public Action
Photograph from DRUM's first ever public action on April 2, 2000 in Jackson Heights, Queens. The event was part of the '41 Days of Action', organized in response to the acquittals of four police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea.

Photograph of "Stolen Lives" Banner from DRUM's First Public Action
Photograph from DRUM's first ever public action on April 2, 2000 in Jackson Heights, Queens. The event was part of the '41 Days of Action', organized in response to the acquittals of four police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea.

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