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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.

Ms. Be the Change Oral History Interview
The interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 2021-2022. This interviewee discussed her early life in Chennai, India and described the small Zoroastrian community she grew up in. She described her migration experience from India to the United States, residing in New Jersey for the past 40 or so years.

Rabin K. Biswokarma Oral History Interview
Rabin Biswokarma speaks about his experience growing up in western Nepal, traveling to the US through various countries in Asia and Latin America, and the pervasiveness of caste-based discrimination, both overt and subtle, from the villages in Nepal to Kathmandu and in the US.

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