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On March 15, 1999, the Lower East Side Business Improvement District invited the NYC Department of Transportation and New York City Transit to brief community members on the impacts of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation project. Multiple…

This flyer details a workshop that addresses United States military hegemony across Asia, particularly in South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and Iraq. The workshop introduction calls for international solidarity and states that they will have…

This programme details the workshops and plenary sessions of Mumbai Resistance 2004, a forum held counter to the World Social Forum 2004. Many of the forum’s workshops address globalization and imperialism and the way they impact various marginalized…

This programme details a workshop, seminars, and a rally held at the World Social Forum (WSF) 2004 that mainly centers on issues faced by Asian peoples across the Asian continent. Topics include free trade agreements, neoliberal globalization, and…

More than a hundred demonstrators from thirty organizations protested outside the Schomburg Center of Harlem against this year’s proposed rent increase—which would be determined by the Rent Guidelines Board—and demanded a rent freeze. CAAAV…

This poster begins by describing the sit-ins for migrant workers’ rights in South Korea and how seven migrant workers were driven to suicide because of the government crackdown on “illegals” through man hunts and forceful deportations. It details how…

This pamphlet explains the origins, objectives, and successes of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC, Committee for the Co-ordination of Women), an organization that advocates for the rights of sex workers in east India. It details the…

Taken from the World Social Forum (WSF) 2004, the poster reads at the top “Health for All is Possible / Another World is possible,” the latter being the slogan for the WSF. A menacing figure representing large globalizing forces such as the World…

This pamphlet details the work of the Centre for Development and Women’s Studies (CDaWS), an organization dedicated to the empowerment of marginalized groups, with a focus on women within those groups. Their goal is to empower women holistically…

This booklet contains a set of political cartoons criticizing the World Social Forum (WSF), likely obtained from Mumbai Resistance 2004, a forum established counter to the WSF. It accuses the WSF of being imperialist, asserting that the only true…