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Chinatown Residents Challenges Manhattan Bridge Rehabilitation and the Closing of Grand Street Station
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…
Mumbai Resistances 2004 Programme
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…
World Social Forum 2004 Programme
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…
Festive Mid-Autumn Celebration Brings Asian Communities Together through Cultural Performances
The news report describes CAAAV’s first Mid-Autumn celebration, which featured martial arts, folk music and dance, and songs performed in both English and Mandarin. To facilitate cultural exchange among different Asian immigrant communities, the…
Mumbai Resistance 2004 Name Tag
This name tag is from Mumbai Resistance (MR) 2004. MR 2004 was an alternative socialist forum to and highly critical of the World Social Forum. While CAAAV and Domestic Workers United members were delegates to the World Social Forum, they also took…
Tenant Unions Calls Attention to Housing Hardships: Evicted Chinatown Renters Showed Up to Protest
On October 28th, the Citywide Tenants Coalition organized a demonstration in Harlem, demanding governmental agencies to recognize and remedy the citywide shortage of housing stock, unaffordability for low-income renters, and displacement of small…
Person Standing by World Social Forum Poster
A person gestures towards a sign that reads, “WELCOME TO WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2004 JANUARY 16 TO 21 AT NESCO GROUNDS / (obscured) / 100,000 Delegates From World Over / (obscured).” Nesco Grounds used to be made up of textile factories and were a…
Event in an Adivasi Village at the World Social Forum 2004
Taken in an Adivasi (an Indigenous group of India) village at the World Social Forum 2004, a small audience claps for a multiracial group of speakers at a microphone. A red flag that reads, “United without Borders” hangs above.
“Stop Government Crackdown of South Korean Construction Workers!” KFCITU Banner at World Social Forum 2004
Taken at the World Social Forum (WSF) 2004 in Mumbai, protestors hold up a Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) banner in both English and Korean, which reads, “Stop Government Crackdowns of South Korean Construction…
World Social Forum 2004 March Against Coca-Cola and Forced Evictions
Protestors walk during a march at the World Social forum (WSF) 2004 in front of a number of signs that read, “Coca-Cola QUIT INDIA!” “STOP FORCED EVICTIONS,” “WE DEMAND No War Pact in South (Asia,)” and “M. V. Foundation,” the latter likely referring…