Publications & Articles
Plotting for Racial Equity—an action-research collaboration between
the Miami Workers Center, The Ohio State Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Research
Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP) at Florida International University
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Get in the Game - Civic Participation and Community Organizing
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Displacing the Dream
Media Coverage of Gentrification Prologue by Gihan Perera
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New Americans
Featuring Miami Workers Center's Black/Brown Alliance Building
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees Rights.
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The Right to the City
An interview with Gihan Perera about the Right to the City Frame Work
Right To The City: A Conversation between Donor Activist Connie Cagampang Heller and Gihan Perera,
Miami Workers Center Executive Director about the Right to the City framework.
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Building Another World
A Report from the south East Social Forum
A report from the Miami Workers Center trip to the Southeast Social Forum, which took place in Durham, North Carolina in June 2006.
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Organizing in the Face of Disaster
Miami Workers Center organizing work after Hurricane Wilma
A narrative of the work MWC did in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.
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Disaster: The new State of the State
A theoretical polemic on the role of the state in relation to disasters, race and poverty
A widely circulated theoretical document written in the wake of Hurricanes
Katrina and Wilma addressing the role of the state in disaster situations in relation to race and poverty.
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Liberty City Business Study
The effects of gentrification on small business in Miami
Libery City Business Development Study
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In June of 2005 MWC along with Neighbors and Neighbors Association, Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy Florida International University , and Center for Urban Economic Development University of Illinois at Chicago , published a study about the effects of gentrification on the small businesses. The report focuses on a commercial corridor in the Liberty City, a historically Black and low-income neighborhood in Miami.
Take Back the Vote
A report on Miami Workers center's voter defense work in 2004
The Take Back the Vote Campaign began in 2004 calling for organizations and individuals in poor and disenfranchised communities to actively monitor and defend the right to vote through grassroots training, participation and action. This is a report of the 2004 campaign.
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RootCause Community Impact Report
An examination of the impacts of neoliberalism on communities in Miami
Community Impact Report produced by RootCause, a coalition of grassroots organizations (including MWC and LIFFT) that mobilized against the FTAA ministerials held in Miami in 2003. The report examines the impact of neoliberal policies on local communities.
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