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Table of Contents:
- Get in the Game - Civic Participation and Community Organizing
- Displacing the Dream - Media Coverage of Gentrification - Prologue by Gihan Perera
- New Americans - Featuring Miami Workers Center's Black/Brown Alliance Building
- The Right to the City - An interview with Gihan Perera about the Right to the City Frame Work.
- Building Another World - A Report from the south East Social Forum
- Organizing in the Face of Disaster - Miami Workers Center organizing work after Hurricane Wilma
- Disaster: The new State of the State - A theoretical polemic on the role of the state in relation to disasters, race and poverty .
- Liberty City Business Study - The effects of gentrification on small business in Miami.
- Take Back the Vote - A report on Miami Workers center's voter defense work in 2004.
- RootCause Community Impact Report - An examination of the impacts of neoliberalism on communities in Miami.
Get in the Game is a call for grassroots social justice organizers and activists to engage in voter workout in order to further the fight for justice. Click the image to download a copy.
Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area Newspaper Coverage of Devlopment and Gentrification - published by the Center for Media Justice . Prologue by Gihan Perera, Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center. Click on the image to down load a copy.
Miami Workers Center's Black/Brown alliance building work is featured in the publication New Americans produced by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees Rights. Click on the image to down load a copy.
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. Click on the image to down load a copy.
A report from the Miami Workers Center trip to the Southeast Social Forum,
which took place in Durham, North Carolina in June 2006. Click on the image to down load a copy.
A narrative of the work MWC did in the wake of Hurricane Wilma. Click on the image to down load a copy.
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.Click on the image to down load a copy.
Libery City Business Development Study
(Click title to download)
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.
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. Click on the image to down load a copy.
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. Click on the image to down load a copy.
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