Making Policy Public
Tuesday
February 9
2010

Current issues

4. Predatory Equity: The Survival Guide
Predatory Equity: The Survival Guide explains how thousands of affordable housing units were put at risk by private equity investors and how to save them. The poster was produced through a collaboration between Tenants & Neighbors, the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, and Glen Cummings.

3. Vendor Power!
This fold-out poster is a guide to Street Vending in New York City. The poster was produced through a collaboration between The Street Vendor Project, and Candy Chang.

2. Social Security Risk Machine
This poster explains the mechanics of this “social machine”: how it works, why it was created, where the money comes from and where it goes. Most importantly, the poster shows the many adjustments that can be made to keep the machine running. This poster was written by Sam Stark and designed by David Reinfurt and Damon Rich.

1. The Cargo Chain
The Cargo Chain is an organizing tool for longshore workers that shows the players and pressure points in today’s globalized shipping network. This pamphlet was produced through a collaboration between the Longshore Workers Coalition, Labor Notes (a quarterly journal of labor journalism and research), cartographer Bill Rankin, and the graphic design office Thumb.

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