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Information access systems such as search engines have long been built by information retrieval experts who have ignored or explicitly excluded social and political concerns from their design. Information scientists in contrast have been well aware of these challenges. It is from the information science discipline (along with e.g. HCI and sociology) that critiques of information access systems from a sociopolitical perspective have arisen. This workshop is intended as a shared learning space, where people from different information traditions can share knowledge and grow understanding. The ultimate outcome of this workshop is collaboration between information scientists and information retrieval specialists to design information access systems, broadly defined, that meet goals of improving social justice and emancipation for all. The specific goal is a co-created research manifesto that will support the aim of better information access systems.