INSTITUTE ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion
AUGUST 2025 – Book via Duke University Press co-edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky
- Tenants of the World, Unite! From Atomisation to Structural Power in Financialised Tenancy
JULY 7, 2024 – Article via Antipode co-authored by Hannah Appel, Alex Ferrer, and Terra Graziani
- Policing Tenancy: The Struggle for Housing and Land in Los Angeles
JANUARY 11, 2024 – Article via Urban Geography co-authored by Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, Ananya Roy, and Pamela Stephens
- Blueprint for the Future: Unhoused Tenant Organizing in Los Angeles
JULY 2022 – Article via Radical Housing Journal authored by the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective
- Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness
JULY 2022 – Article via Radical Housing Journal authored by the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective
- Property, Personhood, and Police: The Making of Race and Space through Nuisance Law
OCTOBER 27, 2021 – Article via Antipode co-authored by Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, Ananya Roy, and Pamela Stephens
INSTITUTE PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
ESSAYS & MEDIA featuring INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS
- Black Angelenos Feel Brunt of Evictions from Corporate Landlords
JULY 2, 2025 – Radio segment via KCRW feat. Institute graduate student researcher Alex Ferrer and the Tenant Power Toolkit
- A Discussion on Debt, Empire, and the Future with Michael Hudson in conversation with Steve Keen & Hannah Appel
JUNE 30, 2025 – Discussion via Institute of David Graeber feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel, Michael Hudson, and Steve Keen
- LA Laws Criminalize Westside Vehicle Dwellers, Plunging Them into Parking Ticket Debt
JUNE 26, 2025 – Article via Los Angeles Public Press feat. Institute graduate student researcher Sam Lutzker
- Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns
MAY 16, 2025 – Article via The American Prospect feat. Institute graduate student researcher Alex Ferrer and the Tenant Power Toolkit
- The ‘Badass’ Echo Park Renters Who Defeated Their Landlord
APRIL 23, 2025 – Article via Los Angeles Public Press feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales
- Echo Park Research Collective Ft. Will Sens, Jr.
APRIL 15, 2025 – Interview via Young People to the Front podcast feat. Institute researcher William Sens, Jr.
- A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland
MARCH 18, 2025 – Article via Metropolitics by the Institute’s Mellon Foundation Scholar-in-Community Sam Lutzker and Deike Peters
- Challenging Displacement: Echo Park’s Story Takes Center Stage in L.A.
MARCH 4, 2025 – Article via The Stewardship Report feat. the Institute’s After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective
- Why Did LA Bulldoze an Echo Park Encampment During a Rain Storm?
FEBRUARY 25, 2025 – Article via Los Angeles Public Press feat. Institute’s After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective member Amanda Darouie
- It’s Only Possible To Fail If We Forget
WINTER 2024 – Article via The Skid Row ArtsZine by Institute graduate student researcher Annie Powers
- LA Artists Push Back Against Call to “Beautify” RV Encampment Sites
OCTOBER 29, 2024 – Article via Hyperallergic feat. the Institute’s Mellon Foundation Scholar-in-Community Sam Lutzker
- It’s “Open Season” on the Unhoused. We Must Oppose It.
AUGUST 15, 2024 – Interview via Truthout feat. the Institute’s After Echo Park Lake Research Collective
- UCLA Public Impact Research Awards spotlight professors uplifting communities in L.A., nation
AUGUST 13, 2024 – Article via UCLA Newsroom feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy, Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel, and Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- "You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation‘s First Debtors’ Union
JULY 23, 2024 – Article via In These Times by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor
- How Tenant Unions Are Finding Power in Numbers to Fight L.A.’s Housing Crisis
APRIL 10, 2024 – Opinion piece via Los Angeles Times by Institute graduate student researchers Annie Powers and Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate
- ‘They’re gone but not forgotten’: Los Angeles Homeless Community Mourns Those Killed by City Policies
MARCH 20, 2024 – Article via The Independent feat. Institute researcher Carla Orendorff
- LandBack: ‘We have together set the Shellmound free!’
MARCH 20, 2024 – Article via San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia
- Revealed: 300% Surge in Deaths of Unhoused People in LA amid Fentanyl and Housing Crises
FEBRUARY 22, 2024 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute researcher Carla Orendorff
- UCLA’s Activist-in-Residence Program Selects Five New Members for Its 2024 Cycle
FEBRUARY 20, 2024 – Article via the Daily Bruin feat. UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia and Shengxiao “Sole” Yu
- Tiny Homes With Giant Restrictions Are Not a Solution to Homelessness
JANUARY 25, 2024 – Article via 48hills by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia
- Here’s a New Tool to Take on Predatory Landlords and Fight Evictions
JANUARY 22, 2024 – Article via In These Times feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- New Tools Are Helping More Tenants Than Ever Fight Eviction and Rent Debt
DECEMBER 10, 2023 – Article via Jacobin feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Tenants Claim Landlord Illegally Subdivided Boyle Heights Apartments
NOVEMBER 21, 2023 – News segment via ABC7 feat. Institute graduate student researcher Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate
- Four LAPD Officers Pulled Guns on Unhoused Men in Van Nuys
NOVEMBER 15, 2023 – Article via The Appeal feat. Institute researcher Carla Orendorff
- Local Hero: Victor Narro, Uniting Car Wash Workers Across L.A.
NOVEMBER 15, 2023 – Article via PBS SoCal feat. Institute faculty researcher Victor Narro
- ‘Inside Safe’ and Sweeps Didn’t Help Unhoused Residents on Aetna Street
OCTOBER 17, 2023 – Radio segment via KCRW feat. Institute researcher Carla Orendorff
- More People Have Left ‘Inside Safe’ Program than Found Housing
OCTOBER 17, 2023 – News segment via Spectrum News 1 feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Aetna Street Research Collective member La Donna Harrell
- An Open Letter: Mayor Karen Bass and the Aetna Street Community
OCTOBER 2, 2023 – Open letter to Mayor Karen Bass via LA Progressive from the Aetna Street Research Collective and the UCLA Urban Planning Community Collaborative Course
- Forgive Us Our Debts
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 – Podcast via Indebted: Debt and Race in America feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- As Rents and Evictions Rise Across the Country, More Cities and States Debate Rent Control
AUGUST 23, 2023 – Article via USA Today feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi and Institute graduate student researcher Alex Ferrer
- UCLA Activist-in-Residence Marlené Nancy Lopez Discusses Inspiration and Process Behind "Grieving Sun Mural"
AUGUST 8, 2023 – Interview via UCLA Architecture and Urban Design feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Marlené Nancy Lopez
- LA’s Plan to Solve Homelessness Has Moved Thousands Off the Streets. But Is It Working?
AUGUST 4, 2023 – Article via USA Today feat. Institute researchers Carla Orendorff and William Sens, Jr.
- What to Know for Tuesday’s Deadline to Pay Unpaid Rent from the Start of the Pandemic
JULY 31, 2023 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. the Tenant Power Toolkit
- ‘Street Views’ Paper Tells Stories by and for Unhoused Angelenos
JUNE 12, 2023 – Radio segment via KCRW feat. Institute research collective members Shea Backes and Dwight Singleton
- Red Scare Led to the End of LA’s Public Housing Boom
JUNE 7, 2023 – Radio segment via KCRW feat. Institute graduate student researcher Annie Powers
- In Eviction Court, Most LA Landlords Have Lawyers And Most Renters Don’t
MAY 30, 2023 – LAist article feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- The Lie at the Heart of the States’ Case Against Student Debt Relief
MAY 2, 2023 – Article via The New Republic feat. Institute partner Debt Collective
- L.A. County’s Eviction Moratorium Has Expired. What Does That Mean for Renters?
APRIL 10, 2023 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. the Tenant Power Toolkit
- Houseless People Say LA‘s ’Home Run’ Encampment-Clearing Program Is a Mess
MARCH 23, 2023 – Article via VICE feat. Institute research collective members Carla Orendorff and La Donna Harrell
- Towards Abolition: The Fight Against Racial Banishment and Policing in LA - Traffic in the Americas Special
MARCH 22, 2023 – Podcast via Sur-Urbano feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute partners Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Sergio Montero of Universidad de Los Andes
- The Justice League
MARCH 21, 2023 – Article via UCLA Magazine feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence alumni
- Abolicionismo, Activismo Trans y Toloposungo (en español)
MARCH 8, 2023 – Podcast via Sur-Urbano feat. Institute faculty researcher Amy Ritterbusch, Daniela Maldonado of la Red Comunitaria Trans, Álvaro Escobar, and Sergio Montero of Universidad de Los Andes
- Could Guaranteed Eviction Lawyers Help LA Tenants Stay Housed?
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 – Piece via KCRW feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student
FEBRUARY 8, 2023 – Article via The New York Review by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- The University of California Is Also a Landlord
DECEMBER 8, 2022 – Article via The New Republic feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
NOVEMBER 28, 2022 – Podcast via 70 Million feat. After Echo Park Lake research collective members Ashley Bennett and William Sens, Jr.
- Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
NOVEMBER 21, 2022 – Podcast via 70 Million feat. After Echo Park Lake research collective members Ashley Bennett and Jessica “Queen” Mendez
- Redefining Freedom With Robin Kelley
OCTOBER 24, 2022 – Interview via The Nation feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Spatial Justice in Unequal Cities: Organizing Knowledge Across Universities and Movements
OCTOBER 13, 2022 – Lecture via Université de Genève by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- At Least 14 Unhoused People Froze to Death in LA Last Year, Records Reveal
OCTOBER 4, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute researcher Carla Orendorff
- Oakland Audit Reveals Inability to Track Homelessness Services
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 – Article via Courthouse News Service feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Extreme Vengeance Against the Poor
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 – Podcast via Pushback Talks feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- President Biden’s Debt Relief Is Just the First Step
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 – Article via The Nation by Institute research associate Eleni Schirmer
- L.A. Ballot Measure Would Let Unhoused People Stay in Hotels Past Pandemic Amid Deepening Homeless Crisis
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 – Interview via Democracy Now! feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and After Echo Park Lake research collective member William Sens, Jr.
- “Freedom Dreams”: Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on 20th Anniversary of His Book & Why Movements Matter
AUGUST 31, 2022 – Interview via Democracy Now! feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- What Does Spatial Justice for Unhoused People Look Like?
AUGUST 16, 2022 – Op-ed via Next City feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Los Angeles Bans Encampments Near Schools
AUGUST 10, 2022 – Article via The New York Times feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Housing Advocates Prepare New Tool After Pandemic Protections Expire
AUGUST 9, 2022 – Interview via KQED feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- What Is the Financialization of Housing?
AUGUST 9, 2022 – Video via Shelterforce feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- A New Bill Would Model California Prison Reform on Norway’s Success. Here’s Why It Misses the Mark
AUGUST 8, 2022 – Op-ed via Los Angeles Times by Institute faculty researcher Sharon Dolovich
- A Sweeping Ordinance Would Make It Easier For LA to Target its Unhoused Residents
AUGUST 1, 2022 – Article via Capital B News feat. Institute faculty researcher Marques Vestal
- Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams
AUGUST 1, 2022 – Article via Boston Review by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Housing Justice in an Era of Mass Homelessness & Mass Evictions
AUGUST 1, 2022 – Presentation via the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Aging Student Debtors of America
JULY 27, 2022 – Article via The New Yorker by Institute research associate Eleni Schirmer
- Facing Eviction? Here’s How We Turn Rent Debts Into Leverage for Change.
JULY 19, 2022 – Op-ed via Truthout by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Got an Eviction Notice? This California Website Will Help You File a Response.
JULY 19, 2022 – Article via CalMatters feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel and Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Reparations Could Be ‘Difference’ for Unhoused Black Californians
JUNE 16, 2022 – Article via Aljazeera feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- Climate Change Is a Component of Disasters — but That’s Not the Whole Story
JUNE 9, 2022 – Article via KCET feat. Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- Debt Cancellation - The Activist’s Toolkit
JUNE 8, 2022 – Interview via MMT Podcast feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Housing, Homelessness and Police Dominate a Race for City Council in Hollywood
JUNE 6, 2022 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- L.A. City and Community Land Trust Offer Competing Visions for Caltrans El Sereno Properties
JUNE 2, 2022 – Article via Streetsblog LA feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Antidisplacement Fight in Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles
JUNE 1, 2022 – Article via Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity
JUNE 1, 2022 – Article via Architectural Record feat. Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- How Los Angeles Created the Playbook for a Nationwide War on the Unhoused
MAY 26, 2022 – Opinion piece via The Appeal feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex
MAY 19, 2022 – Article via The New Republic feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute faculty researcher Marques Vestal
- ‘We Hurt Those Already Hurting’: Why Los Angeles is Failing on Homelessness
MAY 16, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute graduate student researcher Hilary Malson and UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- UCLA Research Report Examines Effects of LA’s Homeless Encampment Sweep
MAY 12, 2022 – Article via Daily Bruin feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Everyone has an Idea for Solving Homelessness. What If We Listened to the Unhoused?
MAY 9, 2022 – Interview via Los Angeles Times Image feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- Workers and Debtors of the World, Unite!
MAY 1, 2022 – Article via Jacobin by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- The Future of Public Parks
APRIL 29, 2022 – Article via The New Yorker feat. Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- An Entire Neighborhood Is Being Flipped by a Los Angeles Developer
APRIL 27, 2022 – Article via Bloomberg feat. Institute research “Property, Personhood, and Police: The Making of Race and Space through Nuisance Law” published in Antipode
- Episode 92 - Dr. Ananya Roy on Echo Park Displacement
APRIL 27, 2022 – Interview via J.T. the LA Storyteller feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Vengeance of Unpayable Debts: Art, Activism, and Agitation in Puerto Rico and the United States
APRIL 20, 2022 – Interview via Social Text Journal by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel and Frances Negrón-Muntaner
- "Canceling Student Debt is the Quickest Way to Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap”
APRIL 20, 2022 – Interview via Marketplace feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- A Cage by Another Name
APRIL 20, 2022 – Article via Failed Architecture feat. Institute report “We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder
APRIL 19, 2022 – Article via Boston Review by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Houseless People In Los Angeles Are Using Mobile Memorials to Humanize and Grieve the Deaths of Their Community Members
APRIL 16, 2022 – Article via BuzzFeed News feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- Unhoused Sweeps Become Flashpoint for Film Shoots in Los Angeles
APRIL 14, 2022 – Article via Hollywood Reporter feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Advocates Say LA’s Response to Homelessness is Furthering Widespread Displacement
APRIL 12, 2022 – Article via Invisible People feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- How the Brutal Clearing of an L.A. Homeless Encampment Can Teach S.F. What Not to Do in the Tenderloin
APRIL 5, 2022 – Opinion piece via San Francisco Chronicle by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute graduate student researcher Sam Lutzker
- When Police Cracked Down on Reporters on One Chaotic Night in LA’s Echo Park
MARCH 31, 2022 – Article via NPR feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Inside The Issues with Alex Cohen
MARCH 29, 2022 – News segment via Spectrum News 1 feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- New Reserch Shows Those Displaced By Sweep Of Echo Park Lake Aren’t Finding Permanent Housing
MARCH 29, 2022 – Interview via KQED’s The California Report feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Unhoused People Want Empathy As They Navigate Temporary Shelter Offers
MARCH 28, 2022 – Article via LAist feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- He Had to Leave Echo Park Lake and He’s Still Homeless. Is This What L.A. Wants?
MARCH 26, 2022 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Report: 17 of 183 People Removed From Echo Park Lake in Long-Term Housing
MARCH 25, 2022 – News segment via Spectrum News 1 feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Few from Echo Park Encampment Received Housing They Were Promised
MARCH 25, 2022 – Article via KNX News feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- A Year Later, Echo Park Lake Cleanup Provides a Mixed Bag of Results
MARCH 24, 2022 – News segment via KTLA feat. After Echo Park Lake research collective member William Sens, Jr.
- What Happened to Echo Park Lake’s Homeless Residents?
MARCH 24, 2022 – News segment via KCRW feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Only 1 In 10 Of Echo Park’s Unhoused Residents Have Found Long Term Housing Since The Sweep
MARCH 24, 2022 – Article via LAist feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Seven Dead, 82 Vanished: New UCLA Report Shows the Failure of the Echo Park Lake Model
MARCH 24, 2022 – Article via Knock LA feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- Of the 183 People Removed from Encampments in Echo Park Lake Only 17 Are in Long-Term Housing, Report Says
MARCH 23, 2022 – News segment via Fox 11 feat. “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- A Year After Echo Park Lake Encampment Removal, Few Are in Permanent Housing, Report Finds
MARCH 23, 2022 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- 60% of Homeless Moved Out of Echo Park Unaccounted For
MARCH 23, 2022 – News segment via CBS Los Angeles feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and After Echo Park Lake research collective member Gustavo Otzoy
- One Year After LA Evicted the Unhoused from a Park, Few Are In Stable Housing
MARCH 23, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute report “(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake”
- ‘We Have Failed’: How California’s Homelessness Catastrophe is Worsening
MARCH 22, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson and Institute report “We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- California Proposal Would Force Unhoused People Into Treatment
MARCH 3, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Indonesia’s Utopian New Capital May Not Be As Green As It Looks
FEBRUARY 3, 2022 – Article via Science feat. Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- ‘Trying to disappear the poor’: California Clears Homeless Camp Near Super Bowl
JANUARY 27, 2022 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute partner Annie Powers of NOlympics LA
- ‘We The Unhoused’ Podcaster Theo Henderson Takes on Activist-in-Residence Position
JANUARY 26, 2022 – Article via Daily Bruin feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- On the Road to Change - Episode 1: Los Angeles with Ananya Roy, Rainer Forst & Pete White
JANUARY 26, 2022 – Video series via Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN
- Formerly Homeless Man Finds New Platform as Activist in Residence at UCLA
JANUARY 18, 2022 – News segment via Spectrum News 1 feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- ‘We The Unhoused’: Podcast Uncovers Issues Facing Angelenos on the Streets
JANUARY 11, 2022 – Interview via KCRW feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Theo Henderson
- Is Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas ‘Champion of the Homeless Population?’
DECEMBER 21, 2021 – Article via Knock LA by Institute graduate student researcher Sam Lutzker
- ‘Longest Night’ Memorial Across San Fernando Valley Lets Community Grieve Unhoused Deaths
DECEMBER 17, 2021 – Article via Los Angeles News Daily feat. Institute report “We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds
DECEMBER 13, 2021 – Interview via Public Books feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Overdose Epidemic Plagues California: Fentanyl is Driving Uptick in Deaths
DECEMBER 3, 2021 – Article via CalMatters feat. Institute report “We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- 1,500 Unhoused LA Residents Died on the Streets During Pandemic, Report Reveals
DECEMBER 1, 2021 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute report “We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- LAPD Ended Predictive Policing Programs Amid Public Outcry. A New Effort Shares Many of Their Flaws
NOVEMBER 8, 2021 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute community partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- How To Cancel $3.2 Million of Debt For 20,000 People Who Went Through the Carceral System
OCTOBER 29, 2021 – Article via The Intercept feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and Then
OCTOBER 29, 2021 – Interview via Curbed feat. Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- Nonprofit Announces New App That Could Abolish $500 Million Of Bail Debt For California Residents
OCTOBER 29, 2021 – Article via Essence feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- LA Clears Another Park Encampment in Battle Over Worsening Housing Crisis
OCTOBER 14, 2021 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think)
AUGUST 27, 2021 – Essay via The New York Times by Institute research associate Eleni Schirmer
- Union De Vecinos: 25 Years of Impact on LA’s Tenants Movement
AUGUST 23, 2021 – Article via Knock LA feat. UCLA Activists-in-Residence Elizabeth Blaney and Leonardo Vilchis
- Want to Solve the Housing Crisis? Take Over Hotels.
AUGUST 19, 2021 – Interview via The New York Times feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Tokyo Olympics May Be Over, But for NOlympics LA the Fight has Just Begun
AUGUST 14, 2021 – Article via KCET feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and community partner NOlympics LA
- Mural Pays Respect to Remains of Women Found Near the U.S.-Mexico Border
JULY 28, 2021 – Article via UCLA Newsroom feat. Institute faculty researcher Maite Zubiaurre
- The Real Toll From Prison Covid Cases May Be Higher Than Reported
JULY 7, 2021 – Article via The New York Times feat. Institute faculty researcher Sharon Dolovich
- Make Americans’ Crushing Debt Disappear
JULY 2, 2021 – Opinion piece via The New York Times by Institute partner Astra Taylor of the Debt Collective
- How Long Until Citizen Gets Someone Killed?
JUNE 28, 2021 – Article via Mother Jones feat. Institute partner Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Villanueva’s Bogus Venice ‘Outreach’ is Just a Cover for Criminalizing Homelessness
JUNE 28, 2021 – Op-ed via Los Angeles Times by Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN
- The Real Problem With Corporate Landlords
JUNE 21, 2021 – Article via The Atlantic by Inequality and Democracy Research Fellow Alexander Ferrer
- Inside The Growing On-Campus Abolitionist Movement
JUNE 14, 2021 – Interview via It’s Going Down podcast feat. Institute faculty researcher SA Smythe
- To Solve Homelessness, California Should Declare a Right to Housing
JUNE 6, 2021 – Editorial via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
JUNE 1, 2021 – Interview via Truthout feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Echo Park Lake Re-Opens with Heavy Police Presence
MAY 28, 2021 – News segment via MTV News feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- High Cost Of Los Angeles Homeless Camp Raises Eyebrows And Questions
MAY 25, 2021 – News segment via NPR feat. Institute partner Shayla Myers of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- Cancel Parking Fines for Unhoused People Who Live in Their Cars
MAY 19, 2021 – Op-ed via Los Angeles Times by Institute graduate student researcher Sam Lutzker
- Shelter In Place: LA’s Fight for Housing in a Pandemic | Fault Lines
MAY 19, 2021 – Documentary film via Al Jazeera feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN
- 9th Circuit Court Freezes Judge Carter’s Skid Row Homelessness Order Until June 15
MAY 13, 2021 – Article via LAist feat. Institute partner Shayla Myers of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- The UC System’s Policing Expansion Belies Its Stated Commitment to Racial Justice
MAY 10, 2021 – Article via The Nation by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley, Paola Bacchetta and David Theo Goldberg
- Judge Orders Los Angeles to Shelter All Homeless Skid Row Residents
APRIL 21, 2021 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- The Echo Park Eviction
APRIL 15, 2021 – Podcast via Vox Today Explained feat. Alissa Walker and Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Searching for the Bones by the Southern Border
APRIL 14, 2021 – Documentary film Águilas via The New Yorker by Institute faculty researcher Maite Zubiaurre and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Universities, Cities, and Social Justice: A Conversation between Ananya Roy and Davarian Baldwin
APRIL 12, 2021 – Conversation hosted by Trinity College feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Davarian Baldwin
- Protest Continues to Grow over Displacement by the LAPD of the Homeless Encampment at Echo Park Lake
APRIL 8, 2021 – Interview via Living in the USA with Jon Wiener feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Black Struggle for Freedom: Derek Chauvin Trial & Amazon Union Vote
APRIL 3, 2021 – Interview via Rising Up with Sonali feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- The Echo Park homeless camp is gone. What does it mean for L.A.?
MARCH 27, 2021 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute partner Shayla Myers of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- The Future of L.A. is Here. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Radical Imagination Shows Us the Way.
MARCH 17, 2021 – Interview via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Yet Another Police Reform Proposal Designed to Expand the LAPD’s Stalker State
MARCH 16, 2021 – Op-ed via Knock LA by Institute partners Shakeer Rahman and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Police Surveillance Can’t Be Reformed. It Must Be Abolished.
MARCH 10, 2021 – Op-ed via VICE by Institute partners Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Pete White of LA CAN
- In LA County Jails, Covid-19 Chaos Keeps People Locked Up Longer
MARCH 2, 2021 – Article via The Intercept feat. Institute faculty researcher Alicia Virani
- Faculty Documentary on Migrants Chosen for SXSW, Big Sky Film Festivals
FEBRUARY 22, 2021 – Interview via UCLA Newsroom feat. Institute faculty researcher Maite Zubiaurre
- Basic Income and the Freedom to Refuse
FEBRUARY 16, 2021 – Article via LPE Project by Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- Abolishing the Police, Cops Off Campus - Part 1
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 – Podcast via When We Fight, We Win! feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and UCLA Luskin alumna Oceana Gilliam
- The Student Debt Crisis Hits Black borrowers Hardest. These Philadelphia Debtors say Biden’s Plan to Tackle it Isn’t Enough
FEBRUARY 5, 2021 – Article via The Philadelphia Inquirer feat. Institute partner Debt Collective
- California Must Lead the Way in Abolishing School and University Campus Police
JANUARY 31, 2021 – Op-ed via The Sacramento Bee by Angela Y. Davis, Melina Abdullah, and Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- "You Are Not a Loan" Q&A
JANUARY 30, 2021 – Interviews via Sundance Film Festival feat. Institute faculty researcher Marques Vestal, Wendy Brown, and Astra Taylor
- You Are Not a Loan
JANUARY 25, 2021 – Documentary film produced in collaboration with Onassis LA and Debt Collective
- Don’t Let Them Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Criminalize Our People Again
JANUARY 19, 2021 – Opinion piece via Knock LA by Institute partners Shakeer Rahman of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Pete White of LA CAN, and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Firsthand Look at Eviction Crisis
JANUARY 18, 2021 – News segment via 3rd Hour of TODAY feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Reflections on the Insurgency and the Meaning of Justice for Social Work
JANUARY 12, 2021 – Article via Medium by Institute faculty researcher Laura S. Abrams and UCLA Luskin graduate student Jason Anthony Plummer
- How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
JANUARY 9, 2021 – Article via The Nation feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- A Marxist Case for Economic Disobedience?
JANUARY 5, 2021 – Interview via THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- People in Debt Have Formed a Union to Fight Back
JANUARY 3, 2021 – Article via Truthout feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- California Could Allow Mass Evictions to Begin During the Worst COVID Surge Yet
DECEMBER 13, 2020 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- LA Social Science Book Series on the "Fury of COVID-19"
DECEMBER 8, 2020 – Interview via LA Social Science feat. Institute faculty researcher Vinay Lal
- The Coming Jubilee and Past Harms
DECEMBER 7, 2020 – Blog post via Academe Magazine feat. Institute conference “Financial Futures: Higher Education and Reparative Public Goods”
- Think Things Are Bad Now? For California’s Have-Nots, It’s About to Get Worse
DECEMBER 6, 2020 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- LAPD Request for $100-Million Budget Increase Draws Criticism Amid City’s Fiscal Crisis
NOVEMBER 24, 2020 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute partner Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Emergency Urbanism
NOVEMBER 24, 2020 – Essay via Public Books feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 – Article via The Nation feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- President-Elect Joe Biden has Signaled He’s Open to Canceling Student-Loan Debt — The Question is When and How Much
NOVEMBER 9, 2020 – Article via MarketWatch feat. Institute partner Debt Collective
- Births of a Nation, Redux: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson
NOVEMBER 5, 2020 – Essay via Boston Review by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- What Abolition Looks Like, From the Panthers to the People
OCTOBER 26, 2020 – Essay via Abolition for the People by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Malcolm X Warned Us About the Pitfalls of Black Celebrities as Leaders
OCTOBER 23, 2020 – Article via The Washington Post by Institute faculty researcher Kyle T. Mays
- How We Overcome the Crippling Burden of Debt
OCTOBER 11, 2020 – Podcast via THIS IS REVOLUTION feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- The Quarantine Tapes 106: Ananya Roy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 – Podcast via DUBLAB feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
- Can‘t Pay Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 – Webinar via Haymarket Books feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel, Astra Taylor, and Chenjerai Kumanyika
- The End of the University: The Pandemic Should Force America to Remake Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 – Essay via The New Republic feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Reparative Public Goods and the Future of Finance: A Fantasy in Three Parts
AUGUST 25, 2020 – Essay via American Ethnological Society by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Era of Evictions: UCLA Study
AUGUST 5, 2020 – Interview via KPCC’s Take Two feat. Institute graduate student researcher Hilary Malson
- Americans Face a Tsunami of Evictions
AUGUST 2, 2020 – Interview via KPFK’s Background Briefing with Ian Masters feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Upward of 300,000 LA Households Could Be at Risk if the State’s Eviction Ban Expires Next Month
JULY 29, 2020 – Article via Los Angeles Magazine feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- LAPD Expands Community Policing Program
JULY 28, 2020 – Interview via KPCC feat. Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN and Cindy Chang
- LA Could See Wave of Evictions If More Protections Not Offered, UCLA Study Says
JULY 27, 2020 – News segment via ABC7 feat. UCLA Activists-in-Residence Elizabeth Blaney, Leonardo Vilchis, Jane Nguyen, Institute faculty researchers Gary Blasi, Paul Ong, and Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Hundreds Of Thousands Are Behind On Rent. Why Won’t Politicians Cancel It?
JULY 24, 2020 – Article via LAist feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Two Faces of State Violence — Murder by Law Enforcement and Medical Apartheid
JULY 22, 2020 – Article via Medium by Institute partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Both/And or Either/Or: Social Work and Policing
JULY 17, 2020 – Webinar feat. Institute faculty researcher Laura S. Abrams and Alan Dettlaff, Charles E. Lewis Jr., and Terry Mizrahi
- People Are About to Be Pushed Into Homelessness On a Large Scale: Hotels Are Key to Keeping Them Off the Streets
JULY 17, 2020 – Opinion piece via The Appeal feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Jonny Coleman
- Betsy Devos’ Refusal to Honor Student Loan Forgiveness Shows Her Disrespect for the Law
JULY 16, 2020 – Opinion piece via NBC News feat. Institute partner Debt Collective
- Appel: Debtors’ Unions, Reparative Public Goods, and the Future of Finance
JULY 14, 2020 – Essay via Progressive International by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- LA Wants To Quickly House 15,000 Homeless People. How?
JULY 13, 2020 – Article via LAist feat. Institute publication “Hotel California: Housing the Crisis”
- How We Got Here, Part 4: Disempowerment and Debt
JULY 9, 2020 – Interview in a five-part series via KQED feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Op-ed: It’s Time To Rethink Policing & Systems Of Care. Social Work Can Lead By Example If We Face Our Own Historical Shortcomings
JUNE 29, 2020 – Opinion piece via WitnessLA by Institute faculty researcher Laura S. Abrams and Kristen Brock-Petroshius
- Coronavirus IX: Evictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
JUNE 28, 2020 – TV segment via Last Week Tonight with John Oliver feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Elizabeth Blaney
- Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on How Today’s Abolitionist Movement Can Fundamentally Change the Country
JUNE 27, 2020 – Interview via The Intercept feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Editorial: L.A. is Throwing Renters Life Preservers. They Need a Whole Lot More to Survive the Coronavirus Downturn
JUNE 24, 2020 – Opinion piece by the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Will California See Wave of Evictions Once Coronavirus Protections for Renters Are Lifted?
JUNE 24, 2020 – News segment via ABC7 feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- L.A. City Council Passes $100-million Coronavirus Rent Relief Program
JUNE 23, 2020 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute publication “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles” by Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Serious About Racial Justice? Then Divest from Policing
JUNE 22, 2020 – Opinion piece via Knock LA by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute partners Pete White of LA CAN and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Forward Thinker: Progressive Problem Solver
JUNE 22, 2020 – Interview via UCLA Magazine with Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Defund the Police: A Webinar on Police, Race, and the University
JUNE 20, 2020 – Webinar via Institute partner Scholars for Social Justice feat. Kosi Achife, Davarian Baldwin, Adom Getachew, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, and Michelle Yang
- Letter Regarding Response to Divestment Now Demands by UCLA Faculty
JUNE 19, 2020 – Letter to Chancellor Block and EVC Carter from the DIVEST/INVEST UCLA Faculty Collective reiterating divestment demands that were not addressed by Juneteenth deadline as requested in letter sent on June 11, 2020 with more than 200 UCLA faculty signatories
- What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?
JUNE 18, 2020 – Opinion piece via The New York Times by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Divestment Now Demands by UCLA Faculty
JUNE 11, 2020 – Letter to Chancellor Block from the DIVEST/INVEST UCLA Faculty Collective and co-signed by more than 200 UCLA faculty, demanding the immediate commitment from UCLA leadership to divest from policing and reinvest in research and teaching in the areas of racial justice, and to supporting Black students, faculty, staff, and workers at UCLA
- Historian Robin D.G. Kelley: Years of Racial Justice Organizing Laid Groundwork for Today’s Uprising
JUNE 11, 2020 – Interview via Democracy Now! feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- The Activist Dismantling Racist Police Algorithms
JUNE 5, 2020 – Article via MIT Technology Review feat. Institute partner Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Evictions and Homelessness Will Rise Precipitously Once COVID Restrictions Are Lifted
JUNE 5, 2020 – Article via Streetsblog Cal feat. Institute faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Follow-up Letter from Executive Committee of Concerned UCLA Faculty to ‘A Violation of Our Values’JUNE 4, 2020 – Letter in response to the BruinPost on June 3, 2020 that was issued by the Office of the Chancellor
- ‘A Violation of Our Values’JUNE 3, 2020 – BruinPost issued by the UCLA Office of the Chancellor and distributed campuswide regarding the LAPD’s use of the Jackie Robinson Stadium
- Follow-up Letter from Executive Committee of Concerned UCLA FacultyJUNE 3, 2020 – Letter in response to communication on June 2, 2020 from UCLA Vice Chancellor Beck that outlines specific demands by UCLA faculty which include: the issuance of a public letter to LAPD Chief Michael Moore, transparency in disclosing documents which led up to the incident, and a public pledge to work towards divesting from the police state
- Response to UCLA Faculty Letter on UCLA LAPD CollaborationJUNE 2, 2020 – Letter from UCLA Vice Chancellor Beck, on behalf of UCLA leadership, in response to the use of UCLA facilities by LAPD
- UCLA Faculty Letter on UCLA LAPD Collaboration
JUNE 2, 2020 – Letter to UCLA Chancellor and Executive Vice-Chancellor & Provost demanding an immediate cessation of the use of any UCLA facilities by LAPD and other police forces co-authored by Institute faculty researchers and allies
- End of Quarantine Leads to New Housing Crisis
MAY 28, 2020 – Interview via FOX 11 feat. Institute faculty researcher Paul Ong
- George Floyd’s Death is One of Many Reasons Activists are Pushing for a ‘People’s Budget’ in LA
MAY 28, 2020 – Article via LAist feat. Institute faculty researcher Laura Abrams and Institute partners LA CAN and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Providing Mutual Aid Across LA
MAY 18, 2020 – Interview via LA Social Science with the Institute’s Sawyer Seminar graduate fellow Rosanna Simons and Drs. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo and Celia Lacayo
- Policing Technology Will Not Solve the Pandemic: PredPol Inc. Exploits Pandemic for Profit
MAY 13, 2020 – Article via Medium by Institute partners the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Free Radicals
- Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis
MAY 10, 2020 – Open access publication with chapter by Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow Veronika Zablotsky
- 2020 Census Response Rate Falling Behind Over 11 Percentage Points Lower than 2010
APRIl 29, 2020 – Technical brief via UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge by Institute faculty researcher Paul Ong, Jonathan Ong, and Elena Ong
- Midnight On The Clock Of The World
APRIL 25, 2020 – Interview via Millennials Are Killing Capitalism feat. Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- Contact Tracing in the Stalker State
APRIL 22, 2020 – Interview via The Laura Flanders Show feat. Institute partner Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Faculty Letter on Eviction Moratorium to LA City Council
APRIL 21, 2020 – Letter urging LA City Council to enact a complete eviction moratorium to address the COVID-19 crisis co-authored by Institute faculty researchers Michael Lens, Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, and Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Two Upheavals, One Solution: A UC Faculty Survey
APRIL 17, 2020 – UC faculty survey and blog post by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy and Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- #FoodNotRent Strike on April 1st in LA’s Mariachi Plaza
APRIL 1, 2020 – Video interview (en español) via Noticias 62 TV feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Elizabeth Blaney
- Weaponizing COVID-19
MARCH 23, 2020 – Video interview (en español) feat. Institute faculty researcher Amy Ritterbusch with Bogotá-based activist Juli Salamanca of Red Comunitaria Trans
- Grading in a Time of Crisis
MARCH 21, 2020 – Blog post via Academe Magazine by Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- The Singular And Sinister Exceptionality Of The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
MARCH 14, 2020 – Article via ABP Live by Institute faculty researcher Vinay Lal
- The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms
MARCH 2, 2020 – Article via Medium by Institute partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Debtors of the World, Unite!
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 – Article via Boston Review by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Trump Confesses to Just How Bigly the Olympics Screws Over the Poor
FEBRUARY 20, 2020 – Article via Daily Beast feat. Institute Student Advisory Board member Spike Friedman
- Interview with Nithya Raman, Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 4
FEBRUARY 14, 2020 – Article by Institute Student Advisory Board member Spike Friedman
- The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 – Article via The New Republic feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel and Institute community partner Debt Collective
- 5 Young People On Why They’re Refusing to Pay Their Student Loans
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 – Article via Teen Vogue feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Stolen Land
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 – Podcast via Housing Justice Los Angeles feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Racial Capitalism, Power & Resistance: Keynote Videos & Highlights for 2020
JANUARY 15, 2020 – Article via Neighborhood Funders Group feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Senator Warren Has a Plan to Cancel Student-Loan Debt — Without Congressional ApprovalJANUARY 14, 2020 – Article via The Chronicle of Higher Education feat. Institute partner the Debt Collective
- How Mississippi’s ‘Supercharged Temp Agencies’ Provide Inmate Labor to Businesses
JANUARY 9, 2020 – Article via Mississippi Today feat. Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance
JANUARY 7, 2020 – Podcast via New Books in Anthropology feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- From an Activist to a Comedian, Here Are 11 L.A. People to Watch in 2020
DECEMBER 27, 2019 – Profile via Los Angeles Magazine feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Jane Nguyen
- California’s Fires Prove the American Dream Is Flammable
DECEMBER 23, 2019 – Article via The Nation by Institute associate faculty director Kian Goh
- Local Activists Target Olympic Preparations as Catalyst of Gentrification
DECEMBER 17, 2019 – Article via KCRW feat. Institute partners LA CAN and NOlympics LA
- 55 Voices for Democracy: Ananya Roy
DECEMBER 14, 2019 – Video via Thomas Mann House “55 Voices for Democracy” series feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- On ‘The City in the Age of Trumpism’: A Conversation with Ananya Roy
NOVEMBER 13, 2019 – Article via societyandspace.org feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Words that Matter: Black and Indigenous Solidarity and the Right to Language
NOVEMBER 6, 2019 – Article via Beacon Broadside feat. Institute faculty researcher Kyle T. Mays
- The Case for Economic Disobedience
NOVEMBER 6, 2019 – Podcast via The Intercept feat. Institute partner Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor
- Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging
OCTOBER 23, 2019 – Strategy paper via Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley by Evan Bissell feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Right to Housing
OCTOBER 23, 2019 – Podcast via Goethe Institut’s Big Pond feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Housing Justice in Unequal Cities
OCTOBER 21, 2019 – Article via the Goethe Institut feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- ‘Why or Go to Jail’: How LA Courts Force Thousands To Do Unpaid Labor
OCTOBER 16, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- Why This ‘Genius’ Scholar Is Mapping Out The World’s Largest Jail System
OCTOBER 11, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty researcher Kelly Lytle Hernández
- UCLA Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Examine Histories and Practices of Sanctuary
OCTOBER 10, 2019 – UCLA Sawyer Seminar press release feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- New Measure HHH Audit: Too Little Done, Too Slowly
OCTOBER 8, 2019 – Interview via KPCC’s AirTalk feat. Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN
- How a Group of Student Debtors Took on Their Banks—and Won
OCTOBER 8, 2019 – Article via GQ feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Bernie Sanders is Right. It’s Time to Abolish Medical Debt.
OCTOBER 4, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute partner Debt Collective
- A Wealth of Knowledge About Debt
OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- L.A. Vows to Void 2 Million Court Citations and Warrants. Homeless People Will Benefit Most.
OCTOBER 2, 2019 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute partner Pete White of LA CAN
- LAPD’s Call for 10,000 Eyes and Ears: Counterinsurgency in Your Community
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 – Article via Medium by Institute partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Urban Inequality in "World Class" Cities
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 – Podcast via Blueprint for Living with Jonathan Green feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Property as Simulacrum: Informality and Illegality in the Postcolony
AUGUST 20, 2019 – Melbourne School of Design Dean’s Lecture feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Armoring Up for the Fight Against Housing Injustice
AUGUST 15, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. Raquel Rolnik and Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Fight for Free College is Your Fight Too
JULY 23, 2019 – Article via The Chronicle of Higher Education feat. the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- There Is Power in a Debtors’ Union
JULY 12, 2019 – Article via Dissent feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- UCLA’s Ananya Roy on Housing Inequality and Market-Driven Displacement
MAY 27, 2019 – Article via The Planning Report feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Cancel Student Debt Has Its Origins in Occupy Wall Street
APRIL 27, 2019 – Article via MarketWatch feat. Institute partner Ann Larson of the Debt Collective
- Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to End Student Debt is Glorious. We Can Make It a Reality.
APRIL 24, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute partner the Debt Collective
- Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt: Towards a Genuine Collaboration
APRIL 22, 2019 – Article via Public Seminar by Institute partner Ann Larson of the Debt Collective
- Occupying the Master’s House
APRIL 3, 2019 – Podcast via Team Human feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Ananya Roy in Conversation with Laura Postarini and Tyrene Calvesbert
MARCH 15, 2019 –Podcast via GSAPP Conversations feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Cities in the Trump Era
FEBRUARY 24, 2019 – Article via The Blue and White Magazine feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- What’s at Stake in Contemporary Anti-Gentrification Movements?
FEBRUARY 6, 2019 – Essay via societyandspace.org by UCLA graduate student Kimberly Miranda
- Activist-in-Residence to Teach New Generation Skills to Enact Social Change
FEBRUARY 5, 2019 – Article via Daily Bruin feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Micah White
- Finding Ways to Turn the University Model Inside-Out
JANUARY 31, 2019 – Article via Next City feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy, Institute graduate researcher Hilary Malson, and UCLA Activists-in-Residence
- Global Markets, “The National Economy,” and The Licit Life of Capitalism
JANUARY 22, 2019 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- At the Intersection of Activism, Housing, and Politics
JANUARY 14, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Micah White
- Race Makes Markets: Subcontracting in the Transnational Oil Industry
DECEMBER 18, 2018 – Article via Social Science Research Council (SSRC) feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Women Beyond Bars: A Post-Prison Interview with Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs
FALL 2018 – Article via UCLA Women’s Law Journal by Institute faculty researcher Bryonn Bain
- Do the Poor Bring Crime With Them?
FALL 2018 – Article via Blueprint Magazine feat. Institute faculty researcher Michael C. Lens
- Eviction Lab Misses the Mark
AUGUST 22, 2018 – Article via shelterforce.org by Institute graduate researcher Terra Graziani and Institute community partner Erin McElroy
- What Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Need Funders to Understand After the 2016 Election
JULY 12, 2018 – Executive summary by UCLA Luskin graduate students C. Aujean Lee, Rachel Wells, Silvia Gonzalez, and Susan Baik
- On Migration, Borders, and Freedoms
MAY 29, 2018 – Podcast via Relational Poverty Network feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- For Asian Immigrants, Cooperatives Came From the Home Country
MAY 22, 2018 – Article via yes! magazine by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Yvonne Yen Liu
- Op-Ed: 50 Years After the Chicano Blowouts, Still Waiting for Justice and the Need to Reject More Police in Our Schools
MARCH 6, 2018 – Article via LA School Report by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Manuel Criollo
- Transnational Histories: Global Aspects to Racial Capitalism
NOVEMBER 2017 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Rise of the Carceral State: Prisoner Organizing, Politicization, and Surplus Labor
OCTOBER 2017 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute faculty researcher Toussaint Losier
- Op-Ed: A Better Way to Solve the Housing Crisis — Tax Land, Not Development
JULY 19, 2017 – Article via Los Angeles Times by Institute faculty researcher Michael C. Lens
- Putting Activism Into Context
JUNE 26, 2017 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. UCLA Activists-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila and Lisa Hasegawa
- The Myth of Meritocracy in the Era of Black Lives Matter
MAY 9, 2017 – Article via The Guardian by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila
- Resisting the Trumpism of Local Policies
MARCH 6, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin graduate student Riley O’Brien
- The Audacity of "Woke"
FEBRUARY 20, 2017 – Interview via KPCC feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila
- Jeff Chang Interview: Don’t Mourn, Organize. Don’t Despair, Create
JANUARY 23, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin graduate student Andrés Carrasquillo
- Research and Resistance: Reflections Since the J18 Events
JANUARY 20, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin doctoral student Rachel Wells
- 3 Truths About Trumpism
January 18, 2017 – Video essay via GOOD.is by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- Divesting from Whiteness: The University in the Age of Trumpism
NOVEMBER 29, 2016 – Essay via societyandspace.org by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- After Trump
NOVEMBER 16, 2016 – Essay via Boston Review by Institute faculty researcher Robin D.G. Kelley
- In Defense of Poverty
JULY 19, 2016 – Essay via Social Science Research Council (SSRC) by Institute faculty director Ananya Roy
- The Relational Poverty Network at Urban Color-Lines
MARCH 2, 2016 – Blog post by graduate students Yui Hashimoto, Magie Ramírez, Yolanda Valencia, Trevor Wideman
- Urban Color-Lines Event Challenges Racial Segregation
FEBRUARY 7, 2016 – Audio essay via Daily Bruin Radio about the Instutite’s inaugural event Urban Color-Lines
- Institute Graduate Student Researchers Interview Urban Color-Lines Activist
FEBRUARY 4, 2016 – Interviews by UCLA Luskin graduate students feat. Ashraf Cassiem, Willie “JR” Fleming, Patricia Hill, and Pete White
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