INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
ESSAYS & MEDIA featuring INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS
- 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 KnockLA 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 director Hannah Appel
- New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and Then
OCTOBER 29, 2021 – Interview via Curbed feat. Institute associate 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 director Hannah Appel
- LA Clears Another Park Encampment in Battle Over Worsening Housing Crisis
OCTOBER 14, 2021 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
- Children in Distress Aren’t Criminals. Stop Handcuffing Them.
FEBRUARY 24, 2021 – Opinion piece via The Washington Post by Institute faculty researcher Laura S. Abrams and Elizabeth S. Barnert
- 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 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 the 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 the 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 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 director Hannah Appel
- People in Debt Have Formed a Union to Fight Back
JANUARY 3, 2021 – Article via Truthout feat. Institute associate 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 director Ananya Roy
- It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 – Article via The Nation feat. Institute associate 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 director Hannah Appel
- The Quarantine Tapes 106: Ananya Roy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 – Podcast via DUBLAB feat. Institute 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 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 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 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 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 director Ananya Roy
- Hundreds Of Thousands Are Behind On Rent. Why Won’t Politicians Cancel It?
JULY 24, 2020 – Article via LAist feat. Institute 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 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 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 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 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 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 faculty researcher Gary Blasi
- Serious About Racial Justice? Then Divest from Policing
JUNE 22, 2020 – Opinion piece via KNOCK.LA by Institute director Ananya Roy and Institute partners Pete White of LA CAN and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- 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 director Ananya Roy
- Two Upheavals, One Solution: A UC Faculty Survey
APRIL 17, 2020 – UC faculty survey and blog post by Institute director Ananya Roy and Institute associate 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 director Ananya Roy
- Racial Capitalism, Power & Resistance: Keynote Videos & Highlights for 2020
JANUARY 15, 2020 – Article via Neighborhood Funders Group feat. Institute 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
- 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 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 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 director Ananya Roy
- The Right to Housing
OCTOBER 23, 2019 – Podcast via Goethe Institut’s Big Pond feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- Housing Justice in Unequal Cities
OCTOBER 21, 2019 – Article via the Goethe Institut feat. Institute 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 director Ananya Roy
- New Measure HHH Audit: Too Little Done, Too Slowly
OCTOBER 8, 2019 – Interview via KPCC’s AirTalk feat. Institute partner LA CAN’s Pete White
- 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 the 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 LA CAN’s Pete White
- 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 director Ananya Roy
- Property as Simulacrum: Informality and Illegality in the Postcolony
AUGUST 20, 2019 – Melbourne School of Design Dean’s Lecture feat. Institute 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 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 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 Debt Collective’s Ann Larson
- 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 Debt Collective’s Ann Larson
- Occupying the Master’s House
APRIL 3, 2019 – Podcast via Team Human feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- Ananya Roy in Conversation with Laura Postarini and Tyrene Calvesbert
MARCH 15, 2019 –Podcast via GSAPP Conversations feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- Cities in the Trump Era
FEBRUARY 24, 2019 – Article via The Blue and White Magazine feat. Institute 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 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 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 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 director Ananya Roy
- Divesting from Whiteness: The University in the Age of Trumpism
NOVEMBER 29, 2016 – Essay via societyandspace.org by Institute 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 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
INSTITUTE DISPATCHES
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchSeptember 27, 2021
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchJune 30, 2021
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchApril 20, 2021
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchOctober 22, 2020
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- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchMarch 31, 2020
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchOctober 16, 2019
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchJune 3, 2019
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchDecember 18, 2018
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchSeptember 27, 2018
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchMay 15, 2017
