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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Chelsea Manning
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs presents \nA Conversation with Chelsea Manning\nMonday\, March 5\, 2018\n6:30 p.m. @ Royce Hall\n$35: General Admission\n$15: UCLA Faculty/Staff\nFree to current UCLA students with ID\n\n\n\nAs an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense\, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a military prison\, but released in 2017 after President Obama commuted her sentence. While in prison\, Manning publicly identified as a trans woman and asserted her right to medical therapy. Now an advocate for government transparency and queer and transgender rights\, Manning will speak about topics including resistance in the age of artificial intelligence; activism and protest; transgender issues; and the intersection of technology and people’s lives.\nPart of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series\nluskin.ucla.edu 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-chelsea-manning/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy presents… \n“Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy Workshop” featuring David Stein.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/economic-policy-civil-rights-movement-coretta-scott-king-helped-change-federal-reserve-policy/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall\, Room 6339\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
DESCRIPTION:26th Annual Pan African Film Festival\n\n\n\nFeatured Theater Event \nPlaywright\, Poet\, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for ONE NIGHT ONLY her one-woman\, hip hop\, spoken word theater piece: \nTHE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK \nThe Intersection: Woke Black Folk explores and deconstructs black political identity\, foregrounding the forms of ideological conflict and difference that exist within what can be understood to be black radicalism. It calls into question the coherence and singularity of the political category\, “woke black folk\,” demonstrating the deep differences and divides within black communities and within black mobilization. \n \nView the trailer here. \n\nFriday\, March 2nd\, 2018 \nDOORS: 6PM \nSHOW: 7PM \nat the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | Leimert Park \n4305 Degnan Blvd #101\, Los Angeles\, CA 90008 \n“This is Baduizm.” \n-Erykah Badu \n“This work is timely\, brilliant and necessary.” \n-Angela Davis \nGeneral admission $20 \n18 & Under $15 \nTickets can be purchased here. \nDinner / refreshments will be provided!
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/intersection-woke-black-folk/
LOCATION:Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center\, 4305 Degnan Boulevard #101\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90008\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T140000
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SUMMARY:Protecting Renters: Discussions of Rent Control\, Stabilization\, and Evictions
DESCRIPTION:California’s housing crisis is hitting renters hard. With rents fast increasing in Los Angeles\, many people are scared. Whether they fear rent increases that push housing costs out of reach or being scared that improvements to the building mean a rent increase is imminent\, the rental market can be scary. California is known for strong tenant protections\, but existing state laws like the Ellis Act (evicting tenants to convert buildings to ownership) or Costa-Hawkins Act (not allowing new construction to be under rent control) weakens these tenant protections. What’s the appetite for reforming these laws? How are they currently affecting residents in Los Angeles? What can be done to put renters in Los Angeles on a more stable foundation? \nSpeakers: \nJoan Ling\, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs \nTony Samara\, Urban Habitat \nDoug Smith\, Public Counsel \nModerator: \nMike Lens\, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs \nLunch will be provided. \nLivestream available here.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/protecting-renters/
LOCATION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Room 2343\, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T200000
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SUMMARY:Plans for Freedom: Sanctuary\, Abolition\, and Reconstruction in the Age of Trumpism
DESCRIPTION: Thursday\, February 22\, 2018 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm \n Building 7\, 429\n77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE\, Cambridge\, MA 02139 \n\nMIT Department of Architecture / Spring 2018 Lecture Series\nOrganized with MIT Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) \nThe Trump presidency has brought to sharp light the enduring racial inequalities through which liberal democracy is constituted and lived.  In this talk\, Ananya Roy examines imaginations and practices of resistance\, from sanctuary cities to professional refusal\, against regimes of white nationalism. But she also places the present historical conjuncture in the broader history of racial capitalism and return to the “freedom dreams” of black reconstruction and the project of abolitionism. Roy argues that our disciplines and professions have a role to play in such plans of freedom. \n\nAnanya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning\, Social Welfare\, and Geography and founding Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the University of California\, Los Angeles where she holds the Renee and Meyer Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy.  Previously she was on the faculty at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley.  Ananya’s research and scholarship has a determined focus on poverty and inequality and lies in four domains: how the urban poor in cities from Kolkata to Chicago face and fight eviction\, foreclosure\, and displacement; how global financialization\, working in varied realms from microfinance to real-estate speculation\, creates new markets in debt and risk; how the efforts to manage and govern the problem of poverty reveal the contradictions and limits of liberal democracy; how new programs of welfare and human development are being demanded and made in the global South. Ananya is the author of several books including Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (Routledge\, 2010)\, which received the Paul Davidoff book award from ACSP.  Her most recent book is Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (UC Press\, 2016).  During the last year\, Ananya’s public scholarship has challenged white supremacy and white power.  From the short video\, “3 Truths About Trumpism\,” to the organization of a nationwide day of Teach.Organize.Resist\, her work mobilizes the power of knowledge to divest from whiteness.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/plans-freedom-sanctuary-abolition-reconstruction-age-trumpism/
LOCATION:William Barton Rogers Building\, MIT\, 77 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T121000
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SUMMARY:From the NFL to the Crenshaw Line: Black Workers Matter
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Critical Race Studies Program and the Black Law Students Association \nPanelists: \nLola Smallwood-Cuevas\, Founder and Director\, Los Angeles Black Worker Center \nDelvin Turner\, UCLA Law Class of 2019 \nNoah D. Zatz\, Professor of Law\, UCLA School of Law \nModerator: \nCheryl I. Harris\, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Faculty Director\, Critical Race Studies Program\, UCLA School of Law \nLunch will be provided for those who RSVP.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/nfl-crenshaw-line-black-workers-matter/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law\, Room 1347\, 385 Charles E Young Dr East\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T200000
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SUMMARY:At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by LSE Cities\nSHEIKH ZAYED THEATRE\, NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING \nIn cities around the world\, especially in the United States\, processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and often identified through concepts such as gentrification\, these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk\, Ananya Roy argues that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism. \nIn particular\, she draws on research conducted by scholars and social movements in Los Angeles to delineate processes of racial banishment. In doing so\, Roy argues that the standard conceptual repertoire of urban studies is ill-equipped to study such processes. In particular\, influential explanations that invoke neoliberalisation often miss the long histories of dispossession and disposability that are being remade in the contemporary city. Put another way\, she makes the case for how urban studies must contend with legacies of white liberalism and the elision of the race question. Relying on both postcolonial theory and the black radical tradition\, Roy demonstrates that what is at stake is not only a more robust analysis of urbanism but also attention to the various forms of movement and mobilisation that are challenging racial banishment. \nAnanya Roy (@ananyaUCLA) is Professor of Urban Planning\, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. \n  \nRicky Burdett (@BURDETTR) is Professor of Urban Studies at the LSE and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme. He was curator of the Conflicts of an Urban Age exhibition at the 2016 International Architecture Biennale in Venice and contributed to the United Nations Habitat III conference on sustainable urbanisation in Quito. \nLSE Cities (@LSECities) is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research\, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world\, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society\, culture and the environment. \nTwitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEAnanyaRoy \nThis event is free and open to all. However\, a ticket is required\, only one ticket per person can be requested. \n\nThis event will be webcast live on the LSE website on LSE LIVE.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/at-the-limits-of-urban-theory/
LOCATION:Sheikh Zayed Theatre\, New Academic Building\, London School of Economics and Political Science\, Houghton St\, London WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T140000
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SUMMARY:Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century\nTalk by Michael Dawson \nJohn D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College\nThe University of Chicago \n \nMonday\, February 12\, 2018\n12 p.m.–2 p.m.\nBlack Forum 153\, UCLA Haines Hall \nLunch will be provided. \n\nMichael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Dawson received his BA with High Honors from Berkeley in 1982 and doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1986. Professor Dawson was co-principal investigator of the 1988 National Black Election Study and was principal investigator with Ronald Brown of the 1993-1994 National Black Politics Study. \nHis research interests have included the development of quantitative models of African American political behavior\, identity\, and public opinion\, the political effects of urban poverty\, and African American political ideology. This work also includes delineating the differences in African American public opinion from those of white Americans. More recently he has combined his quantitative work with work in political theory. \nHis previous two books\, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton 1994) and Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies(Chicago 2001)\, won multiple awards\, including Black Visionswinning the prestigious Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. Dawson has also published numerous journal articles\, book chapters and opinion pieces. Dawson’s strong interest in the impact of the information technology revolution on society and politics\, as well as his research on race are both fueled in part from his time spent as an activist while studying and working in Silicon Valley for several years. Dawson is currently finishing an edited volume\, Fragmented Rainbow\, on race and civil society in the United States as well as a solo volume\, Black Politics in the Early 21st Century. \nHe is with Lawrence Bobo\, the founding co-editor of the journal The Du Bois Review (Cambridge University Press)\, as well as being the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Dawson has also served as the Chair of the Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. Among other duties Dawson was elected to the Board of the Social Science Research Council and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. Dawson has been interviewed extensively by the print and broadcast media including the Washington Post\, The Economist Magazine\, The Los Angeles Times\, New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, NPR\, CNN\, BET\, and ABC News. Dawson is also a regular commentator at TheRoot.com. \nSelected Publications: \n\nBlacks In and Out of the Left: Past\, Present\, and Future (Harvard University Press\, 2013).\nNot in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press\, 2011).\nBlack Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Ideologies (University of Chicago Press\, 2001).\nBehind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics(Princeton University Press\, 1994).
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/support-black-reparations-early-21st-century/
LOCATION:Black Forum 153\, UCLA Haines Hall\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000
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SUMMARY:Why History Matters: Why Black Women’s Lives Matter
DESCRIPTION:WHY HISTORY MATTERS\nWhy Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter \n\nThursday\, February 8\, 2018\n7:00 p.m.\nFowler Museum at UCLA\, Lenart Auditorium\nSelf-pay parking available in Structure 4 \n \nFunmilola Fagbamila\nAdjunct Professor\, Department of Pan-African Studies\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles\n2017 Activist-in-Residence with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin \nDion Fountaine Raymond\, J.D.\nDiscrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator\nUCLA Office of Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion \nBrenda Stevenson\nProfessor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History\nUCLA Department of History \nmoderated by\nMarcus Anthony Hunter\nScott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences\nAssociate Professor and Chair\nUCLA Department of African American Studies
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/history-matters-black-womens-lives-matter/
LOCATION:UCLA Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium\, Fowler Museum\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles \, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180202
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers DEADLINE — Race & Capitalism Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:For the first Race and Capitalism Graduate Student Conference\, the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago invites submissions from graduate students working on questions and on topics related more broadly to racial capitalism. They are particularly interested in work that discusses theories of racial capitalism (either with regards to intellectual history or with regards to contemporary fit and theoretical coherence)\, the gendered aspects of racial capitalism\, racial capitalism & migration and racial capitalism & the rise of finance. The conference will also provide a chance for graduate students working on racial capitalism to connect with each other and the national Race and Capitalism Project. \nThe deadline to submit an abstract is February 1\, 2018. To apply\, please submit an abstract of 500 words or less\, and complete this form. \nAbout the Race and Capitalism Project \nThe Race and Capitalism Project Graduate Conference is part of the Race and Capitalism project initiated by the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago. It seeks to provide a platform for graduate students interested in the topic to exchange ideas and connect. The Race and Capitalism project is a multi-institution collaboration that seeks to reinvigorate\, strengthen and deepen scholarship on how processes of racialization within the U.S. shaped capitalist society and economy and how capitalism has simultaneously shaped processes of racialization. This project was initiated and conceived at the CSRPC and the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) at the University of Washington. Central questions include: 1) What is the relationship between racial and economic inequality; 2) How has the relationship between various racial and ethnic groups\, the economy and civil society changed over time; and 3) What theoretical approaches to the studies of capitalism and race best explain the empirical reality of 21st century capitalism.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/call-papers-deadline-race-capitalism-graduate-student-conference/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5733 S. University Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180129
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:L.A. Museums Are Going to Be Free for Just One Day
DESCRIPTION:Getty Center. Shutterstock. Source: LAmag.com \n“On Sunday\, January 28\, dozens of local museums are inviting visitors in\, totally free of charge. The SoCal Museums Free-for-All  is a joint partnership with Metro\, and it’s good for general admission entrance at participating museums. We’ve listed the museums involved below\, with new participants in bold.” \nAnnenberg Space for Photography \nAutry Museum of the American West \nThe Broad \nCalifornia African American Museum \nCalifornia Science Center\nA timed reservation with a convenience fee is required for Space Shuttle Endeavour.\n\nColumbia Memorial Space Center \nCraft & Folk Art Museum \nDescanso Gardens\nFree\, timed tickets are available on a first-come\, first-served basis at www.descansogardens.org\n\nFowler Museum at UCLA \nGetty Center \nGetty Villa\nFree\, timed tickets are required. Visit www.getty.edu. \nGRAMMY Museum \nHammer Museum \nInstitute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles \nJapanese American National Museum \nKidspace Children’s Museum \nLa Brea Tar Pits and Museum\nGeneral admission only; free tickets available at tarpits.org/freeforall \nLa Plaza de Cultura y Artes \nLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) \nThe Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA) \nMuseum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) \nMuseum of Tolerance \nNatural History Museum of Los Angeles County\nFree tickets available at nhm.org/freeforall\n \nOrange County Museum of Art \nThe Paley Center for Media \nPalm Springs Museum of Art \nPasadena Museum of California Art \nPetersen Automotive Museum \nPomona College Museum of Art \nRiverside Art Museum \nSanta Barbara Museum of Art \nSkirball Cultural Center\nNoah’s Ark timed-entry\, one-hour tickets are limited and distributed first-come\, first-served \nSunnylands \nUniversity Art Museum\, CSU Long Beach \nUSC Fisher Museum\nFree admission on Saturday\, January 27 \nUSC Pacific Asia Museum \nZimmer Children’s Museum \n  \nSource: http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/free-museums-los-angeles/ 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/l-museums-going-free-just-one-day/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:JusticeLA Town Hall: Reinvesting in Our Communities
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin JusticeLA to discuss L.A. County’s $3.5 billion jail expansion plan. Learn how you and/or your organization can help the JusticeLA coalition fight back against L.A. County’s failed criminal justice system and reclaim\, reimagine and reinvest in our communities. \nPanelists include Patrisse Khan-Cullors (Co-Founder JusticeLA and Black Lives Matter)\, Mark-Anthony Johnson (JusticeLA)\, Kim McGill (Youth Justice Coalition)\, Peter Eliasberg (ACLU)\, andKelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA Bunche Center/Million Dollar Hoods).\n\nParking/Public Transportation:\nLimited on-site parking. Overflow parking is available on the street or across the street at the Kodak Complex located at Hollywood & Highland and is $8 with validation from the coffee shop.\nNearest Metro station (Red Line) is across the street a Hollywood & Highland.\n\nHollywood UMC is wheelchair accessible.\n\n#JUSTICELANOW
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/justicela-town-hall/
LOCATION:Hollywood United Methodist Church\, 6817 Franklin Ave.\, Hollywood\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T170000
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SUMMARY:Welcome Reception for 2018 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows
DESCRIPTION:The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center are pleased to announce that Manuel Criollo and Yvonne Yen Liu have been named the 2018 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows. Mr. Criollo was selected as the Irvine Fellow on Urban Life and Ms. Liu as the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Fellow. They will both be in residence on the UCLA campus starting in Winter Quarter\, January 8\, 2018. \nThe Activist-in-Residence Program was developed by the two research centers to recognize the work of individuals working on community-led social change and to build stronger links between UCLA and the community. Fellows are encouraged to pursue research or reflect on their community work to advance racial\, social and economic equity\, as well as contribute to creating new models of public scholarship and engagement for UCLA students to develop or strengthen their own commitment to social justice. \nPlease join us in a welcome reception for the two activist fellows on Thursday\, January 11\, 2018\, at the UCLA Luskin Commons.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/welcome-reception-2018-ucla-activist-residence-fellows/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20180102T235918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180102T235918Z
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SUMMARY:A Social Justice Conversation with Common and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
DESCRIPTION:Join Oscar winning artist\, Common and Hall of Fame NBA player and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient\, Kareem Abdul Jabbar for an exclusive 1-1 conversation on issues\, such as bail disparity\, police brutality\, and juvenile detention. This Social Justice Conversation will be followed by a powerhouse panel discussion to include Dr. Kelly Lytle-Hernandez\, Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\, Dr. Tyrone Howard of Black Male Institute\, Dr. Boyce Watkins and other esteemed guests. \nThe panel discussion will conclude with a VIP reception and book signing with Kareem Abdul Jabbar! VIP guests will receive a complimentary book. Refreshments will be served. Proceeds from this event support the ongoing mission of the Skyhook Foundation and UCLA Black Alumni Association student focused programming for 2018. \nEvent Registration
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/a-social-justice-conversation/
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T190000
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SUMMARY:Living the High Life: The Quest for Public Space in the Millennial Metropolis of Toronto's Condoland
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Critical Planning Volume 23 Launch \nFeaturing Ute Lehrer \nUte Lehrer is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She has a PhD in urban planning from UCLA and a lic. phil. from the University of Zurich\, Switzerland\, in art and architectural history\, sociology\, and economic and social history. She has taught at York University\, Brock University and SUNY Buffalo\, was a researcher at the Swiss Federal University of Technology in Zurich\, and held Visiting positions at Université de Montpellier\, France\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, and University of Manchester\, UK. \nShe was the recipient of several awards\, including UCLA’s Chancellor Fellowship\, UC Berkeley’s Research Fellowship and the American Institute for Certified Planners. She was the Vice-President North America of the Research Committee 21\, ISA and one of the founders of UCLA’s journal Critical Planning. \nCurrently\, she is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Taking a critical and comparative approach\, her research interests include urban design and land use; housing\, gentrification and the condominium boom; discourse and mega-projects; and the social construction of public space. She has published widely in social science journals and edited books\, held several research grants\, and is a co-applicant for Global Suburbanisms\, a seven year\, multimillion dollar research project housed at York University. \n Download the flyer\, here.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/living-the-high-life/
LOCATION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Room 5391\, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171204
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:Pang!
DESCRIPTION:Summary: Pang! is an evening of three short plays based on the oral histories of families living with hunger in Los Angeles CA\, Miami FL and Cedar Rapids IA. The plays are staged amidst a forest of microphones\, sound effects\nprops and musical instruments\, as if the audience is watching a radio theater company perform a live broadcast. \nPANG!’s scenarios:\n \n1) A single mom and nine children are swindled into foreclosure on their Los Angeles family home of 65 years. \n2) A family makes a harrowing escape from war-torn Burundi and resettles as refugees in Eastern Iowa\, which proves traumatic in its own ways.\n\n3) A 7 year-old boy sews seeds of hope as he fantasizes his way out of a Miami neighborhood besieged by violence and beset by racist politics. \nPang! Performances:  \nOctober 20-21\, 2017 at Legion Arts/CSPS Hall\, Cedar Rapids\, IA \nDecember 2nd @ 8 p.m. and December 3rd @ 3 p.m.\, 2017 at 24th Street Theatre\, Los Angeles\, CA \nJanuary 26-28\, 2018 at The Light Box at Miami Light Project\, Miami\, FL \n(CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION)\n      \n \nDownload PDF \nBuy Tickets
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/pang-december/
LOCATION:24th Street Theater\, 1117 W 24th St\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90007\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171128T230836Z
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SUMMARY:The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Why it Matters Today
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 30\, 2017\, at 4 PM at the UCLA Faculty Center\, Heather Ann Thompson\, Professor of History and Afro-American and African Studies at University of Michigan\, will discuss her Pulitzer Prize winning book\, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. \nRSVP recommended due to limited seating. The event is free and open to the public. Parking can be purchased at Parking Structure 2 (Manning Drive & Charles E Young Drive East). UCLA is a Smoke and Tobacco-Free campus. \nCo-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\, UCLA Department of African American Studies\, UCLA Department of History\, Dean of UCLA Social Sciences\, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\, and the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. \n \nTo download the flyer\, click here.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-attica-prison-uprising-of-1971-and-why-it-matters-today/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, Main Dining Hall\, 480 Charles E Young Dr East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171116T194925Z
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SUMMARY:From Incarceration to Education: FITE Film Premiere
DESCRIPTION:From Incarceration to Education presents the premiere event of FITE Film \, a documentary film that delves into the lives of several formerly incarcerated students at UC Berkeley and a Memorial Film of Jose Ortega\, Co-founder of Underground Scholars Initiative at UCLA \, and their paths to success and higher education. High recidivism and incarceration rates in the United States are not a mere prison problem – they are a societal problem\, affecting you\, your friends\, and your family as we speak. These stories in FITE are empowering\, real\, and\, most of all\, missing from the popular media space. \nFITE Film will be screened in jails\, prisons\, and youth detention centers across the country\, and is being created alongside an online database of regional and national programs that are available to assist incarcerated individuals upon release. \nAfter beginning this project in 2015\, a successful crowdfunding campaign\, thousands of followers and fans\, FITE Film’s first screening will be at UCLA: FITE Night\, Friday\, November 17th\, 6:00 PM at Math Sciences Building room #4000A.  (Preview the Trailer.)
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/incarceration-education-fite-film-premiere/
LOCATION:UCLA Math Sciences Building\, 520 Portola Plaza\, Room 4000A\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171113T202944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T224401Z
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SUMMARY:Housing\, Equity\, and Community Series - Part 1: Homelessness in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Tens of thousands of Angelenos\, including families with children\, are without homes every night. Many more are on the brink of homelessness. In response to this crisis\, both the County and City of Los Angeles recently passed funding measures intended to provide new and needed services and resources. \nWe will explore the issue of homelessness\, and the response of local institutions\, from three different perspectives: a Skid Row resident and activist\, a developer of permanent supportive housing\, and UCLA’s own BruinShelter. These speakers will share their perspectives and answer questions from the audience. \nConfirmed speakers: \n\nDora Leong Gallo\, CEO\, A Community of Friends\nJerry Ramirez\, Manager\, Homeless Initiative\, Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office\nSuzette Shaw\, Skid Row Resident\nJordan Vega\, Director of Resources\, Students for Students (S4S) formerly Bruin Shelter\nUCLA B.A. Candidate 2019\, Major: Business Economics & Public Health\n\nModerated by Professor Mike Lens \nLunch Provided \nA UCLA joint endeavor from the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies\, Ziman Center for Real Estate\, and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. \n\nDisclaimer: \n“As a condition to your attendance to all Lewis Center and/or Institute of Transportation Studies Events\, you agree and irrevocably consent to your image and/or likeness being captured on photo\, film\, and/or video\, the benefit of which shall vest in Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and the Institute of Transportation Studies.\, it’s licensees\, successors and assigns\, and shall be used for promotional\, marketing\, and educational purposes only.”
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/housing-equity-community-series-part-1-homelessness-los-angeles/
LOCATION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Room 2355\, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171103T200343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171103T200521Z
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SUMMARY:Housing Equity and Community Series: "East LA Interchange" Documentary
DESCRIPTION:.pdf Flyer \nA UCLA joint endeavor from the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies\, Ziman Center for Real Estate\, and Institute on Inequality and Democracy. \nJoin us for the series kick off! \nDocumentary screening and discussion: This year’s series kicks off with “East LA Interchange\,” an award-winning documentary about the intersections of pollution\, transportation\, and gentrification in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. Followed by a discussion hosted by UCLA Luskin’s Diversity\, Disparities\, and Difference Initiative with filmmaker Betsy Kalin. \nPlease RSVP at eastlainterchangeucla.eventbrite.com  \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/screening-discussion-east-la-interchange-documentary/
LOCATION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Room 2355\, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171204T165925Z
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SUMMARY:INDIVISIBLE and the Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Printable .pdf flyer \nWe invite you to join us at INDIVISIBLE and the Resistance at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs in room 2355 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday\, November 7\, 2017. \nSpeakers:\nBilly Fleming\, Indivisible Guide Co-Author \nModerated by: \nAnanya Roy\, Professor of Urban Planning\, Social Welfare\, and Geography; Director\, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin \nIn conversation with: \nMelany De La Cruz-Viesca\, Assistant Director\, UCLA Asian American Studies Center \nLaure Murat\, Professor of French and Francophone Studies; Director\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA \nAbel Valenzuela Jr.\, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning; Director\, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Immigration Policy\, UCLA \n\nINDIVISIBLE seeks to cultivate a progressive grassroots network of local groups organized across the United States to build political power\, to resist the destructive political agendas of the Trump administration\, to challenge structures of white supremacy\, and to advocate and realize bold policies for social justice. \nOrganized by: \n \nCo-sponsored by: \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/indivisible-and-the-resistance/
LOCATION:UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Room 2355\, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000
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SUMMARY:Futures of Black Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:FUTURES OF BLACK RADICALISM \nGaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin discuss Futures of Black Radicalism. \nwith Chuck D and Tom Morello and additional comments by Elizabeth Robinson and Shana Redmond \nTuesday\, November 7th\, 2017 \n1:30pm-6:00pm\n1:30pm-2:00pm Pre-Reception (with refreshments)\n2:00pm-3:30pm Response to book by Jonathan Gomez\, Olufemi Taiwo\, Thabisile Griffin\, and Marques Vestal and author response by Alex Lubin and Gaye Theresa Johnson\n3:45pm-5:00pm Authors and Artivist Dialogue with Authors and Tom Morello and Chuck D\n5:00pm-6:00pm Reception & Book Signing (with food & refreshments) \nEvent Location: UCLA California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium [south campus] \n570 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \n\nAbout the book: Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here\, key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson—recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires. \nIn a time when activists in Ferguson\, Palestine\, Baltimore\, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances\, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave\, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today. \nAbout the editors: \nGaye Theresa Johnson is Associate Professor of Black and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and author of Spaces of Conflict\, Sounds of Solidarity: Music\, Race\, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. \nAlex Lubin is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary and Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy\, 1945–1954.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/futures-of-black-radicalism/
LOCATION:California NanoSystems Institute\, 570 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171017T202107Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: We Are In It
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 26\, 2017 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM \nFilm Screening: “We Are In It” \nBy Yehuda Sharim (Rice University) \n“We Are In It” chronicles the stories and journeys of five Houston residents and their attempt to find refuge in the American metropolis. By combining tales of deportation with everyday defeats and resilience\, the film identifies what lies beneath the surface of migrant and refugee realities and the unsettling need to move towards political and economic security. The film documents their personal archives—poetry and paintings of Baghdad\, film clips of the Burmese diaspora\, songs in Swahili—and their efforts to re-envisage a home amidst experiences of warfare\, hardship\, and alienation. Filmed over a period of two years\, the film not only sheds new light on the political climate of global migration but also speaks to universal human values of compassion and belonging. \nModerator: Todd S. Presner (UCLA) \nRespondent: Ananya Roy (UCLA) \nSponsored by the \nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by the \nInstitute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin \nUCLA Center for the Study of International Migration \nUCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television \nUCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance \n  \nWatch Trailer 1 & Trailer 2 \n \n\nAbout the Director: \n \n\nYehuda Sharim is a scholar\, filmmaker\, and creative director of Houston in Motion: Empowering Houston Migrant and Refugee Communities\, a multi-media project that provides a window into the lives and experiences of refugee communities in Houston. “We are in it” is his directorial debut. \n\n\nDr. Sharim is currently teaching at Rice University\, serving as a Kinder Fellow in the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. His other artistic and scholarly work explores connections between art\, poetry\, comparative migration studies\, cultural studies\, and race and ethnic studies. \n\nIn the Press:\n“A Voice for Refugees” – Rice at Large Magazine \n“In Houston\, a filmmaker tries to understand the city’s mélange of refugees” – The Urban Edge \n“A Voice for Houston’s Refugees” – Rice Magazine \n“Migrant Ironies: Migrants Hope for Life Without Limitations in Houston” – The Feminist Wire
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-we-are-in-it/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles \, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171021T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:Pang!
DESCRIPTION:Summary: Pang! is an evening of three short plays based on the oral histories of families living with hunger in Los Angeles CA\, Miami FL and Cedar Rapids IA. Artists perform the plays amidst a forest of microphones\, sound effects props and musical instruments\, as if we are a radio theater company performing a live broadcast.   \nPANG!’s scenarios:\n \n1) A single mom and nine children are swindled into foreclosure on their Los Angeles family home of 65 years. \n2) A family makes a harrowing escape from war-torn Burundi and resettles as refugees in Eastern Iowa\, which proves traumatic in its own ways.\n\n3) A 7 year-old boy sews seeds of hope as he fantasizes his way out of a Miami neighborhood besieged by violence and beset by racist politics. \n  \nPang! Performances:  \nOctober 20-21\, 2017 at Legion Arts/CSPS Hall\, Cedar Rapids I \nDecember 1-3\, 2017 at 24th Street Theatre\, Los Angeles CA \nJanuary 26-28\, 2018 at The Light Box at Miami Light Project\, Miami FL \n(CLICK HERE FOR PRINTABLE PDF)
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/pang/
LOCATION:Legion Arts\, 1103 3rd St SE\, Cedar Rapids\, IA\, 52401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T210421Z
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SUMMARY:The Activists: War\, Peace\, and Politics in the Streets
DESCRIPTION:Documentary film screening of The Activists: War\, Peace\, and Politics in the Streets\, by producer Michael T. Heaney\, chronicles the lives of activists in the United States who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. It considers their backgrounds\, their tactics\, the organizations that supported them\, and their historical context. \nRun Time: 60 Minutes \nLink to Trailer: https://vimeo.com/203493692\nWebpage: https://www.theactivistsfilm.com/ \nAwareness Film Festival 2017 will be hosted at LA LIVE REGAL CINEMA 14. \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/activists-war-peace-politics-streets/
LOCATION:LA Live Regal Cinema 14\, 1000 W Olympic Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90015\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20171004T225532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T225944Z
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Join an inspirational and educational Town Hall to support an ordinance that will finally make L.A. a Sanctuary City\, where all are treated with the equality\, respect\, and dignity deserved. \nFeatured speakers include distinguished labor leader Maria Elena Durazo\, long-time immigrants rights activist Angela Sanbrano\, and City Councilmember Gibert Cedillo.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/sanctuary-town-hall/
LOCATION:SEIU 721\, 1545 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90017\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170822T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170822T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
CREATED:20170726T230413Z
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SUMMARY:Submission Deadline for the Roddenberry Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP \nThe inaugural Roddenberry Fellowship will support 20 activists\, organizers\, leaders\, and changemakers who are working to make the U.S. a fairer and more equitable place to live. \n\nhttps://roddenberryfellowship.org/wp-content/themes/rbfellowship_splash/lib/video/intro.webm \nStarting in July\, the Roddenberry Foundation will select 20 fellows from across the country who will each receive a $50\,000 award\, as well as tailored support\, to implement a project or\ninitiative that has direct impact in one of four major arenas. \n\nImmigration and Refugee Rights\nCivil Rights\n LGBTQIA and Women’s Rights\nClimate Change and Environmental Justice\n\nPlease see the Official Rules at www.roddenberryfellowship.org for eligibility\, criteria and more. \nApplications are due August 22\, 2017. \n\nABOUT THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION \nLaunched in 2010\, The Roddenberry Foundation is committed to finding and supporting remarkable people and organizations that can disrupt existing dynamics\, challenge old patterns of thought\, and\ndiscover new ways to help us move towards a better future. \nThey provide grants to accelerate the development of great\, untested ideas and invest in models that are challenging the status quo and improving the human condition. Together\, interconnected\ninitiatives offer opportunities for original thinkers and innovators from all walks to life to pursue significant\, lasting change. \nwww.roddenberryfoundation.org
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-roddenberrry-fellowship/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170721T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:Movie Night at the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Movie Night at the Museum on Friday\, July 21st at 7 p.m. : In 1960 Jane Jacobs’ book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds\, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist\, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York\, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses\, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text\, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today though the lens of one of its greatest champions. \nCitizen Jane: Battle for the City \n\nFree movie screenings\, free popcorn\, free coffee & free conversations\, every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month at the #skidrowmuseum. They screen movies about issues that are important to their Skid Row and downtown community such as gentrification\, income inequality\, and racism. \n\n250 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/movie-night-at-the-museum-july21/
LOCATION:Los Angeles Poverty Department\, 250 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170707T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184527
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SUMMARY:Movie Night at the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Movie Night at the Museum on Friday\, July 7th at 7 p.m. : “In this incendiary documentary\, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book author James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical\, up-to-the-minute 􀀀examination of race in America\, using Baldwin’s original words and a flood of rich archival material. “I Am Not Your Negro” is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And\, ultimately\, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders\, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.” \n\nFree movie screenings\, free popcorn\, free coffee & free conversations\, every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month at the #skidrowmuseum. They screen movies about issues that are important to their Skid Row and downtown community such as gentrification\, income inequality\, and racism. \n\n250 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/movie-night-th/
LOCATION:Los Angeles Poverty Department\, 250 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Freedom Now" Awards Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join the LA CAN family on June 24th for the 7th Annual Freedom Now Awards and the GRAND OPENING of the LA CAN Justice & Wellness Center! \nContact Eric at erica@cangress.org or 213.228.0024 for more information or to purchase tickets! \nThis year’s honorees will continue the tradition of bringing some of the most powerful artists\, social action academics\, activists\, and thought leaders together to celebrate LA CANs work. They will honor Professor Jody Armour(USC School of Law)\, Artist Emory Douglas (Minister of Culture\, Black Panther Party and internationally celebrated graphic artist)\, Margaret Prescod (Radio Personality and global freedom fighter for women’s rights)\, and\, Ann Sewill\, California Community Foundation. \nRecording artist\, Dwight Trible\, is headlining the event but you can count on surprise guests to show up as well. \nDownloadable Flyer
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/freedom-now-awards-celebration/
LOCATION:Los Angeles Community Action Network\, 838 E. 6th Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90021\, United States
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