The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy presents "Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy Workshop" featuring David Stein.
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs presents "A Conversation with Chelsea Manning." As 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. 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.
Contact Zones are social spaces of engagement. Join us for this speaker series from the Library Diversity Committee that will bring together community leaders and experts to help navigate issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Learn from the experiences and projects of UCLA’s Activists-in-Residence. Hear their tips and advice on how to create a more diverse and inclusive environment at UCLA.
Join youThink on March 17, 2018 for dialogue, art, & action commemorating the 50th anniversary of the L.A. Walkouts in East & South Los Angeles Walkouts.
Underground Scholars Initiative presents an upcoming concert and community gathering—"Just Culture." The purpose of the event is to raise awareness for formerly incarcerated students. Community cultural elements will be brought to the campus in an effort to bring an underrepresented culture to UCLA.
You are invited to Santa Ana's first Thrive Conference titled, "Santa Ana Community Development in Action." Learn local and national community-based models and obtain tools for community-driven development.
At this event, convened by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin, we share and discuss research and activism to analyze structures of urban displacement, racialized policing, criminal justice debt, forced labor, and the mass supervision and control of youth.
Join us on May 18, 2018 to engage in a transformative Legislative Theater event bringing together community, campus and incarcerated participants to envision and propose solutions to racialized mass incarceration.
Skid Row Musuem “Passing Through” – Directed by Leslie Dektor and produced by Tom MacMaster Q&A with Manuel Compito, Leslie Dektor and Tom MacMaster and others. This beautiful movie is back because of popular demand: COME SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD THE CHANCE YET! Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum: […]
Screening: Brooklyn Castle (2012) 101 min., Directed By Katie Dellamaggiore Produced by Colin Davis, Nelson Dellamaggiore, Brian Schulz, and Katie Dellamaggiore Free movie screenings, free popcorn, free coffee & free conversation. Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, we screen movies about issues that are important to our Skid Row and downtown community at the #skidrowmuseum. […]
