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A Conversation with Chelsea Manning

UCLA Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles , CA, United States

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.

$15 – $35

Contact Zone: UCLA Activists-in-Residence

UCLA Young Research Library, 11360 Main Conference Room 280 Charles E. Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

Organize, Walkout, and Transform

YouthSource Center 1006 E. 28th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

Just Culture

UCLA Wilson Plaza 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

Santa Ana Community Development in Action

Delhi Center 505 E Central Ave, Santa Ana, CA, United States

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.

Free

Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities

Los Angeles Trade Technical College 400 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

Legislative Theater for Racial Justice

UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium 350 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

Passing Through Movie Screening – LA Poverty Department

Skid Row History Museum & Archive 250 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, United States

  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: […]

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum

Skid Row History Museum & Archive 250 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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. […]

Black Convocation 2018

UCLA Carnesale Commons - Palisades Room 251 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Black Convocation is an annual event that welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. It is an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes about the past, and a glimpse of the future from UCLA faculty, […]