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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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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:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T180000
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171204
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180106T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T160000
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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:20180111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T200000
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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;VALUE=DATE:20180128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180129
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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;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;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T210000
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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;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: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:20180214T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
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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:20180222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
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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:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180226T210712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T211525Z
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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:20180302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180213T001905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180214T182831Z
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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:20180305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180305T225720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180305T225720Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180206T235057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T235144Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180312T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180301T180052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T005530Z
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SUMMARY:Contact Zone:  UCLA Activists-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nManuel Criollo is the Activist-In-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and has served as lead organizer on a wide range of local\, regional and statewide campaigns\, including solidarity work with social movements in Chiapas\, Mexico\, El Salvador and Venezuela. He received his BA from University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where he organized youth and students against anti-immigrant and anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in California. \n  \nYvonne Yen Liu \nYvonne Yen Liu is the Activist-in-Residence at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the co-founder and research director of Solidarity Research Center\, a worker self-directed nonprofit that cultivates solidarity economies through data science\, story-based strategy\, and direct action. She is based in Los Angeles\, California\, where the sun smiles on her every day. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and a MA degree in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center\, where she pursued a PhD. \nRSVP preferred. This is a free event open to all audiences. Questions: diversity@library.ucla.edu  \nDownloadable event flyer. 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/contact-zone-ucla-activists-in-residence/
LOCATION:UCLA Young Research Library\, 11360 Main Conference Room\, 280 Charles E. Young Drive North\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180317T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180316T222350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T222350Z
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SUMMARY:Organize\, Walkout\, and Transform
DESCRIPTION:50 Years of Youth-led Struggle for Educational Justice \nJoin youThink for dialogue\, art\, & action commemorating the 50th anniversary of the L.A. Walkouts in East & South Los Angeles Walkouts. FREE! Transportation and food will be provided. \nIf under 18 years of age\, please fill out a permission form by clicking here and either text photo to (310) 721-0037\, email scan/photo to youthink.youth@gmail.com\, or fax scan/photo of form to (323) 761-8990
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/organize-walkout-and-transform/
LOCATION:YouthSource Center\, 1006 E. 28th Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180325T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180319T201228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T203758Z
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SUMMARY:Just Culture
DESCRIPTION:Underground Scholars Initiative would like to cordially invite you to be a part of an upcoming concert and community gathering—”Just Culture.” The purpose of the event is to raise awareness for formerly incarcerated students. On the day of the event\, they aim to create a space for people of color and/or those impacted by mass incarceration to enjoy elements of their culture in an elite academic institution\, while addressing systemic barriers faced in their communities. Community cultural elements will be brought to the campus in an effort to bring an underrepresented culture to UCLA. Underground Scholars Initiative is looking to showcase performances and art by local artists that speak of the struggles they face as members of historically marginalized populations. \nDownloadable Flyer \n \n\nThe Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin is happy to be a co-sponsor of this event. \n \n\nUnderground Scholars Initiative is a student group at UCLA that supports all current and prospective students impacted by mass incarceration\, imprisonment\, and involuntary detainment of any kind. They aim to create a pathway for formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals into higher education.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/just-culture/
LOCATION:UCLA Wilson Plaza\, 220 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180313T164815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180313T215323Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Ana Community Development in Action
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to Santa Ana’s first… \nThrive Conference\n“Santa Ana Community Development in Action”\nLearn local and national community-based models & obtain tools for community-driven development. \nKeynote speakers: Ananya Roy and America Bracho \nSessions include: \n\nCommunity Land Trusts\nAlternative Economies\nTransportation Oriented Development\nUrban Agriculture\nTools for Organizing\nRole of Government\n\nFree event\, community members\, residents and practitioners welcome. \nFriday\, April 20th\, 2018 | 8–5 p.m. at the Delhi Center in Santa Ana 505 E Central Ave. \nREGISTER HERE \nShare with your friends through this Facebook event: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/931043660391422/ \nOr contact them for more information: \nthrivesantaana@gmail.com
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/santa-ana-community-development-in-action/
LOCATION:Delhi Center\, 505 E Central Ave\, Santa Ana\, CA\, 92707\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities":MAILTO:thrivesantaana@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180428
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180312T174224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T231050Z
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SUMMARY:Black\, Brown\, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE: \nLos Angeles Trade Technical College\, April 26–April 27\, 2018 \nIn Los Angeles and elsewhere\, black and brown communities face multiple forms of banishment and exploitation. 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. But unequal cities are also where freedom dreams are created and enacted. Located in\, and thinking from South Los Angeles\, we shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination. \nWe invite scholars\, students\, activists\, artists\, community-based and nonprofit organizations\, foundations\, policymakers and public officials\, and all those interested in social justice work\, to join us. Information on registration and participation will be available in early April. \n\nThursday 4/26 \n5–8 p.m.\nLATTC South Campus Tent \nFROM BANISHMENT TO FREEDOM\nA collection of talks outlining the main dimensions of inequality in Los Angeles and highlighting key visions and practices for building power. \nSpecial Performance: Lockdown Unplugged \n\nFriday 4/27\n8:30 a.m.-3 pm\nLATTC Aspen Hall\nLATTC South Campus Tent  \nResearch and Activism Workshops:\nFreedom is a Place: Land\, Rent\, and Housing \nPay for Freedom\, Work for Free: Economic Extraction in Criminal Justice \nDisentangling the Web of the Juvenile Justice System \nSpecial Performance: Woke Black Folk \nJoint Convening of Workshops \nPrintable flyer
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/black-brown-and-powerful-freedom-dreams-in-unequal-cities/
LOCATION:Los Angeles Trade Technical College\, 400 W Washington Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90015\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
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SUMMARY:Legislative Theater for Racial Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 18\, 2018 at the UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium at 6 p.m.  to engage in a transformative Legislative Theater event bringing together community\, campus and incarcerated participants to envision and propose solutions to racialized mass incarceration. Legislative Theater is a technique in which public dialogue\, debate and performance are used to develop legislative solutions to problems identified by community participants. Emerging from Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed\, this methodology was used to passed 12 laws during his tenure as a vereador (legislator) in Brazil. \nAbsolutely no experience in the arts\, theater or legislative process is necessary to participate. \nDuring a Legislative Theater event\, community participants stage a play demonstrating an oppression they face. Participants in the audience —“spect-actors”— are invited into the scene to rehearse strategies for transformation. Between scenes\, participants draft ideas for new laws aimed at ending that oppression. All of these ideas are collected and given to a lawyer and legislator on site who work together to organize the ideas into related groups. As the group builds consensus\, with the council of the lawyer and legislator\, participants debate the proposed laws until an agreement is reached on a new law the community agrees to champion. The legislator then takes the legislative proposal to their governing body for a vote in hopes of implementation. \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/legislative-theater-for-racial-justice/
LOCATION:UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium\, 350 De Neve Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180803T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180803T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20180730T210809Z
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SUMMARY:Passing Through Movie Screening - LA Poverty Department
DESCRIPTION:  \nSkid Row Musuem\n“Passing Through” – Directed by Leslie Dektor and produced by Tom MacMaster\nQ&A with Manuel Compito\, Leslie Dektor and Tom MacMaster and others. \nThis beautiful movie is back because of popular demand: COME SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD THE CHANCE YET! \nLos Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum:\nFree 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. \nPassing Through focuses on an art studio that was initially launched in Los Angeles’s Skid Row that\, for years\, offered the disenfranchised an opportunity to discover their creative voice and the dispossessed a sense of belonging. For decades\, the poor and marginalized have been herded and confined to Skid Row but many found refuge\, comfort and even a path to a new life there. \nLeslie Dektor\, a 2-time winner and 13-time nominee of the DGA Director of the Year Award\, was inspired to embark upon Passing Through in part due to the research he’d been doing for a film on the Great Depression. Dektor saw parallels between the subjects in those photos and the poor and dispossessed in Los Angeles while also recognizing the power of art to bring light and hope to the darkest times. \nProceeds from Passing Through will be donated to the Art Works Continuum as well as other organizations that serve the unhoused population and support the arts in Los Angeles. \nPlease visit our website for more information: https://www.passingthroughfilm.com/\nPre-Order available on iTunes : https://apple.co/2F9X4ee \nManuel Compito aka OG Man is a Homeless Advocate and Community Organizer\, an author and highly skilled and gifted Fine Artist. He is a husband\, father and grandfather. He has been featured in several documentaries including “Lost Angels\,” “Humble Beauty\,” and “Passing Through” as well as numerous other documentaries available on YouTube which feature his works.\nManuel learned to draw as a child from his brother. He would later spend a considerable amount of time cultivating his talents during a lengthy period of incarceration. Even today\, Manuel’s artwork derives from sketches based on his visual life experiences. Art serves as the nexus of his ideas\, projects\, programs and writings. “Art is my passion. Being of Service is my calling. Skid Row is ‘Ground Zero’ when it comes to community organizing. It’s the right place and the right time for those who want to make a difference.” says Manuel Compito.\nThis mindset has been the motivating force which led to Manuel’s creation of the award-winning Skid Row 3on3 Streetball League\, grass-roots organizations such OG’s N Service Association\, Skid Row Brigade\, Operation Facelift-SkidRow\, Skid Row Artist Collective aka Hidden Treasures and “Peace- N-Hood\,” a neo-novel and coloring book for the urban area. \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/passing-through-movie-screening-la-poverty-department/
LOCATION:Skid Row History Museum & Archive\, 250 S Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180817T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180817T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Screening: Brooklyn Castle (2012) 101 min.\, Directed By Katie Dellamaggiore\nProduced by Colin Davis\, Nelson Dellamaggiore\, Brian Schulz\, and Katie Dellamaggiore\n\nFree 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.\n\nSynopsis: Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts\, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.\n\nLocation: Skid Row History Museum and Archive\, 250 S. Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012 \n 
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/los-angeles-poverty-departments-movie-nights-at-the-museum/
LOCATION:Skid Row History Museum & Archive\, 250 S Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T173000
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SUMMARY:Black Convocation 2018
DESCRIPTION: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\, staff\, and alumni dedicated to supporting all students. The event is free and open to the public. \nRSVP at https://uclablackconvocation2018.eventbrite.com. \nTo download a printable version of the flyer (8.5×11)\, click here! \nThe 2018 Black Convocation at UCLA was organized by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\, UCLA Department of African American Studies\, UCLA Black Alumni Association\, Office of Residential Life (ORL)\, Afrikan Student Union (ASU)\, UCLA Career Center\, UCLA Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA)\, Academic Advancement Program (AAP)\, UCLA Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion\, Connecting Communities to UCLA (CCU)\, UCLA Community Programs Office & UCLA Student Affairs – Enrollment Management.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/black-convocation-2018/
LOCATION:UCLA Carnesale Commons – Palisades Room\, 251 Charles E Young Drive West\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T123000
DTSTAMP:20260420T010431
CREATED:20200427T180441Z
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SUMMARY:Save the Date - Pro-Bono Expert Witnessing: A Role for Academics in Asylum Cases
DESCRIPTION:Pro-Bono Expert Witnessing: A Role for Academics in Asylum Cases \nFeaturing Leisy Abrego (UCLA)\, Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA)\, Steven Osuna (CSULB)\, and Alex Sanchez (Homies Unidos)” \nDetails coming soon.
URL:https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/event/save-the-date-pro-bono-expert-witnessing-a-role-for-academics-in-asylum-cases/
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