“70 Acres in Chicago” Lecture

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, United States

For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green. Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A […]

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting

Haines Hall 279 Room 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and […]

Free

28th Annual Students of Color Conference

UC Irvine A-311 W Peltason Dr, (Must apply through GSA to get fees waived), Irvine, CA, United States

The Students of Color Conference (SOCC) is UCSA’s oldest and largest conference and provides a safe space for students of color and their allies to strategize around statewide and campus-based […]

Free

Slamming Hunger

Glorya Kaufman Hall, Amber Dance Studio 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United States

A slam-style evening of storytelling on the theme of “slamming hunger.” Performed by members of Professor Dan Froot's course dedicated to decreasing the stigma of food insecurity on campus. Kaufman […]

Free

Resistance Against Violence through Education (RAVE)

Moore Hall Room 100 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United States

  Please join us for the first post-election teaching rave organized by the faculty group, RAVE (Resistance Against Violence Through Education), and co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies, the Center for the […]

Free

Lánzate

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan, Av. Juan Ponce de León, esquina Ave. Roberto H. Todd, Parada 18, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Lánzate is  a national convening organized by Mijente, a digital and grassroots hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement building. The convening brings together Latinx and Chicanx identified change-makers […]

$150.00

Welcome Reception: 2017 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 3rd Floor Commons 3383 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Funmilola Fagbamila Lisa Hasegawa                     With a shared commitment to advance democracy through research and alliances with civil rights organizations and […]

#J18: From the Frontlines of Justice

UCLA Ackerman Ballroom 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United States

The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin invites you to join us at "From the Frontlines of Justice" at Ackerman Ballroom, UCLA, 5–7:30 p.m., on January 18, 2017. […]

Free

Public Housing & Activism Series Pt. II Jordan Downs & South LA

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Part II: CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR JORDAN DOWNS & SOUTH LA We will turn our attention back to Los Angeles as a follow up from the screening of the “70 Acres in Chicago” […]

Free

Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by Aisha Finch

UCLA Anderson School of Management, A201 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United States

In Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color […]

Free