Challenge Inequality

Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy
2018-03-05 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6339, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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.

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
2018-03-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, 4305 Degnan Boulevard #101, Los Angeles, CA, 90008, United States
26th Annual Pan African Film Festival

Featured Theater Event
Playwright, Poet, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for ONE NIGHT ONLY her one-woman, hip hop, spoken word theater piece:
THE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK
The 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.

View the trailer here.

Friday, March 2nd, 2018
DOORS: 6PM
SHOW: 7PM
at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | Leimert Park
4305 Degnan Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90008
“This is Baduizm.”
-Erykah Badu
“This work is timely, brilliant and necessary.”
-Angela Davis
General admission $20
18 & Under $15
Tickets can be purchased here.
Dinner / refreshments will be provided!

Protecting Renters: Discussions of Rent Control, Stabilization, and Evictions
2018-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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?
Speakers:
Joan Ling, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Tony Samara, Urban Habitat
Doug Smith, Public Counsel
Moderator:
Mike Lens, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Lunch will be provided.
Livestream available here.

Plans for Freedom: Sanctuary, Abolition, and Reconstruction in the Age of Trumpism
2018-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | William Barton Rogers Building, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Building 7, 429
77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139

MIT Department of Architecture / Spring 2018 Lecture Series
Organized with MIT Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)
The 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.

Ananya 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.

From the NFL to the Crenshaw Line: Black Workers Matter
2018-02-14 12:10 - 13:30 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1347, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Presented by the Critical Race Studies Program and the Black Law Students Association
Panelists:
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, Founder and Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Delvin Turner, UCLA Law Class of 2019
Noah D. Zatz, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Moderator:
Cheryl I. Harris, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP.

At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City
2018-02-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Hosted by LSE Cities
SHEIKH ZAYED THEATRE, NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING
In 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.
In 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.
Ananya 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.

Ricky 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.
LSE 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.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEAnanyaRoy
This event is free and open to all. However, a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.

This event will be webcast live on the LSE website on LSE LIVE.

Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
2018-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Black Forum 153, UCLA Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
Talk by Michael Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College
The University of Chicago

Monday, February 12, 2018
12 p.m.–2 p.m.
Black Forum 153, UCLA Haines Hall
Lunch will be provided.

Michael 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.
His 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.
His 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.
He 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.
Selected Publications:

Blacks In and Out of the Left: Past, Present, and Future (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Ideologies (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics(Princeton University Press, 1994).

Why History Matters: Why Black Women’s Lives Matter
2018-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | UCLA Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter

Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

Funmilola Fagbamila
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
2017 Activist-in-Residence with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D.
Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Brenda Stevenson
Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
UCLA Department of History
moderated by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies

Call for Papers DEADLINE — Race & Capitalism Graduate Student Conference
2018-02-01 | University of Chicago, 5733 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
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.
The deadline to submit an abstract is February 1, 2018. To apply, please submit an abstract of 500 words or less, and complete this form.
About the Race and Capitalism Project
The 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.

L.A. Museums Are Going to Be Free for Just One Day
2018-01-28 | Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Getty Center. Shutterstock. Source: LAmag.com
“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.”
Annenberg Space for Photography
Autry Museum of the American West
The Broad
California African American Museum
California Science Center
A timed reservation with a convenience fee is required for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Columbia Memorial Space Center
Craft & Folk Art Museum
Descanso Gardens
Free, timed tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis at www.descansogardens.org

Fowler Museum at UCLA
Getty Center
Getty Villa
Free, timed tickets are required. Visit www.getty.edu.
GRAMMY Museum
Hammer Museum
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Japanese American National Museum
Kidspace Children’s Museum
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
General admission only; free tickets available at tarpits.org/freeforall
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Museum of Tolerance
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Free tickets available at nhm.org/freeforall

Orange County Museum of Art
The Paley Center for Media
Palm Springs Museum of Art
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Petersen Automotive Museum
Pomona College Museum of Art
Riverside Art Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Skirball Cultural Center
Noah’s Ark timed-entry, one-hour tickets are limited and distributed first-come, first-served
Sunnylands
University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach
USC Fisher Museum
Free admission on Saturday, January 27
USC Pacific Asia Museum
Zimmer Children’s Museum

Source: http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/free-museums-los-angeles/

JusticeLA Town Hall: Reinvesting in Our Communities
2018-01-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Hollywood United Methodist Church, 6817 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, CA, United States
Join 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.
Panelists 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).

Parking/Public Transportation:
Limited 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.
Nearest Metro station (Red Line) is across the street a Hollywood & Highland.

Hollywood UMC is wheelchair accessible.

#JUSTICELANOW

Welcome Reception for 2018 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows
2018-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
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.
The 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.
Please join us in a welcome reception for the two activist fellows on Thursday, January 11, 2018, at the UCLA Luskin Commons.

A Social Justice Conversation with Common and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2018-01-06 12:00 - 16:00 | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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.
The 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.
Event Registration

Living the High Life: The Quest for Public Space in the Millennial Metropolis of Toronto's Condoland
2017-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 5391, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
UCLA Critical Planning Volume 23 Launch
Featuring Ute Lehrer
Ute 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.
She 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.
Currently, 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.
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Pang!
2017-12-02 - 2017-12-03 | 24th Street Theater, 1117 W 24th St, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
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
props and musical instruments, as if the audience is watching a radio theater company perform a live broadcast.
PANG!’s scenarios:

1) A single mom and nine children are swindled into foreclosure on their Los Angeles family home of 65 years.
2) A family makes a harrowing escape from war-torn Burundi and resettles as refugees in Eastern Iowa, which proves traumatic in its own ways.

3) 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.
Pang! Performances:
October 20-21, 2017 at Legion Arts/CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA
December 2nd @ 8 p.m. and December 3rd @ 3 p.m., 2017 at 24th Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
January 26-28, 2018 at The Light Box at Miami Light Project, Miami, FL
(CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION)

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The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Why it Matters Today
2017-11-30 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Main Dining Hall, 480 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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.
RSVP 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.
Co-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.

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From Incarceration to Education: FITE Film Premiere
2017-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Room 4000A, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
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.
FITE 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.
After 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.)

Housing, Equity, and Community Series - Part 1: Homelessness in Los Angeles
2017-11-15 12:30 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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.
We 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.
Confirmed speakers:

Dora Leong Gallo, CEO, A Community of Friends
Jerry Ramirez, Manager, Homeless Initiative, Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office
Suzette Shaw, Skid Row Resident
Jordan Vega, Director of Resources, Students for Students (S4S) formerly Bruin Shelter
UCLA B.A. Candidate 2019, Major: Business Economics & Public Health

Moderated by Professor Mike Lens
Lunch Provided
A UCLA joint endeavor from the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Ziman Center for Real Estate, and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

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Housing Equity and Community Series: "East LA Interchange" Documentary
2017-11-07 17:30 - 19:30 | 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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A UCLA joint endeavor from the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Ziman Center for Real Estate, and Institute on Inequality and Democracy.
Join us for the series kick off!
Documentary 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.
Please RSVP at eastlainterchangeucla.eventbrite.com

INDIVISIBLE and the Resistance
2017-11-07 15:30 - 17:00 | 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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We 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.
Speakers:
Billy Fleming, Indivisible Guide Co-Author
Moderated by:
Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography; Director, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
In conversation with:
Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Assistant Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Laure Murat, Professor of French and Francophone Studies; Director, Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA
Abel 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

INDIVISIBLE 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.
Organized by:

Co-sponsored by:

Futures of Black Radicalism
2017-11-07 13:30 - 18:00 | California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
FUTURES OF BLACK RADICALISM
Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin discuss Futures of Black Radicalism.
with Chuck D and Tom Morello and additional comments by Elizabeth Robinson and Shana Redmond
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
1:30pm-6:00pm
1:30pm-2:00pm Pre-Reception (with refreshments)
2:00pm-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
3:45pm-5:00pm Authors and Artivist Dialogue with Authors and Tom Morello and Chuck D
5:00pm-6:00pm Reception & Book Signing (with food & refreshments)
Event Location: UCLA California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium [south campus]
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

About 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.
In 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.
About the editors:
Gaye 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.
Alex 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.

Film Screening: We Are In It
2017-10-26 16:00 - 19:00 | Royce Hall 314, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles , 90095, United States
Thursday, October 26, 2017 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM
Film Screening: “We Are In It”
By Yehuda Sharim (Rice University)
“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.
Moderator: Todd S. Presner (UCLA)
Respondent: Ananya Roy (UCLA)
Sponsored by the
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Watch Trailer 1 & Trailer 2

About the Director:

Yehuda 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.

Dr. 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.

In the Press:
“A Voice for Refugees” – Rice at Large Magazine
“In Houston, a filmmaker tries to understand the city’s mélange of refugees” – The Urban Edge
“A Voice for Houston’s Refugees” – Rice Magazine
“Migrant Ironies: Migrants Hope for Life Without Limitations in Houston” – The Feminist Wire

Pang!
2017-10-20 00:00 - 2017-10-21 00:00 | Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401, United States
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.
PANG!’s scenarios:

1) A single mom and nine children are swindled into foreclosure on their Los Angeles family home of 65 years.
2) A family makes a harrowing escape from war-torn Burundi and resettles as refugees in Eastern Iowa, which proves traumatic in its own ways.

3) 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.

Pang! Performances:
October 20-21, 2017 at Legion Arts/CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids I
December 1-3, 2017 at 24th Street Theatre, Los Angeles CA
January 26-28, 2018 at The Light Box at Miami Light Project, Miami FL
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The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets
2017-10-06 18:00 - 19:00 | LA Live Regal Cinema 14, 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
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.
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Link to Trailer: https://vimeo.com/203493692
Webpage: https://www.theactivistsfilm.com/
Awareness Film Festival 2017 will be hosted at LA LIVE REGAL CINEMA 14.

Sanctuary Town Hall
2017-10-05 18:00 - 20:00 | SEIU 721, 1545 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90017, United States
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.
Featured speakers include distinguished labor leader Maria Elena Durazo, long-time immigrants rights activist Angela Sanbrano, and City Councilmember Gibert Cedillo.

Submission Deadline for the Roddenberry Fellowship
2017-08-22 00:00 | CA
ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The 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.

https://roddenberryfellowship.org/wp-content/themes/rbfellowship_splash/lib/video/intro.webm
Starting 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
initiative that has direct impact in one of four major arenas.

Immigration and Refugee Rights
Civil Rights
LGBTQIA and Women’s Rights
Climate Change and Environmental Justice

Please see the Official Rules at www.roddenberryfellowship.org for eligibility, criteria and more.
Applications are due August 22, 2017.

ABOUT THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION
Launched 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
discover new ways to help us move towards a better future.
They 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
initiatives offer opportunities for original thinkers and innovators from all walks to life to pursue significant, lasting change.
www.roddenberryfoundation.org

Movie Night at the Museum
2017-07-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Los Angeles Poverty Department, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
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.
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Free 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.

250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Movie Night at the Museum
2017-07-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Los Angeles Poverty Department, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
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.”

Free 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.

250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012

"Freedom Now" Awards Celebration
2017-06-24 16:00 - 19:00 | Los Angeles Community Action Network, 838 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90021, United States
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!
Contact Eric at erica@cangress.org or 213.228.0024 for more information or to purchase tickets!
This 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.
Recording artist, Dwight Trible, is headlining the event but you can count on surprise guests to show up as well.
Downloadable Flyer

Movie Night at the Museum
2017-06-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Los Angeles Poverty Department, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Friday, June 23rd at 7 p.m. : A provocative documentary by Sacha Jenkins looks at how decades of racial tensions, injustice, and a troubled relationship between the LAPD and the African-American community led to the 1965 Watts riots, the rise of LA street gangs, and the 1992 incidents.

Free 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.

250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012
