Challenge Inequality

UCLA’s Role in Workers’ Lives Today: A Celebration of Over 70 Years of Research, Training & Service
2017-04-11 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment presents
“A Celebration of Over 70 Years”
featuring
Maria Elena Durazo
Vice-Chair, Democratic National Committee, General Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity, UNITE HERE
Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA
Abel Valenzuela
Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Now more than ever, in this divided political era, higher education institutions like UCLA have an important role to play in upholding workers’ rights. Universities are where rigorous data-driven research happens on pressing economic, workplace, and political issues. They are where students develop research and critical thinking skills and engage directly in the cities where they live.
For over 70 years, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has conducted timely and impactful research on labor markets and how work impacts workers and their families. As home to the UCLA Labor Center, the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH), and Human Resources Roundtable (HARRT), IRLE has been at the forefront of shifting the conversation about work in Los Angeles and nationwide.

What is Governed and Not Governed in Large Metropolis: Insights from Paris and Mexico
2017-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 5391, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Say Her Name: An Evening of Arts and Action
2017-03-28 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Hammer Museum – Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
The #SayHerName movement honors the lives of black women and girls killed by police. Each act of this powerful performance lifts up the voices and stories of women and girls of color through spoken word, song, and dance. Featuring family members of the victims of police violence, the program pays respect to the lives of their loved ones by encouraging us to say their names out loud.
Curated by Abby Dobson, artist-in-residence at the African American Policy Forum.
This program is part of the Hammer’s Bureau of Feminism initiative. WATCH LIVE, the event will be live streamed.
Parking: Under the museum, $6 flat rate after 6 p.m. Cash only.

The Making of A Movement: The Origins of Black Lives Matter
2017-03-15 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room 5391, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
Funmilola Fagbamila, the Activist-in-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, discusses the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement, the importance of recalling and writing this history, and the transformation of social justice activism under the current political regime.
During this seminar, Fagbamila will be in dialogue with:
Dan Froot
Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Professor, UCLA Department of Sociology
Shondrea Thornton
Ph.D Student, UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Carolyn Vera
Master’s Student, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
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A Day Without a Woman
2017-03-08 | CA
On International Women’s Day, March 8th, women and allies will act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women, through a one-day demonstration of economic solidarity.
The Women’s March supports the feminists of color and grassroots groups organizing the International Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2017. In the same spirit of love and liberation that inspired the Women’s March, together we will mark the day by recognizing the enormous value that women of all backgrounds add to our socio-economic system–while receiving lower wages and experiencing greater inequities, vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment, and job insecurity.
Anyone, anywhere, can join by making March 8th A Day Without a Woman, in one or all of the following ways:

Women take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor
Avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses).
Wear RED in solidarity with A Day Without A Woman

The Women’s March celebrates the labor the International Women’s Strike organizers and others in planning global actions. We are also inspired by recent courageous actions like the “Bodega strike” lead by Yemeni immigrant store owners in New York City and the Day Without Immigrants across the U.S. We applaud the efforts of #GrabYourWallet and others to bring public accountability to unethical corporate practices. As we mark A Day Without a Woman, we do so in support and solidarity of these and all efforts for equity, justice and human rights.
When millions of us stood together in January, we saw clearly that our army of love greatly outnumbers that of fear, greed and hatred. Let’s raise our voices together again, to say that women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or disability.
Recognizing the multiple, intersecting identities of women, we support and admire these efforts:
#DIVESTDAPL
#GRABYOURWALLET
For more information on A Day Without A Woman, please see their FAQs.
For a template letter to inform your employer of your participation in A Day Without A Woman, click here.
For a template “Out of the Office” auto-response email, click here.
For social media content and graphics, please check out this page.

Silencio Blanco: Chiflón, el Silencio del Carbón
2017-03-04 14:00 - 20:00, 2017-03-03 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Ralph Freud Playhouse in Macgowan Hall, 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles , United States
“Full of creativity and rich in detail…the story is a classic of its kind.” —El Mercurio
Mass dismissals following a mine shaft collapse force a young miner to head for the Chiflón del Diablo mine—the most deadly pit of all. As he toils in danger deep underground, his family faces a day-to-day struggle of uncertainty and anxiety. This exquisitely eloquent retelling of a story by the distinguished Chilean author Baldomero Lillo is played out in silence using simple marionettes fashioned from newsprint and chopsticks. Silencio Blanco creates their own language through gesture, making the audience’s imaginations active participants in the interpretation of the story. The emotional and dramatic impact of this adaptation takes puppetry to new levels as Silencio Blanco confronts the black silence of Chile’s mining history.
https://youtu.be/IW-pQBZBxIc

From Colorblindness to White Nationalism?: Emerging Racial Formations in the Trump Era
2017-03-03 08:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Critical Race Studies Ninth Annual Symposium
From Colorblindness to White Nationalism?: Emerging Racial Formations in the Trump Era
Friday March 3rd, 2017 at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA Campus
Donald Trump’s political rise has been marked, and fueled, by a resurgent and explicit white nationalism. This would have been significant even had he merely been nominated and come close to the presidency, rather than actually winning it. His victory, however, accelerates and deepens shifts in racial politics. Trump’s ascent seems new insofar as open assertions of white identity—and supremacy—conflict with the nominal commitments to colorblind ideology previously asserted from the center-left to the right. Moreover, the pivot toward an intersectionally white, masculinist nationalism seems to have disrupted neoliberal orthodoxy with regard to government spending and market regulation, from infrastructure to trade. And yet, this new racial politics also has been cast as a reaction to “political correctness” and reflects continuity with the mobilization of white racial resentment against affirmative action and all forms of race conscious remediation, both staples of colorblind ideology. And critics long have argued that neoliberal politics already were deeply bound to racialized state violence.
The first Critical Race Studies Symposium of the Trump era provides an opportunity to articulate and interrogate these seeming contradictions. To what extent are we witnessing the emergence of a new racial formation in the United States, the extension of deeply entrenched trajectories, or both? What relationships can we discern amongst Trump’s most overtly racialized appeals – against Latinos in the name of immigration enforcement and sexual paternalism, against African Americans in the name of “law and order” and stop-and-frisk policing, against Muslims in the name of anti-terrorism and Christian national identity, and against Native Americans and Native sovereignty in the name of resource development? And how do these bear on his (white masculinist?) “economic” policies with respect to trade, infrastructure, and manufacturing, his approach to elections and “good government,” to foreign policy, and to the juxtaposition of LGBTQ rights retrenchment and emerging homonationalism?
AGENDA
Printable Agenda
8:30 – 9:30 am Registration / light breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Remarks

Cheryl I. Harris / Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Critical Race Studies Program Faculty Co-Director, UCLA School of Law
Noah Zatz / Professor and Critical Race Studies Program Faculty Co-Director, UCLA School of Law

9:15 – 10:30 am Panel 1: Restoring the White Nation: The Racialization of Immigrants
Through the manipulation of borders, physical and conceptual, current expressions of white nationalism are deeply invested in configuring the immigrant as a racial subject whose presence, whether officially sanctioned by law or not, whether formal citizen or not, poses a threat to national identity and the political order. Thus, while domestic populations with non-European immigrant origins and transnational communities are embedded in the national fabric, they remain foreign in a racial sense to the white nation state. This panel will explore the various dimensions of this issue by considering how the expansion of markets and political instability create conditions for displacement and dislocation, how immigration law and policy intersects with gender, and further how the racial construction of domestic immigrant communities distorts and obscures realities.

Leisy Abrego / Associate Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Tendayi Achiume / Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law
Gary Segura / Dean, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

MODERATOR:
Joseph Berra / Clinical and Experiential Project Director, UCLA School of Law
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
10:45 – 12:00 pm Panel 2: Racialized State Violence
Securing the nation as a racially vulnerable white subject requires the identification and monitoring of enemies who are defined in racial terms as threats to national security at home, agents of disorder globally, and disruptions of normative gender and sexuality. This panel will explore the continuities and distinctions between emergent and earlier forms of racialized state violence and surveillance, as legitimized and structured by law. While the historical origins of racialized state violence run deep and long, to what extent has the Trump era intensified and created new forms and logics to justify both overt and less direct technologies of state violence and social control? How do these systems interrelate and reinforce each other?

Aslı Bâli / Professor, UCLA School of Law and Director, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
Priscilla Ocen / Associate Professor, Loyola Law School, UCLA School of Law ‘06
Ananya Roy / Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare and Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

MODERATOR:
Sherod Thaxton/ Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm Panel 3: Racial Neoliberalism and White Supremacy
Nationalism routinely is figured in opposition to globalization, and in particular to the transnational practices of neoliberal economic policies. And yet a specifically white racial character has facilitated transnational identification and collaboration among nationalisms in the US, the UK, and Russia, to name a few. Meanwhile, nationalisms long have provided a basis for the economic projects of racial capital ism, as institutionalized in part through law, and whether pursued through transnational imperialism, settler colonialism, or racial caste. This panel will explore the ongoing reconfiguration of these relations among race, nation, and political economy.

Cheryl I. Harris / Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Critical Race Studies Program Faculty Co-Director,UCLA School of Law
Sherene Razack / Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Shannon Speed / Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology, and Director, UCLA Native American and Indigenous Studies

MODERATOR:
Noah Zatz / Professor and Critical Race Studies Program Faculty Co-Director, UCLA School of Law
2:15 – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 – 4:00 pm Panel 4: Race and Resistance: Social Movements in the Post-Trump Era
Alongside the (re)emergence of a vocal white, masculinist nationalism, we are also witnessing the rise of widespread resistance to this articulation of the nation-state. Social movements that emerged in the wake of the 2016 election and those that have existed prior are reassessing strategies towards, and their conception of, racial and social justice. In this panel, we will explore the formation of new political configurations and the response of existing social movements. Is it necessary for social movements to reimagine themselves in light of emergent threats, or does this moment simply continue long-standing power structures, racial and otherwise? How do we conceptualize effective and inclusive resistance, with the simultaneous move towards a prioritization of intersectional analysis and the centering of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations as well as a backlash against “identity politics” and its perceived potential for divisiveness? What is the role of lawyers and the legal community in creating social change in this environment? What legal strategies need to be deployed considering the administration’s posturing vis-á-vis the judiciary? And given the multiple fronts on which resistance efforts are being fought, how can social movements remain sustainable and impactful over the long-term?

Ignacia Rodriguez / Immigration Policy Advocate, National Immigration Law Center, UCLA School of Law ‘13
Ameena Mirza Qazi / Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles
Zack Mohamed / Los Angeles Organizer, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Melanie Yazzie / Acting Assistant Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside

MODERATOR:
Jasleen Kohli / Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
4:00 – 4:15 pm Closing Remarks

Jasleen Kohli / Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law

4:15 – 6:00 pm Reception
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Please fill out the form linked here in order to register. Note that registration is required for attendance; however, seating will be on a first come basis, so please arrive early to guarantee space. Registration includes a light breakfast, refreshments, lunch, and a reception. NOTE: Registration will close on Thursday, March 2nd at Noon (PDT).

There goes the neighborhood.
2017-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 3rd Floor Commons 3383, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
A teach-in on protecting data on race and affordable housing with Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center.

Sponsored by Planners of Color for Social Equity (PCSE), Urban Planning PhD program, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Department of Urban Planning, and UCLA Luskin Dean’s Office.
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Day of Remembrance 75th Anniversary: Executive Orders Disrupting Lives
2017-02-23 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Executive Orders: Disrupting Lives Then (9066) and Now (13769)

Join us to mark the passage of 75 years since the signing of executive order 9066, the action by President Roosevelt that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
75 years later, the importance of remembering this day in American history has never been more critical. With the signing of executive order 13769 on January 27, 2017 targeting Muslims in the name of “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” Japanese Americans and civil rights activists responded enmasse showing up to protest at airports across the country when reports surfaced of people being detained or denied entry. While resistance today is strong, fear and uncertainty is affecting daily life and family decisions, much like 1942.
Come hear from activists and filmmakers about what is happening today to resist and what can be learned from events of 75 years ago.
Speakers:
Sasha W., National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance,
Taz Ahmed – 18MR, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast,
Tani Ikeda, imMEDIAte Justice
Moderator:
Lisa Hasegawa, Asian American Studies Center Activist in Residence
Program will feature Nikkei Democracy Project Videos–A rapid response series of short videos that will use the power of the Japanese American story to challenge the alarming rise of anti-Muslim sentiment and threats to civil liberties and information and previews from other documentaries in the making.
Downloadable Flyer

Free the People Immigration March
2017-02-18 11:00 - 17:00 UTC | Pershing Square, 532 S Olive St, Los Angeles , CA, 90013, United States
This event is in protest of President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States. The march will begin at Pershing Square and will end at the Edward Roybal Federal Building. More event details will be released soon on its Facebook page.
“We must stand with those who are afraid and confused. We must love one another and resist the hatred that has overtaken our government. Rise up now, before it’s too late. Never forget the lessons of history, otherwise we are doomed to repeat it.”
#NoBanNoWall #NoMuslimBan
Other marches in Los Angeles can be found here.

This Is What Resistance Looks Like
2017-02-15 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
We invite you to join us at This Is What Resistance Looks Like on February 15, 2017 at 2355 Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 4:00 p.m.
Guest lecture featuring:
JUDITH BUTLER
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley
We hope to see you at 2355 Luskin School of Public Affairs on February 15

About RAVE:
RAVE (Resistance Against Violence Through Education) is a faculty group dedicated to mobilizing the power of knowledge and critical analysis to challenge the normalization of the politics, language, and actions of Donald Trump’s presidency. We pledge to take responsibility for, support, and defend vigorously all vulnerable members of our communities who were deliberately targeted in the lead up to the election of Donald Trump, and who are now victims of hate in its wake—members of the community who are undocumented, victims of sexual assault, people of color, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other religious minorities, immigrants, the disabled, and women. We will not silently bear witness but will fight back by producing knowledge, constructing alliances, and building system-wide coalitions across the University of California.

LABtalk 1: Organizing: Designing an Inclusive LA
2017-02-09 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | A+D Museum, 900 E. 4th Street, Los Angeles, 90013, United States
Monthly panel discussions about the future of design in Los Angeles, intended to kindle debate. All Lab Talks are free and open to the public.
At a time of pronounced political and cultural divisions, how do we design a public sphere that brings the diverse, sometimes insular, communities of LA together?
Host: Madeline Brand, Press Play, KCRW
with
Edgar Arceneaux, Assoc Prof Roski School of Art, USC
John D’Amico, Councilmember of West Hollywood
Ananya Roy, Director, UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Romel Pascual, Excutive Director, CicLAvia

Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations
2017-02-09 - 2017-02-10 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs/ CSW Faculty Center, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , CA, 90024, United States
Star cluster image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations
27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference
This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations, engages contemporary social, scholarly, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom, justice, health, and care can look like. Historically, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses, evident in law itself and manifest in biological, environmental, educational, technological, institutionalized, political, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives.
Thinking Gender 2017, Imagining Reparations, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embodies this intersectional ethos and, in particular, envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work, emphasizing dialogue discussion, writing as important modes of conference participation, and exploring their potential as feminist, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements, theoretical stances, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence.

Luskin Lecture to Peer Into Future of an Aging America
2017-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard , Los Angeles , CA, 90049, United States
During her lecture at Skirball Cultural Center on Feb. 7, Jo Ann Jenkins will talk about AARP’s dedication to enhancing the quality of life for people as they age.
In her national bestselling book, Disrupt Aging, Jo Ann Jenkins suggests it’s time to redefine what it means to get older. She encourages us to re-think the negative stories we tell ourselves and each other about aging. The book chronicles Jenkins’ journey, as well as those of other fearless individuals working to change what it means to age in America.
Jenkins is the Chief Executive Officer of AARP, which she joined in 2010. As the organization’s leader since 2014, Jenkins has sponsored groundbreaking work to transform AARP into a leader in social change, dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all as we age. A fearless champion for innovation and impact, Jenkins is often lauded for her ability to create business opportunity and competitive differentiation. She has been described as a visionary and thought leader, a catalyst for breakthrough results, accelerating progress and contribution while fostering positive relationships inside and outside the organization.
Join Jenkins in this special Luskin Lecture that will present her unique perspective on how to live life fully at every age!
All attendees with receive a free signed copy of her book.
Event Information:
February 7, 2017
6 – 8 pm
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049
https://joannjenkinsluskinlecture.eventbrite.com
RSVP required for admittance.
Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee.

"Show up, dive in, stay at it": Post-Election Community Gathering at Royce Hall
2017-02-06 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
This public forum at the Royce Hall is focused on creating space for learning, organizing, and taking action under the new administration.
“Show up, dive in, stay at it” —Barack Obama, January 10, 2017
Jessica Yellin, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, moderates a panel of organization and community leaders who will share their respective points of view about potential or likely consequences of the election and the confirmation of the new administration, and offer suggestions to those who are interested in getting involved and taking action. Participants are Sue Dunlap of Planned Parenthood, Hector Villagra of the ACLU, Lorri L. Jean of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and Angelica Salas of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). Ann Philbin, the Director of the Hammer Museum, will give opening remarks.
Thanks to Royce Hall and CAP UCLA for opening their doors to this program.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
ALL HAMMER PROGRAMS ARE FREE
Location: Royce Hall on the UCLA campus
Ticketing: This drop-in program is not ticketed.
Parking: We strongly encourage using ridesharing services or public transportation. Lyft users can enter code C
APGENERAL for 5% off a ride, or new Lyft users can enter CAPUCLA for up to $20 off their first ride. Parking is available in UCLA Structure 5: $12 cash; accessible parking is $6. Enter Structure 5 from Sunset Boulevard and Royce Drive. Lot opens at 6 p.m.

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BIOGRAPHIES
Susan Dunlap is the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA). PPLA is one of the largest Planned Parenthood affiliates in the country, with close to 250,000 patient visits each year and providing comprehensive sex education in schools and communities across L.A. County.
Dunlap’s twenty year career with Planned Parenthood has included work with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America leading advocacy efforts in battleground states across the country, as well as with Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California as a registered lobbyist ensuring that California’s public policy framework truly aspires to reproductive health and justice for all Californians.
Prior to her work with Planned Parenthood, Dunlap worked as an award-winning producer for public radio.
Dunlap is an accomplished public speaker and author who has been recognized and honored by numerous organizations, including the American Political Science Association, the California Legislature, and Equality California.
Lorri L. Jean is nationally recognized as one of the most effective leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) civil rights movement. Jean serves as CEO of the
Los Angeles LGBT Center, the world’s largest LGBT organization. Previously, Jean served as the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. OUT Magazine has twice named her one of the 50 most powerful gay people in the nation, Los Angeles magazine named her one of L.A.’s 100 most influential people and in 2014 it named her one of the ten most inspiring women in Los Angeles.
Jean has been an activist on LGBT issues since 1979. She was one of the lead plaintiffs in the successful landmark lawsuit against Georgetown University in the 1980’s to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. She also was the first openly LGBT person to receive a top secret security clearance from the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1989, with her appointment as Deputy Regional Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”), she became the highest-ranking openly LGBT person in the Federal government.
While serving at the helm of the Center, Jean has driven a period of unprecedented expansion, increasing revenues from $8 to $97 million and the numbers of people served every month to more than 42,000. While running the Task Force, Jean oversaw an organizational turnaround that brought the organization to financial solvency and increased annual revenues to an all-time high.
Jean and her wife of 25 years, attorney Gina M. Calvelli, live in Hollywood. They were legally married in 2008.
Angelica Salas is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted activist/organizers in the country today.
Since becoming CHIRLA’s director in 1999, Salas has spearheaded and won several ambitious campaigns. She helped win in-state tuition and access to financial aid for undocumented immigrant students, and most recently helped win drivers licenses for the undocumented community in California. Salas is also a leading national spokesperson and organizer on federal immigration policy. She is a prominent figure in ethnic and mainstream press and is often quoted on the all issues related to immigrant well-being.
Under Salas’ leadership, CHIRLA and its national partners have built the foundation for the upsurge in immigrant rights activism. She is a leader in national coalitions of organizations which have successfully mobilized millions of immigrants to demand comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, family reunification, and protection of civil and labor rights. One of her greatest accomplishments at CHIRLA has been the transformation of a social service provision coalition into a statewide mass membership organization that empowers immigrants to engage in advocacy on their own behalf. Today CHIRLA weaves together organizing, electoral civic engagement, community education, policy advocacy and legal services to fully engage and empower immigrant families.
Salas comes by her understanding of the immigrant experience firsthand. As a five year old, Angelica came to the U.S. from Mexico to rejoin her undocumented parents who had come to the U.S. to provide for their family. She grew up in Pasadena, California, and is a graduate of Occidental College. Angelica Salas is married to Mayron Payes, an immigrant from El Salvador, and has two children, Maya and Ruben Payes.
Hector Villagra is executive director at the ACLU of Southern California, a post he has served since February 2011.
Hector launched the Orange County Office of the ACLU of Southern California in September 2005 and served as its director until October 2009, when he became legal director for the affiliate.
Before joining ACLU SoCal, Hector served as regional counsel for the Los Angeles Regional Office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) from 2001 to 2005 and as a staff attorney at MALDEF from 1999 to 2001. He has led numerous civil rights cases involving such issues as educational equity, religious discrimination, immigrants’ rights and voting rights.
Hector received the Daniel Levy Award for outstanding achievement in immigration law from the National Lawyer’s Guild in 2008. In 2012, he received the Attorney of the Year Award from the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County, the Excellence in Leadership Award from the National Latina/o Law Student Association and the Latino Law Students Association of Columbia Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Hector graduated from Columbia University and Columbia University School of Law, where he received the Jane Marks Murphy Prize, awarded to students who show promise of a professional career applying the highest standards of the lawyer’s craft to service of the public interest. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Wilentz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He currently serves on the board of Just Detention International.
Jessica Yellin is the Emmy and Gracie award winning former Chief White House correspondent for CNN. She has interviewed Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Obama, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and more. Yellin has covered Capitol Hill, domestic politics, state and national elections, the culture wars and issues facing women in the workplace. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Details, Entertainment Weekly and Los Angeles Times. She is serving a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communications Leadership and Policy.

The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues
2017-01-29 19:00 - 23:00 UTC | Roy and Edna Disney/ Calarts Theater, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues
The landmark documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971, 88 min.), by Howard Alk and Michael Gray, is a testament to Black activism and a chilling record of covert police and FBI actions. Begun to portray the activities of the Chicago branch of the Black Panther Party and its dynamic young leader, Fred Hampton, the film becomes a passionate, clear-eyed response to Hampton’s brutal assassination by police later that year. “Hampton’s killing was the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon administration,” Noam Chomsky has said.
The screening is followed by a panel discussion with artist Sam Durant, activist and educator Ericka Huggins, and UCLA scholar Robin Kelley.
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series.
“The charismatic chair of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party accomplished a great deal before he was cut down at the age of 21. Hampton headed the Chicago chapter of the Panthers, where he formed a multiracial “rainbow coalition” of organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers street gang, and a Puerto Rican organization known as the National Young Lords. He also started a community service program that included a free breakfast program for children and a free medical clinic, and held political education classes.
And under his leadership, the Chicago Black Panthers monitored the police and looked out for instances of police brutality. Most of all, Fred Hampton brokered a truce among Chicago’s major street gangs…
…Hampton struggled against the same problems Black America faces today, and lost his life for it. His life mattered.”
-David A. Love, theGrio
The Filmmakers
Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk were already shooting a portrait of this charismatic speaker and community organizer when his murder occurred. Arriving at the crime scene only a few hours after the police raid, the unsettling footage they captured was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony in what many believe to be Hampton’s assassination. Alk and Gray collaborated on several other documentary filmswith Gray’s Production Company, The Film Group. The twoproduced American Revolution II (1969) and the seven part educational series Urban Crisis and the New Militants, both works dealing with the race related social turmoil in Chicago at the time.
The Panelists
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice and Whitney Biennales. His work has been extensively written about including seven monographic catalogs and books. In 2006 edited a comprehensive monograph on Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’ work. His recent curatorial credits include Eat the Market at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Black Panther: the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. He was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize and his work can be found in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern in London, Project Row Houses in Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Durant teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
Ericka Huggins is an educator, Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, ally and poet. For 35 years, Ericka has lectured in the United States, and internationally, Restorative Justice practices and, the role of spiritual practice in creating and sustaining social change. In 2016, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Ericka speaks about the importance of inclusive grassroots movements. From 2011 through 2015 Ericka was professor of Sociology and African American Studies in the Peralta Community College District. At Merritt College, home of the Black Panther Party, she co-created and taught a course, “The Black Panther Party-Strategies for Organizing The People”.
Robin Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has explored the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; and constructions of race. Kelley’s essays have appeared in the Journal of American History, African Studies Review, New York Times Magazine, Utne Reader, New Labor Forum, and Counterpunch. Kelly has written several books, including: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His most recent book, Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, examines the lives of four artists and the groups they led during the age of African decolonization.
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Lyrics From Lockdown
2017-01-28 20:00 - 21:00, 2017-01-27 21:00 - 22:00 UTC | The Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
Lyrics From Lockdown : One Man. One Mic. 40 Characters.
Two unbelievable true stories of wrongful imprisonment told through Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Blues, Comedy, Calypso and Classical Music
Written and performed by Bryonn Bain
Directed by Gina Belafonte
Previews: January 26—February 4
Productions: February 8–February 25
Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Lyrics From Lockdown
2017-01-26 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
One Man. One Mic. 40 Characters.
Two unbelievable true stories of wrongful imprisonment told through Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Blues, Comedy, Calypso and Classical Music
Written and performed by Bryonn Bain
Directed by Gina Belafonte

Previews: January 26—February 4
Productions: February 8–February 25
Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by Aisha Finch
2017-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | UCLA Anderson School of Management, A201, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, 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 in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations, black political struggles, and histories of rebellion.
Respondents:
George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Black Studies
Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley, Department of African American Studies
Lisa Brock, Kalamazoo College, Department of History
Co-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies

Public Housing & Activism Series Pt. II Jordan Downs & South LA
2017-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, 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” and the discussion of the destruction of the Cabrini Green development. On Thursday, January 26, the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and the UCLA Ziman Center’s Howard and Irene Levine Program in Housing and Social Responsibility will host a discussion centering around Jordan Downs, the Los Angeles public housing development slated for transformation into an “urban village.” This years-long redevelopment effort is one of the largest public works projects in Los Angeles. Many people wonder how the 2,600 current residents will fare, particularly in Los Angeles’ housing crisis. The event will situate Jordan Downs in the cultural history and geography of Watts and South Los Angeles, identify current residents’ concerns and highlight how residents and the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles are working to shape redevelopment.
PANELISTS:

Mike Lens, UCLA Luskin Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; and Associate Director, UCLA Lewis Center (moderator)
Douglas Guthrie, President & CEO, Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles
Thelmy Perez, Coordinator, Los Angeles Human Right to Housing Collective

PAB room 2343, 2nd Floor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, 90024
**Lunch will be provided. Please bring your own beverage**
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Directions to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs:
http://luskin.ucla.edu/content/visit-us
PARKING ($12.00/car) UCLA Lot 3 or Lot 2 (depending on availability):
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs building is located in the northeast section of the UCLA campus, adjacent to the Murphy Sculpture Garden. Visitors to the Public Affairs Building should plan on entering campus at the Westholme entrance off Hilgard Avenue, then drive up to the Lot 2 kiosk and pay the attendant for parking in UCLA Lot 3 or Lot 2 (depending on availability).
View the Luskin School of Public Affairs location on the UCLA interactive campus map.
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For questions, please contact Julie Lindner at: julie.lindner@anderson.ucla.edu
Have questions about Public Housing & Activism Series Pt. II (01/26/17) Jordan Downs & South LA? Contact UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

#J18: From the Frontlines of Justice
2017-01-18 17:00 - 19:30 UTC | UCLA Ackerman Ballroom, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, 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.
On the evening of #J18, we will gather at UCLA to celebrate ongoing struggles for social justice and to affirm their urgent relevance in the face of this current national and global moment.
To inspire and guide us will be the following speakers and artists:
Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder of #BLACKLIVESMATTER, Founder & Board Member of Dignity and Power Now, UCLA Alumna
Jeff Chang, Author of “We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation” and Executive Director, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University
Erika L. Sánchez, Author of poetry collection “Lessons on Expulsion” and the novel “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”
Peter Sellars, Distinguished professor in World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA; opera, theater and festival director
Ilse Escobar, Migrant, muxer, and activist born in Mexico and organizer in Los Angeles
Bryonn Bain, Artist/activist, prison abolitionist professor developing UCLA’s prison education program, creator of “Lyrics From Lockdown”
Maya Jupiter, Hip-hop artist, songwriter, co-founder of Artivist Entertainment
We hope to see you at Ackerman Ballroom on the evening of January 18. We also invite you to attend other #J18 events and classrooms throughout the day or to organize one that day or on another date. If you do, please register your program here so that we may create a record of our collective efforts.
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Welcome Reception: 2017 UCLA Activist-in-Residence Fellows
2017-01-12 16:30 - 19:00 UTC | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 3rd Floor Commons 3383, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Funmilola Fagbamila
Lisa Hasegawa

With a shared commitment to advance democracy through research and alliances with civil rights organizations and progressive social movements, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin have partnered to pilot a UCLA Activist-in-Residence Program. We are pleased to announce that Funmilola Fagbamila and Lisa Hasegawa are the inaugural 2017 Activist Fellows. They will be in residence on the UCLA campus during Winter Quarter: January 4–March 31, 2017.
A welcome reception for the two activist fellows will be held on January 12, 2017, at the Luskin Commons. Please RSVP at: Eventbrite
Read the Luskin story: An Academic Space for Activists
Check out the photos from the reception: here

Lánzate
2016-12-02 10:00 - 2016-12-04 15:00 UTC | Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan,, Av. Juan Ponce de León, esquina Ave. Roberto H. Todd, Parada 18, San Juan, 00910, 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 who seek to build social movement and community that is pro-Black, pro-LGBTQ, pro-worker, pro-immigrant, pro-planet rooted in self determination. The gathering features workshops and strategy sessions across issue and geography, art, music, connection and exchange. This year the conference will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico this year to create a bridge for solidarity amongst Latinx people and galvanize support to address the ongoing crisis on the island.

“In this charged moment of backlash matched with movement resurgence, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. One key way we can recharge and center ourselves is precisely in the places where people have drawn a line in the sand. There are many of those places, right now. And San Juan is one of them.”
*Registration covers attendance to the conference.
It does not include housing, travel, or all meals.

Resistance Against Violence through Education (RAVE)
2016-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Moore Hall Room 100, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, 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 Study of Women, and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.

Please click uc-csu-ccc-daca-letter-final-11-29-16-00000002 to read the letter sent by Janet Napolitano (President, University of California), Timothy White (Chancellor, California State University), and Eloy Ortiz Oakley (Chancellor-Designate, California Community College) to President-Elect Donald Trump on November 29, 2016. And here is the latest New York Times op-ed piece from Janet Napolitano on immigrant and DACA students.

Professor Ananya Roy published the following article in Society & Space.

Professor Laure Murat published the following article in the French newspaper Libération to reflect, among other things, on RAVE’s resistance against a Trump regime. For the English translation, please click i-join-the-resistance.

“As educators, we affirm UCLA’s commitment to fostering an environment that is inclusive and respectful of diversity in all its forms – in our classrooms, our offices, on campus and beyond. We are prepared to defend and support our campus community as we protect our democracy.” Read the petition here.

Slamming Hunger
2016-11-30 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | Glorya Kaufman Hall, Amber Dance Studio, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, 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 Hall is located in North Campus off of Sunset Boulevard.
Parking is available in lot 4.

28th Annual Students of Color Conference
2016-11-19 08:00 - 2016-11-20 17:00 UTC | UC Irvine, A-311 W Peltason Dr, (Must apply through GSA to get fees waived), Irvine, CA, 92697, 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 actions. The event is free to all UCLA graduates accepted, as the logistics will be covered by the UCLA Graduate Student Association. This year SOCC will be hosted at UC Irvine from November 19-20. Applications for this conference are due November 4th at midnight.

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
November 18th: Steven McKay, Professor of Sociology UCSC

"70 Acres in Chicago" Lecture
2016-11-16 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, 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 looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods.
Shot over the course of 20-years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

“70 Acres in Chicago” Info Sheet

During the lecture, we will hear from the following:
Filmmaker: Ronit Bezalel
Featured Resident & Producer: Mark Pratt
Featured Resident: Raymond J McDonald
