Gente Sí, Gentrify No: Resisting Displacement in Boyle Heights

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

Activists, residents, and community members will come together to discuss the struggle against gentrification and displacement in Boyle Heights.

Free

Digital Tools for Resistance

DeCafé, Perlof Hall 365 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a workshop on Digital Tools for Resistance, where we will discuss with representatives from ACLU SoCal and the Electronic Frontier Foundation the paradoxes of online organizing and the possibilities of networked activism. We will also demonstrate how to install and use Signal, a free app that protects your privacy by encrypting your messages automatically.

Free

Equitable Policy Symposium

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

PPDE's 1st Annual Equitable Policy Symposium will educate UCLA Luskin students on how the Trump Administration has changed the policy landscape in Los Angeles and equip Luskin students with the tools and understanding to act and deliver equitable policy change.

Free

Film Screening of BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

California NanoSystems Institute 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Department of African American Studies and The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Presents The Film Screening of "BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez"

Free

All Things Connected: Building Solidarity Between Communities of Color

Community Coalition 8101 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles , CA, United States

On May 21st, Artivist Entertainment together with #CultureFix, will present it’s third CharLA event titled All Things Connected: Building Solidarity Between Communities of Color at the Community Coalition in South Los Angeles.

Do Words Matter? Journalism, Communication and Alternative Truth

UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, CA, United States

White House adviser Steve Bannon has labeled the press the “opposition.” President Trump called them “the enemy of the American people.” What does this mean in a country in which democracy hinges on a free press? The Luskin School is committed to the essential value of information and its effective communication through words. In a […]

Free

“WHAT IS A POLITICAL FILM?”

Echo Park Film Center 1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles , CA, United States

ACTION! PRESENTS "WHAT IS A POLITICAL FILM?" WORKSHOP
Saturday, June 3: Noon – 5 pm
This workshop is free and open to young filmmakers ages 19 – 35 with priority given to traditionally media-marginalized populations. The workshop will begin with a presentation that will take into account questions concerning the themes of the project; that is to say an analysis of the refugee camps and native reservations as spaces of exception within the prevailing nation-states they are located in–as repositories of very particular histories of displacement, and as locations where the logic of modern nationalism is thoroughly excavated, scrutinized and deconstructed.
ACTION! Cinema as Sanctuary:
Political documentary films take on a renewed role amid a reinvigorated rage against immigrants, refugees, and people of color in many places around the world.

Pacific Ties Newsmagazine’s 40th Anniversary and Print Issue Launch Party

UCLA Rolfe Hall, Room 3116 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Pacific Ties Newsmagazine and the release of their newest print issue! This year’s theme is “RESISTANCE", inspired by ongoing events that continue to place the lives of marginalized communities, including our community, at risk.

Free

Luskin Commencement 2017

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

The 42nd mayor of Los Angeles will deliver the keynote address at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs ceremony on June 16.

Movie Night at the Museum

Los Angeles Poverty Department 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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