Events for June 24, 2017 - May 9, 2017

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]