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 […]
https://youtu.be/jjGdZIPgrL4 To recognize those who have sacrificed so selflessly to defend our lives and our country, please join UCLA's annual Veterans Day ceremony and information fair in Wilson Plaza at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, 2016. On the 10th, Chancellor Block will join with campus ROTC units to recognize United States veterans and to hear […]
UCLA's Second Annual Warrior Games — (Following the UCLA Veterans Day Ceremony, Wilson Plaza.) The Warrior Games is a way for the student veteran population at UCLA to give thanks to the Bruin Community for the many benefits of being a UCLA Bruin. Parking is $6 at pay-by-space for two hours or $12 all day in Structure […]
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 […]
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 […]
