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Teaching Commons


Spring 2022 Events


5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference

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Exterminate all the Brutes (March 3, 2022)


Fall 2021 Events


Converging Currents: Intergenerational Dialogues in Organizing (November 30, 2021)

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COVID-19 and Vulnerable Communities: Structural Inequality and the Pandemic (October 13, 2021)

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Spring 2021 Events


Teach-In on Anti-Asian American Violence (April 16, 2021)

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Tsuru for Solidarity and Detention Watch Network: Organizing Across Generations and Across Communities (March 10, 2021)

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Pioneering Asian Americans in Media (February 23, 2021)

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 Fall 2020 Events


Southeast Asian American Journeys: 45 Years of Resilience, Advocacy, and Organizing (November 17, 2020)

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CDSC 10th Anniversary, 2010-2020: Ten Years of Vision, Struggle, and Movement Building (October 21, 2020)

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  • Audio Clips

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  • Films

    • A Force More Powerful (film)

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    • American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (film)

    • The Pandemic is a Portal: An On-line Teach-in with Arundhati Roy 

    • Angela Davis & BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza in Conversation

  • Readings

    • Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Haymarket Books, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, .

    • Okazawa-Rey, et al. Feminist Freedom Warriors. Haymarket Books, 2018. 

    • Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers of East Los Angeles" Author(s): Mary Pardo: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, Las Chicanas (1990), pp. 1-7

    • Boggs, Grace Lee, et al. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed., University of California Press, 2012. 

  • Public Policy Institute of California, “How Greater Vote-by-Mail Influences California Voter Turnout: The Summary” 

            * In this summary, what are the 5 findings?

  • Public Policy Institute of California, “Race and Voting in California: Just the Facts” 

            * What are the racial differences and similarities among California voters?
  • Poor People’s Campaign 2020.  “A Moral Policy Agenda to Heal and Transform America: The Poor People’s Jubilee Platform”   

 Fall 2017 Events


Media Literacy and Environmental Justice (November 9, 2017)

  • Jeanine M. Canty, ed., Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices

Susan Burton: Activists & Abolitionists Fighting Against Mass Incarceration (September 21, 2017)

  • Recommended Reading and Multimedia Materials:

    • Susan Burton and Cari LynnP, Becoming Ms. Burton (The New Press, 2017).

    • Martha D. Escobar, Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).

    • Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: The New Press, 2010).

    • Marta López-Garza, “Formerly Incarcerated Women Speak Out,” Journal of Progressive Human Services. 27: 2, 2016.

    • Democracy Now --

    • Jenna Loyd et al (eds) 2002. Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis 

    • Juanita Díaz-Cotto, 2006. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio. Austin: University of Texas Press.

    • Luana Ross, “Native women, Mean Spirited Drugs and Punishing Policies,” 2005. Social Justice. Vol 32, no 3; 54-62.

    • Peggy McIntosh. 1998. “White Privilege, Color, and Crime: A Personal Account, from Images of Color, Images of Crime” by Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company, Los Angeles, C

    • Stormy Ogden, 2005. A Native Woman & Former Prisoner Speaks Out, Political Research Associates,  

    • Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company (PBS), December 20, 2013.

    • Democracy Now – (aired 3/17/16)


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