Spring 2022 Events
5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference
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Exterminate all the Brutes (March 3, 2022)
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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
Films
A Force More Powerful (film)
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Part II:
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)