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Public Events![]() Williams encourages today’s 18- to 27-year-olds and other underrepresented communities to get active in the political process. “The issues are impacting us in a way that we have never seen before," Williams says. "Something needs to change and we need to be a part of it." ![]() Her social justice work is spotlighted in "Close to Home," a Ford Foundation report that profiles 13 case studies of human rights work dedicated to improving life in the United States. She is currently a board member of HealthCare-NOW!, a group that is working for the adoption of a national single-payer health-care system, and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, a coalition "committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty." She serves on the editorial board of The Black Commentator. ![]() Drawing on a wealth of their own experience in the field, authors Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity and Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California, Chris Benner, Chair of the Community Development Graduate Group and Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California - Davis, and Martha Matsuoka, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College, point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach and argue that what they term social movement regionalism can offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in the United States. ![]()
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Lui co-authored The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide (2006), served as a member of the Center for American Progress' National Initiative to End Poverty, and is a co-author of the influential report, From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half (2007). Lui also appears in the PBS documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? ![]()
How do you go from addressing incarceration to tackling global warming? Jones has always been an expert at building bridges between issues and people. He is one of the few people to have been both arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and then invited three years later to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the premier gathering of global economic leaders, to receive as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" award. And he has been a passionate advocate for the environment - serving as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Bioneers - but consistently focused on how this can blend with issues of social equity. To listen to an audio taping of the lecture click here. To watch the video recording of the lecture click here. Download the flyer and poster by clicking on the links. ![]()
May 11, 2006 - A Conversation with Bob Moses: "Mathematics as a Civil Rights Issue" In the 1960's, Bob Moses and others organized Black voters in Mississippi and famously transformed the political power of entire communities. Over forty years later, Moses is back in Mississippi, organizing again, this time as teacher and founder of the national math literacy program called the Algebra Project. In a technical era when the most pressing civil rights issue is economic access, Moses sees a crisis in math literacy in poor communities. For Moses, the solution requires, as it did in the 1960s, organizing people community by community, school by school. Article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel: P.V. teachers brush up on algebra ![]() April 20, 2006 - CJTC 7th Annual Spring Lecture featuring Connie Rice, "Pushing for Justice, Collaborating for Change: Educational Equity and the Future of California"
Connie Rice is a Co-Director of the Advancement Project and Listen to Connie Rice's lecture with Quicktime player here.
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"Education, Community, Democracy" Join the Education Department and the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community (CJTC) in a symposium that explores the nexus of schools, communities, and democracy. The presenters will examine ways in which educational/school reform in low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse communities can be integrated with other initiatives designed to empower those communities, not only strengthening educational achievement but building bases of power to shape the communities and larger social context. ![]() February 2, 2006 - Women as Social Warriors IV: Prevenir y Proteger Latinas and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic The 2006 convening features three important experts and activists on
![]() November 17, 2005 - "Gender Based Asylum: The Rodi Alvarado Case with Guest Speaker Stephen Knight" ![]() CGRS Deputy Director Stephen Knight will present Rodi's plight through a segment of a new PBS documentary entitled "Breaking Free: A Women's Journey" and discuss how we can help ensure that the U.S. asylum laws protect women seeking protection from gender violence.
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October 25, 2005 - Books, Budgets, Buildings: State Fiscal Crisis & Educational Equity in California with Richard Raya, John Rogers, and Jean Ross
On the eve of the special election in California, the Center for Justice,Tolerance, and Community (CJTC) hosts a long term view of the state's fiscal crisis and its impact on education. A panel discussion with commentary by Santa Cruz County Office of Education Superintendant Diane Siri. ![]() July 28, 2005 - Cruzando Fronteras: Breaking Barriers Bilingual Latina/o GLBT Film Festival
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April, 12, 2005 - It Takes a Hood: Community Revitalization, Educational Reform, and the Harlem Children's Zone with Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada is the acclaimed author of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, a memoir of growing up in the South Bronx which sharply challenges the ways in which the gun lobby has helped fuel violence in inner city communities. The recipient of the first Annual Heinz Award in 1994 for his work with urban youth, he is now President of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ). Recently featured in a cover story in the New York Times Magazine, HCZ is an innovative attempt to transform the lives of children and families in a 24-block area of Central Harlem by confronting the structures that generate inequality and encouraging parent, school, and community accountability. Founder of the Chang Moo Kwan Martial Arts School in Harlem, a school which promotes self-defense and non-violence, Mr. Canada holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bowdoin College and a Master's Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. ![]() November 9, 2004 - Women as Social Warriors III: Mujeres en Marcha ![]() In November 2004, the third Women as Social Warriors event highlighted keynote speaker, Iris Mungía, who spoke on her work as Secretary of Women for the Coalition of Latin American Banana Unions and for the Coalition of Honduran Banana Workers, and additionally led trainings and workshops for campus workers and members of AFSCME local #3299. The event also featured two service workers from the UCSC community, who spoke about their activism in local labor issues.
![]() April 13, 2004 - Building Community Across Regions with Ernie Cortes ![]() Cortes is based in Los Angeles as southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a network of community organizations that campaign for living wages, equitable public investments and effective public-school reform. The network brings together faith-based and other community institutions to help ordinary people participate in government affairs. The southwest region stretches from California to Texas and Iowa and is estimated to involve more than 25,000 people as leaders. ![]() January 15, 2004 - Women as Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality ![]() Local Santa Cruz community members and UCSC students come together to hear the voices of 3 amazing lesbian Chicana/Latina activists on January 15th at the College 9-10 Multi-purpose room at UCSC. Speakers include: Juana Guzmán: co-organizer of the 1st Lesbian March in Latin America, Carla Trujillo: Editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, and Mónica Morales, Watsonville born and raised GLBTI activista currently with the Santa Cruz AIDS Project. ![]() October 7, 2003 - Last Chance For Eden ![]() From the award winning director of The Color of Fear, comes Lee Mun Wah's long awaited documentary about nine women and men who begin an electrifying conversation about the pain and anguish that racism and sexism has had on their lives and families. A must see film for anyone who has ever wondered what it will take to end the violence and hatred overwhelming our country and the world.
![]() November 14, 2002 - Women as Social Warriors I ![]() Comercio Justo (CJ), a UCSC student organization focused on Fair Trade, partnered with the Mexico Solidarity Network, a transnational Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Washington D.C., to host two indigenous women, Marla Gutierrez Gutierrez and Celerina Ruiz Nuñez from K'inal Antzetik in Chiapas, Mexico. The organizations assembled a speaking tour throughout California for these women to talk about their struggle against globalization and their experience organizing fair trade cooperatives.
![]() July 16, 2003 - Harry Belafonte Benefit Concert for Barrios Unidos A Special Benefit Performance for Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos.
![]() April 7, 2003 - Dolores Huerta, "1st Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration"
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Craig Haney is a Professor of Psychology at UCSC. Haney examines the psychological effects of solitary confinement in prisons. Rice is a co-founder of The Advancement Project, a public policy and legal action group that supports organizations working to end community problems and address racial, class and other barriers to opportunity. As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation probation and public housing. Rice has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $4 billion worth of injunctive relief and damages.
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October 25, 2002 - Harry Belafonte and Edward James Olmos, "Race Relations and The Criminal Justice System"
A panel discussion on Race Relations and the Criminal Justice System with: Harry Belafonte & Edward James Olmos
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October 15, 2002 - Angela Glover Blackwell and Manuel Pastor, "Searching for the Uncommon Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America" The authors--Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and president of PolicyLink, Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, and Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz--identify solutions to continuing causes of inequity such as the digital divide, an unfair criminal justice system, and the negative racial impact of uncontrolled sprawl and challenge Americans to aim for the highest possible levels of unity, the uncommon common ground. ![]()
April 29, 2002 - Urvashi Vaid, "Sexuality and Its Discontents: What's Race, Class and War Got to Do With It?" Vaid has not limited her community service to gay/lesbian rights, however. She is a former staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she worked on behalf of prisoners in the ACLU's National Prison Project. She described what she sees as the nature of her work for Vanity Fair, explaining, "The movement I work in might be called a gay and lesbian movement, but its mission is the liberation of all people. To me, my mission is about ending sexism, about ending racism, and about ending homophobia." ![]()
February 1, 2002 - Deborah Hoffman and Frances Reid, "A Long Night's Journey Into Day"
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October 17, 2001 - Angela Davis, Maha ElGenaidi, and John Brown Childs, "Race and the Crisis: A Conversation in the Aftermath of 9/11"
Angela Davis, Maha ElGenaidi, and Bob Wing discuss the Aftermath of 9/11.
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Paul Lubeck, a professor of sociology, specializes in the political economy of development and globalization with a focus on Islamic society and identities. His most recent project, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, examines the ways in which Islamic social movements are responding the forces of globalization. Edmund "Terry" Burke III, a professor of history and an expert on Islam and the Middle East. He is the editor of Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East and coeditor of Islam, Politics and Social Movements. The event is the first of several planned public forums organized by an ad hoc faculty working group on current events, said Burke, who is chair of the group. "We hope to follow up with one-hour lectures in the weeks ahead." ![]()
Her talk will focus on the ways in which globalization has been thought to constrain people's movements for social justice, partly by rendering state intervention moot in the light of mobile firms. Against this notion of a "new powerlessness," she has argued, most provocatively in a recent article in Politics & Society, that there is emerging a new set of "power repertoires" that labor groups, community organizers, and others can use to insure balance in policy and politics. ![]() "Voices of Social Change Across Borders" from the Summer Institute To hear more about the Summer Institute directly through the voices of its participants and the former CJTC Director, Manuel Pastor, please view our video link below. Through "testimonios" and images the film aims to capture the experience of the Institute. We are grateful to all of those who by crossing borders, helped to create and build life-long learning and connections. To learn more about the Summer Institute visit the web page. Summer Institute Video can be viewed with Real Player or QuickTime at:http://media4.ucsc.edu/voices.mov or View the Summer Institute Video as a Podcast on your iPod or through iTunes at:itpc://media4.ucsc.edu/voices.xml The current version of the video is in both Spanish and English without subtitles. ![]() |
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