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Oct
19

Everybody is Downstream: Report from Standing Rock and Iowa

What is the significance of the Standing Rock occupation? What is the significance of the resistance in Iowa? What opportunities for collaboration exist along the watershed? What can we do to support the struggle? Hear first hand reports and see...
Oct
18

A Vision for Unity at Habitat III

As part of activities related to the conference United Nations HABITAT III, held in the city of Quito, Ecuador; the Global Network on Disability Inclusive and Accessible Urban Development (DIAUD) is hosting an exciting and unique live aerial human art...
Oct
5

Mass Incarceration and Children’s Outcomes

Mass Incarceration and Children’s Outcomes Our ill-considered drug war has led to the mass incarceration of African Americans, powerfully described in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. African American men are six times as likely as white men to be...
Oct
5

The 23rd Annual Affordable Housing Conference (john a. powell Keynote Address)

The 23rd Annual Affordable Housing ConferenceOctober 4 – 6, 2016Tacoma, Washington Director john a. powell will be a keynote speaker at the 23rd Annual Affordable Housing Conference. More information.
Oct
4

Food Regimes and Food Movements: the historical basis for transformation? (African Food Sovereignty Working Group)

Food Regimes and Food Movements: the historical basis for transformation? October 4, 5:00 p.m.442 Stephens Hall, UC BerkeleyHow do regimes and movements co-evolve from imperial, colonial and slave-based societies and what are the forms of resistance and the future challenges...
Oct
3

What We Learned from Orlando

Monday, October 3, 20164:00pm to 6:00pm6:00pm to 7:00pmWarren Room 295, Boalt HallWebsite: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/what-we-learned-from-orlando/Click here to RSVP.The attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June and ensuing media coverage raise questions of intersectionality, erasure of Latino/a identity, sexual citizenship, Islamophobia, and...
Oct
1

Politics Unusual: Will 2016's Surging Outsiders Finally Make America Multipartisan?

Tensions and anxieties in the 2016 presidential campaign have led many to question the current state of the two-party system in America. Join Henry Brady, dean of the Goldman School, Lisa Garcia Bedolla, a professor in the Graduate School of...
Sep
28

Webinar Launch of the Inclusiveness Index

The Inclusiveness Index is an annual equity index that identifies and captures the degree of inclusion and marginality. This Index aims to measure the degree of inclusivity and marginality experienced by different groups across societal settings and social cleavages, such...
Sep
23

Surreal Politics: How Anxiety About Race, Gender, and Inequality Is Shaping the 2016 Presidential Campaign

An examination of how anxiety about race, gender and inequality is shaping the presidential campaign will be made in a panel discussion, “ Surreal Politics.” Panelists include Henry Brady (dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy), Jonathan Stein (UC...
Sep
22

Targeted Universalism with john powell

Please join the Multicultural Resource Center for a keynote and book signing with author john a. powell. john a. powell is the author of Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conception of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society. He...
Sep
13

Thinking Ahead Speaker Series featuring Chris Benner and Jim Pugh

Join us for the Thinking Ahead Speaker Series with Chris Benner and Jim Pugh presenting on Universal Basic Income: Is this the way we can tackle extreme inequality? View the promotional flyer below for details or download here .
Sep
12

Restorative Reentry: Reconciling Trauma and Violence through the Re-entry Process

Restorative ReEntry Panel Discussion (5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.) Register for this event. RJ practitioners Malachi Scott* (Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council) and Rahkii Holman (Community Works/One Family) will present their vision of...
Sep
6

Are Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) agricultural systems too heterogeneous for Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)? (African Food Sovereignty Working Group)

Are Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) agricultural systems too heterogeneous for Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)? CSA – a promising approach to achieve global food security while adjusting agriculture to the new realities of climate change, may be readily applicable in agricultural systems...
Sep
1

Book Talk: The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

Professor Keltner’s new book synthesizes his twenty years of scientific research on power. How we handle power impacts our happiness, our stress, and our physical health — as well as that of people around us. Join us for a fascinating...
Aug
11

Thinking Ahead Speaker Series featuring Paul Pierson

Join us for the Thinking Ahead Speaker Series with Paul Pierson presenting on American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. View the promotional flyer below for details or download here . RSVP...