Apr
5

Can Agroecology Bring Solutions to Africa’s Food Systems?: Africans Food Sovereignty Working Group

The Global Justice Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society invites you to an informal monthly-guided discussion on a wide range of issues related to Africa’s food systems. The Talk: Can Agroecology Brings Solutions to...
Apr
19

Is Atlanta Really The City Too Busy To Hate?: Understanding Breakthrough Mind Science Research on Racial Bias

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Speaker Series Is Atlanta Really the City Too Busy to Hate?: Understanding Breakthrough Mind Science Research on Racial Bias Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Reception & Registration: 5:00 pm Program: 6–7:30 pm RSVP By March...
Apr
26

We Too Belong

WE TOO BELONG Building Power at the Intersection of Immigration and Incarceration "We Too Belong" is a half-day program and highly interactive event to discuss and share best inclusive practices in immigration and incarceration law and policy. The event will...

Segregation in the 21st Century

Haas Director john a. powell, and Assistant Director and Director of Research Stephen Menendian, co-authored an article on Segregation in the 21st Century for the Poverty & Race Newsletter from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. The article...
Apr
4

Fighting Exclusion: Innovative Approaches to Fair Housing Law

Fighting Exclusion: Innovative Approaches to Fair Housing Law Housing is the hub of opportunity, and the gateway to a better life. Californians are in the midst of a state-wide housing crisis while federal housing policy has entered a new phase...

We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality

Demos President Heather McGhee and UC Berkeley Law Professor and author of Dog Whistle Politics Ian Haney López tell the story of how racism fuels economic inequality and what we can do about it.
Mar
17

Race and Corporate Power in the US Food System: Lessons From the US Farm Bill

Speakers/Performers: Elsadig Elsheikh, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Hossein Ayazi, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Sponsor: Berkeley Student Food Collective Interested in public policy and food and agricultural legislations, and the resulting racial injustices...
May
3

School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement, with Jesse Rothstein

Becker Applied Economics Workshop, Spring 2016 March 8–May 24, 2016 (All day) Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 146 Organizers Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago Kevin Murphy, University of Chicago Robert Topel, University of Chicago Booth...

Scalia's Blind Spot

For more than a generation, our highest Court has been firmly controlled by Republican appointees, with many seminal cases decided by the Court’s most moderate Republican appointee, a baton handed off between Lewis Powell to Sandra Day O’Connor to...

Leap Forward so Every Worker is Paid a Living Wage, Fight for $15!

It’s Leap Day. You ready to Leap Forward? You think we can dramatically improve life for those who heretofore have been held back? I understand why you wouldn’t think it possible. For two generations, we’ve been convinced there is not enough to go...