Mar
15

The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice: A Book Talk with Malo Hutson

Malo Hutson, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and associate director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development will give an artist book talk on his new book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice (Routledge...
Feb
17

Lunch Speaker Series: IURD Director Jason Corburn

Habitat III, a global UN conference on the ‘New Urban Agenda’, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are two landmark events with the potential to shape the urban and global development agenda for years to come. Each have set lofty...
Feb
4

Civil Rights Lawyer and Activist Alec Karakatsanis at the Berkeley Forum

THE CRISIS OF MODERN AMERICA'S DEBTORS' PRISONS Almost 200 years ago the Supreme Court outlawed the practice of sending people to jail for failing to pay court fines. Though these so-called debtor's prisons were made illegal, today many Americans are...

john powell keynote: The Mechanisms of Othering

Transcript Shakti: So, now I have the distinct pleasure of introducing john powell. Do you know who he is? So, I'm going to skip all the things that you can read about him, his titles, his accomplishments, all of those kinds of things. If you don't...

Economic Inequality: A Defining Issue for America's Future

Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States.

Expanding the Circle of Human (or Corporate) Concern: Practicing Respect & Care In an Age of Corporate Prerogatives

To honor the work of nonviolent social justice advocates advocates during the Season of Nonviolence, the Central Oregon Community College Foundation’s Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program and the college’s Multicultural Activities program...
Jan
27

Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging - john a. powell

Professor john a. powell will speak on COCC's Bend Campus to kick off the 2016 Season of Nonviolence. powell is an internationally recognized expert and author in the areas of civil rights, race and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and...
Jan
27

Expanding the Circle of Human Concern - john a. powell

Professor john a. powell will speak on COCC's Bend Campus to kick off the 2016 Season of Nonviolence. powell is an internationally recognized expert and author in the areas of civil rights, race and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and...