Video: john powell at Cambridge University Tanner lecture on free speech

Over the course of Monday, November 5th and Tuesday, November 6th, 2018, Director john powell participated in the annual Tanner Lecture at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. Established in 1978, the Tanner Lecture series is meant to...

New Poll: 65 percent of likely Florida voters support voting rights restoration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BERKELEY, CA: Sixty-two percent of Florida’s registered voters—and 65 percent of likely voters—support the Amendment 4 ballot initiative that would restore voting rights to Floridians with felony convictions once they have...

Election 2018: Will Florida Let 1.4M U.S. Citizens Vote in Democracy?

By Brad Wong Content Editor - Equal Voice Originally published on caseygrants.org. In Florida, returning citizens – or those with felony convictions – are leading a movement by asking: If we’ve paid our debt to society, why are we denied the right to...

Video: Family Separations

In October, the Haas Institute and the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine co-organized a five-person panel discussion on family separations prompted by the federal government’s separations of immigrant children from their caregivers along the US-Mexico border this past summer.

Blog: Weaponizing Hate

“We need to stop the hate. Language of hate just has no place. When you speak language of hate as a leader, you give permission to all peoples to say it’s okay to speak that language of hate.” -Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, Tree of Life synagogue in...

Blog: Why Rent Control is Necessary, But Not Sufficient

​​​​​​​Do we have such a sense of scarcity here in California that we cannot imagine a housing sector growing with some modest limits on rental price increases?

Podcast: Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness with Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum

In this episode of Who Belongs? Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum discuss their new project that serves as a monitor to examine the power, influence and reach of agri-business corporations and their role in the global food crisis.

Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1

Introduction The authors would like to acknowledge Phuong Tseng and Arthur Gailes for their assistance in the development of this brief, and the following people for their feedback and insights: Eli Moore, Nicole Montojo, Richard Rothstein, Na’ilah...

New Maps Provide Granular Look at Racial Segregation in SF Bay Area

October 29, 2018 BERKELEY, CA: The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley on Monday released the first in a series of maps and web reports that depict the levels of racial segregation across the San Francisco Bay Area, down to...

Equity in Health Transformation

On October 24, 2018, Professor john a. powell gave a keynote address at the Healthier Washington Medicaid Transformation Learning Symposium in Seattle, WA. The audience consisted of 300 health care professionals from regional healthcare coalitions...

Divided We Stand

In this television interview, Director john a. powell argues that citizenship should be inclusive and we should resist attempts of "othering." He joins The Agenda to talk about the timely issues of immigration, division, race, diversity, and free...

Haas Institute Probes Corporate Role in the Global Food Crisis

BERKELEY, CA: The Haas Institute at UC Berkeley Wednesday launched a new monitoring project that investigates and documents the power and influence of 10 mega corporations—which own hundreds of subsidiaries in the agriculture, food production, and...

Podcast: Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton on Rent Control

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we interview Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton, who recently co-authored a new research brief on the housing affordability crisis in California, called " Opening the Door for Rent...

The Era of Corporate Consolidation and the End of Competition

Introduction IN THE PAST TWO YEARS ALONE, three major corporate mergers have begun to reshape what was an already concentrated international market for agricultural chemicals, seeds, and fertilizers. If the mergers gain approval from their relevant...

Bay Area Housing Affordability Advocacy Forum

On September 27, 2018, Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented at the "Bay Area Housing Affordability Advocacy Forum" organized by Rise Together held at the San Francisco Public Library. Following remarks by state Senator Jim Beale, Stephen...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

Blog: Gender, Goosebumps, Grace, and Grieving

Julia McKeown's tattoo inspired by the poetry of Andrea Gibson. “When I left my body I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” From Love Letter From the...