Teaching Commons

Spring 2022 Events

5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference

• Recordings of the Event:
• Conference Introduction and Student Panels #1 and #2
• Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore Keynote Address
• Julian Aguon Keynote Address

Exterminate all the Brutes (March 3, 2022)

• Recordings of the Event:
• Part I
• Part II
• Readings:
• An Indigenous People's History of the U.S. (Introduction and Chapter One)
• Not "A Nation of Immigrants" (Introduction and Chapter One)

Fall 2021 Events

Converging Currents: Intergenerational Dialogues in Organizing (November 30, 2021)

• Resources:
• Launch of JusticeLA Video
• Intercept Article on Defeat of LA County Jail Plan
• LA County Alternatives to Incarceration Workgroup Final Report
• Gender Responsive Advisory Committee 2021 Report
• JusticeLA 2020 Care First Budget
• Transforming the Judiciary Webinar 2021
• Bring Them Home: Webinar on Gender and Decarceration
• The Guardian Article on JusticeLA

COVID-19 and Vulnerable Communities: Structural Inequality and the Pandemic (October 13, 2021)

• Recording of the Event:

• https://youtu.be/qu7lVLWbm38

Spring 2021 Events

Teach-In on Anti-Asian American Violence (April 16, 2021)

• Recording of the Event:

• https://youtu.be/CPduLnLJZj0 

Tsuru for Solidarity and Detention Watch Network: Organizing Across Generations and Across Communities (March 10, 2021)

• Recording of the Event:

• Click here 

Pioneering Asian Americans in Media (February 23, 2021)

• Recording of the Event:

•  https://youtu.be/eIEk46cu7tA
  

 Fall 2020 Events

Southeast Asian American Journeys: 45 Years of Resilience, Advocacy, and Organizing (November 17, 2020)

• Recording of the Event:

•  https://youtu.be/BwQbmGXtakM

CDSC 10th Anniversary, 2010-2020: Ten Years of Vision, Struggle, and Movement Building (October 21, 2020)

• Recording of the Event:

•  https://youtu.be/fzTFvsusk2g

• Audio Clips

• https://soundcloud.com/elnuevosol/march-4-2010-the-untold-story-of-student-activism-at-csun

•  https://elnuevosol.net/2012/02/march-4-2010-the-untold-story-of-student-activism-at-california-state-university-northridge/

• Films

• A Force More Powerful (film)

• Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBoHb59iVY

• Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5xKALhnxg

• American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (film)

• https://csun-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/ad2ump/01CALS_ALMA71392577020002901

• The Pandemic is a Portal: An On-line Teach-in with Arundhati Roy 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQLTnK4QTA

• Angela Davis & BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza in Conversation

• https://freespeech.org

• Readings

• Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Haymarket Books, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csun/detail.action?docID=4356956.

• Okazawa-Rey, et al. Feminist Freedom Warriors. Haymarket Books, 2018. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csun/detail.action?docID=5355743

• Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers of East Los Angeles" Author(s): Mary Pardo: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, Las Chicanas (1990), pp. 1-7

• Boggs, Grace Lee, et al. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed., University of California Press, 2012. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csun/detail.action?docID=919284

• Public Policy Institute of California, “How Greater Vote-by-Mail Influences California Voter Turnout: The Summary” https://www.ppic.org/publication/how-greater-vote-by-mail-influences-california-voter-turnout/

          * In this summary, what are the 5 findings?

• Public Policy Institute of California, “Race and Voting in California: Just the Facts” https://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/
  
          * What are the racial differences and similarities among California voters?

• Poor People’s Campaign 2020.  “A Moral Policy Agenda to Heal and Transform America: The Poor People’s Jubilee Platform” https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PPC-Policy-Platform_8-28.pdf  

 Fall 2017 Events

Media Literacy and Environmental Justice (November 9, 2017)

• Jeanine M. Canty, ed., Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices

Susan Burton: Activists & Abolitionists Fighting Against Mass Incarceration (September 21, 2017)

• Recommended Reading and Multimedia Materials:

• Susan Burton and Cari LynnP, Becoming Ms. Burton (The New Press, 2017).

• Martha D. Escobar, Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016).

• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: The New Press, 2010).

• Marta López-Garza, “Formerly Incarcerated Women Speak Out,” Journal of Progressive Human Services. 27: 2, 2016.

• Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Susan Burton Interview

• Democracy Now -- "Repairing the Damage from the Drug War"

• Tavis Smiley Interviews Susan Burton

• Jenna Loyd et al (eds) 2002. Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis 

• Juanita Díaz-Cotto, 2006. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio. Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Luana Ross, “Native women, Mean Spirited Drugs and Punishing Policies,” 2005. Social Justice. Vol 32, no 3; 54-62.

• Peggy McIntosh. 1998. “White Privilege, Color, and Crime: A Personal Account, from Images of Color, Images of Crime” by Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company, Los Angeles, C

• Stormy Ogden, 2005. A Native Woman & Former Prisoner Speaks Out, Political Research Associates, http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/overview/ogden_native.html 

• Bill Moyers, “Incarceration Nation,” Moyers & Company (PBS), December 20, 2013.

• Democracy Now – “Buck v Bell, Inside the Scotus”  (aired 3/17/16)

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