CONTACT
The Los Angeles node can be reached at:
urbanlosangelesnode@gmail.com
amhuerta@cpp.edu, Co-Chair Dr. Alvaro Huerta
This syllabus focuses on the death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the subsequent non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed him. The syllabus was created for a first-year composition class by Evan Kindley, Visiting Instructor in the Department of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. It
The Private Prison Divestment CA Statewide Meeting will bring together youth and community organizations from across the state who recognize that in order to address the criminalization of communities of color and systemic harassment of immigrants, we must confront the profit motives behind anti-immigrant and pro-incarceration policies. The session will
The Colegio de la Frontera Norte has developed a series of maps to geographically see the evolution of the implementation of migration laws throughout the United States. This initiative is known as the Observatory on Law and Migration Policy. Read more here
Attendees: Dayna Cunningham, Phil Thompson, Penda Hair, Gerry Hudson, Devra Weber, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Alvaro Huerta, Liliana Vasquez, Veronica Montes, Claire Hirschberg, Diana Zuniga, Kent Wong Minutes: Kent Wong
Among the proposals that emerged from the LA Node Mass Incarceration and Deportation Forum is the idea of organizing campaigns to pressure universities to pull out of private prison investments and to reinvest in socially responsible alternative criminal justice and immigrant rights programs. Enlace has kindly shared toolkits which focus on pension and university
The URBAN-Los Angeles node, together with a number of co-sponsors*, held a forum attended by over eighty participants on the connections between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation on Saturday, April 19th.