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. <\/p>\n
The forum began with a panel facilitated by URBAN-L.A. chair Jose Calderon and included:\u00a0\u00a0Jessica Karp, National Day Laborer Organizing Network; Edna Monroy, CA Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance; Diana Zuniga, Californians United for a Responsible Budget\/Curb Prison Spending; and Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCL A Professor and Researcher.\u00a0 The presenters focused on how deportations and detentions have added to the growth in the massive prison industrial complex, increased profits that are being used to advance more enforcement, and a steady increase in the criminalization of communities of color.<\/p>\n
After the panel presentation, forum participants engaged in workshop sessions that focused on community-based research and activism, building campaigns on deportations and incarceration, youth mobilization, and law enforcement and criminal justice. \u00a0A number of key proposals emerged from the sessions (see below). \u00a0These\u00a0will be further discussed at the next meeting of URBAN-L.A. set for\u00a0Saturday, May 31 from 10am \u2013 12pm at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center\u00a0(675 S. Park View St.).<\/p>\n
*The co-sponsors included:\u00a0\u00a0UCLA Labor Center; CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget\/Curb Spending); Cal State University Northridge Civil Discourse\/Social Change Initiative; Latino and Latina Roundtable; Dignity and Power Now; Incite L.A. Women of Color Against Violence<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t